Smal

atmosphere is worse than an England friendly

There is nothing about Almiron’s game that suggests he can play on the right. Nee idea why we keep trying it.

That pass from Schar was ludicrous, man

Would’ve liked to have seen someone other than Fraser tried.

Was talking about Bruno. Kovacic is a very good (this season at least) passes and progressor of the ball.

The Kovacic comparisons prior to us signing him ring somewhat true to me so far. Hopefully he's more effective in the final third, mind. Maybe someone like Tielemans too.

Partey has been comical.

They wouldn’t be able to put 3 men on him if we offered any other threat at all to be honest. Wood and Fraser did absolutely nothing, Joelinton didn’t get involved and Targett never looked to overlap. It’s not something you can criticise ASM for.

It takes incredible levels of stupidity to send a team out second half like that after watching Spurs dismantle a high line against Everton a couple of weeks ago.

Burn has been a proper imbecile today.

really bad tactically today

Idk how Bentancur headbutts ASM but we end up with two yellows, like. PL refs are mad.

Want a bigger header from Burn on the first ball in really.

Bruno does everything Shelvey can twice as well.

Romero is some player.

We’ve gone a bit too passive here.

Only any good 1 in 5 games apparently.

He was good against Liverpool too. Everyone was rubbish vs Cambridge, Man City, Arsenal and Leicester. It’s just nonsense.

He's had 2 training sessions in 4 weeks because of injury/illness. Nobody was moaning about him in the period before that where we were winning games and he was a functional part of the team.

Probably going against the grain here but I don't see reintroducing Shelvey as solving any of the issues last night. It seems a bit knee jerk to me because we've lost the 2 games he hasn't played. Bruno played his role last night and did everything Shelvey does but better. The issue was that our attacking play is heavily reliant on our full backs and our wide players. Targett was all right, but the other 3 were absolutely terrible in an attacking sense. Our full backs have the ball a lot and there we just spammed hopeful long balls down the line all game. We needed better movement from the front three. Look at how Spurs destroyed Everton - they're very vulnerable to runs in behind on the break and we basically did none of that. The two times we did Fraser almost got in but for a cracking bit of defending from Coleman (Fraser also really should've done better) and Bruno played a class through ball to Almiron who just isn't a right winger.

He's really good. Passed the eye test and having just had a look at his numbers they're really good too. Most touches, most passes (63/67, 94%), high successful pressures (60%), most carries, most progressive carries, most tackles (100% won), most interceptions, most fouls drawn, 2nd most recoveries.

Small sample size but my hypothesis is that Joelinton's game will suffer when ASM isn't in the team as well. It's weird but he thrives on covering a lot of ASM's defensive work which he doesn't need to do when Fraser's playing; and in an attacking sense he links up with ASM much better too.

Get rid in the summer! Lazy! Unfit! Oh no wait. I like Eddie Howe but we’d be absolutely slating Bruce if he was playing ASM whilst injured/unfit like this.

Needs to start games. Our attack is absolutely tragic without him.

Chris Wood. Meh.