Smal

He has made one senior league appearance in his career

Not sure why Isak looks so knackered. Did last game too.

would probably put Gordon in for Almiron here

We should score so many goals from corners, man. Every game we miss easy ones.

Chill out! We aren’t getting anything from it now so no point in getting frustrated.

ASM has been unreal

Having no DM is very bad.

Dubs Gotten so used to Pope coming for those.

nah, look at how we’re playing since the red. We have good mentality.

cheer up lad

big hole where our 6 normally is on transitions. A disaster against Liverpool.

I'd prefer us to keep the same system the players are used to rather than change formation just to accommodate one change in personnel, so I like the line-up tbh. Once again though it's daft that we've got no midfielders

Smash them Elliot lad

Mount is a good player but you have to play him in a particular system to get the best out of him it seems. Can’t see where we’d fit him in without completely changing things.

I think Joelinton can play Willock’s role in the team better than Willock can to be honest. It’ll be fine when Bruno comes back.

Yesterday they were congratulating Jakub Jankto for coming out, and the very next day they're announcing giving Saudi Arabia competitions to host . What a rank organisation they are.

Bissouma having ankle surgery too, I think.

Akanji is pub league

How the fuck did we not score against Leeds, man. Their defence is unbelievably bad.

yeah, it’s mad. We had basically no midfield yesterday because neither Longstaff or Joelinton can positionally play as a single pivot, so both played much deeper than they usually do to compensate. Keep Shelvey or replace him with another specialist 6 who can slot straight in for Bruno and our midfield structure looks way better. Willock’s injured now. It was an absolutely mental decision that will cost us a lot of points.

Again I would say it’s extremely difficult for any attacking player on our left side at the moment because they get absolutely no support and most of our play goes down the right. Cannot wait for Bruno to come back so that Joelinton can go back to playing as a left-sided 8.

I thought he looked good. Could do with getting a bit wiser though as I thought there were a couple of situations where he could’ve tried to win a penalty.

I think most people who were happy also assumed we must be signing a replacement because it would be suicidal to go into the second half of the season with 4 midfielders to fill 3 positions.

He definitely needs players running beyond him. His passing is really good. Don’t feel like Gordon ever got beyond him or even near him as an option because he was too bothered about overloading the wings, and the wingers were too wide.

he looked absolutely knackered from the start. A few of ours did - even Isak. I don’t get it… most of these had a decent mid-season break a couple of months ago.