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Keep it up boys don't take your foot off the gas now.

There was just a pretty bad one.

Miley looking real sharp tonight too. He's growing into that LCM role.

I love when Isak and Gordon switch for like 90 seconds. It's throwing them off massively.

Loving this.

God I missed this style of play.

I feel for Isak every time he chases a lost cause down and looks back and there's not one other dude within like 30+ yards of him. That's gotta be deflating as fuck.

Oh we're going to be a pressing team again?

Howay the Lads lets fucking gooooooooo

I just don’t think we were looking for a DM to be totally honest. Howe’s system doesn’t work with one.

They’re all on TV in America so there will at least be a stream for y’all.

Also Howe has never played 4-2-3-1 in his managerial career has he? Don’t think he’s going to randomly start now.

Someone said four wins. Whats the actual set up?

Stoked he’s back. He’s exactly the kind of player to have in the squad to add depth to the bench to help rest others around the 60 minute mark kind of sub.

The main issues arise when we drop deep and go into that flat 4-5-1 formation - it massively isolates our best player Isak for one thing but it also puts undue pressure on the defense. When we’re pressed up the pitch in the 4-3-3 we did last season and lose the ball in midfield our defense is at the halfway line and we have a much better chance of recycling possession. When we’re sat deep we’re fucked when we lose possession as it’s immediately in or around our box and we’re scrambling. We’re at our best in that true 4-3-3 pressuring up the pitch. When we drop into the flat 4-5-1 like we did today (and have many many times this season but didn’t last season) we play like garbage.

Hell yeah that must’ve been rad.

I’m so hoping I get to meet him in Nashville. I want to shake that dude’s hand.

They only showed the replay once here and no mention of a VAR check or anything. I was kind of wondering why everyone was still just standing around.

The tiling looks like a Five Guys wall

Dixon is usually pretty sound about us when he’s on the US broadcasts, just to be totally fair. Glad I can’t hear him tonight obviously.

I feel like the commentators on the American broadcast are having the polar opposite conversations of the British ones. Danny Higginbotham is talking about how much Howe has improved players that he had when he took over and giving out loads of praise.

He’s ridiculously two footed. Love that he has that in his locker.

That’s how the good teams do it to be fair.

I absolutely despise this 4-5-1 we do when we’re up. Just inviting alllll kinds of unnecessary pressure.

Good for Juice's confidence to at least have the ball in the back of the net on his return.