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I mean.... They had a sustained spell of possession for a couple of minutes and it wasn't in transition. Of course everyone is back in that situation pushing players forward wouldn't exactly make us any less likely to concede.

We are finding creative new ways to mess up our direct free kick chances, at least.

We're playing well, we look like scoring every time down the pitch. No Premier league side is going to go ninety minutes without five minutes of decent play and they just happened to score from theirs. Whatever.

Addicted to Olimpicos now

Twenty minutes of being happy was nice.

I don't know how you'd draw that conclusion given that it wasn't on target

He reminds me so much of Cisse when he's running on the pitch. Same stature, gait, squad number (and hairdo). Hopefully he'll inherit Cisse's half season of astronomically good luck as well.

Gordon playing like he's read every single forum comment about how we should have sold him instead of Minteh and committed them to memory.

I had no idea that Scott Parker managed Burnley before today. It's bringing back a lot of trauma.

All respect to Woltemade who's a great player already and will be fantastic for us in years to come, but we need at least one goalscorer on the pitch and this is why.

I'll take it

Maybe Big Jo isn't actually shit now. Maybe he just needed a rest.

I'm sorry Anthony. My bad.

Something good happened in an NUFC game What's going on.

To be fair, how many conceded goals do you look at and say "great goal, but that was some extremely good/hard/tough defending." At the premier league level, almost by definition the ball is going into the back of the net because somebody fucked up or lost concentration for a split second.

So much of football is down to luck, and the chain reaction that repeated bad luck causes through worsening morale. You have to try to be so good that the luck doesn't matter, of course, and we're clearly not there. But I think it's fair to say that we've had terrible luck this season which has moved the results from "more or less acceptable" to "very disappointing."

I just struggle to understand what happened with this guy. If he was some has-been superstar on the decline or foreigner who was struggling to adapt to the League I'd get it. He's twenty-three years old, he should still be improving. And a simple change of tactics doesn't take you from 56 starts as one of the most effective right wingers in the Premier League, to whatever this is. It's not as if the "very fast human being" archetype is some extremely uncommon player type that you have to create a bespoke tactical role for.

This sort of fixture reminds me why I hate football. Three points will provide mild relief. Anything else, intense pain.

Honestly I can’t imagine a better person than Shola for this role. It’s not like he’s the one deciding (or at least, he doesn’t have final say) on which teams players are going to.

What does a "loan manager" do anyway? Is Shola on the phone with Westerlo's manager every week begging him to give this kid some playing time?

Also more likely than not that we're closer to the top than the bottom of the 8-24 bracket. Decent chance we end up with a very easy tie. If we can't win a two-legged knockout match against the fellows from Azerbaijan or Cyprus, then yes, perhaps I will accept that everything is bad forever.

One would think that being involved in a 2-legged knockout match by definition means that we're out of the group stage.

Actually, that's right, so that's two total since January 15, 2025.

Goal or assist