KingArthur

Yea, for us it is better to have him higher up. We were way too open when he was to one breaking up play.

When he moved more forward, he is automatically less on the ball. Against teams like City and Liverpool we are not really going to have a long time of settled possession for him to play his throughballs. Agree with many that he is so slow that he will not play for the true elite teams.

If we want to win the final, we really need the first goal.

Hand on shoulder? Of course it is a foul

How the hell is MacAllister totally open there? In the middle of our box

Why did Gordon take that? Never seen him score a fk.

Willock was ok, but just gave away the ball alot.

We just have no threat. Maybe just try to shoot sometimes?

Ffs Wilson. How did he not get that?

Livramento has been on his ass 3-4 times. Wrong studs or what?

Pretty much perfect results for us yesterday?

I didn't see the whole game, was Bruno that bad?

Seriously, what is Wilson doing at the end there? Huge 3 points close, so take it to the corner flag ffs.

Their defending is horrible. If we dont trash them at SJP then I don't know when. So fragile.

Rogers is such a lovely player.

Aye you seem like nice bloke.

We might disagree with the meaning of mediocre. I would say we are 6-8th best squad if you look first XI. Then if you look at the bench, we are quite weak. Lot to do if we want to challenge for UCL every season.

And we played them away. So totally different. Seems like we cannot agree on this topic, so I see no point to continue this conversation.

Well, at the moment we have 1 striker and 1 that is maybe fit. 2 wingers, which one of them, as much as I like Murphy, really is not top team standard as a starter. Our goalkeepers are mediocre with clear weaknesses. And true, our midfield is good, but again with clear weaknesses and total lack of depth. Huge drop when you have to bring someone from the bench. We have 2 decent CBs, with one of them returning from major injury and the other one aging. Young fullbacks whose best years are in the future. I would say our team is quite mediocre and especially it is very thin. We are Isak injury away from total disaster. Even if we get 2-3 good signings this summer, we will still not be top4 favourites next season.

"People need to stop trying to make excuses, that performance was as bad as it gets" So this is a fact, not an opinion?

Maybe so, no need to be ass anyway. I just have a different opinion than you. You have pointed stuff out, and my opinion is that the stuff you pointed out was bs.

Well, it is. Like I said, 1-2 players would get to that City team. Not even sure about that. It's not a top 5 squad by any means, but we may again end up in top 5. Which would be huge success from Howe.

It is, especially compared to teams like Man City. Howe has done wonders with that squad.

I am not saying the performance was good. I am saying that people's expectations with Howe are ridiculous. We have a mediocre team, that he has managed to drag to 2 Cup Finals and to Champions league. Our squad is a lot worse than City's and maybe we should have given them a more of game, but that does not change the fact that City beat most mediocre teams at home comfortably. This forum is full of knee jerk reactions. 1 win and we are going to UCL, 1 loss and Howe is out of his depth.

They lost to Man Utd after 2 fluke goals at the end. Other one was gift from Nunes and other a long punt that was misjudged. That is what we need also. Luck.