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It's hardly a sin, you are not buying a season ticket which puts a huge wedge in the fat man's pocket, a tenner for you and five for the kid for a rare visit isn't the end of the world. I also decided to sin. Just hope your little one doesn't get the bug and ask you to take them every other week after his first experience. Otherwise you might find it hard to say no to two tickets. ??

Riviere mk2 People went on about Mitrovic, he's a thousand times better than this lad.

I'm blaming Dubravka for the first two. He was weak on the first, and second he chose to put his defence under pressure instead of hoofing it long

Just play Joelinton wide right Fwd. He played there enough for previous club.

Cass ?

81 Million on a front 3 with 1 goal?

Feels like Cabella and Thuavin all over again.

Bizarre that both him and Almiron are or have played as a 10 or attacking midfield, and neither are playing in positions they might likely be suited to. Its unlikely Joelinton will improve in the formation Bruce as has adapted from Rafa, the way Bruce is trying to use this tactic isolates Joelinton and it's only slightly improved since ASM has been in the side bridging the gap between the midfield and Joelinton. Personally I think if Joelinton is to improve we ditch the tactic, but it will not happen.

This system will ruin him as a footballer. Every bit of attacking promise he showed last season is being sapped away by how deep he's playing. Even Messi would struggle to score 10 goals a season playing with that much pitch between him and the opposition goal. True, thinking of him at the world cup with Argentina he couldn't adapt

It looks like this might just come down to keeping Shelvey out of the team, and that might make a massive difference. Maybe. If we're lucky. Fair point

ASM the only hope

So we showed up for 16 minutes.

Brig on maxi for Atsu, Carroll for Willems, go four at the back drop Joelinton into CAM and have Almiron and Maxi wide in a 4 411

This formation and game plan

Possibly worse than McClaren football.

Pre match a lot of hype about us winning this easy? It's been evident in every game this season we do one thing, camp the defence and midfield on top of one and other and leave Joelinton 50 yards away wondering what the fuck is going on.

Think we should sit back and panic, then hope for a half chance.

It's not good to watch, but I'm not sure we'd do any better if we pressed higher up the pitch. If you do that, you need players who can score goals because you will be a lot more open to counters. Didn't worry Norwich with half their squad out embarrassing the champions. If we are going to approach games with a we'll lose anyway mentality or if we lose let's not make it by 6 or 7, we may as well stick out the under 23s. I read in one of the other threads that Norwich only had 31% possession though. Seems like they changed their approach to a more defensive one as well. That's a reasonable amount of possession against City. When we played Man City in 2017 and camped on our goal line, the first half saw City with 85% possession. A newly promoted side like norwich didn't approach this game any differently, so far in the games they have played they have approached them all the same, especially at home, their attitude so far has been to have a go at sides. They embarrassed us at their place, they had a right go at Liverpool lost 4-1 but with 42% possession? At home they dont seem to care who's put in front of them. Before anyone else adds anything, I'm never claiming we should be beating this Liverpool side away, but equally im not expecting a newly promoted injury ravaged side to beat the most expensive side in football. But im impressed with their approach to games and that they didn't go into it thinking well probably lose this regardless.

It's not good to watch, but I'm not sure we'd do any better if we pressed higher up the pitch. If you do that, you need players who can score goals because you will be a lot more open to counters. Didn't worry Norwich with half their squad out embarrassing the champions. If we are going to approach games with a we'll lose anyway mentality or if we lose let's not make it by 6 or 7, we may as well stick out the under 23s.

Good post ??

See we're still happy to have the enormous gap between the midfield and forwards. Basically sit you're midfield on top of your back five, leave Almiron as some sort of box to box headless chicken with Joelinton like the rest of us wondering what the fuck he's supposed to do. It's no wonder a fullback scored today and our second best chance fell again to a fullback, because on occasions they are the only attacking outlet. Pure shit to sit through.

Can't believe some our fans. Hypocrites.

Still cant get over Dolberg to Nice for such a low fee, and Bas Dost for 6m is ridiculous.

The game where Watford kick start their season. We will bottle it with Deulofeu and Sarr running at us.

The bank holiday traffic was bonkers, it most definitely had some impact on the players.