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I'm not

He's looked really tentative since coming on.

Incredibly bad.

Barnes has looked off it as well.

Lascelles man.

Hoping Anderson gets 20 mins on for Longstaff.

Almiron coming on.

Better.

Don't think Trippier's been nearly as bad as some are saying. Him and Murphy have been our best outlet. Longstaff has been seriously off it. Demands the ball then promptly has his pocket picked.

Willock looks rusty (understandably). Touch has been off so far.

Awful from Longstaff.

Bit nervous of Willock starting, although suppose there's nothing for it if Miley is injured. Great news that Anderson is back - he's much better suited than Miley for that LCM slot IMO and should do the midfield wonders to have some legs back in the mix. Good to see Murphy start but surprised to see Barnes on the bench - thought this would've been an ideal opportunity to get him back up to sharpness while giving Gordon a bit of a reprieve. Strong side though all in all

It's much harder to shithouse when the other team is able to sit back on a lead after 15 odd mins like Arsenal were. We just didn't ship goals in that manner last season. The difference with the two games you mention is that we didn't concede until late on in one game, at which point we were more or less home and hosed, or at all in the other. Shithousing's a very different proposition when you're constantly having to play your way back into games.

I didn't think PSG was overly negative, at least initially. First half, I thought we went toe-to-toe and shaded it. Second, we quickly ran out of legs and so Howe opted to stick everyone behind the ball. The Chelsea game in the Carabao Cup was managed similarly. I also didn't think there was all that much wrong with the Dortmund approach at SJP either. Granted, Dortmund were the classier side for the most part but, while we didn't control the game, had more than enough chances to have taken at least a point. I don't think an approach can ever be fundamentally wrong when the margins are that fine. No way our squad could've coped with Europa League so I didn't mind going out the way we did against Milan.

If you're including January business, ie Gordon, in last season's squad, you should also probably remove Wood and Shelvey.

Was briefly a co-commentator on BT Sport for Serie A coincidentally

Can only assume Murphy's not ready, thought he'd have been a cert to come on.

Gibbs-White should be off there.

Think the Chronicle were saying that him and Barnes are in contention for Luton.

I dunno, we're finding lots of gaps in the channels. Isak's nearly been in twice.

Adam Wharton is having a medical at Palace currently and won't feature if all goes to plan

https://twitter.com/NUFC/status/1751938758771909038?t=ENFJPcU3ufhZMQHp9QdVIQ&s=19 - just signed a new long-term contract

Don't think it's a coincidence that he's starting to get more minutes as the schedule has begun to ease and the squad is getting more time to train. He'll start to feature more prominently moving forwards, I think.

Absolute sickener. But the performance was so much better than I was expecting. Absolutely no reason why we can't go to Villa and get something - particularly with 2 week's rest.