Smal

should've been about 8-0 this

break a leg, Alex

bit weird they didn't show him the replay from the side where it was clearly a penalty

Ugarte has literally nothing that is the level required to play in the premier league

Pope's probably cost us about 12 points (and 2 extra fixtures in the CL) on his own from individual errors this season tbh

Chelsea fans hated him but that's kind of their thing edit: sorry, I read that as 'bad' not 'bald'

wouldn't take Tino to the World Cup tbh

too many Newcastle defenders on the pitch for this to go well

goodness me Mainoo is shit

usually works pretty well

doesn't show enough for it either. Think we have loads of more effective players for that position to be honest.

not convinced Palmer is good enough for England tbh

Looks like we might be spared Lewis Hall looking mint to the world this summer because Tuchel is picking O'Reilly ahead of him.

All the Tuchel performances without Anderson in midfield have been poor.

Isn’t he getting paid more than double there and on a long contract? He’ll be fucking laughing. As if he gives a shit about actually playing. Hope the Barca rumour is true and he dies from drowning in scouse spit.

I watch a lot of prem football and there is not one team in the league that constitutes anything other than a tough watch this season.

The criticism that he doesn’t change formations shows a lack of understanding of football. There’s nothing rigid about his system either tbh, if anything it’s not structured enough and is too off the cuff in possession this season. One thing I’m definitely not seeing as much this season is us abusing the space in between the opposition CB and FB. We used to constantly have the 8s (or the wingers if the 8s had pulled wide) making the run in between them to the byline to generate cut backs. It was a huge source of success for us but we don’t seem to get into those positions anywhere near as much. Not having a reliable striker probably doesn’t help here as the team has no confidence anyone will be there to convert it.

their league position is false based on actual performances, they’re lucky not to be in a relegation scrap. They’re absolutely shit. Other than that we’ve had extended cup runs and the CL to contend with. Basing it on two results and league position is simplistic.

Been our best player since going up top. We’ll just have to accept the inconsistent finishing for the rest of the season, but at least he gets chances and shots which is automatically better than any of the other options.

Not just this but we didn’t concede when he was on the pitch and sunderland didn’t threaten the goal once. Was a completely different story after he went off. I thought he was fine/good.

yeah, I think the pitch always looks particularly stretched when we get counter attacked. Like we’re not compact enough. Schar would quite often be halfway into the opponents half when we have settled possession around the opponent’s box, don’t ever really see that with Thiaw.

Mitchell and Eales literally created the whole conflict with Howe over transfers. They lost any leverage they had when Howe won a cup and qualified for the champions league off the back of years of recruitment that came good. This summer just gone was a mess and it was almost entirely their fault.

played like he was sulking that Woltemade started ahead of him tbh. Such poor application the whole time he was on the pitch.

I guess the problem with playing Gordon up front (who is sadly our only viable striker) is that there's nobody to rotate with Barnes.

love Big Dan but I fear we're seeing a fair but of a downturn from him recently. He seems to be losing his head a fair bit defensively.