Smal

extremely fussy ref

Botman and Thiaw looks like a really good partnership. I wouldn’t like to be in Howe’s position because he basically has to drop Burn I think. He can’t play left back well now, and Hall is really important for our general play.

possibly get Miley on for Joe and try and keep the ball more second half I think.

man Woltemade is so good. Right decision every single time.

Joe looks like he struggles to play twice a week tbh. Kind of unsurprising given how physical his game is.

why didn’t Gordon just play Sandro through? was straight in on goal

just kind of want Elanga to use his pace more? Just try knocking it past the full back and running like he did all pre-season.

guy smashed through the back of him before Joelinton even connects with the ball.

it’s a pen that, like

Thing is, on paper they both suit playing with Woltemade. We just need to find new patterns to get them running in behind off his link play. It’s not something we’ve done before really. It’s mostly been the striker doing the running in behind.

he doesn’t appear to have the technical game to be able to play it into his feet at all.

hope it’s been diagnosed properly

he was gassed by half time and couldn’t really compete in duels at all. It’s promising that his deficiencies are all physical though. Relatively easy to work on that I think. Technically he looks like he’s on another level to anything else we have in the squad, which was badly needed. We have to find a way of getting the wingers closer to him.

yeah, exactly this. I think I would probably play Wissa there for that reason when he's back.

yeah, everyone having to change positions when Lascelles came on hurt us so much.

yeah, wasn’t a jumping issue, Botman just wasn’t close enough to him. It’s a shame because he was flawless the rest of the game. Absolutely bullied Gyokeres.

the average PL keeper is very bad at shot-stopping. You see evidence of that every week.

I don't expect us to dominate them and I know they're good teams, but we're much better than we've shown against them imo.

we were at home in all of those games. Liverpool we deserved to win, the other two we were far too passive and negative. We haven't beaten Arsenal consistently in the past by doing that.

there has been very little counter threat from us in these games. We've gone way too far in the other direction to hold onto games.

yeah, he was nowhere. Not in the game at all, and not sure what he was supposed to be doing. It was a bonkers decision for him and Joelinton to play 90 minutes midweek to be honest.

Arsenal would probably have scored 5 or 6 with most other Prem keeper in net. He was great overall.

he was holding his left knee. He landed on his right. Previous ACL injury was to his left. I think there was another challenge/landing after the Saliba one but I'll have to go back and find it.

he's a disgrace this lad, like. Been awful for over a year now.

he can be annoyed at Pope for the kick but Pope kept us in it pretty much the whole game. It's mostly on Howe.