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Yeah, we’re getting a lot of headed goals this season or goals from head flick-ons. Botman will be the best target, Lascelles too when he plays, Burn should do more with his head, Joelinton is good in the air, Anderson seems strong in the air too and I expect Isak will get stronger too, he has a good header to set up a chance today

They’re the original dickheads of the league, oligarch comes in and transforms them by literally having a blank chequebook due to a life of corruption. They’ve been run in the worst possible fashion with no thought whatsoever about sustainability and Boehly has come in to pick up the torch. Good thing VAR have them the points though today, wouldn’t want all that money to have gone to waste

This is a good point, he needs to look for the easiest pass whenever there’s pressure and when there’s space to run, he needs to run with the ball and then when the pressure comes, release. It’s as simple as that with his technique

I don’t even know if it’s bait, think Maze is just a bit odd

Hope he can restart his career elsewhere in January. Would be great for him and us. His pace could definitely be of use in the lower leagues but we’ll struggle to shift him because of his wages. Howe might not be cutthroat enough to loan him out in Jan with a view to selling him in the summer but I think it’s what needs to happen

Realistically, his skill set is best suited on making runs into the box and general runs in the final third. He has the attributes more fitting of a forward role. He doesn’t have the technical ability / physicality to play in the middle. I hope we can figure it out as he’s definitely got great aspects to his game but he’s stalled rather than pushed on and mentally he seems like he doesn’t have the fire on the pitch or belief at times

One thing VAR has proven beyond doubt is that the standard of officiating in this country is even worse than we believed before its introduction. We were always told in the past that a ref’s eyeline was obscured, that there were bodies in the way or he wasn’t close enough to the action. VAR has proved that they’re just fucking awful at their jobs. Either they come out and say “we’re taking bungs and are a corrupt bunch of cunts” or they come out and say “we’re not good enough”. They can’t keep making these sorts of mistakes week after week. And it’s not just us, it’s all the teams vying for spots from 7th and below

He’s had a bad game, he’s been inconsistent for us but he’s far from one of our worst players in our squad. He’s also probably in poor shape after the game midweek. Ideally, he shouldn’t have started

Howay man

The lads must be absolutely exhausted. Fucked over midweek, played 98 minutes of a fast-paced game and have to play again, goal gets diallowed unfairly. No surprises we’re running a bit on empty

These social media updates ever correlate with the starting 11?

Sounds like it might just be for today’s match

It means very rare. Specifically in Isak’s case it would refer to the fact that he’s got height, exceptional dribbling ability and pace as well as great technical ability in striking a ball. I think the thing that makes him particularly unique regarding those traits is his height as normally someone his size wouldn’t be as pacy and technically gifted at dribbling

Have we ever had a forward like Isak? He gets called a unicorn player for good reason. I don’t know much about his record on heading the ball but I imagine it’s an area he can improve on as younger strikers are often weaker in that area (Andy Carroll aside)

Will be a big miss today, creatively we rely on ASM, Bruno and Isak. I think Anderson will join them as our main creative players but at the moment ASM and Bruno are the most important

It’s not even debatable

Froggy’s come out fighting

At least he should get decent minutes if Fraser starts as Fraser’s always blowing out his arse after 60

How many times did they get to cross the ball into the box in this match? They’re absolutely awful with no quality in the side apart from Diangana who’s decent at this level but if you get that many balls in eventually something will come of it

Vincent Kompany looks cool as fuck on the touchline. He’ll be in the premier league managing in no time

Seen him a couple of times for Fulham, looks like a player with a ton of potential

Jed Wallace is 70% plod, 30% clog

The commentators keep hammering home that Bruce didn’t get the signings he wanted. They’re gutted for him that he keeps getting beat

Terrible footballing decision, great early retirement decision

West Brom’s final ball and fret doesn’t exist. They look like a team that trains once a week, which is probably not far off