Smal

what a brutal delivery that is btw, wow

Need Anderson for the geordie hat trick now

Bruno pls

I have no idea what the handball rules are

Felt like that was an easy pass for Bruno to make

ffs more injuries

Any time the ball goes near Botman I relax . He’s another level this year.

unfortunately looks like we’re going to have to accept spurs are good this season

I don't think it's harsh tbh. We created absolutely nothing other than the Longstaff effort at the end and we conceded almost 3xG which is a lot. I don't think Milan are that much better than us man for man on paper. They're not Man City, Arsenal, Bayern tier, are they. There were some good individual performances but as a team we were really poor and disjointed. I don't think that's an unfair assessment. We all know how well we can play. We saw it 80%+ of the time last season. That was nowhere near. It's forgivable given the context of the game of course, and I don't really care that we were bad because I got to see Jacob Murphy, Sean Longstaff and Dan Burn playing for Newcastle in the CL at the San Siro . In the future we'll have a bunch of mercenaries and it won't mean anywhere near as much as it did to those guys.

His position in the team has to be the one Longstaff plays long term, right? Not as deep as Bruno but able to drop deep to help link up with him, Trippier and Almirón. In his last couple of appearances he's played way too high and I don't think he's suited to it.

Completed 7 passes in his 72 minutes on the pitch . That’s definitely a bit of a structural issue.

Some of Isak’s performance can be blamed on tactics but mostly it was his own individual performance that was poor last night imo. He was exceptionally poor at maintaining possession. Unlike him.

Most progression usually comes from defenders seeing as they are the ones with all of the pitch ahead of them tbf. Trippier is always our most progressive player by absolutely miles though. I really think we should be dropping Bruno and Tonali deeper to revive the ball off the CBs more though.

when in Rom… errr Milan.

I think the midfield being easily bypassed and opposition players finding so much room between the lines is a tactical issue tbh. It’s happening every game. Bruno is pushing up onto their DM all the time and the two 8s are always quite wide. It’s a bit odd.

I think the biggest problem is Eddie hasn’t worked out where he fits yet. It’s gonna take time.

I thought Longstaff was absolutely tremendous in that second half. Trippier is our only world class player though. It properly shows in games like that.

Isak has been so poor

Just a wonderful player

Isak isn’t holding the ball well enough

Bruno is nuts

Trippier and Bruno are the ones who can make something happen here.

Tonali played 6 passes in that half . Drop him a bit deeper!

we’ve been shite but I almost don’t care . Champions League with Dan Burn, Sean Longstaff and Jacob Murphy, baby! A unique period in our history.