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Love the bloke to bits but I think he could have made 3 changes tonight in the last 10 minutes to stop the play and break momentum and chose not to. Having kids on the bench is one thing but to their inexperience is irrelevant when the clock's on 91 mins etc. Subbing those 3 players on could have killed the play for 30 seconds or so at a time. Not saying it could have prevented the bullshit pen but it could also have panned out differently too

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9 minutes ago, midds said:

Love the bloke to bits but I think he could have made 3 changes tonight in the last 10 minutes to stop the play and break momentum and chose not to. Having kids on the bench is one thing but to their inexperience is irrelevant when the clock's on 91 mins etc. Subbing those 3 players on could have killed the play for 30 seconds or so at a time. Not saying it could have prevented the bullshit pen but it could also have panned out differently too

 

Should have brought Dummett on for Isak in stoppage time.  He fucking loves defending, would've been in his element. 

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Aye. I thought Hall and Dummett should have came on. Isak was a statue towards the end and we were that deep and not bothering with the press or trying to counter. An extra defender would have helped. 
 

Hard to criticise him or any of the players, mind. 

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31 minutes ago, midds said:

Love the bloke to bits but I think he could have made 3 changes tonight in the last 10 minutes to stop the play and break momentum and chose not to. Having kids on the bench is one thing but to their inexperience is irrelevant when the clock's on 91 mins etc. Subbing those 3 players on could have killed the play for 30 seconds or so at a time. Not saying it could have prevented the bullshit pen but it could also have panned out differently too

Can see arguments in both directions on this.

 

But in fairness to him, PSG never broke us down and scored. Without a VAR robbery, Livramento intercepted yet another cross and we won 1-0.

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His decisions (or technically the lack thereof) had us on course to get the result. You can't mitigate for that level of fuckery. If we stuck some youngsters on for Isak we'd have still been under the cosh and the same thing or something different could've happened. 

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12 minutes ago, wormy said:

His decisions (or technically the lack thereof) had us on course to get the result. You can't mitigate for that level of fuckery. If we stuck some youngsters on for Isak we'd have still been under the cosh and the same thing or something different could've happened. 

PSG should have scored loads though.  We were knackered and offered only decent defending for the last 20 minutes and PSG created chance after chance after chance. And Eddie just let it ride from what I could see. Little change in shape or tactics from what I could see. 
 

There wasn’t anything on the bench apart from Lewis Hall and Matt Ritchie.  So I’m not going to be too tough on Howe.  I could tell in the first half the players will end the game on their arses.  Most teams that end like that end up losing 3-1. We have that bit of steel that makes us lucky. 

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29 minutes ago, Gallowgate Toon said:

I think Howe always has the small chance that we get a break and do something on his mind, when we're in dig deep mode. He'd rather have Isak on for that type of scenario above anyone else.

Isak didn’t look capable of running at full pelt for longer than 2 seconds tbh. 
 

I counted 1 success pass in the last 15 minutes of the game. 

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Ritchie wasn't on the bench

I'd say the flat 4-5-1 was a helluva shape change from what we usually play

Psg looked more likely to break us down when we committed an extra man or 2 forward. We were literally defending our box without the ball because we had fuck all left to give

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Should have brought a couple of subs on just to disrupt the flow of the game. Probably the first team to make zero subs in a CL game for a long time.

 

 

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