Matt1892

Is Miley injured? Four fullbacks on the bench.?

West Ham are a mid table team, any team with Champions League aspirations should be expecting to win away to them.

Liverpool and Man City would push one of their wide players up top, which is what we would do with Gordon, rather than having a third choice striker exclusively for that position. It would make more sense to buy a right sided attacking player that can play up top if needed.

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He is going to take teams apart coming off the bench in the early weeks of his return, tired players won’t be able to live with his pace and energy.

It reminds me of when Sir Bobby said to Lee Bowyer something along the lines of it didn’t matter how well he plays as Kieron Dyer would always be first choice when fit. It isn’t the best example of man management. If anything Lascelles performances have shown that Howe can look at resting Schar or Botman occasionally against the weaker teams rather than trying to roll them out as a partnership for 50+ games this season.

Him not being likeable to opposition fans played a part but there was a lot of people who felt we overpaid for him and that he had not showed anything to justify the fee.

Most people on here thought they had robbed us at the time too to be fair.

His work rate was good but his touch and awareness have been off for a few games now I think.

I agree with this, he is getting game time this season due to the number of injuries we have rather than there being a plan in place to develop him in to a first team regular. He has took that chance and been excellent in the majority of games which is a credit to how good he is, certainly above the level of Swansea and Blackburn.

I like the energy he brings to midfield when he has games like that but he needs to find some consistency to his game, as the contrast between his performance last night compared to a week ago against Man City are polar opposites. I don’t really see the comparison with Gordon and his first half a season here because of this, that isn’t saying Tonali doesn’t need time or he is the finished article as I’m sure there is more to come and there are definitely parts of his game for him to improve on. However, unlike Gordon he has put in some excellent performances for us already but his consistency is what is all over the place. Hopefully he can find that once he gets used to the pace of the league.

Why?

They agreed not to even discuss it and kept it off the agenda of the AGM. I read that there was moaning around the semi automated part meaning it was still open to human error; however the human interference would be to decide if the person offside was interfering with play.

I was thinking more us from January 2022 until the end of the year, it was a great run but once we we built up enough wins so that relegation wasn’t a real concern then it was a free hit, so we could go out and enjoy the games with no pressure at all. When you are having to hold on to something at the end of the season is when it really gets difficult, we seen that with ourselves and Arsenal that mentality it is tough.

Villa would get more attention for what they are doing in the wider footballing community if Brighton were not seen as being more impressive, when considering budget, the size of the club and being a selling club. What they need to do is prove they can do it over a whole season which is difficult both physically and mentally when the pressure is on.

There are a number of clubs that have suffered with injuries already this season, including ourselves and Chelsea. There is an element of having to get on with it and as you say they teams you are putting out should be able to break down the opposition you are against; however if Rashford isn’t creating something from nothing then that is where you seem to struggle. When I was looking at the players who have been injured for you this season I’m not seeing anyone who is a stand out that would completely change your attack, instead cogs in the machine in a similar way to Willock, Joelinton and Barnes are for us.

Transfermarkt say they have six players injured, including Amad Diallo and Kobbie Mainoo in that. Edit - The other four being Martínez, Shaw, Wan Bissaka and Malacia.

Have they a raft of injuries? Their issue seems to be breaking teams down (only scored more than one league goal in a game once this season) and relied on Rashford to carry their attack last season, if he isn’t on form they struggle yet their injuries are at the back.

Man Utd need to do something quickly or they risk getting cut adrift from the Champions League contenders, although a season out of the Champions League is hardly catastrophic for them if they don’t stick with ETH.

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Also worth adding that Premier League clubs had the opportunity to have the same semi automated offside technology that was used in the World Cup, yet turned this down for people drawing lines on a screen.

Surprised he didn’t switch Burn so we had a left sided centre back to partner Schar, Then going with either Targett or Hall at left back.

Mark Douglas throwing our name in the mix for Ivan Toney. https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/ivan-toney-transfer-brentford-arsenal-chelsea-interest-striker-2653571?

Maybe we should have a round of applause every game in the 70th minute to mark the time he usually comes off the bench to show our support?