Jaqen

Support the regime, not the team. "Gotta get behind da ladz' *immediately boos substitution of young player needing confidence* Didn't look like they were booing Murphy, seemed to be the decision to take Ritchie off.

Only effort on goal is from our own half

Thought they looked decent in the games they were losing at the start of the season too, just missed a lot of chances.

Jesus, what a goal.

That Gervinho goal today was insane.

76 for me once the sub points come on after tomorrow.

He had his top off before he came on and he didn’t look like had anything on him at all. Lascelles looks he’s put on a few pounds to me though

Pepperoni trainers so that’s probably a safe guess aye

I’ve not seen those videos but if it’s the same thing, it’s a legit sport over there. The overhead kicks are the best way to be able to generate enough power to get the ball over the net to score a point. It is a bit mental though aye https://youtu.be/C1UdKLOpqO4

Is it not sepak takraw? It’s played in quite a few Asian countries.

Neymar about Yedlin's comment: "Unfortunately I don't have much to say. Just to be sorry for him. He's the type of player... I don't know so I have no reason to be worried about it."

So depressing, man.

Probably the case, aye I get the frustration though. Last season we beat Chelsea, Man United, Arsenal and drew with Liverpool at home and I think people just wanted a similar approach to some of those games. Nobody is expecting Keegan style football under Rafa or us to go toe to toe in an open game against the best sides but there’s definitely a middle ground between that and sitting with 10 men in our own third and just launching the ball back to them everytime we get it. I do think with Shelvey and Kenedy in the side Rafa will show more adventure in other games against the better sides this season though. Would have been tough however he setup yesterday with those players available.

We definitely showed Chelsea too much respect today Their defence is very suspect with Luiz in a 2 man CB partnership. Playing 5atb and no number 10 meant we had nobody anywhere near Rondon on the rare occasions we had the ball, and had no other threat on the counter.

look, having to play like that for 90 mins is inviting s*** decisions, s*** tackles, cards...............its s*** tactics sorry and very very rarely gets you anything. Not new though, is it? We did this last season and it got us a top half finish when all was said and done. There's one man to blame for how pathetic we are in the face of this class of opposition, and his name isn't Rafa Benitez. Commentator on NSBC at least called out Ashley as the problem today.

Pretty shit way to make your debut for the new lads Be amazed if we aren’t bottom of the table after the first 5 rounds of fixtures.

They looked good with him and Auba together last season.

Might want Sterling to play inside from the left to create the space for Mendy to attack on the outside?

Fog man back.

Red card looked both a foul and a dive. Definitely clipped him but Salah had lost control of the ball which is why he threw himself down in such dramatic fashion.

Separate incidents weren’t they? Free kick had already been awarded. Good news anyway.

Martial would be lethal playing for any of the other top 6 sides imo.