Mattoon

This is the issue we face, I agree its a small sample size but there was definite improvement. The Bruno/Tonali issue is something Howe needs to work out, because putting Tonali on the right negates a lot of his positives and dropping Longstaff, for all the abuse he gets from our fans, greatly affects our balance.

Just a few things I noticed from Wednesday night: We are 10x better in transition with Willock on the left. Kelly is better at CB than Dan Burn. Tonali is better as CM than out on the right and needs to be our maestro. Hall is ridiculously good and improving every game. Keep those changes and we stand a chance tomorrow.

I hope its a really controversial goal again and we beat them 1-0 for the tears and ultimately the schadenfreude.

Was a game of two tactics for us today, the first half harassing and hurrying their back line into mistake after mistake and we got the reward we deserved from our tenacity. Second half saw us shut up shop and ask Chelsea to come and make the tie interesting and it was a solid defensive display with a couple of opportunities to kill the tie off. Every player played their part and although there was a couple of lapses in concentration, no one deserved a berating today. Tonali was MOTM for me, he really made us tick.

Probably the best tie we could have hoped for, happy with that

Should have been 3

Tonali looks awesome in that "quarterback" position, really pulling the strings tonight.

Loving this press tonight, we're suffocating them at the back here

Willock 🤦‍♂️

Bwahahaha

Tonali close

Oi oi Isaaaak

Was probably one of, if not our best performance so far this season. We hassled and harried them from the off and they dug in deep and made it difficult for us. We made some decent chances and played some good football at times but ultimately some good defending, good goalkeeping and sloppy finishing killed the game for us. We could have and should have got something out of today, we deserved it on the balance of play, but really Gordon and Isak need to be putting those chances away.

I'm sure it's been said plenty of times on here before but I really don't think it's the right time in Howe's career to be thinking about international football, he's too driven, too addicted to the day to day to go part time, it'd drive him mad.

I don't know how Rice keeps getting picked for England, he's a great player but doesn't offer what we need in the middle, a proper tempo setter with an eye for a pass.