Aiston

For all of Joelinton's criticism, he's the only one of the front two been involved in anything today.

Prime service has been good, the match has been fucking awful.

He offers absolutely fuck all.

I actually like him better than ASM, think he's a better team player. You can see why Rafa liked him, his work rate is phenomenal. He runs around a lot more but ASM is the more taltented player Might be more skilful but he's only got 1 goal and 1 assist in the PL this season with 171 more minutes played than Almiron (1 assist).

The shitness of the PL is really going to save Bruce's bacon.

Everyone being too harsh on wor Bruce, you can see what he's trying to do each game, improvements every game are happening. We would be worse off without him, he elevates the club.

Just end Carroll's contract now, he offers absolutely fuck all. He cannot even win headers anymore.

Played well when he came on. Shame 9 of the others gave up when he came on. Depressing watching the rest of the team make no effort to help him against 4 Chelsea players, that he got past.

No surprise if he wants to move on. Good luck to him, hope he gets into a team that won't have him defend 90% of the time and then expect him to consistently do something 80 yards further up the pitch.

Mitro bottles it.

Yeap, Dubs is a better all round goalkeeper. Though Darlow looks like he's cut out his mistakes that were frequent the last time he was a regular. Darlow has made quite a lot of mistakes, handling the ball, passing to the opposition and controlling his box this season. Luckily none of them have resulted in conceding.

Feels like no matter who Bruce puts in midfield, they will be trash. He just doesn't know how to use the midfield.

Help us, Alan Pardew. You're our only hope.

Lose the good part of our defending then (Almiron), even though he fucked up today.

Hate him playing shit and being a waste of space, like the last 3 games.

ASM has been shocking.

Cracking header that.

Longstaff is still shit then.

Doubt it, we could have the best midfielders in the world and they would look like shit under Bruce.

Has ASM even touched the ball this half?

Darlow as shakey as ever on set pieces.

Pardew > Bruce.

He’s being played in a position completely ruining his game. Of course he’s giving the ball away as nobody is within 40 yards of him. A position he wants to play in

Disgraceful that Bruce hasn't played ASM for a few games now.

It was nowhere near fantastic mind