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Shite freekick to end the half. A bit unlucky to be behind but we've had plenty of luck this season, so no complaints. Set pieces have been poor. Lots of floaty ones rather than attack the first ball ones.

Unlucky. Brilliant from Jetro and great hit from Miggy.

My favourite game last season. I hope the Mackem gets his rave on again. If he does, presumably VAR will know the rules and send him off.

I went to bed at half-time since it was game over, but I think this one was lost on momentum and carelessness. Their goal came pretty much from nothing, was a keeping error, and swung the momentum in their favour. Another 10 minutes of holding out and we'd have frustrated them. The second could be foreseen about two passes earlier and should have had Brewcie shouting at them to get rid. It was still an obvious gift to them. The third was an easy blow with us already on the ropes. Since we weren't being outplayed and had still created the best two chances when the score was 2-1 to them, I wouldn't accuse our tactics. We just made some bad errors and handed the game to them. Our hand is so limited that getting back into a game in that situation is out of the question.

Man U getting their presents a day late here.

Ramagesque :(

Savable but was in acres when he hit it. A rare defensive balls up.

SHORTY DOES IT AGAIN!

Should just slide that, not blast it.

Getting close to the point where we would stay up even playing Darlow every game. I reckon it's definitely time to play a full-strength team in the FA Cup.

FT. Ninth, above Arsenal (!) 10 points above the bottom three. Possibly only need 10-12 more to stay up. Still shit to watch though.

MIGGOAL!

We've lost our way here last 10 minutes. Need HT.

Nice move, unlucky with the footing. Dummet playing left wing so far.

Benteke vs. Carroll, hard to know which one has the most goalscoring mojo left.

Schar, Lejeune, and Shelvey in the team and it'll probably still be Dummet hitting it long.

The Guardian has Firmino as 11th best footballer in the world. He's one place above KDB. Seventeen places about Aubameyang, who scores twice as many and gets nearly as many assists in the PL carrying an underperforming team. Gini is 43rd, above David Silva. https://www.theguardian.com/global/ng-interactive/2019/dec/17/the-100-best-male-footballers-in-the-world-2019

Well played from Joelinton there. What a miss from Gayle.

Not a corner. Carroll lucky to not get red for an elbow.

This is so shit I'm looking at the hoardings. Are Farmhouse Biscuits any good?

Watford airshot when free in the box, then concede from their own mishit corner. That's gotta hurt.

It's been well flukey, but the points are on the board. If the defence holds up, we should get over the line (=17th) even with the same dismal forward play.

You'd have to be livid as a Soton fan missing all those chances and then letting us score twice off the few we had.

The Jonj does it again!

Terrible mistake from us for the goal. Big hoof that Schar ducked under.