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If a player commits a few minor fouls they'll often get booked for an accumulation of them. How do you apply that to a team? Especially if you're clever and spread the fouls around. Just book some poor sod for a minor challenge even though it's his first offence as a warning to everyone else you've had enough?

I'm all for letting a game flow and not throwing cards out but that took it too far. You could tell the players knew they could get away with anything.

Same. Earlier in the season I had him ahead of JL in our best 11. I'm not really sure what's happened. A mixture of injuries, consistency, and confidence I guess. There's a player there, and we need a squad, but if there's decent money to be had I wouldn't be saying no as things stand.

I heard he was last seen celebrating in the away dressing room.

You're bumping the wrong thread. It's the relagationometer you're looking for.

Not to make excuses but the 12:30 after a Weds evening is pretty shit tbf.

Spot on. Even if we do make Europe this season it will be forever tainted because we didn't beat Palace and Bournemouth.

Agreed. I'm done with this club. Burn it all to the ground.

Can we please never let Gordon take a set piece ever again.

That's the sort of goal we usually score.

Wasn't even a foul.

They press really well, but throw themselves to the ground whenever anyone does the same to them.

Felt like that was more on Hall there. Not sure why he was pushing up. Either way they should have dealt with it between them.

Difference between Bruno and Joelinton on display there a bit with the lovely touch followed by the poor touch.

Bruno helping to save his job there but we need another still.

Well I'm on a delay

The saving grace here is they've come out flying and have no bench.

Poor from Murphy there.

We didn't crash out of the CL. We were in by far the hardest group and if not for a ridiculous last minute penalty decision against PSG things may well have been different. And on the injuries a couple of points. Firstly there was plenty of rotation and substitutions going on. Go look at our games last season before the injuries happened. Frequently using all 5 subs and rotating if players. This thing about him not rotating is a bit of a myth to me. He mainly stopped doing it when he didn't really have a choice. And secondly a number of the injuries were just freak ones that weren't really to do with game load. The sort that can happen any time and just so happened to occur at the worst possible time. That's not to say lessons won't have been learnt from that season, or that the increased load doesn't present a challenge. But I'm no way near as pessimistic about it, especially as after a few windows of pain I expect we should be able to strengthen.

He's only won 9 in a row. If we really want to kick on we should be looking for managers who routinely win 10 in a row.

When it was put to Amorim has he considered playing a system that suits the players he has and he said that would be a betrayal of his principals and they may as well get another manager in instead I think that told you everything you needed to know.

Fucking Ipswich.

Nah. Was Fernandes that got booked for pointing out the dive.

Nice to see the Man Utd fans are behind their team.

Good commentary there. More of that please.