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What trend? Under Eddie Howe he has played 45 out of 61 matches in the premier league. 74% In the 2 seasons before Howe he played 51 out of 76 matches. 67%

Enough said. Only won 5 games away this season. 3 of the away wins were against top 10 teams, so youre right. Very poor against bottom half.

They have been scraping by with 1 goal victories without being in control of the games at all. 6 wins in a row gives a very wrong impression of their current form imo.

What happened to Brighton. Fair result?

Didnt have to be a primary target. All we needed was some cover for when Bruno is injured/suspended/out of form. Right now we have nothing to replace him with. Maybe they thought it wasnt worth it if they have set their sight on a permanent replacement in the summer (moving Bruno further up the field). I guess we would be too stacked in sentral midfield then. Could have gotten a loanee though.

For me clear and obvious means that its not up for interpretation, not that its difficult to see on the first replay.

Still boggles my mind that we spent 40m on a talented winger where we already had more than enough cover, and not a penny on cover for Bruno.

He needs to move in more sentral atleast. Played way to wide today with 2 Arsenal players always on him.

Only difference today is a longshot that goes between a defenders legs and an own goal. Nothing wrong with the formation or missing any players. Two hits in the post and multiple good saves by Ramsdale.

Especially when Bruno is not on top of his game.

Other than Bruno doing nothing right I think we did ok. Arsenal showed up today. We still got this.

Good thing we didnt buy a sentral midfielder this January. Bruno needs a rest bigtime

Hasnt been that good for a couple of months tbh.

What a game!

Need to find a better use of Isak this game. Murphy off at HT.

Not rubbish, but plays way to risky for a dm.

Yeah not a pen sadly

Wilson imo. Clinical atm.

Second half against Southampton last game were on of our best halves ever.

Excellent Maxi and Almiron to come on from the bench aswell <3

I dont see whats so brave about it. Isak tracks back if he plays on the wing, he will also have a very defensive focused left back behind him.

So weird this reluctency of starting our two most in form players on here.

Well Arsenal aren’t all that lately and if they win that it won’t be the city we know with Haaland and De Breune they face. It won’t matter though, because we will crush them like we will crush Arsenal this weekend.

If Brighton win against Arsenal then City will already have the title by the time they play them. With champions league and FA cup final on the horizon they may very well rest all their first time against Brighton then. If Newcastle were to drop out of top 4 that has to include a loss or a draw against Brighton anyway. Very unlikely they will make it, but I would not rule it out.

Plan B would be to sub out Wilson for Murphy/Almiron/Gordon then let Isak get the centre forward role. Not starting our best players so that we have the option to put them on sounds strange to me. I get that the rotations have worked out lately, but against Arsenal we should put out our a team from the get-go.