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They're pushing too high because they're trying to force things in attack, the result is they're out of position so it looks like they're not tracking back. Longstaff has looked off since his return and we've really missed Joelinton and Willock who bring energy in both attack and defense. Longstaff and Miley currently to me are connecting players, they need the foundation of Bruno and the legs of Joelinton/Willock. Miley looks to have a bit of pace but Longstaff and Bruno don't, so if they're pushing too high (as they have been here) then they don't have the speed to get nack regardless of conditioning and fatigue.

I don’t think it's exhaustion here, we're now low on confidence and have lost some of that grit that allowed us to control games.

There should be no chance that anyone involved in our club seriously considers that Howe could even be considered for sacking. Take away a few errors from players (namely Trippier) and the results we'd have recorded of late will have been more than reasonable for the players at our disposal.

Without Joelinton pur midfield lacks bite. And here he comes, finally.

Burn has looked poor since returning. Trippier is all over the place in the last half a dozen games. We get a lot of chances to cross but can rarely find our own players, why?

Yeah I saw most of this. Good summary.

In the spirit of giving:

Merry Christmas gentlemen and ladies! Toontastic translation: Merry Christmas you absolute cunts!

An overlapping Harrison Ashby to score the late winner after a superb mazy 500km run by Minteh. 6-0.

Yeah a chance, but doesn't impact our overall performance. We were second best in the physical and the pace of the game was largely dictated by them. Our cohesion was well off, which is partly to be expected due to our massive injury list, but we were a bit heartless out there, like an off-brand Newcastle imitation. I know they were trying but we lost the fight and started throwing aimless hopeful haymakers way too early. Bruno extremely guilty of this, but it was across the board. Really nothing at all redeeming to take from this except that if Lascelles is just a knock we didn't add any significant injuries to the list.

Fair by the modern interpretation of VAR offside.

We were all over nothing, they started to get a bit panicked because they've not kept a clean sheet all season, but we created nothing apart from a Wilson point blank header in the first half.

Absolutely horrid game that, was an unwelcome flashback to the championship. Dog shite and we deserved nothing from it.

They've made us look weak and clueless.

To be honest we were more cohesive with Miley on than with Isak playing back to goal.

Rear naked submission?

Love Burn, but this was not a good game.

They look panicked, if only we weren't so clueless out there.

Half the time I can't tell whether Wilson is playing football or competing in a judo competition.

We're going to need some sort of divine intervention to score at this donkey shed.

Burn is gassed....

He's playing left winger.

I'd forgotten Gordon was out there.

Is that corner not just a rehash of the Alan Pardew / Mike Williamson masterpiece?

Don't know about that, but he loves to have a whinge.