Matt1892

Right forward.

That’s pretty much the same thing; Burn isn’t going to be back up centre back if he is first choice left back.

I am not sure if Howe sees Burn in that role any more since he went with Lascelles.

Nico Williams is still showing as out of contract in the summer too.

Lloyd Kelly is out of contract in the summer, I would have thought Howe would be after him as a squad player.

The club have emailed me to say they have availability in the Wings hospitality area at £250+ VAT for the Palace game.

Pope’s positioning isn’t too bad at all here, the ball has been chipped over and he is ready to smother the ball when Emerson takes a touch towards goal. He didn’t expect Emerson to take the ball down the line which is what did him; however from a percentage point of view a player is more likely to shoot from that position once they are passed the last man than not. Sometimes as a keeper you have to make the decision to commit, in the same way Areola did when Isak went around him before it hit the post. It looks worse for Pope in that he stayed on his feet and tried to run back. EDIT - Watching it back I don’t think Emerson meant to play it wide, it looks more like he fails to control it properly which puts it down the line.

Anderson out wide reminds me of Milner out wide, everyone can see he is better through the middle. He has also changed his body composition to have more impact through the middle than out in the wide areas.

You could see why he came out that far, he just got done by the touch which left him stranded.

The timing of Wilson coming on was bizarre and made absolutely no difference to the team, he should have either come on earlier when we were pushing for a goal or not at all. 2 points dropped.

The wall shuffling forward about a yard.?

Tonali playing much better this half.

Beautiful ball by Trippier.

West Ham have not tried to go forward so it will be hard for them to build momentum now. We can win this.

Great goal.

West Ham sitting back and we can’t break them down. We haven’t even had a shot on target yet.

Tonali one of our best players?

It’s not even being the thread police, the only thing that happens when posting in an individual players thread mid game to criticise is that players become scapegoats.

Good shout with Hall coming on for Burn, that extra threat down the left would help.

All of this could go in the match day thread.

I would take Longstaff off and bring Wilson on, we need to shake up the midfield.

Where was the midfield then? They are finding space in the hole and our midfield is nowhere to be seen.

We are being completely dominated in midfield, bringing on Wilson and putting Isak wide left isn’t going to change that.

Bruno lucky to still be on the field.

Shame as we had started brightly up until that point.