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Looks like it'll be 352 again. Watch it be Miggy right wing Gayle on the left now

I get the point but I still don't trust xG. All it does is show how good you are creatively. It takes finishing ability and keeping/blocking ability out of it.

Took me a second to realise you meant Pickford there

When are we getting HoweFacts though?

You being that account makes so much sense.

He's balanced out by that absolute void of personality sitting next to him though. Like when Moncur used to actively tell Lockwood to calm down.

Its not been great, but I expected him to be McClaren levels of a disaster. I thought by now he'd have lost the dressing room and we'd be giving up every week. The football's not good. But there's a determination to get results and he actually showed some semblance of thinking for himself with the switch to 532 which had the odd thing of switching to 442 at times. We weren't free flowing but I thought it got Almiron and Shelvey involved further forward. Dummett got a lot of time out wide very high, its just a shame he's not Willems or Ritchie. Its a shame he's became so defensive in the media about things. If he showed some humility and owned up to mistakes I might be able to get behind him a bit.

Deulofeu is brilliant.

Fred's like a midfield Joelinton.

Ole's at the wheel.

David De LOL.

This squad seems to bring out the best in each other. Kept hearing about how much of a troublemaker ASM was for example, nothing since he's arrived. Shelvey's improved the stupid moments massively. Even Carroll looks interested in football again.

Can't believe Watford have been so bad this year. Think a lot of their players are quite good.

Yesterday doesn't count since it wasn't 3-4-3 imo

0 points? Fuck getting beat off Little Arms twice like, couldn't take that.

It was definitely a different formation yesterday, and I thought it looked worth sticking with. We used it against Southampton as well last 10 minutes and I thought it worked well there.

It's alright though, Henderson won the Club World Cup which Jonjo Shelvey will never do so apperantly that's a win for Sunderland.

He was solid, but there was nothing there that he should have been beaten by tbf.

The way he's getting the luck, just as he needs a boost ASM will be back.

Is that how it works? I'd assumed Parachute payments just restarted each time you went down. They introduced a new rules at the end of last season. Now if you comeback and go back down within 5 years, you only get the money you never received from the first relegation. It means that there is 1 season where you can comeback up and go back down without receiving any parachute payments, Aston Villa cameback up in that season. Does this mean we've currently used a year under this rule?

On what i've seen today, give me ASM over Zaha anyday.

Is that how it works? I'd assumed Parachute payments just restarted each time you went down.

Thought he faded (predictably) but we were better just at keeping the ball in the first half with him back. Him, Willems and Schar at the back and we might be able to build a bit more.

Better in midfield than as a winger I think. Hope we can see him and ASM close enough to play off each other in the future.

HTT's gone even worse since he became a mackem