HaydnNUFC

I'm in a fucking phalanx bracing for it.

Graeme "real man" Souness. Fuck sake.

Just need Eddie Howe and Alex Isak's tricky mags to win and its been a glorious day of Barclays.

Southampton 1-2 Wolves

Spurs But Arsenal can fuck off. Fucking up my acca. Wankers.

Fuck VAR. Utter shit.

Looking forward to Isakball, mind. Into these. They're shite.

What's the team? Don't think it's been posted enough. State of that bench.

Castagne there absolute state of that

That's a pen. Not given, what?

This fixture last time fans were allowed in.

Entered the ballot. Wish me luck.

That's more like it.

For posterity, me fatha's. Pop Robson.

Can't find a picture without watermarks on it, but mine. Edit: That's better.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/12804173/premier-league-predictions-jones-knows-thinks-goals-will-be-at-a-premium-when-chelsea-visit-west-ham

Maybe I am too but we're underperforming our xG and that checks out with the eye test imo.

Only Leicester have created multiple chances against us in a game from memory, the Daka and 2 Vardy missed chances in the cup game even though we should've been winning by more than we were when those Vardy chances happened. But West Ham's only clear cut opportunity was their goal, Palace's the Pope save, Southampton the Che Adams miss in the first leg. Their goal up here was some strike tbf but that come from nowt, no one was expecting him to hit that from there. Fulham had a pen but even if Mitrovic didn't double kick it I reckon Pope saves it, given where Mitrovic was trying to place the pen and where Pope was diving. Even if they aren't easy chances, which they may well not be, we're still creating stuff. We've just hit a dry spot in front of goal recently, which is why I reckon we should freshen it up a bit and put the guy who we spent £60m on to score goals on the pitch from the start in games more often. Him and ASM changed that first leg at Southampton when it was starting to look a bit leggy and grim.

Leicester in the cup as well, should've been ahead well before Burn's goal. Fulham at home, we should've been ahead in the first half. Even against West Ham, Wilson should've gotten at least a brace whether that's the 1v1 he got tackled for or the free header after that. West Ham looked only interested in a point during the 2nd half and their goal was shit, the ball bouncing in the 6 yard box from a corner is really poor. I get that at times we've looked a bit labourious in possession, the first half against West Ham and at times away at Palace but we're still creating opportunities which we have to use better. Isak I hope will sort that out, but he needs to get into a starting lineup first.

We're still creating chances, like. Think we've only managed something like 4 or 5 open play goals from ~10xG since we battered Leicester on Boxing Day. They're just being spurned; Joelinton, Wilson and Longstaff being the main culprits for that. Wood v Leeds too. It's why I want to see Isak in the starting XI despite that Wilson got back amongst the goals on Saturday. Think Isak and ASM will link up really well together as was seen against Southampton at St. Mary's. It's why I think, similar to back in September, we're building up to just totally battering someone soon.