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I’m expecting nothing today. With the injuries and lack of viable replacements for the wide players I think we’ll try and match Burnley up like that awful phase in the Pardew era where we tried and failed to copy every team we played. Think we’ll go long ball for long ball and Burnley will be better at it. That said I could really do with a win after a shit political week/month/decade.

Did Carroll have as much of an impact as some people have suggested?

... but didn’t use the squad

Fernandez is probably my favourite player this season. Huge impact since he’s come in

No way has Shelvey scored a header man ?

This game had loss written all over it with Bruce

f***er always scores against us. He used to absolutely rinse Colo

Off topic I guess but the improvement in Manquillo from the second half of the season onwards has been massive.

I think we’ll lose today unless we make some changes given we barely have the ball most of the time. Would like to see Schar, Longstaff, Joelinton all starting. I think it’d probably be a mistake to start both Saint-Maximin and Almiron from an injury perspective but I guess we don’t have any replacements bar Atsu. I hope Southampton are shit like they often seem to be up here and we snag another win. Big Joe to get the winner ?

It may have been because the second goal took the wind out of them but I thought you could see the benefit of having him on the pitch over Carroll when he came on. We actually kept the ball in their half that didn’t involve a long ball. I think he’ll come good in front of goal with time.

100% These are the type of game changing decisions that benefits from VAR not the armpit offsides cancelling goals that seems to happen to Sterling every couple of weeks. What made it controversial is their team just stopped playing. I like their club and whole philosophy but Wilder should have accepted that rather than coming out twisting - he’s probably just pissed they outplayed us and somehow lost though.

He seems to have really stepped up in the captains role. I noticed towards the end he ran up to Fernandez to praise him for shielding the ball out of play. In the past he would have just been plodding around with his head down. I like him and he’s got real Premier League quality but he’s been awful for a while. Hopefully the last few games is the start of a big season for him.

Good three points. Not sure how we got that mind because they were better in pretty much every element. Dubravka motm

Odd sub

Always liked VAR

Hahahahaha

That’s onside

There’s absolutely no way you can try and defend like this with so long remaining

Surely we’ve got to get Carroll off or change the system

We’re even doing the Pardew floated set piece routine

How is that not a yellow ffs Edit* finally

It’s the lack of an offensive plan that I can’t stomach under Bruce. Rafa got loads of stick in the media for being too defensive but we always had a game plan going forward you could see the runs and link ups being attempted on the pitch. Now we win the ball and just blast it forward in hope. It’s the Pardew era all over again with worse players.

I almost feel bad for them

What was that challenge man

I don’t think we’ve been this outplayed all season 11v11. Can’t get the ball, can’t get near them, can’t make more than one pass without hoofing it.