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Think he lost the ball like 75% of the times he had it but got the assist for the winner Did some alright defending too. Canny lad is Jacob.

Have to love Joelinton he's an absolute animal but think he controls his aggression very well, generally.

We will agree to disagree on Pope today. You buffoon.

I don't many shortcomings on the ball tbh today. He switched it a few times immaculately and looked to play forward passes a lot. Maybe I'm being biased. It'd be good to se some stats on it.

I see what you're saying now, but what I'd argue is you play your best or most in form players on their best position. Gordon is probably our best but Barnes is our most in form. So what Howe did today is reminded Gordon that we need him on the pitch but that he needs to perform to be in the driving seat for his position.

I actually don't know which game you were watching tbh. You must have watched it from like 70 to 80mins only.

I'd argue that take is more a disloyalty to him than the loyalty being shown towards him. People decide they don't like a player and cannot see past it, is what I find.

Was one of our best players for 85 of the 90 minutes though.

Nar na. His kicking was shite. He didn't command his area once despite us sitting deep. He parried two or three shots he should have comfortably held and cost us our conceded goal.

Whilst understanding that Tonali is undoubtedly better than Longstaff, he did nothing today that suggested he should start ahead of him. People really need to leave their desire to criticise him to one side at times like.

Why? I don't really understand that logic tbh

Unreal finish.

Gordon has also been unferperforming, so maybe it's a healthy reminder that he's not irreplaceable.

I don't think we played particularly great again tbh, but still beat a top 6 side. This is the resilience we need. Hopefully we grow into the season and become more refined.

Teams change and evolve, generally. Whilst we didn't execute it perfectly, it was absolutely the plan to hit these on the counter and it absolutely worked.

I genuinely think he's lacking sharpness and/or desire/confidence.

My man. What a diamond.

Was awful today. Two good saves around the 75min mark otherwise our worst player.

One of our most underperformed players at present. Needs to get his head out of his arse a bit as he's unplayable on his day.

He's had a good game. Some folk need to bore off like.

Get into these fuckers.

Managed to move it on to someone from football, cheers.

Nar na? What's that?