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They couldn’t have dreamed for a much better start, pretty impressive stuff. Some of the recruitment is starting to look very shrewd.

Havnt seen anything besides the goal how has it been?

Loves the post

Some mad results going on today

Kompany signs extension going into 2029

He fucked his own pre season over and has started slowly. Hes missing those 1v1 chances and we all know he has that in him, and to top it off the team he’s in isn’t performing as a whole. It wouldn’t be to much of a problem if he didn’t have to compete with a firing Ekitike so it could easily get worse before it gets better.

Amor in

We have never set up to be a possession side with Howe, but we are heading that way now. We were lacking and off it, as has been the standard to start the season. It’s not about pure physicality, it’s about having the players fit and available to execute the gameplan against a good side like them. It’s just not there at the moment. If our midfield isn’t there against Brighton we lose. Him bringing on Miley at 45 was evidence of the struggle, he never does that otherwise.

Hes capable of everything centrally, that’s the beauty of him

Nothing new

He doesn’t need to be up to it technically for a good standard transitional away performance as we’d have hoped for today. We needed better fitter legs in the middle, we need to assert ourselves from early in a game like this and we just don’t have that ability right now. They attacked our left side without much danger of passing lanes being cut. It was uphill from the start.

Our midfield tends to get played through without a fit Joe or Ramsey.

We need players back in, and everyone fit. That’s the baseline for good performances out of this side in its current form. Joe and Ramsey being unfit at the same time against a Brighton is brutal.

Just gagging for a good league performance and today really cemented that, playing Joe in that condition in the first half can’t have been something he really wanted to do. Bad first half cost us the game. Ramsey being fit could have made the difference. We have been unfortunate with injuries but we have started slowly as usual and there’s no way around it.

Everytime

King

King shit

Yes, a transitional winger in a poorly performing side type stats. You will come round on him.

The whole team has generally been poor in the league so far, it’s been a slow start and the injuries havnt helped. It’s daft to single Elanga out, he also destroyed USG in our best win so far this season. He will be absolutely fine.

We’ve also been poor in transition so far today, it’s a poor performance all round Its shit Joe has to play in that condition, so unlucky to have Ramsey injured as quickly as we did

Awful defending Joelinton is injured

Great ball, can’t double up on Minteh when they put him in like that

Can someone explain to me why he seems to bother them so much? I get it, the tribalistic nature of football fans is what it is but why does he seem to ruffle them as bad as he does?

Shelvey has always been funny