Stottie

Unlucky not to score. Not his best game by far, but still the pick of our midfielders.

Isak's movement could be a bit better, Shearer pointed it out at half time, but we're not getting him involved enough. If the opposition are putting two on him, someone else should be free and be able to drag them around. In a game with 70% possession and 20 shots, we need our main man to shooting more (three) than our center halves (Schar, also three).

Credit to Bournemouth who earned what they got, but we were poor. A bit lucky to get a penalty, if I'm being honest. Ditch VAR and we don't get it. The biggest issue is no quality at all from the wings or from AM. Not especially good movement from Isak either, compared to Wilson who makes poor crosses into chances, but he's only just joined the club. We hit the post twice, Joelinton's was the inside of the post, so not a complete disaster, but not good enough for where we want to be.

C'mon lads! This is there to be won!

Sheareresque, no, Sholaesque!! COME ON!

Weak effort but maybe only our third shot from open play. Need more.

Frustrating, but we've hit the post twice and forced a couple of decent saves. All were from set pieces, partly due to lots of fouls by them, but we need more from open play. Isak is clearly quality, but he still lacks the understanding and anticipation Wilson has. Keep pegging away and something will happen. Give it fifteen and then push Bruno right up if nothing is happening.

Get Isak onto some of his passes.

Did the Queen use Tomket tyres?

I wonder what kind of shape Costa is in. The instincts and nous might still be there, but I doubt the body is, especially if he's not been at a club for half a year.

Shame about Darlow and good luck to Karius. Welcome to NUFC! Whether it was a concussion or not or deliberate or not, the guy's been through the wringer. I must admit I was happy to see Liverpool lose that final and that last one this year, but its only because the English football media fawn all over them. If there was any kind of objectivity, I wouldn't care either way.

Real Ronaldo vs. Chris Sutton, yep I think I know that one.

I know its old ground but for the Edwards comments on Bruce, all he had to do in season 1 was keep the defensive structure Rafa had introduced. Even then, it was Dubravka who kept us up that year. In season 2, Bruce started badly, but had empty grounds protecting him. The team had Callum Wilson, and then Joe Willock on fire. Most of the defensive structure had gone by this time, but Fulham being really bad kept the pressure off. The finishing positions in those two seasons are mostly irrelevant because 13th can happen if you see off relegation with two games to go and win those games against teams on the beach. In season 3, we reached a historical point of no return, no wins in 14, and would definitely have gone down without a complete overhaul. This is what Howe did, mostly with the same squad Bruce had had by reintroducing some defensive structure. The third worst team ended up as Burnley vs. Everton, a huge step up on Fulham, and way beyond what Bruce could have managed. We would definitely have gone down. I like the comparisons between Potter and Rodgers, which suggest Potter must take the Chelsea job while his stock is high. Aside from Man Utd who were clearly unready at the start of the season, they are yet to face any top team this year and their position may be artificial. They played us in a heatwave and only turned it on after 70 minutes when it became a battle of the benches.

This smacks of Chelsea buying into Moneyball, especially if Chelsea bought players on metrics and not who Tuchel wanted. The thing with Moneyball and managers is that the higher a manager goes, the more it seems to be about controlling and motivating big egos and less about simple tactics. Potter may be the best tactical manager in the league, I couldn't tell you, but he won't have worked with this level of ego. Howe with us keeps insisting he wants no arseholes in the dressing room. That is not going to show up in a player's passing stats or expected goals.

I like stats, xG included, but 2.83 xG vs. Palace flatters us. It's more than Brighton got vs. Leicester. A one-nil for the goal wrongly disallowed would have been a fair reflection. As a whole, we're doing better and the results will come.

Woeful from Ndidi, Leicester's "defensive midfielder". Could be curtains for Brenda soon.

They should have taken Dubs in part-ex for one of their players.

I like Daka but that's a bad goal to concede. No pressure on Tielemans and too easy for Daka when the ball landed.

In context, he challenging the other person's stats. Index says Botman didn't lose an aerial, and Statsbomb Kev says that he did according to their data. It shouldn't be surprising for a stats provider to challenge someone else's stats to suggest his own employer's are superior. According to stats, Chris Wood has won a ton of aerials for us, but very little has come from them.

Still looking good to me, the defence looks solid, Pope is doing great, and our attack is fifth top in shots despite playing both City and Liverpool. Match officials have cost us a few points and I would say a couple of injuries, but it's still a decent start and bodes well for the games to January, when more additions can be made.

Klopp was gifted a very friendly offside call and still jumped around like a loon and was constantly at the officials for a bit of timewasting. Yesterday we were denied AN ACTUAL GOAL.

I wouldn't be surprised if Dowie gets a quiet word or stops getting commentary gigs. Earlier in the day, the commentators and ref in the booth were falling over themselves to say why VVD wasn't sent off for planting studs in an oppoonent's shin. That's what the Premier League wants to hear from commentators.

Robbed basically. Yes we could have got a second to win the match, but Palace are a good team with a good keeper. The main thing is we scored one goal, enough to win this match, but it was chalked off by what I hope is incompetence but what I fear is much worse.

Great from Dowie. Most commentators sit on the fence.

Seriously unlucky to not be winning. Palace are a canny side, but we've still created several great opportunities. If we keep it up, one of them will go in.