Kid Icarus

Probably a bit of a sliding doors moment, he might have done well elsewhere, but tbf at the same time I think a lot of people thought Maddison made an obviously bad choice to go there at the time.

Literally that yeah. Offset by the Anderson sale the other way. Slim pickings trying trying to find a Howe signing that was a dud, so I understand the difficult position you're in.

Targett's pretty much the only signing that hasn't worked out and it's mainly because of injury as well. Brilliant when he came in on loan.

Noticed that he quite often starts to shine at the end of matches. Thought he was brilliant from about 60 minutes. Quiet otherwise, but I think we've come so accustomed to having someone in midfield who does the simple thing so well that we maybe won't notice it until he's missing.

I knew he was good but fucking hell. I hope I never take it for granted in the way I maybe have with Bruno. He has levels to go as well, in our system he still has that inside right channel to get goals from like he did today and like Longstaff used to.

You're stepping on a rake with that one Froggy

Definitely, I do love how we play and I can see why we play how we do. We so often control matches out of possession now, force the opposition into about 3 or 4 different traps then pounce. Could be wrong but it feels like we have a few different ways to win now and don't just try and brute force our way to a result in a way that might not really work, like possession football against a team in a low block.

I tell myself that Barca 08-15 is my favourite style of football, but then I watch Joelinton, Tonali, and Bruno ragdolling opposition midfielders and I really have to think twice like, I absolutely fucking love it. Reminds me a lot of how I would have never said Carroll was my type of striker, but then watching him bully defenders was unbelievably satisfying.

We're only 3 points behind our 22/23 tally in a season when a loud minority thought we should bin Howe.

Toughest match we've had in a while at home and one that so often throws up a 0-0, 1-0 either way or 1-1. Think this one will be 1-1, they're in decent form.

Still West Ham I think, but he has a few really good matches under his belt now, including a cup final.

His shot conversion rate today was 100%

Sometimes you just have to put your feet up and say hei, what a weekend of Barclays Premier League football action

Some of our best performances under Howe have been at home to this mob, always upping our game and really going for it. Today weirdly is probably the most competent I've seen Man United during this time, and the most casual I've seen us, yet it resulted in the biggest winning margin. So easy in the end and we didn't really get out of 2nd gear. Pope: 7 Trippier: 7 Schär: 7 Burn: 7 Livramento: 8.5 Tonali: 8 Joelinton: 7.5 Bruno: 7 Murphy: 8 Isak: 7 Barnes: 8.5

Absolutely bricked up whenever I see Sandro tying his shoelaces

Good subs

He's been fantastic today.

Get 5 for Kegsy

Barnes fucking loves important goals

Weird that we conceded because we looked much better after our goal after a weird start. Really need to find ourselves again 2nd half because too much of that didn't feel like us. Shooting towards the Gallowgate 2nd half and likely seeing Gordon at some point will get us there.

We don't look right here

Christ, all of the streams are absolutely miserable viewing today

Could have been better but you'll take that all day long.

Chelsea are shite. It's incredible that they're still involved in the hunt for CL places. Expect they'll fight back, but being behind to Ipswich by 2 is bad enough.

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