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They only need one more win really but they're 3 very tough home games left and playing every 2 days is brutal.

Gateshead fucking it up. Fixture pile up is absolutely doing them.

Been such a weird season. I'm looking at stats. The ones I'm looking at have us making the most clear cut chances in the whole league. 2nd most clean sheets in the league after Arsenal. Suggests we've been doing a lot right at both ends. And yet for large stretches of the season we looked really poor and flimsy. But you've got to say we have had extreme extenuating circumstances with injuries. I'd say the biggest introspection needed for Howe is whether he has contributed to exacerbating the injury crisis. Be that on the training ground, through selections, through tactics etc. I know at Bournemouth they had similar injury crises.

10 goals and 8 assists in the league? Absurd numbers considering everything else he offers.

Must admit I can't believe people still rate Timo Werner. He is so bad.

That back four

QF 4th Vs 7th QF 5th Vs 6th SF 2nd Vs QF winner SF 3rd Vs QF winner Final - highest ranked at home

At Milan, doesn't play all that often.

Noble was quality even just a few years ago in the National League for Hartlepool. Surprised he's dropped down as far as 8th tier.

Last time it happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006–07_Serie_B

If it was Serie B then it would be very close to being 3 up and no play offs. If 3rd is ahead of 4th by 10 points or more. That said I don't have huge sympathy for the 3 that have come down. They have enormous financial advantages over rest of the league, which they have leveraged further.

They've only got 3 teams left and England have 5, and are only marginally ahead. Current odds would have England about a 70% chance of getting it, Germany 30%.

Old Firm games are always so fun. Just wish they still had the away ends.

Yeah it was perhaps the season before, when they had White and Dunk. White had gone by then and Cucurella was at left back. But he has certainly played more or less both positions equally at Brighton. The idea it's some crazy idea to play him there is a nonsense (even though I also prefer him centrally).

Burn played pretty much half his football at Brighton as a left back, even sometimes left wing back. I mean he was their starting left back when we actually signed him. It is not a wild experiment to play him there.

Why would he risk bringing Dummett on again

Lovely flick Anderson

I find top level football so much duller than I did 5 years ago. It's absolute rubbish.

Yeah I think Alnwick are the only ones up there that have the facilities for promotion. Shame as would be fun to see Wallington into the NL.

His off the ball discipline is obviously something we've been worried about but on the ball he's got loads of quality and I think he's shown that pretty much every time he's played.

Just the four players lost from this game

Well yeah. Maybe he knows more than most to comment for that exact reason?

Not sure why Krafth got a new contract. Absolute charity case.

Krafth has put in a 2/10 performance since he came on.

I'd attribute a decent amount of blame for both goals. You just don't think he's going to save anything most of the time.