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Ashworth is a cut throat operator and he'll apply this to his own career as much as anything. The fact Man U are targeting him at all could be a sign that they're trying to get their act together. He's not actually very well liked on the playing side from previous roles. Meant to be arrogant and canny snakey but everyone knows he's good at his job.

Aren't Chelsea absolutely shite against low blocks? Sitting deep for 45 and getting some big guns on at half time to go for it sounds pretty viable.

The main problem with Miggy is that he plays to the pattern almost 100% when on the right, there's practically no deviation from it. Even if there's space for him to attack and he has legs on his opponent, it's still most often the same move which really slows us down. And his lack of right peg too

The superfan breakdown about the Sunderland tickets has been frustrating as fuck to see today on Twitter based on evidently shite numbers.

Bolster the forward line and GK are the 2 priorities for me now. I think the main thing is that we make moves quickly though. We're at a pinch point of the season now where there's still loads to play for and we're not too far adrift in the league.

We're so close to the transfer window now that it's worth taking the risk, imo. We need to address the Isak-Wilson situation regardless, whether we solve it directly or give more options indirectly.

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Think take-on stats can be a bit iffy, tbh. Criteria for a dribble or being dribbled past is weird too, iirc. There was a stat somewhere that Doku had taken on TAA 7 times or something - watched the clips and I'd say he only beat him twice From the eye test, I think he goes past players well but his natural inclination is almost like a playmaker who likes to combine.

Honestly couldn't give 2 shits about his shooting. That's not what we bought him for at all and his relatively decent goal output for us has been a bonus. Not sure who made the comment about his tackling but I'm sure Bruno has excellent defensive numbers generally. Gets through so much work, reads the defensive side of the game so well.

Thought he was pretty good today, tbh. Unlucky with his shot off the bar, loads of nice bits of interplay, an assist. Considering he's playing through a knock then that's not bad going at all.

Feels like we really learnt from the 10-man game earlier this season. Liverpool are obvs a better side but we chose to up th tempo really well in the second half.

Thought he was bright when he came on and liked that he took up flexible positions, Zinchenko-style.

Boomers will say it's not a red but he goes into Longstaff's head with some force. Very easily could've knocked him out. Dangerous as.

Another assist? He played a pinger of a cross in with his left in the second half, hope he carries on using it more.

That confidence is starting to grow in possession, you can see there's more levels in there. So impressive, man.

Real shame we don't see him in the final third a bit more often. He can be really fucking good there.

Desperately need another attacking body in Jan to stop this ridiculous Isak-Wilson cycle.

No Isak at all.

Howe was pretty complimentary about him in a follow up question later on in the presser. Noted again about his technique but that the defensive side of being a left back is new to him. Coupled with Howe talking in the same presser about how there's barely been any training time between games and I think you start to see why he's reluctant to chuck him in.

Imperative we invest in January now after the latest round of setbacks. Some of these players are going to struggle for fitness for some time after returning, and the recurrence rate for a few seems like it'll be quite high as well.

All aboard the GK and wide forward of some description now, like. For the latter, this season, our wide players have tucked into pockets quite a lot rather than sticking to the touchline all the time - Gordon is picking inside forward positions more & more now and Miggy roams far more than he used to. Annoyingly, I think his movement has improved a fair bit but his actual output has regressed this season.

Think in about 5 years with Leicester Barnes only had 1 injury that kept him out for months rather than weeks Shite luck. Maintain that, at the time, Barnes and Tonali were very clear upgrades to our starting XI. Had both been largely available, we'd likely have been seeing the best of them now.

We were deservedly ahead at half time against PSG away, like.

They're all fucking shit. Adam P is funny when on his travels but that's it.

No idea if it was visible in the stadium and he'd just opened his jacket as walking by the strawberry, tbf. England is canny unique for home/away vitriol. Plenty of places over the continent and in other cultures, it's very normal to have fans mix without issue in the same end. Milan/Inter derby they now mix etc.