OTF

Where's our little and large striking partnership!? And a new Offspring album?

Fantastic first half setting aside the injury concern for Isak. What a quality finish from Schär for his first, and top following up to get his second. Deserved lead let's hope we maintain the same dominance in the second half.

The model

I sense a working lift in their very bright future.

The one thing you know with Burn is that he will reflect on his errors and try to improve. You can't fault his effort, but he's working against physics trying to defend against smaller, faster and infinitely more agile defenders in the kind of space being wide affords you. To his credit he managed to restrict the number of times his errors were costly last season quite effectively whilst still bringing the value of his height, set piece presence and attitude to the team. I've said it before that I love having a player like him in the team, he just gets it. At the same time he's a square peg in a round hole as far as fullbacks go, fundamentally there's no getting away from that.

Eddie Howe's smash and grab army. Not pretty but cruising overall with their best chance being in the dying minutes.

6 minutes of Ritchie time.

Relived for what reason? Avoiding the risk of injury?

Agree, needed the break.

Expensive 3 year treatment plan in Saudi Arabia coming up.

Gordon's gone to the right, preparing for the departure of Almiron and the return from injury of Barnes... remember where you heard it thirty-first....

Bruno comically lacking in care. Livra for Murphy, nice.

We've got different commentary here, but those early 2000s COVID years were amongst the worst.

Lovely Gordon, if Trippier had another Trippier on his shoulders....

The amount of absolutely terrible passes we have made is astounding given the score.

Two assists now @wykikitoon having a blinder!

Had two crucial defensive touches in the last couple of minutes, showing his class. Will have appreciated the two weeks off to reset.

The best we could have hoped for was him hitting the post.

Great finish Murphy, but miles offside.

An assistbfor Wyki, well played. Love how the players all have to give the ref their opinion even though it doesn't matter at all.

Longers!!!