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I think we are trying to moderate at least, the relentless high intensity pressing has been gone for a minute and isn’t showing signs of returning any time soon. We are a bit disjointed atm.

Can’t help but think tactically we have some fundamental issues holding us back, it feels like we want to transition to a more possession based style but aren’t particularly good at it, notable issues playing out from the back when you have Burn, Pope, Longstaff and Tino to a much lesser extent. If you want an inverted fullback it has to be trips starting although if he does start we might suffer if we turnover and he’s put position and he doesn’t have the pace to recover his RB position in such a scenario. Isak is obviously isolated as our wide players start very wide and our line is too deep so it’s hard for our midfield to support. Our midfield is looking particularly poor atm as they have too much ground to cover, wingers not tracking back and a deep line means they have to cover a lot of ground both horizontally and vertically. We’ve managed to get away with it thus far but Eddie has a lot to think about.

Mugging these cunts

Goal.

Ahhh Gordon on his heels.

Get in!!

Aye, last season at times was grim.

Well to be Frank Mitchell is fucked no matter what he does he’s going to be unpopular. We are seeing what we saw last season another poor away performance whereby we were expecting big changes in the summer windows instead we got fuck all.

Why is Wilock so high, no wonder we get over run in midfield. Joelinton has been doing the same

Less than one Tonali.

It’s obviously tactical given the daft inverting in the first hall.

No, he’s marked out of the game most weeks. We aren’t clever enough to get him on the ball these days.

This is what Mitchell meant btw, when he talked about our spending, if you compare our net spend with Wolves it’s alarming.

We know that Howe doesn’t want a dedicated DM it’s been written about in the press. Not sure if this will change his mind though

Hall one vs one is shaky at best.

Nah, the club don’t view it as a priority.

Every away game man

Yeah I was being sarcastic, anything negative in blaming Mitchell no matter what.

I blame Paul Mitchell.

Playing without a striker

Gordon is still off btw, taking forever to get up not tracking back.

Yeah he looked great first 20 minutes though. Our transition from defence to attack is still awful and has been years any form of counter press and we look shaky.

We are always so deep so have little compactness and this means our midfield has to cover a lot of ground, also why we get destroyed in transition. Bruno as a single pivot is great when we are dominating but when we aren’t we are so exposed.

He is but not as someone who is inverting. Not sure what Eddie is thinking with that.

Thank you for sharing the insight.