Smal

Miggy Amillmiron

watching Arsenal v Man U from 2005 on sky and it’s scary how much he and Henry are alike at times. We’re going to have to improve big time if we want to keep him.

Miley has been decent

Bruno really has been horrible in this game . Might be his worst for us.

Burn’s made so many tackles and recoveries this half

we literally can’t play 3 passes together

the first phase of our build up is absolutely awful. CBs rarely have a short option centrally. Need to either drop another midfielder deeper or bring a full back narrower imo.

wish we’d get Trippier on the ball more like we used to when we were good . Barely had it at all first half.

would really like to see Hall on for Longstaff here. Longstaff can’t play from the left and some technical quality would be nice.

only time our press looks decent is from opposition goal kicks these days

this is awful, like. No pace, intensity or technical ability.

Man, Bruno’s been so bad

the sun and moon shining at different times definitely feels like he could be alluding to him and Isak, like

Gordon played as an 8 in the last game of last season against Chelsea. Wonder if we could see that tried again when Murphy and Barnes are back. I wouldn’t mind because neither of Longstaff or Miley seem suited to the left-sided 8 slot.

lol, what’s going on

Olivier Kemen just come on for Cameroon. Remember him?

Gambia are really taking it to Cameron now. Fun game to watch.

Maybe we’ve managed to recall Minteh after AFCON? Would be a mad sale if we don’t have anyone coming in this month.

like, I even know it’s the right thing to do, but it’s still heartbreaking . Don’t really want to sell any of our players - least of all the ones who’ve always ran themselves into the ground for the team.

before his dodgy period (coincidentally whilst we were playing 13 games in a month) he was playing his best football for us and there were no signs of any kind of decline. The opposite if anything tbh.

wouldn’t sell our only creative player, like. Not unless we were getting wild money for him and had a genuinely creative replacement coming in.

Definitely think it's time to give him a run in midfield. At least in the FA cup game anyway. He could play that more advanced LCM role we use better than Longstaff has done imo... Longstaff is completely unsuited to it and is a different player on the right. Get him crossing from deep on the left and providing overlaps for Gordon. It makes sense in a lot of ways.

He's rapid, like. Gambia are just punting it long at every opportunity though. It's horrible

The area he can most improve on imo is his movement in the box. Too often we'll have the ball wide near the touchline and he'll be behind a defender rather than in front of them and ready to be on the end of a low cross. Think this is what Eddie meant in his comments in the Shearer article too.