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1 hour ago, Sibierski said:

Our goal came from him dropping deep to link with Bruno, who then played it outwide to Murphy into space. Cross then has no CBs and Gordon scores.

 

Should’ve been starting with Gordon LW and when we were on it first half could’ve had a better chance of capitalising then play to hold on in 2nd half. Was a mistake to not play him and it can be ok to criticise Howe and still back him and it not be deemed “Howe needs sacking”.

Agree with all that, except I've previously criticized/been suspicious about Howe not rotating players enough when we've got all these competitions on, so I can't really complain too much. Get a win at Bournemouth and I'm plenty happy with how it was handled in the circumstances.

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If we start Nick and he gets a muscle injury after the cramp Saturday, Eddie gets absolutely slated as we're stuck with Gordon at 9 again until Wissa back.

 

Not the call we wanted but it was sensible last night.

 

We won't qualify/not qualify on the back of the Barca game anyway despite it feeling like a missed opportunity they're the joint favs for the whole comp.

 

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It's hindsight and everything but even if it wasn't fitness, whether you agree with it or not you can see the logic for not starting him.

 

Gordon puts that chance away and it would have worked too, with Nick on for the last half hour along with Burn / Botman to either defend in our box at set pieces or attack in theirs.

 

Either way, it was a narrow defeat caused by a probable concussion and then a great strike which deflated us. Narrow margins, I think.

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41 minutes ago, JP said:

If we start Nick and he gets a muscle injury after the cramp Saturday, Eddie gets absolutely slated as we're stuck with Gordon at 9 again until Wissa back.

 

Not the call we wanted but it was sensible last night.

 

We won't qualify/not qualify on the back of the Barca game anyway despite it feeling like a missed opportunity they're the joint favs for the whole comp.

 

 

Exactly. With the new format especially, this game isn't as crucial to our qualification chances.

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11 hours ago, John P said:

Love how relaxed and confident he is, just casually munching on a banana on the bench [emoji38] For some reason I was worried that he might be a bit overawed moving to the premier league, but he just seems cool as fuck

He took a packed lunch, the banana, fruit shoot, Dairy lea triangle & bag of Haribo I seen him put away, realise he's a growing lad, maybe the dieticians need to have a word though, were not messing about here

 

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6 minutes ago, RUHRLYASLEEVESUP said:

He took a packed lunch, the banana, fruit shoot, Dairy lea triangle & bag of Haribo I seen him put away, realise he's a growing lad, maybe the dieticians need to have a word though, were not messing about here

 

Whatever works for him!

 

 

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