OTF

You're right that he might benefit from a rest, and possibly coming on as a substitute with fresh legs, I'm just worried who we would replace him with and what their defensive effort would be like compared to Miggy's. Who would you play in his stead?

Almiron is copping a fair bit of flack here, but for mine he's a victim of our attack too often coming down the right through Trippier and him. If we had more balance down the left with an overlapping fullback we'd be less predictable and harder to set up defensively against. I can't see Howe dropping him either. Wilson is another story altogether, if he finishes that chance against City it's a different story but that confirms just how far he is from his best and so he must be rested because without the ability to finish he offers us nothing.

We're also working our way into a space where we will be able to sell some of our players and upgrade versus our recent history where we've not had many players of saleable quality. We still have our fair share of duds as well unfortunately. Plus we have an agreement to end the Fun88 sponsorship early at the end of this season so this should be our first giant leap forwards in the corporate revenue space. Patience is key, it will happen we just have to make sure to dot our i's and cross our t's on the way due to the attention we will be getting from the incumbent 'big 6' clubs.

Hardly his mentor, Bruce cracked the shits when Jones got credit. Credit that everything indicated Jones deserved.

FYP

Haaland looked really pleased with himself

A load of positives to take from this match honestly. And then some negatives starting with the fact we lost and will be without Joelinton for our two next highly winnable games.

@RobinRobin are you legally allowed to watch our games live? I know it's a super reasonable time over in NZ (WA), but still....

Targett.

Well said. He's done well overall, and as someone else mentioned he's looked more composed than usual on the ball too.

Nice Lascelles

Ah yes, the wall of creating four clear chances away at the most expensively assembled team in the league. Short of making his way onto the pitch to finish the chances don't know how you can ping this on Howe.

Looked like it to me.

Fuck off Haaland you alien headed prick.

ASM kicked three times before he gets pinged for a foul.

Not if you close your eyes and don't watch the replay.

Fucking hell, we can't convert gilt edged chances and they get a sniff and score.

Are they ever going to show us the replay of Ederson on Isak?

Isak absolutely cleaned out there....

Killer ball from Willock after a nice feed Miggy. Another missed chance FFS.

Longstaff having a Steve Bruce relapse.

A clear foul on our player is apparently "a horrible coming together", I'd have settled for "terrible late dangerous foul".

Inevitable that he gets a yellow in a game like this.