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Still can't kick a ball (today's thunderbastard aside) but can kick the shit out of anyone in his way

No Isak in the training pics today.

Any chance of a Red vs Blues kick about during the Christmas break?

No Return confirmed so far and for some reason hard to find any training pictures, any news on Isak returning?

Did he do the operation? he has no return date yet.

A week until our next game and no news of any injury return yet?

I'm in town between the 15th and 30th of December and a side from the NUFC games, any games for the local teams that people think might be worth going to?

High pressing is alright for a striker, its chasing balls flying towards you from every direction that gets you injured and that's what happened to Wilson.

So we should be looking something like this: Pope Trippier Lascelles Schar Liveramento Bruno Longstaff Willock Joelinton Isak Almiron/Miggy With Subs Being Karius/Dubravka Dummet Krafth Ritchie Hall Miley And whoever else is available If we can get two Wilson/Barnes/Botman back it will really help Longer term absentees will remain in the form of Murphy/Anderson/Burn/Targett/Tonali which we can sort of manage without but any further injuries will be a disaster.

With Bruno back and barring not injuries during the break we should be able to field and ok-ish side and and subs for Chelsea, its just the run that will follow will be very unforgiving and if players start dropping again we will struggle a lot, the next two weeks should be all about proper planning and how we will be managing the squad we have for that period as it will a game every 3/4 days until January.

Another absolute stinker today, what i don't enjoy is that it seems like everything HAS to go through him, and its all fine when he's having many of his better games but on nights light this and recently, we really need to try and have more players create.

On one hand i don't want to be too harsh on him because he's semi-retired but on the other hand he adds very little value that we really need to make sure we don't see him play many more games going forward, hopefully we'll have enough players back to ensure that.

I need to add that he really needs to cut the diving off his game, he's terrible at it and ends up putting us in too much trouble.

The minute you put him up top he loses all his powers

Last two games he's been really off, if i didn't watch him have a brilliant game against Man Utd i would've said he doesn't look ready.

I don't think he has the tools to play as a striker, definitely much better on the wing.

What the fuck was this performance tonight, i'm a big fan of his but today he was off in every department.

Really good today and we looked worse when he came off .

Even with factoring the injuries this was the worst performance i've seen under him.

Longstaff's worst game this season so far.

His height is 185cm but he looks taller than that, didn't look out of place yesterday.

In trying to drastically change the way we played, we saw against Man Utd in the cup that we have a style of play that works regardless of personal, trying to play a completely different tactic today threw a few of our players off.

He was too isolated at the start of the game and had to do a lot of running to try and feed off scraps so its predictable that his hamstring felt a bit tight, think he'll be good for Saturday.

Very poor today, you can tell the load is too much on him, he's brilliant in one game then terrible in the next. needs a rest.

Thought he was very good today however would've appreciated a few more runs from our forward players to give him an outlet.