TheBrownBottle

If you can tell me 1) what the formation is right now and 2) who is playing where then I’ll say it’s 100% just on the players

That Belgian side and Benfica? Yes, cakewalks - Benfica would be rock bottom of the PL and that Belgian side would struggle to make the playoffs in the second division. They were shite

Didn’t need to today - we’ve gifted this so far

We haven’t been top teams in the CL at all - Barcelona were it. The other two matches were cakewalks against subpar opposition - if we’re knackered at this point we might as well throw in the towel

The players are, why not you?

No shots on target yet this half

Half the PL are playing European football, and we’ve just spent £200m expanding the squad. We rotated midweek. I’m not watching a performance this poor because we’re tired - we’ve been shit away for quite a while now.

Looks offside

It is half two in the morning here and I’m up for work at half five. Fuck knows why I’m sitting through this shite.

Incredible to me that he gets picked for England and Murphy has never been in a squad Murphy probably isn’t technically good enough but fuck me at least there is some output, and Gordon is hardly a ‘baller’ as the kids say

*mythtery

Hopefully he’ll keep his usual patter strictly to him - I’ve ran out of patience listening to his complete lack of self-awareness high performance wank

Glad to see the subs, particularly on the left. Howe taking it by the scruff of the neck. I really want to see Ramsey given a chance ahead of Joelinton in MF, and I’ve always liked Joelinton as a LW

We’re not top half …

😄

He’s playing against poorer sides most weeks in Europe

We’re poor at ball retention full stop. Our midfield often looks sub par with Joelinton in it - and even worse when Bruno puts in these performances.

A cartoonishly bad goal to cap a cartoonishly poor half. Get into them and earn your crust at HT Eddie.

Our midfield can’t keep the ball between them

Signing athletes instead of technical players and then playing this passively isn’t likely to be a great combination. We just look like we’re playing a friendly

Coming that

What the fuck are they playing here? Botman lost his mind there. You can see just how shite these are, but we’re not controlling it.

Fucking shocking decision-making by Gordon caused that - you don’t try and beat a man on the halfway line

True - has he suggested he won’t?

It would be Iniesta for me, but that must have been a hell of a dilemma for Barcelona supporters during that period arguing over who was better