Kid Icarus

Really poor tonight. Not a criticism, I'm sure there are fair reasons, and I like him a lot, but it's really hard to do much when the focal point of your attack isn't on it.

Easier to take it out on a player who's widely seen as underperforming than the players that most underperformed. Woltemade was head and shoulders worse than everyone, but no one will dig him out all that much. Elanga played one underhit pass to Tino as far as I can tell. Looked as clear as day he was taken down by the last man as well.

Ramsdale has been like this for years.

Doesn't count points dropped from regained positions (like Liverpool, Brighton) or non-PL matches like Marseille either. It's a real problem for us that needs to be our priority to fix really.

Just ignoring Thiaw fluffing his clearance then?

I'd rather he just wasn't shit. I'm really hoping he matures like other 'keepers have like. I'd 100% be targeting a different 'keeper in the summer though.

Yeah, I'm talking about him not saving the shot itself though.

It was Thiaw's mistake on the second. Nothing to do with Burn.

Don't necessarily have a huge issue with him on either goal tbf. One flashes past him, the other is Thiaw's mistake that he can't react to. What I have a problem with and always have is his lack of command in the box. Something that we've taken for granted that Pope (usually) excels at.

He really needs to sort out this mentality issue when we score, it's fucking insane like. It really looked like we'd planted the seeds for it against Everton, so to go and then do that at home to a side that offered nothing other than their 2 shots is just mental.

Utter bollocks.

He was very good for an hour, at which point he should have come off.

Don't it always seem to go...

The positive is that the league is once again incredibly tight and there for the taking - something that we've exploited before. Have to admit that it feels different this season though and that we don't look like a team that needs minor adjustments to kick on like previously - we still look very much like a team having a transition season that needs more changes to progress, that might not find form until the run in, and that has a mentality issue when in the lead. It could be not that deep and just as simple as Wissa coming in, who knows, but it's not been much of an enjoyable ride so far this season, I have to admit.

That's the most sickening one of the season for me, which is really fucking saying something. Spurs are absolute toilet, we'd have wiped the floor with them in previous seasons.

Feels pretty clear now that we're not turning any corners for the foreseeable and that this is just the pattern. Fucking ridiculous how much we've thrown away this season. Spurs were absolute dogshit and we ended up somehow being lucky to draw in the end, despite leading twice. It's just not an enjoyable season this one, is it. Ramsdale: 5 Livramento: 6 Thiaw: 6 Burn: 6 Hall: 6.5 Tonali: 5.5 Bruno: 7 Miley: 6 Joelinton: 6 Murphy: 5.5 Woltemade: 4 Barnes: 7 Gordon: 6.5

Wonder if it's something to do with the ball going to where Burn was.

That happens 30 times a match.

Similar to Marseille it's a case of wondering whether we'll regret not getting the choices right in the final third while we had the chance. Absolutely no reason we can't take this up a notch and dick them all over.

Christ, it's really good. drawn one, lost one and won the rest.

Cacao!

Knowing Wilson, probably "If they can't handle you at your worst, they don't deserve you at your best"

Lost 5 games by a single goal margin as well. Even Derby had more at this stagecand would have still had more had we not gifted them their only win of the season.

Form and chaos

Still incapable of lasting 70 minutes I see.