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Anyone know if this is a strong team for Fio?

Isak hasn't looked at it at all pre season from what I've seen. Hopefully it's from training before games, rather than from not being sharp yet.

Loving the crowd noise only on this. We don't look great so far, especially in transition after losing the ball

Legend!! yes please

judging by that, it should be todays front 3, tomorrow middle 3 and a mix of the 2 games for back 5 next week. Unless something mental happens

Im liking the look of this short spell through the middle this half

Im fully sold on this lad now, looks so comfortable on the ball and does that old trick of short, short, short and then a lovely longer pass

That line up has made me more excited for the game, get to see a big chunk of Miley and Tonali

So much of the content has me smiling to myself like an idiot, having this feeling towards the club again is brilliant. I never stopped supporting, but for a long time there was no realy excitement behind that support, now im sat up waiting for team news for a pre season friendly that will finish about 2 hours before I have to get up for work. Ill hold Howe, his team and this set of players in very high reguard for bringing all of that back.

I know its a friendly against a National League side, bu Miley looks a very good player based on that little showing. He just seems in control at all times, and brings things to his speed.

Why do we even has so many Full backs on the books?? Al

1 - 0 Gateshead

Lewis misses a sitter

For those not watching it looks like its Manquillo Savage Burn Targett Longstaff Trippier Anderson Ritchie ASM Lewis

Site won't let me buy any tickets, just keeps saying age unknown when I select tickets . Any ideas would be very welcome (Ignore me, I hadn't linked the ticketing account)

It's a small thing but him not having to trot across for every set piece, will beneficial both for cutting down some of the running and also for variation of set pieces

His delivery from set pieces is consistantly spot on

I got bored and turned it off, but it looked like he barely run for the 1st 60 odd mins and didnt pretty much everything 1st time. Massively conservative performance

I think it will be either Ugarte or Szoboszlai?

Literally the only midfielder who has played this season in the whole squad

That is wildly attacking and I love it!!

I'd be massively shocked if the club or the player even entertain this, Bruno clearly loves it here and we're on the up. If next season doesnt go to plan it may then be a worry if ones of those come in, but this summer we wont sell anyone we dont want to reguardless of price offered

I quite liked the Bruno/Big Joe double pivot after we switched from the horrible idea of Joelinton in the 6 alone. That again, willock left, Miggy right and Isak just off Wilson

I know they were brilliant in patches today, but they also gave the ball away in their defensive 3rd quite a lot. I'm all for pressing the hell out of them, because if they do that and we work it to Isak or Wilson it's quite likely we score.

Howe got the set up wrong at the start and then fixed it. As a team we wasnt good enough, Trips looks shattered, Burn hasnt been at it for weeks, the sub of Wilson instead of Isak was wrong in my opinion and i would have gone for Murph instead of Gordan, but that me being as negative as possible. Elland road when bouncing is a hard place to go, they only lost 2-1 away to the best team in Europe atm last week, and this was thier 1st home game under a new manager, it was never going to be easy. We played well, but couldn't break them down in the final 3rd, this is why Joelinton was played in Dm (makes letting Shelvey go look even worse). We still only have to win 2 games against teams that are either not vey good this season, are out of form or both and thats only if Liverpool are perfect, which they wont be. It's no time to panic we'll get there an then thats when the real fun starts, because we NEED to them solve the problems in squad that we currently have.