Tsunami

At some point coaches are going to realise that playing out like that all of the time will cost you more goals than it creates. You can’t be having goal keepers and defenders losing possession like that. It might look great but as teams get used to it you have to beat a couple of press situations before you’ve opened up space to attack and even then you’ll only have got to the around the halfway line and might only have a 1 or possibly 2 man overload. I’d love to see some proper stats on it.

We couldn’t compete with their central midfield of Wharton (who admittedly looks to have loads of potential) and Will Hughes, seriously, Will Hughes, who out pressed us, out fought us and generally did what he wanted. That pretty much sums it up for me, if you can’t nullify and bypass Will Hughes you’ve already lost.

Whatever the onfield was VAR was always going to stick with it. On balance I think it was a foul, Hughes was looking to impede. If it Salah and not Longstaff, it would have been given onfield.

They were everywhere, and within the terraces sections were caged off. Treat like pond life.

Caceido and Enzo 222Million between them. Let that sink in.

As I’ve said, Edward’s is wrong about the house. You don’t insist on a release clause and then buy a house, regardless of how happy you are somewhere. That’s not why I’m stating Edward’s is wrong btw but it is stating the obvious. Houses like that aren’t all that easy to sell given the limited market.

Jeff Hendrick…like a new signing.

Young immediately looks towards the referee mind. Third one was a penalty, the first one I guess you’d stick with the on field decision. All 3 seemed to be fairly quickly cleared by VAR.

Pretty sure it must have been on the radio as I’m told my brother went to bed when we were 2-0 down and came back downstairs when he heard we’d scored. The hi-lights were then on Sports Night (which is actually an indicator of the importance of The Fairs Cup).

Mackems will be celebrating VAR.

Wow

Ashley Young is amongst the biggest moaners in the whole league. He’s got a reet cheek with the amount of things he gets away with. Sure he got away with a few things up here the other week and was in the refs face all of the game.

That’s shocking by the Council, I mean what’s the point, the club are doing great after some really difficult times. Pity we can’t act as some kind of guarantor if that’s the issue.

It’s not true.

He does, Edward’s has put 2 and 2 together and come up with 5.

Cracker that

That’s what I was thinking. Certainly League1 and below.

Tbf my eyes tell me an awful lot of what’s being said there. I’d rather trust my eyes than someone else’s interpretation of a good chance. I agree over a large period it might be useful but in individual games it’s got to be about the context of the game? I’m assuming Xg doesn’t make any adjustments for bogey sides or he always scores against xxx? Mad though it is, in individual games it’s a thing. Anyway, I felt we were relatively comfortable against an increasingly frustrated PSG. On a lighter note whatever Werner’s XG is, it should be lower.

I honestly don’t remember many clear cut chances, they undoubtedly had all of the possession and got themselves in great positions, I just didn’t feel they were going to score and we had our game plan spot on. Their XG was also massively boosted by that ridiculous penalty. That might be rose tinted but I’ve felt far more nervous in other games. Against Arsenal we looked like we had no plan and they created really good chances. XG is bollocks imo btw, it’s really all about context. I’ve little doubt if PSG had scored 20 mins earlier that we’d have lost and deservedly so, probably by a couple of goals.

I can’t remember many, if any, great chances that PSG had, especially in the 2nd half (we missed a great chance at nil nil). They were shooting from distance and we were relatively comfortable. That xg had to be largely down to the number of “tickets” they’d bought. Anyway, come on Dortmund.

Dortmund did us away but, we really should have won at home, Wilson sitter and bar x2, they even took a photo of the bar. As for PSG away, well, no words and then we got caught out going for it against Milan. Having said all that, we’d have struggled with injuries had we got through (so I’ve convinced myself).

Shocking how many fans have left. Wrong thread haha

If he goes I think that’d be us needing to sell for FFP should a huge offer come in. He’s got a young family, knows he’s loved and has a genuine relationship with the players and management. I can’t see him pushing for a move. My tip off about Big Jo signing his extension came via Bruno (I’ve a non football, very occasional, but cast iron link). I’m told Bruno seemed made up about Jo ‘s contract so it’d be a bit of surprise if he then pushed for a move himself.

We’ve no chance of getting near Spurs or Villa but we’ve dropped some awful points along the way. That said, given our injuries we were always going to have some shockers.

Palace could be 3 up