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Attended matches in following stadia abroad, numerous games at Benfica, Sporting and Viking. San Nicola - Bari Sao Januario - Vasco da Gama San Mamés - Athletic Bilbao Estadio Centenario - Montevideo, Uruguay Estadio da Luz - Benfica Estadio Jose Alvalade - Sporting CP Estadio Antonio Coimbra da Mota - Estoril Praia Viking Stadion - Viking FK Siaka Stevens Stadium - Freetown, Sierra Leone

Must admit I wasn’t paying too much attention by the end but did Barnes contribute much? In my mind he’s only really effective running onto a throughball like against Villa.

IMO there’s been a drop in the quality of each of our last three opponents. From Man City to Liverpool to Brighton. We’ve looked all over the place and we’ve lost all three. If we played Villa next week I’m almost certain we’d lose. A lot of work for Howe and his team to do. A lot of self reflection required by the players as they’ve been very poor.

Midfield effectiveness today at pre-PIF levels.

Fucking joke.

Seen enough in 5 mins to conclude nowts changed. We need to change shape.

Joelinton tends to clatter people though, part of the fact he wasn’t originally a midfielder. There’s little guile in winning the ball, just monsters into players.

We just look insipid, a shadow of ourselves. Realise it’s only half time but not one of our players is playing well. Need a big improvement in next 45 mins.

No idea what our plan is for the midfield 3. One minute Tonali is wide right, next he’s chasing a ball wide in the left.

I know the hipsters think Brighton are Barca circa 1995 but they aren’t that good.

Absolute clown show that.

Almiron’s lack of a right foot is beyond a joke now.

Brighton have beat a very poor Wolves and Luton and lost to West Ham at home. We don’t lose this today. If we manage to click we win comfortably.

Pissed me off the amount of noobs on Twatter who think this is the first time we’ve been in the CL or even in Europe! We fell a long way down under Fat Mike’s stewardship that’s for sure.

Maybe a picture of some gadgey wearing lederhosen.

I lived in Naples for a while. An away day there is not for the faint hearted.

Is this the way to Barcelona?

If anything we were galvanised from the disappointment at Anfield last season so let’s hope we go on a long winning run now.

I don’t have the heart to even look on Twitter.

Liverpool an official bogey team now and it’s fucking infuriating.

Against 10 men, I didn’t feel like we were going to score. A few snapshots but we never built any real momentum in front of goal.

We hardly had a shot on target. I’d argue creativity was exactly the issue. If you can’t give 10 men, sitting deep, the good news then that’s a lack of chance creation.

Howe and the players need to own this. Not seen much ‘intensity’ recently. Very poor, we struggle with too much possession as we don’t have the guile to unlock the defence.

I certainly expect to win today. Apart from City I’d expect to win every home game. This isn’t Ashley’s NUFC anymore, we’ve got a team that tries, now we want to win. I won’t be too upset if we lose after putting in a decent performance but we are rubbing shoulders with the big lads now.

No chance we lose this, I don’t expect to lose any home games now. We will win this by two clear goals.