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The systems talk is going to get annoying. We only drew today because of crap finishing. There's no more to it than that.

His only start was great. Needs playing for fitness.

We won't lose. We won't win if our finishing doesn't drastically improve, though.

Whilst we should still be around the top two, we are in no way majorly better than anyone at the top end of the league. Going to be a battle all the way. Don't agree with this. Only one of the two teams playing today will be challenging for promotion. We were clearly the better side we just need to fix our strike force We're still the best side in the division, IMO. We were an absolute class above them for the majority of the game, today, as was the case vs. Brighton.

Gayle missed a one-on-one and Diame scuffed a sitter! That's why we didn't win. While that's true, the reason we didn't create more chances like that was because of the sit deep and soak up pressure attitude. We'll drop more points than we'll keep with this mentality. We deserved everything we got because of the mentality, there's absolutely no reason considering how s*** they were in the first half to sit deep and give them the confidence to get back into the game and invite pressure on us. Don't think we intentionally sat back. We were still going for it until Yedlin got injured and then had to awkwardly switch it up. Naturally got pegged back, IMO. Not that his subs helped the situation.

On the face of it, decent point. Only ourselves to blame. Let's carry on with a win against Norwich.

What?

Great 2/3 of the game, horrific final 1/3. We're still not that mentally tough yet.

Pathetic. Absolutely fucking pathetic.

Think he should be looking to make a change or two now.

Holy fucking shit, man.

Finishing aside, great half.

Bit rusty in periods but excellent in others. He's shown some really nice touches too. Very encouraging.

Fuck.

Looks like we'll be going to counter.

I'd be ecstatic to win either cup, like. Way better than promotion. The League Cup's been won by Chelsea (x2), Man City (x2), Man U (x2), Liverpool & Spurs, in the last 10 years. It's not some tinpot contest.

No way that Gayle is getting dropped. He won't play 2 strikers, therefore the only way they both play is if Gayle is out wide. Na, Gayle will be up front on his own. Mitro was rotated in for QPR. Expecting the same here. Gayle to come on after an hour or so.

Pretty sure Mitro will start.

Put a decent cross in for a Murphy chance.

This lot have been playing pretty open football, from what I've seen. There'll be lots of counter opportunities.

Want to see him with Yedlin bombing on.

We've literally just won 6 on the bounce playing with 1 striker, it's not the problem. And we absolutely had plenty of goals from midfield yesterday.

Some interesting comments in his nufctv interview. Pretty much said we tried to do the difficult things rather than the simple and put ourselves under pressure. I know nobody's going to come out and say we were complacent but that comment is somewhat damning, IMO.

Looks like we defended terribly and were absolutely all over the place with our shape, judging by the highlights. Poor, poor professionalism.

We resorted to having to send long balls to Gayle and he had no chance against their huge centre backs because they didn't let us pass it out from goal kicks. Was obvious that they weren't going to let Shelvey have any space either Would be interested to see what Diame was doing then - if their defence wasn't high enough to get in behind, in general play, but they were pressing relatively high then there must have been a decent gap in midfield to capitalise on? Either that or he should've pushed up to help Gayle. We have enough technical quality to beat a press, especially with a midfield 3 where the should be plenty of short options to play off. If only Mitro was on 5 minutes earlier... In the games Diane has played so far I've yet to see what his her role was supposed to be.