Howe’s squad rotating league cup champions elect v Gemmill’s premier league survival specialists

[wykikitoon 20112]

Fucking international break now  

[wykikitoon 20112]

This pillow faced cunt saying its harsh not giving it a pen  Fuck me.

[Gemmill 44804]

Time to retire "The King" and go again with someone better equipped after the international break btw. 

 

3 games, 1 win vs L2 opposition.

 

He's Ten Hag. 

[Monkeys Fist 42378]

Woke up just as the 2nd half was starting. 
 

Should’ve had a lie-in 

 

 

THE SCENE- a woman hovers in the doorway of a home in London, just after her husband hears the full time whistle …

 

HRH Mrs. Gloom- “ What was the score then dear?”

 

 

HRH The King -“ It was a draw pet, 2 weeks until my next match thread… Long Live The King!”

 

 

The woman melts back to the kitchen and sits down…

[wykikitoon 20112]

[Monkeys Fist 42378]

3 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Gemmill getting his Robespierre wig on…

[Toonpack 9385]

6 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

Time to retire "The King" and go again with someone better equipped after the international break btw. 

 

3 games, 1 win vs L2 opposition.

 

He's Five Hag. 

FYP

[Toonpack 9385]

The history books show Gloom did usurp Meenzer so a rebellion would be perfectly acceptable.

[wykikitoon 20112]

We put up with someone putting the wrong time down, so we have to allow the King to have their reign 

[Kid Dynamite 7025]

43 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

Premier league centre halves find it easy to play against non centre forwards. We were definitely missing a striker. It's a different game with that focal point for the attack. 

Aye. A penalty and a one-on-one with Isak and we'd have been 2-0 up 

[Kid Dynamite 7025]

41 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Yeah but it’s been the same all season even when Isak was fit. Against Wimbledon we controlled the game but struggled to create clear cut chances.

The difference being we've been awful for the last 70mins of every game bar City and Everton. Tonali coming in has calmed the midfield down and Isak may actually see some service once he's fit 

[aimaad22 4156]

55 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said:

Almiron was good when he came on. I’d think about starting him next game if Isak isn’t fit. 

 

I was thinking the same thing. But thats the catch with Miggy and Murphy, play one for a few games and the other one automatically looks like a great option  

 

I hope to feck Isak is fit. 

Edited October 5 by aimaad22

[Holden McGroin 6581]

On the bright side we are hopefully getting hard to beat again.

Edited October 5 by Holden McGroin

[Chaser 1207]

Only saw the last 20 minutes due to work but it looked like we were well in control, they weren't interested in coming over half way and we couldn't seem to do anything in the final third. We tried that pass in wide left a number of times with different players but I think they were nearly always off side. 

[Dr Gloom 21912]

2 hours ago, Gemmill said:

Time to retire "The King" and go again with someone better equipped after the international break btw. 

 

3 games, 1 win vs L2 opposition.

 

He's Ten Hag. 

undefeated. You know the rules 

[wykikitoon 20112]

10 minutes ago, Dr Gloom said:

undefeated. You know the rules 

[Renton 21569]

40 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

 

🎵 We're no strangers to draws

You know the rules and so do I (do I)

A full commitment to start match threads

And only stop when the toon gets a loss... 🎶

[Dr Gloom 21912]

[toonotl 2977]

That's Gordon's worst performance for us. He should've scored a hattrick. A penalty, a free header 5-yards out, and a one-on-one 10-yards out. What an absolute dog's breakfast of a performance from him. It isn't often you can attribute a result to a single player, but given his lack of quality in front of goal today I think it's fair to say that he has cost us two points. You'd imagine he accumulated more xG than Everton's entire team. Going back to Everton clearly plays on his mind. In fact, we have to recognise that going away from St. James' in general has a markedly detrimental effect on his performance. Today was only the worst example owing to the added circumstances of it being his former club.

 

And the rest of our attacking players weren't far behind him. We created heaps of chances and almost had free reign in the midfield. But too many wayward passes, too many poor touches in in the final third, and our finishing was truly abysmal.

 

I was also slightly perplexed by the decision to substitute Barnes. He hadn't had the worst game of the front three up to that point. In fact, I'd argue he was our best of the front three by default in having a quiet if completely unremarkable match considering how bad Murphy & Gordon were performing. But most importantly, for me, Barnes was the only natural finisher on the park today. In a game that clearly was waiting for a moment of quality from someone to finish one of our many chances, he was the clear candidate to get the job done. I have only just finished watching the replay so perhaps he was injured or had a niggle. If not then it's a strange decision for me. I can only assume that Howe valued the added defensive output of Murphy and so kept him on instead. Otherwise it just doesn't make any sense to me.

 

Of course, we also lacked a bit of luck here and there. If Bruno's effort goes in from the corner it's a different game. And it was a solid performance defensively. And further praise where it is due, at least we avoided throwing it away altogether at the end like we would've last season. But really a point against a side that offered us that many opportunities to score and countered with very little going forward themselves is two points dropped.

 

A truly uninspiring run of results from Gloomy. We've moving from Charles III, to Charles I, to Charles II of Spain.

 

[Gemmill 44804]

But for his finishing, I thought Gordon was great tbh. He looked back to his sharpest, and properly up for the scrap. 

[Toonpack 9385]

Nine times out of ten, Bruno’s shot hits the defenders heel and goes in, should have known then that it wasn’t our night. No goals from open play for the king, what a tedious reign.

[Dazzler 9716]

2 hours ago, Gemmill said:

But for his finishing, I thought Gordon was great tbh. He looked back to his sharpest, and properly up for the scrap. 

He was head and shoulders the best player on the pitch for me.

I don’t think he should have taken the penalty in hindsight, and he should have done better with that 1v1 but the header he had to knock back as he was ahead of the ball.

 

I attribute the performance to the absolute dreadful control of possession. Trips first half tried the same shit pass at least three times and gave the ball away each time. Tonali was woeful second half and constantly conceded possession.

 

Yet despite that we dominated and couldn’t win. 

[OTF 7295]

It wasn't a bad performance but we couldn't put much together in the final third despite many opportunities. Not playing with a striker hurts and I agree it was odd taking off Barnes who wasn't playing poorly as he's our best scorer with Isak and Wilson out.

 

Almiron looked very dangerous when he came on, set up Gordon with a great chance. Murphy's worst game for us in a while, I'd start Almiron next up. Tonali was good, but did tire and Howe was right to substitute him. I would have thought Osula would get on. Trippier turned the ball over needlessly a lot in the first half but improved in the second. Hall is becoming positionally much better defensively.

[LongTimeAdmirer 1256]

Gordon best player? Playing in the middle, which in his words, he considers his best position.

Missed a penalty, missed the one on one, missed the free header

.... but oh he raaaaaan around a lot... definitely best player...

 

Farken hell, English bias in full effect. 

[Holden McGroin 6581]

3 minutes ago, LongTimeAdmirer said:

Gordon best player? Playing in the middle, which in his words, he considers his best position.

Missed a penalty, missed the one on one, missed the free header

.... but oh he raaaaaan around a lot... definitely best player...

 

Farken hell, English bias in full effect. 

His link up play was quality, he won a lot of free kicks turning their defence, he was a constant threat in behind which stopped Everton team get up the pitch. AND he worked his arse off again. His shooting was poor - which let him down.

 

I don’t see any quotes of him saying that’s his preferred position.