Kid Icarus

How we conceded is by the by if the overall pattern is going one goal up and the end result being a loss.

And wasted a handful of other moments to capitalise on Marseille not having their act together. ...as a team that's lost from that position for the same reason like 5 times this season alone. And it happened again.

Dunno how anyone can gain the insight from what happened in the second half and call our first half performance decent like.

Not necessarily, it can very easily be a mental thing rather than a conscious decision. I refuse to believe we're actively choosing to sit on one goal leads, we have more than enough evidence to know that it's suicidal. Bring back the mentality we had when us going 1 up meant a second or third would likely very quickly follow.

Absolutely no point getting any "must win" bollocks ready for Everton away either like. Even if we were in form we have absolutely no right to think we can go there and expect to win.

Easy to blame Pope or the capitulation in the second half, but for me it's all about that first half and the same lesson we refuse to learn - our absolutely shit game management, sitting on a one goal lead, and playing like the endless chances we continue to waste will keep coming, then coming out of the match with our dick in our hands. I'm absolutely sick of it The fact we keep doing this and getting taught the same repeated lesson seems to do absolutely nothing to budge the mental block we have to make sure it never happens again by keeping our foot on their necks and being ruthless. Time after time, match after match we put ourselves in this position and it's incredibly frustrating. It needs to end, we need to play at 1 nil up like we're 1 nil behind, because if we don't it'll happen anyway. Or, get to two nil and play like that, doing it at one nil is ridiculous. Pope: 3.5 Thiaw: 7 Schär: 6.5 Burn: 6 Livramento: 6 Tonali: 5 Bruno: 5 Willock: 7.5 Murphy: 5.5 Gordon: 4.5 Barnes: 7

Inexplicably shite at times like. Literally watches a ball coming to him, let's their player nip in then complains about it.

Nice to have you back Joseph.

AvailableforEnglanditis

This lot are there for the taking. It's a shame that we've not been clinical in the situations that we've had and at times let ourselves down with sloppiness. Hopefully it won't bite us in the arse and we can make it count second half. No surprise that Howe's trademark controversial player selection has ended up being obviously the right one as well. Shame that Gordon's been shite again though.

Let's smash these actual rapists.

Ones like these blow my mind like. How did you even make this connection when they look absolutely nothing alike?

I like Jordan Pickford

Diving full stretch to about a metre from the post is incredible. Makes Georgie Campos look like Van Der Sar.

That goalkeeping

We'll still be getting the odd Ronaldo video of him when he's scoring against his grandkids in the garden at this rate.

Canny hard to say without dropping them in it unfortunately. I just get a few things directly or indirectly from people who know people at the club basically.

If I was guessing I'd say that pink will probably be encorperated into our training gear as the accent colour as well. With the main colour as black with a bit of gray.

Yeah purple's not in the mix at all I don't think. Away is navy. Haven't seen it but I've seen a prototype of the originals tracksuit for next year that will apparently match it colour-wise.

Haven't seen the design of that one, but did get shown what the colour would be and that's exactly bang on.

The crucial factor for me is that getting a shot away wasn't at all Foden's only option and he got it away before any impact. Schär's presence didn't stop him from getting the shot on target either.

I'd much rather he was involved and shit, because that graphic makes the problem obvious and easier to fix I think, but very happy with the way things are going regardless. Hopefully the next step is his groin going again.

Very big difference between the two tbf. I reckon if his shot had instead been saved and spilled by Pope with Foden on the floor, they'd have got a pen.