Kid Icarus

Botman's absolute quality on the ball though and has been consistently. Everyone was sloppy today I thought

I mean I literally watched Rice take the ball off him and him pass to Rice So yeah.

The figures are still not right like, but each to their own.

I think he suits being a box to box, the problem as I see it is that for all their graft, there's a lack of craft.

That can't be right like, Longstaff had the ball nicked off him by Rice twice and passed it straight to him 2 or 3 times as well. Re the bit in bold, % is more important here, no? Just from watching I'm pretty sure he had much more of the ball than Longstaff and Willock.

He was caught in possession by/passed straight to Rice about 5 times.

I think 6 is a role not a position, like Pirlo or in our most recent case Shelvey.

Would have an assist if Wilson was on his game

Dive aside he was good, pretty much held our midfield together. The other two (and others tbf) were sloppy in possession.

I'm not having it that Aguard's tackle was amazing as well, Wilson should be burying that.

Telegraphed so much I thought, he was intercepting passes you could see coming a mile off. He still did it, but I was more annoyed with us than impressed by him.

Annoying performance. As off it as we were, Wilson should have scored another 2. Sloppiness is creeping in, which to me suggests we're starting to feel the tiredness from a lack of squad depth. Pope: 7 Trippier: 6 Schär: 5 Botman: 5 Burn: 5 Longstaff: 5 Joelinton: 7.5 Willock: 5 ASM: 4.5 Wilson: 5.5 Almiron: 7 Gordon: 7.5

Yeah you're right, there's never going to be any situation where we're ever going to be playing on the break

Went into the thread, about what I expected.

Slightly annoying, we've been needlessly sloppy at times, but we can push on 2nd half.

Wow, this time wasting is unprecedented, I can't believe it.

It wasn't as terrible as it sounds tbh, I think he was suggesting Longstaff and Joelinton either side, with ASM further forward and Gordon or Murphy at LW

Weirdly someone on Radio Newcastle suggested putting him through the middle last night.

But not one of ours

Get up Jeffrey Schlupp

Should have had a red away to Palace the other week as well.

They have more than 3 games before the final

Deserved win, will be interesting to see whether this is a blip or the start of Arsenal doing the biggest Arsenal of all time.

That's a definite pen imo

The Gallowgate whistler. I think SJP has a tenancy to shout shoot more than other grounds too.