Dr Jinx

Can’t be too harsh on Burn, if he wasn’t here we’d be down perhaps. I think him and Schär deserve a place in the squad but the observations about him playing the bigger teams is true. He loses his cool too easily and then looks to be a liability. Schär also has that element to him, he’s a better footballer than all of the other cb’s but he also gets found out at a certain level. The question is, what’s our aim? Certainly not just survival again. Top 10? Yeah sure but what does that actually do for you? It would have to be top 6, or at least whatever the Europa place will be at? We currently don’t have anyone consistent enough to take us that high right now.

No it’s not. Their 5 goals were well deserved. Now we could have had 2 or maybe 3 if we’d taken chances but we were chasing shadows all afternoon. It is what it is. They are the best team in the league.

Fuck me

That chant needs dropping as well.

Trippier got rinsed there

Second to everything. Feel foolish for thinking we might get something today. We’re so far off these.

Wood should have scored but since we signed him, how many decent balls into the box have we provided for him?

They have better players. We knew that. But what’s annoying me watching this is how much slower of thought we are, when you play a team with a decent press, you need to make the right decision when you actually have the ball, we’ve been terrible in that sense. Even Joe and Bruno have been very quiet. If we can get our shit together and get one goal they will get nervous. If Wilson is ready send him on.

Actually, Pep also has form for it. Totally forgot about this. https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2001/1128/160376-guardiolaj/

Wilson might start. Even if he doesn’t, I think we’ll play better than we did against the dippers. City are great but they aren’t juicing ☺️

I don’t but into this whole “they haven’t had a decent manager in years” They’ve had excellent managers, namely Van Gaal and Mourinho and to a lesser extent Moyes. There’s also a case to be made that Ole probably overachieved too. Recruitment has been poor but it’s a deeper problem than that. Half the team are strolling around getting embarrassed week in week out and they don’t care in the slightest. I think the wage structure they have there is a huge part of the problem”.. once certain players started earning 300 grand a week (or more in some instances), it just created a massive motivation issue. It’s not just Man Utd, you can see it affecting other big clubs as well.

The drug cheats looking fresh as daisies this half.

I’m disgusted with Chelsea, haven’t seen it but the radio were saying they were poor. Giving Fwank a bit of a breather eh. The last relegation spot will solely come down to who’s playing whom and what do they have to play for. Lot of mid table teams on the beach already. Even before today I had a bad feeling Leeds would just end up slipping down.. they’ve had awful luck with injuries all season.

Teams that can defend competently have figured out that if you get to ASM before he can get into full stride, he makes awful choices and will give the ball away repeatedly. Its been this way for weeks and he’s made absolutely 0 adjustments to his game. Trying the same thing again and again and expecting a different result is lunacy.

ASM very poor today. Midfield quiet. We just came out second best in almost every challenge, every loose ball there were red shirts there to collect. Disappointing but that’s how far we are away from them. The difference between the top sides and everyone else is the pace they can play at. We were a good bit off them man for man.

It’s us who look like we played on Wednesday

Lascelles looks leaner

Aside from losing concentration when not given the foul and getting caught out, we’ve mostly contained them, but we’re clearly second best here. We’re losing many 50/50 challenges, they just look stronger. Need to be smarter

Stupid yellow

Asthma innit, he has a doctors note

Quite clearly offside but that’s what we need to be doing

If Schär gets the ball first, that’s every much a red card as the one that was given against Everton when they played us. Stupid to lose focus, we’re chasing the game now

Good team selection, Wood, as good as he is in the air, he won’t get much change out of Van Dijk (who does), the more intelligent option is to try and get in behind them with pace. I’d say Joelinton can drop back if needed. Just hope we’re at them from the start.

Yeah I remember that.. it was when the judge simplified the example of how Ashley was out of pocket that you could see he was leaning that way. The PL we’re about to be found liable so they had to back off and the new owners allowed them to draft some nonsense statement about legal assurances.. as if that happened, they could have had that in week 1. Was a case of how do we get out of this situation while saving face.

So he’ll be back available for City, great news! You have to admire the way Howe will always stick to the group he prepared all week, even if there’s a better option available, he gets a game plan together with what he has at the time and that’s better than throwing someone in who hasn’t prepared with the squad.