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Annoying that he hasn’t given Perez up top another go since the Stoke game. Given how sharp we looked that day and how utterly fucking shite Gayle and Joselu are it’s pretty poor tbh, especially given that we actually have decent options for the three AM spots.

 

Hopefully Slimani can make the spot his own but I do feel Rafa has missed a trick the last few weeks.

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Annoying that he hasn’t given Perez up top another go since the Stoke game. Given how sharp we looked that day and how utterly fucking shite Gayle and Joselu are it’s pretty poor tbh, especially given that we actually have decent options for the three AM spots.

 

Hopefully Slimani can make the spot his own but I do feel Rafa has missed a trick the last few weeks.

 

Perez was excellent in the first half today, but faltered massively in the second half - probably cos he played 90 minutes in midweek. Felt it was right that he was withdrawn.

 

It's a pity we haven't got a single capable striker (Slimani notwithstanding)

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Surprised not to see Murphy play today. Merino offered fuck all.

In possession he was poor, but one thing I noticed was that when he came on, was that the tempo of the game died, and the amount of times they'd hit us on the "break" for few and the game fizzled out kind off, they still had the odd chance, but it wasn't nearly as much of an onslaught as it was before he came on.

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Annoying that he hasn’t given Perez up top another go since the Stoke game. Given how sharp we looked that day and how utterly fucking shite Gayle and Joselu are it’s pretty poor tbh, especially given that we actually have decent options for the three AM spots.

 

Hopefully Slimani can make the spot his own but I do feel Rafa has missed a trick the last few weeks.

 

Perez was excellent in the first half today, but faltered massively in the second half - probably cos he played 90 minutes in midweek. Felt it was right that he was withdrawn.

 

It's a pity we haven't got a single capable striker (Slimani notwithstanding)

More to do with us keeping the ball in the first half and hoofing it in the second

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Annoying that he hasn’t given Perez up top another go since the Stoke game. Given how sharp we looked that day and how utterly fucking shite Gayle and Joselu are it’s pretty poor tbh, especially given that we actually have decent options for the three AM spots.

 

Hopefully Slimani can make the spot his own but I do feel Rafa has missed a trick the last few weeks.

 

Perez was excellent in the first half today, but faltered massively in the second half - probably cos he played 90 minutes in midweek. Felt it was right that he was withdrawn.

 

It's a pity we haven't got a single capable striker (Slimani notwithstanding)

More to do with us keeping the ball in the first half and hoofing it in the second

 

He played a couple of horribly wayward passes on a couple of occasions; in the first half today, and against Burnley, they were finding their man. Just looked a bit knackered to me. He's gonna be important to us for the remainder of the season because it looks like he can link up with Kenedy.

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Criticise him all you want, just so long as you're happy to have your criticism criticised without crying on about it 'not being allowed'

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I'd say that 2nd half was as bad as anything Pardew served up, the one thing forgotten about that though, would be Pardew had a far superior team and had no need to play such shite football, as he could have had a out ball, something we need badly now.

 

Today it was clear we lacked a player to hold the ball up/turn the oppo round. Hopefully Slimani can be that player, he can run in behind as well as hold it which is perfect for Rafa's one up. Perez and Gayle were so weak the ball just came back over and over.

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I'd say that 2nd half was as bad as anything Pardew served up, the one thing forgotten about that though, would be Pardew had a far superior team and had no need to play such s**** football, as he could have had a out ball, something we need badly now.

 

Today it was clear we lacked a player to hold the ball up/turn the oppo round. Hopefully Slimani can be that player, he can run in behind as well as hold it which is perfect for Rafa's one up. Perez and Gayle were so weak the ball just came back over and over.

 

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