The Prophet

Defends more like a centre back than a full back, but solid overall. We're yet to see the passing range he displayed at Bournemouth, he kept it pretty simple overall.

Clinical as fuck.

“I don’t think we’re playing as we’d like, that’s obvious,” he said. Howe confessed that Anthony Gordon is undercooked after a stop-start summer with England rather than suffering from a lack of focus after those unsettling links to Liverpool. “I don’t think we’re playing with enough control or enough composure but what we are showing is the defensive and aggressive qualities you need to win football matches" Totally fair commentary, as ever.

He was superb today.

My biggest grumble is still about how poor we are at keeping the ball. We've never been brilliant at it, but it's been noticeable bad so far. Obviously, taking account of today's game plan too.

Did Salah say he was leaving at the end of the season?

Possibly bad choice of words, but we were under the cosh for a decent spell, even if they didn't make the most of it.

It was a means to an end. Last season the way to play Spurs was to let them have the ball and play on the counter. We didn't look convincing at times, but on the end the game plan worked. It's been a rough week for Howe and he has some unsettled lads in that dressing room. Our first choice CB pairing are out, last season's best player is undercooked and our striker is lacking confidence. The fact we were able to grind out a result speaks volumes about the character of the lads. We know we will have to and we can improve, but taking everything into account I'm not going to grumble about the performance today, it's a massive result.

Agreed, did exactly the same last season too.

Nope, hilarious.

He's putting the graft in, it's blatantly the lack of any kind of meaningful pre-season, he looks well off it.

Could easily be a red.

Man United have completely lost their heads here.

Onana is dogshit.

We look thr exact opposite of last season. Compact and defensively solid, but disjointed and wateful going forward.

Absolutely honking for the goal, parried a couple of shots straight at him too. Unusually shaky from him.

Not a great watch, but can't fault the mentality of the lads, superb. Big win going into the international break.

Really poor again, the lack of preseason shows. Csn only imagine he gets more minutes than Barnes is his graft off the ball or because he's on contract negotiations.

I think it was part of the tactics tbh. Sit back and hit them on the counter, but we've been playing without an outball all half, Gordon and Isak have been woeful.

That's not what I said like.

You've surprised me there like.

Probably because PIF have ambition and have invested hundreds of millions into the club, putting an executive structure in place to move the club forward. Ashley didn't

I wonder if he's here to ask some tough questions...