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Straight swap for Elanga.

I’m sure Anderson would like to come back but he’d cost a lot of money and would he get the same game time as at Forest? Perhaps he could take over from Big Joe.

Must make him feel a million dollars when he hears it.

The old groin flaring up again.

he is delivering in the CL. 4 goals in 3 games. Let’s see if he can get up for Fulham.

I think Big Joe and Tonali will come back in for this. I’m not sure Trippier can do 3 full games in a week but I don’t know what other choice we have. Some of his passing was a little (expected) tired last night. hopefully Big Nick is fully fit. He did a lot of closing down last night and isn’t used to this sort of intensity. it’ll be a tough game for sure.

Great performance. This high press man-for-man tactics when we are 1-0 up gives me palpations but I’d rather have that than shut up shop any day. Everyone was really good. Miley was class. Gordon had his best game for us and was MOTM. Botman and Thiaw are rolls Royce’s. Bruno was superb. I’ll probably go against the grain here but I think he is a more important player than Tonali. Some of his play was unreal last night.

I’ve got no doubt Isnake will become a success there. Wirtz I’m not sure about. I think he is a superb footballer but he might struggle with the physicality of the PL

I think he has always praised us tbh. Robby Bobson link.

He has won here 3 times.

They'll probably see the best of Isak when Salah fucks off to Saudi.

Yeah. He used to break down a lot and I don’t think Isak wanted to spend his game pressing either. He probably thought he was too good for it, hence 1 reason he wanted to leave.

His pressing was good. BDB mentions how clever he was with it in a podcast as it was upto Isak to call when we went for it. you can see Woltemade starting it now. He forces an option off from the Gk and makes them play it where we want it (eg long kick)

Battle cry. America is slipping closer into FUCKEDVILLE every day.

I’d say Wykiki is now the leader of the Stat Gang.

He has spent most of his post football career trying to stop drinking. That’s well over 20 years. He must just be at the “fuck it” stage now

Barnes and Tino seemed to work better. Gordon has not been great for a while. He needs to kick on and go up another level.

I thought he pressed quite well for us. I actually thought one of the reasons he might want to leave was a for a club that didn’t need to push him physically as Howe did.

Is that 6 losses in a row for him?

The US is an absolute shit show.

I don’t think there is any other choice but BDB at left back. You could put Trippier over there and maybe play Krafu but that’s probably weaker overall.

Joelinton needs a rest. I hope he goes with Miley or Jambo.

I was in row C of the East Stand so had a close up view. Botman and Thiaw had good games but I haven’t seen the goals back yet so not sure who was to blame. Pretty average elsewhere. I don’t think we should have played Joelinton and Bruno. They both looked fucked. Joelinton was shocking. Murphy was our best player and he only played 45 mins. I was never convinced on the Elanga signing. Im not going full Wykiki on him yet but he needs to start performing.

they do good sausage rolls

I’ve never seen us win here. The one time we did actually win I went for a piss just before half time and Diame scored that worldie, then I left a minute early (to avoid train Hell.*) and missed Perez score the winner. * if you have ever been to the Amex then you know how shit the transport is