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would sell Gordon if we could get decent money for him in the summer. He’s not particularly good and he’s brainless.

really irritating that Baleba gets away with it

Tino looks done

Gordon’s been poor this half especially

it is sadly becoming increasingly apparent that Fab shouldn’t be starting for us anymore. It’s also pretty apparent that the club knows that though. He won’t be starting next season.

think we’ve done it really well to be honest. They’ve had one shot and we’ve had chances.

that’s pretty unlucky from Trips. 9/10 it goes out for a corner.

Minteh has a temper. Reckon we could get him sent off if we tried.

enjoying Joelinton in a kind of 4-4-2 press. Really suits his game.

thought he wasn’t going to give that for a minute

Brighton’s counter press is good and our ability to play out is not

do not pass the ball to Joelinton there for goodness sake

think our pressing structure looks pretty sound today.

that was probably a pen though Dan nowhere near the ball

extremely fussy refereeing

absolute disaster if Hall is injured, like.

agreed to an extent but as you probably know I think there are more ways to control a game than just having lots of possession. When we are really good, at our peak, we control a game without the ball and I think that’s what Eddie sets the team out to do. So in a way we do go out to control games, it just doesn’t happen very much, sadly. Obviously it’s not just on them, but if the likes of Bruno and Tonali were A-tier midfielders they wouldn’t be getting battered by Fulham and Bournemouth, or not even getting anywhere near a midfield of Gravenberch-Mac Allister-Szoboszlai.

when you look at how rare it is for our midfield to actually control a game I really don’t see how you can put any of them in a world class bracket, like. Bruno and Tonali have the potential to get there but they’re miles off at the moment imo.

definitely potential to be A, but B for now. Only Isak has shown the consistency over a prolonged period to be A-worthy. Tonali is second in line though imo.

Jonjo, Geremi and Nicky Butt immediately come to mind

definitely up there with the slowest PL players I've seen. Konate just jogged past him with the ball at twice the speed the other night to the extent I got a bit of second hand embarrassment. There was one time that sticks in my head from last season where he and Longstaff were making a recovery run to challenge for the ball. Longstaff had almost twice the distance to cover and he just breezed past Bruno

we did get Murphy in behind them with a couple of really good positions for a cross tbf, should’ve done better one those. Again you feel like if Isak had been on the pitch it would’ve been different.

thought Tonali was fine/good tbh. One of our better performers.

yeah, honestly it wasn’t terrible but it was frustrating that neither side ever really seemed to try very hard. Felt like the game could’ve been there for us really. Letting in a cheap goal first was a killer as well. I really don’t think liverpool are very good at all. Everyone else is just either shite or really inconsistent. There is an absolutely honking Forest team in 3rd ffs

came into the game thinking a big part of our game plan would be getting him to run at Trent and we played him through the middle with Willock out wide instead? Was really, really weird tbh. Honestly feel like Howe just did something different to keep them guessing ahead of the final really