OTF

Playing shite the racist gargoyle head. His attempt at a volley in the first half was laughable.

Cahill made to look a mug all game by Ba. Obviously under his skin. Gave him a black eye as well... Haha.

Second in the league this season, third overall. This is more like it.

Yes... Strikers goal from Ba. Another Obertan assist..

...and yet that was fucking beautiful. From the first touch on the interception, to Jonas's lovely slide pass, Taylor's cross and the lovely finish from Ben Arfa. Best would have found a way to be offside.

Not at all. Two teams desperate for a win, no confidence between them trying to score with every possession = embarrassingly poor second half.

60 minutes late Best is off.

Best having a shocker. HAS to come off.

4M they paid for Ngog... Related to Boumsong.

And hooray for our centre backs actually marking their players on set pieces.

Those feet from Jonas.. Lovely

That looked horrible from Best, but upon review it was a tough ask.

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Absolutely. His worst performance since...I don't remember. Which of course made it totally impossible for Perch. That's not defending Perch, I'm saying he's a very limited player who needs a reliable defender alongside him. His worst since Bolton away last season. Coincidently that match is up next. He's prone to the odd horrible performance largely against pace. There's no way we should have been playing such a high defensive line when both of their forwards are pacy. Tactically that left us exposed on so many occasions. Obertan is copping stick for nothing in this match. He wasn't great but was effective. Won corners and the free kick that Ba scored from and actually showed some enthusiasm in closing them down. As usual he burnt out in the second half, should probably have come off earlier. Ben Arfa adds a dimension, that's for sure. That's now two ineffective matches from Best so he doesn't desire to hold his spot against Bolton. Perch goes without saying but inexplicably it appears as though he'll be out there again.

Norwich, Swansea, West Brom. 1 point.

This.

sigh

Demba Ba, amazing.

Anyone know anything about this guy coming on?

Coloccini and Perch forming a poor combination against their pace. Both of their defending for their second goal was embarrassingly poor. Colo was just standing there.

Raylor on for Santon just makes no sense? What's the justification? Obertan one of our better players TBH. That was bloody lucky...

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Jonas and Santon would have benefited from having an attack minded player inside them, this would have helped to link up our midfield to our forwards. Didn't help that our two centre mids had poor games in comparison to their ability.

Jonas' end product has improved of late. He's looking to get the ball in earlier as well it seems - off either foot. Wins us loads of corners, such a shame that we're literally not doing anything with them. For all the corners we had we didn't create any clear-cut chances from them. Should have changed out Cabaye from taking them just to mix it up for a bit.

Two of their best three chances on goal were heavily influenced by poor defending from Perch. And that's in a game where he had bugger all to do. He didn't do anything.