Super Duper Branko Strupar

Didnt realise Blackburn had taken such a tumble in recent weeks, quite the bottle job. Feel like it wasnt that long ago they were winning loads.

Youre potentially going to run out of zones by the end of the season.

If we add someone of Rice's quality in that position in the summer I think we'd be very well set.

How many medics do you need standing round doing nowt? Medics24 making sure they squeeze as much money out as possible.

No fucking way.

Think we played both well and poorly, myself. Fair play to Arteta for putting Jorginho in, he was immense. With his understanding, Xhaka's shithousery and Odegaard's brilliance, they controlled the centre of the pitch. Balanced, structured and quality on the ball,while we were too often too frantic. I imagine the big chance totals were quite even, haven't seen the stats though. I thought throughout that their chances were more likely to get a goal than ours. The back end of that first half was terrifying. Think we needed to be smart today, over being all guns blazing. Bruno was further forward than Joe far too often today and I think we suffered for that. As much of a great ball winner Joe is, I dont think he has the timing to be doing it front on with people coming towards him. Would have loved to have seen Bruno as the quarterback, would have given us a lot more balance and security. I can see why we didnt though, with the intention to be attacking from the off being at home. Don't want to diss Burn, but we've got to understand that if he loses it higher up, that space in behind and Saka etc is going to kill us. Think Burn, Botman and Schar were not good today, not awful but far off the mark of where we need to be against those players. Agree that starting Wilson and Isak is not the best idea. Yeah it'll work when we're on top and against poorer performing sides, but we are sacrificing other qualities when they play the positions they played today and I feel for games like today it'd have been better to have the option to change to that later on. Dont feel we have much of a change in attitude when we move from it rather than to it, if that makes sense. Bruno was disappointing, its like he was playing as a 10 a lot of the time. And also trying to be our defensive ball winner in midfield, and he ended up being poor at both. He's desperate the be involved in goal creation and scoring, you can just sense it in him.

He just waltzed in to the area with the ball, man. Youve got to be trying to stop him much earlier man

fuck off

Howay Fab man you could go for that you idiot

Has to be.

Aye, not an issue when it's not against one of the best teams in the league. Need to make that change for a game like today, though. I know he wants to be up there and score and we want him passing up there, but we have to pick one with their pace, passing and touch. Means he's always running back trying to tackle too which too often results in a foul in our half.

Yep. Its driving me insane. Our best tackler/ball winner/play breaker upper is furthest forward. Desperate to see him in there, would give me much more confidence.

We need to make more effort to stop them getting in to shooting positions even if they are from distance. Again space available in the middle.

Fuuuckin hell, man.

Fuck off!

Id get Gordon on for Murphy to nail Zinchenko

Arrggh

The space Odegaard had to hit that was unacceptable, like.

Far too frantic.

Fucking hell.

Being asked to do too much in a game like this imo. He's up and down too much. As much as he's our best passer and line breaker, he's leaving a hole in front of the defence for 4 quality players to exploit. Id ask him to be more disciplined, even if that means we get less of him further forward.

Daniel Burn. My cardiologist is begging you to take your time and think.

We need more support from the midfield to cover the full backs, especially from Willock and Bruno.

We cannot afford to have Burn losing the ball that high up cos he aint getting back in time

Botman - Burn looking beatable