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He’s coming up clutch and we’ll enjoy it for now. He’d never survive in anything other than a back 3 as he is poor and panicky in a 1v1 as shown when he was left with isolated either Osimhen or Kvara albeit excellent players.

Depends on what sport they were playing, if it was rugby then it was a legitimate tackle.

I think it’s on the keeper, there were only two real options there as Mota I think it was, was never reaching that ball. So either Gatti heads it away or it goes straight through, so the keeper only had one option to cover and didn’t do it. It’s not a howler by any means but an experienced...

Perhaps, but in this instance I’m sure he has a very good record us. His Lazio and Inter aggressive 3-5-2, with pre-planned timed subs, has got the better of us more times than not. However, match day motherfuckers.

Needs to score some goals so that he can do his dances and increase our social media following.

Saw someone sprinting away from a midfielder with the ball on a break yesterday early in the second half and thought it must have been Chiesa. Then realised it was Miretti,but he was sprinting away from Arthur. So many quick realisations.

For the offside he doesn’t, it wasn’t a subjective decision. It’s semi automated so the margin makes no difference. For the foul on the goal, I’d say the on field ref goes with the VAR recommendation for about 90% of decisions.

Hard to pin it on the ref when we get an automated offside against us and then a foul in the build up against us when the ref played on but a VAR dubs that enough for the ref to take a look. The same VAR that doesn’t take a look at Rabbit getting Polaxed against Milan a few years ago for...

Agreed, but you need to factor in our financial position and accept that in the short-term we are going to have to accept average, inconsistent players. In that sense it may be better to have someone young from our system for the next few years instead of using that money and picking up an...

I think the logic is more to do with the personnel available than the opponent. If Chiesa starts, then Cambiaso often plays so that Chiesa can hug the sideline and Cambiaso inverts. If we put two big beanpoles up front, then the straight line cross merchant comes in more use. It’s not difficult...

The only trick involved is Kean not knowing what he is trying to do himself making it hard for an average defender to read when they get too tight to him.

Time for the return of Brendski.

The number of idiotic fouls he makes when a defender is under pressure and he gifts an easy out, or the number of times he is offside even when in acres of space or being tracked by a slow defender lays bare his level of intelligence. It wasn’t a bad game, but he must be infuriating to play with.

Put the mockers on nicely, the sole threat from set pieces has hopefully returned to save us.

We wouldn’t even win the English Championship. Leicester city under Maresca are easily superior in my opinion.

The best we could probably hope for is a 0-0, given how toothless we’ve looked at set pieces so far this season it may be too much to expect to nick a goal through that avenue.

I believe we have largely accepted this team lacks ability as evidenced by fairly regular errant first touches, inconsistent accuracy of first time passes, difficulty retaining the ball under pressure etc. We have accepted the team is poorly coached in possession of the ball, as shown by the...

Still doesn’t look like he’s ever successfully going to attack the opposing full back, however there is a marked improvement defensively since he’s returned. Seems to have somehow grasped the concept of defensive positioning.

I seem to recall there was a player running at him and attempting to block that pass out to the right. He had a poor game overall which was already impacting him mentally - He then didn’t want the ball, he wasn’t ready for it, he panicked when it was coming to him, had a brain fart and didn’t...

Blasi was more versatile and filled in at full back when required.