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That depends on the ref. 0 non-penalty goals in the last 4 games now.

Getting the players mentally and psysically ready is part of the managements job tbh. Its one of the things Howe did expectionally well during his first 18 months here.

Other than a couple of shots from bad angles and Gordons half as shot under pressure i dont remember any chances(other than Isaks one ofc.)

There is always going to be an overreaction when we lose at home. No way we deserved to win by a couple of goals though. We just didnt create enough or have a good enough defense to claim that. Like I said when we won against Tottenham, the game isnt won by dominating possesion.

Yes the first half hour we looked great, but we didnt create that much really. After they scored we were poor i thought. Considering that we needed to chase for a goal and we didnt come that close at all. Isak should have buried that one chance yes, but other than that i cant remember us having any clear chances? Remember this was a home game were we picked up an absolute majority of our points last season. Its very worrying that teams can just put up a low block and watch us struggle to get through. We were desperate for a player to give us some options in those situations, but somehow all our attention went to chase an overvalued defender who had a good couple of games for England this summer. Its all very depressing

Sorry but his set pieces have been shit for a long time now.

If Isak and Gordon had been in form things would have looked completely different. But they arent and we looked toothless like we have done all season sadly. Other than finishing we looked good before their goal though, so thats a small thing to take with us. Like I have said before, if Eddie deserves credit for making players overperform then he also deserves criticism when players underperform. I think its to easy to say things like he cant put the ball in the net himself. 9 goals in 10 games now, thats shockingly bad. Eddie has a big job getting the players confident infront of goal. The way things look now i wouldnt be surprised to see us bottom half this season.

How long has it been if we exclude goals from Barnes aswell? No wonder we arent scoring atm.

Wouldnt mind, Barnes in for Isak.

Whats going on with Isak, always buried those before.

Other than no Barnes thats a pretty good team. Not bad having Barnes to sub in aswell by all means.

We really should aim for CL now that we can fully focus on PL. Especially if England gets 5 spots.

If this were the 22/23 season id agree that it wasnt our best game, but it was a major improvement from the away games we have seen for a long time now.

Other than finishing this was a pretty good game from us tbh. Shit finishing though..

Feel like im being gaslighted by some of the comments here. Penalty??

How can he have such great passes, but be so useless with shots?

In hindsight its clear that Gordon should never have taken it, the nerves obviously got to him. Dont understand how you can argue anything else.

Cant be dissapointed with that half overall.

What a shit pen, cant do them any worse.

Always said i love VAR.

Noone is ever going to value him nearly as much as Eddie. So im pretty sure he is going to stay. Hopefully the clubs admin is going to keep the salary somewhat down though.

Surely someone other than Longstaff should take the set-pieces?

Not surprised, we usually dont have a clue how to get by a parked bus.

Honestly thought atleast some of the improvement came from swapping out Isak. He just cant press like Gordon did up there.

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