Nine

He literally chased Salah back from the halfway line earlier and didn’t let him have a look in, poor in moments yes. But hardly done.

Lost our heads for the second. That performance was very good though, we need to remain focused and come out again like we started. No reason at all that we can’t take something if we do that. Lethal finishing from Ekitike. Oh what could have been.

That’s so brutal after such a promising performance this half

Man of the match

That was huge, great performance for a big game and using a totally different set up

At his best here

Beautiful

What is this ref on

Poor positioning, free shot

Fucking Pope

Just turn it off, second time we’ve had a ridiculous penalty given against these since 2023

This is different, brave from Howe to try this here I think We must have been training with it for him to use it so let’s see

Wissa up top, apply the pressure if everyone has enough in the tank to do so

You seem to be one of those posters that talks in absolutes all the time. Wissa was injured for half a season, only recently back into a side that has struggled with injuries, with schedule, lack of time on the training ground mid week. To write him off as a squad player already is absurd.

Gutting, hope it’s minor

We can’t have watched the same game

Good, but think we’ll see Wolte at 60 latest They have marked us out well from cutting inside so far, forcing crosses to a small striker

It’s not worth acknowledging

Wrong, he’s been our best player this game

Got his standard yellow but single handed asserted dominance and calmed them down, good stuff

Ending the half pretty strongly, Joelinton imposed us back into this

Gordon and Barnes consistenly marked out when cutting inside, I’d expect to see Wolte on at half time

Clean from Trippier there

What a goal

Tbh I think it’s the end for him after that