OTF

The state of some of our passes.

To be fair to him Livramento was nowhere to be seen so it was acres of space he was having to cover with no support and generally you would back Pope to save a shot from that distance.

Oh fuck off. What was Isak doing.

Agreed, busy game for him but he's done well and probably prefers that.

He must have loved when we signed Boumsogn and he was suddenly not the clumsiest player in the team.

I didn't expect Schär and Burn to be pushing so high up that's for sure. I guess Howe is counting on Pope playing as a sweeper.

Went to the same bloke as Rooney by the looks of it.

Top shelf missing of an open goal Dalot.

Don't blame him for not wanting to go, but it would have been great timing if he went to Saudi League when we first wanted him to.

I'm guessing that was right on Isak's busted toe.

T.O.T. x2

Surely Barnes was fouled there Humpty?

And in the opening here they made the inference that we've spent similar amounts in recent years so both have the same expectation in terms of results. ISAK!

Would have to be the slowest and least agile pairing in the league?

Agree, his anticipation and resulting positioning is off and he ofren seems almost frantic and on the verge of falling over. Last week he should have been able to make the tackle/keep between Welbeck and the goal, instead got bumped off way too easily for his size.

Aye, Burn pushing very high up, Schär too. We're man marking their players when we don't have the players to do so.

We're too slow when we're that high up with all that space.

Isak has been poor this season in whatever metric you want to apportion it by. You really need to have competition and options in all positions especially ones where players can be out of form.

Just the striker really would have made a massive difference. Wilson is finished and Isak is streaky and injury prone. I also think our formation needs to be re-thought. It worked well when we had prime Trippier, purple Almiron and LB/CB BDB. Isak, Gordon, Murphy, Almiron are all lightweight. We need someone more powerful up front with them to make space for them. Barnes is much more consistent than Gordon, though it's a bit ridiculous that we bought him with our PSR constraints as clearly they're both best playing wide on the left.

Shit house. Isak had a stinker, we're missing Wilson or a similar striker who can be a pest and score (that we don't have).

So much time wasted in this added time which should have been longer to begin with.

In keeping with the rest of our set pieces.

He's had a few other decent stints which have all been prematurely ended by injury. But yeah, shit since coming back this time.