23 Oct 2021 17:18:25
I think some players have become too comftable we literally threw away 2 points, ref was a absolute joke very soft penalty.
On the positive side though it is 4 matches unbeaten.

1.) 23 Oct 2021
23 Oct 2021 17:33:24
Just looked at our player ratings Birmingham live can’t believe they looked at the same players that I watched.

2.) 23 Oct 2021
23 Oct 2021 18:18:07
The sloppy passing continues, I would have hooked Dendonker and RAN after the first half. Still bringing too much pressure on ourselves but I thought we might have ground out the win, not a pen IMO. Sa and Hwang have been great so far.

3.) 23 Oct 2021
23 Oct 2021 19:01:45
I'm a bit nonplussed by it all. Traore jiminez hwang tincao podence to switch attack around with. Moutininho sadly showing his age and dendonker doing the graft but not creative, RAN not fully fit imo. Why didn't bruno change things earlier? How can we not get the front line going as we did in the first three games? We sat so deep from the goal onwards from what I could gather. We can't invite teams to come at us without a real counter threat. OK traore never got going, raul was being kicked about and hwang tried. The ref again seemed hard on us and very lenient on Leeds but that wasn't the concern, the pen was a cert, he was going down at the slightest touch, semedo was too tired/ naive. Sa again saved us and showed his worth, the throw out to podence was the quick thinking we'd lacked out field. As a footnote, (and it didn't give me any pride) why do teams in the lead suddenly get cramp now? . I thought we were better than that. RAN walking along touchline, moutininho making the most of it, come on we berated Brentford for it.

4.) 24 Oct 2021
24 Oct 2021 08:28:15
Yet had that soft penalty not been given, we would have won 1-0 and everyone would say Lage produced a tactical masterclass.

5.) 24 Oct 2021
24 Oct 2021 11:37:26
Jas I would have said that we we’re very lucky, yesterday reminded me of Nuno’s last season very negative. If we had continued to play the same attacking game as our first 3 games we would have totally outplayed Brentford, Newcastle, Leeds, but we have gone back into our shell hope this doesn’t continue because Bruno will come in for a lot of criticism. I actually think Bruno can do a great job as long as he sticks to his beliefs of attacking football.

6.) 24 Oct 2021
24 Oct 2021 14:23:48
Norfolkwolf, you're right. We were very fortunate to come away with a draw. I just think that our midfield looked a bit light without Neves in there dictating the play. Marcal, although not many on here seem to rate him (I do) was a big miss too. He may not be the most elegant player but he does the nitty gritty stuff really well.

7.) 24 Oct 2021
24 Oct 2021 17:33:04
Basically, Jas, he's a full back who knows how to defend (we may need him as a centre half come January with the impending loss of Saiss and Boly) something which yesterday's full backs sometimes have difficulty in doing.

8.) 24 Oct 2021
24 Oct 2021 20:35:52
I would agree on Marcal I suspect if not injured he would have played, he's old school. I agree ran offers more going forward but you need defenders. I'm sure Marcal would have at least fouled him before he got in the area from his previous examples on numerous occasions. Semedo has looked better this season with Kilman behind him while Saias has enough doing his own job. With hindsight I would have brought Kilman over to left back and Hoever to centre back but obviously that's just my opinion and as I said hindsight which is always 20/ 20 vision isn't it!