comment by Lowfields73 (U21886)
posted 10 seconds ago
When anyone says you don't understand the game I want to smash their stupid heads in
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Well anyone who thought Pablo should come on instead of those two at half time is an idiot.

comment by HammertimeYeboah (U8153)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by HammertimeYeboah (U8153)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Stoopo (U4707)
posted 32 seconds ago
comment by HammertimeYeboah (U8153)
posted 2 minutes ago
Not playing Pablo is just stubborn silliness. Swallow your pride MB
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He’s not a 90 min player any more. He would have come on second half but for injuries.
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He could have come on instead of struyk or shak easily
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You obviously don’t understand the game
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No you're right. Because my opinion is different from yours I never played football for 40 years
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Obviously not

comment by Lowfields73 (U21886)
posted 1 minute ago
And this is someone that understands football. Much better performance than West Ham. Lots to sort out. But lots of positives

Do me a favour
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Maybe learn how to use quotes then we can understand your posts!

comment by Lowfields73 (U21886)
posted 1 minute ago
When anyone says you don't understand the game I want to smash their stupid heads in
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I'm staying calm 😁
Surely Pablo for Klich is a straight swap???

comment by 756 .. Bring me the head of Franco Lampardio (U4879)
posted 25 minutes ago
Just imagine if we had our two international class defenders fit, we would be competitive against these.
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Sounds good in principle - Except we’ve only seen llorente once and leaked like a sieve with Koch playing

comment by HammertimeYeboah (U8153)
posted 17 seconds ago
comment by Lowfields73 (U21886)
posted 1 minute ago
When anyone says you don't understand the game I want to smash their stupid heads in
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I'm staying calm 😁
Surely Pablo for Klich is a straight swap???
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It's clearly not. You want 35 Pablo to be the engine room box to box player?

Our CBs all seem to be fragile. If Cooper is out for a few games is our CB pairing Ayling and Struijk now then?

As some have said on here, we must get results against Burnley and West Brom now.

Today was a harsh lesson that you cannot give teams with quality easy turn overs and then not cover runs into our box. Could get away with in the Championship but not against top PL teams.

One of the worst aspects of today is it gives them a leg up the table to third place.

I've had enough, they can bend their bloody knees but they can't pass a ball

I’m not too downbeat. You can’t give a top side a two goal start, they start knocking it about with a swagger. It was a basketball game, we played some decent stuff and had plenty of chances, but they had champions league players running at championship defenders and carved us open. For all we want to dine at the top table, our bread and butter games are Burnley and West Brom.

comment by Lubo - We're Home! (U14008)
posted 6 minutes ago
comment by HammertimeYeboah (U8153)
posted 17 seconds ago
comment by Lowfields73 (U21886)
posted 1 minute ago
When anyone says you don't understand the game I want to smash their stupid heads in
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I'm staying calm 😁
Surely Pablo for Klich is a straight swap???
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It's clearly not. You want 35 Pablo to be the engine room box to box player?
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For the 45 mins in this game a resounding yes!
Did you see how knackered Klich looked?

Shocking defending aside, we continually gave the ball away in midfield. That not only cut short goal scoring opportunities, it put us on the defensive. Pablo should have been on 100% - Struijk was disappointing.

I must admit to being more than disappointed today. Our players are dispossessed so easily at times or they make a bad pass and then the opposition punish us. We started like schoolboys, 2-0 down within 3 minutes. Unbelievable! They could have scored 9 if it hadn’t have been for Mesllier.
So, our next games are definite “must wins” now, but who plays in defence? If Cooper is out we have no centre backs fit! We are worryingly near to the drop zone. After we beat Newcastle I was in heaven, but came down with a massive thud this afternoon. However, hope will be restored before the next kick-off.
Happy Christmas everyone. Keep safe.

Bielsa said Llorente back in training tomorrow.

comment by Lorralorimer (U18994)
posted about 2 hours ago
Shocking defending aside, we continually gave the ball away in midfield. That not only cut short goal scoring opportunities, it put us on the defensive. Pablo should have been on 100% - Struijk was disappointing.
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Struijk did fine. And Pablo isn't able to play any of the roles vacated by players going off. Pablo CDM sounds like a disaster.

I thought Strujik did ok too. Not a penalty for me, but the James one probably was, so fair enough.

I think if our players were 2-3 hundred million players it would have been a completely diferent score!..

We've come up and in doing so we should realise that there is a little more to life then we think!..

Brilliant win, That was our best performance of the season.