Smal

how come none of their cynical fouls are yellows but all of ours are btw?

We’d have beaten Man U if Pope had played

Hope we can Anderson on for Longstaff. Would like to see that midfield.

cracking finish tbf

I think his contribution this season is really underrated. Absolutely fine as a second choice RW for where we are atm imo.

Bournemouth can do something here

I love big Joe, man

orange card, that

Burn is obviously not as good as Botman but he’s way more proactive in his defending which arguably suits our style better. Hopefully it’s something we can coach into Sven.

their keeper is trash

think that’s Joelinton’s first foul? Bruno and him having the same hair doesn’t do us any favours

shame, but our heads are up and Brentford’s are getting the beach towels out.

how are they letting Barnes win a header there?

Wissa is running this game from that massive space between our defence and midfield. I swear any team could just have a player camp there and they’d control the game easily.

Brentford are pulling us all over the place here. We’re nowhere near winning the ball back with a press.

I have no idea what happens to some of our players away from home. Just brainless stuff.

hasn't this already happened to us this season as well? Some Everton hack on Longstaff iirc?

finally gonna get his hattrick today

he might actually be ill, like. There are a lot of bullshitters in our online fanbase.

It’s hard to put it into numbers but - no exaggeration - I’m pretty certain we’d be comfortably above Villa if Pope hadn’t been injured.

I'd probably expect a half-fit Nick Pope to save all three of their goals, or maybe just the second and third ones on a bad day. That's how big the difference between him and Dubravka - who is honestly not a Prem or even Championship standard goalkeeper these days - is. Dubravka has been conceding goals like this all season to an embarrassing degree. There are a variety of other reasons Dubravka makes us so much worse as well. This is what I mean by wondering whether Pope isn't playing because of the risk of injury. It's the only justification I can think of.

well yeah, for an outfield player sure. That's been evident with our outfield players all season. I don't really get it with a goalkeeper though. If there's a big risk he's going to hurt himself by diving then... he shouldn't be on the bench. Otherwise if he's fine then surely he has to start in front of Dubravka who's been awful all season?

the Pope thing is weird, like. I think he should explain it. If it's unsafe for him to be in goal then surely he shouldn't be on the bench.