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Clearly got an eye for a pass and you suspect in those comfortable 3-4 nil home games he will look very good. My issue is that he seems to have no presence in the midfield, he doesn't have pace, isn't a particularly good presser or great on the defensive side...not much left after that unfortunately. Top 6 teams don't have passengers in the midfield.

Sometimes you’re just beaten by a better team on the night, everyone was under par and that’s how it goes sometimes. Pointless getting hysterical over it and blaming changes, every single team in the league makes changes for cup and European games, you have to. Points to takeaway, Tielemans has absolutely no presence in the midfield whenever he plays, maybe that will come but he’s nowhere near starting for me. Duran still very raw and will clearly have games and spells where he’s simply not doing anything. Olsen was ok tonight, not at fault for either goal. Other than that 5/10 for everyone else.

You have to make changes for Europe but it’s caught us out tonight, simple as that. The great European adventure starts with a whimper.

Am I reading this right that the main on its own is now a tenner or is that the deal?

Newcastle massively under the cosh, welcome to the champions league.

Exactly, and with the standard cost of everything going up its just not worth it anymore. I fancied a subway the other day so i fired up uber eats and the first one on there for me wanted 15 quid for a footlong, drink and snack. once the fees and delivery are added on its about 18 quid , who on earth is paying that in the current climate. Talk about pricing yourself out of business.

Said the same about Watkins many times as well. If we was a clinical finisher he would be at Real Madrid or City unfortunately. We have to accept player limitations sometimes otherwise we wouldn't be battling for European scraps we would be winning the tournaments.

I always assumed Deliveroo was the best of a bad bunch when it came to charges for the restaurant. I like to try new places so often use the apps but if there is a website or a menu in the bag i'll happily go direct.

As others have mentioned already in here there’s so many goods that have reached a tipping point in cost where it’s just not worth it anymore. KFC - box meal? That’ll be a tenner please plus delivery and fees if ordering online McDonald’s - special burger? That will be anywhere between 5-7 quid please and the best part of 15 quid for a meal delivered. Local Indian takeaway, chicken tikka jalfrezi? That’s a tenner please and the best part of 20 quid for a full meal delivered. Trendy bar in Birmingham, pint of Madri or Moretti that’ll be the best part of 6 quid please or a single rum and coke that 5.50 please. These are all luxury items and I’m not willing to be ripped off, I would rather go without and I imagine lots more are already there or about to be.

Fair play Sainz, Ferrari actually pulled something out of the bag for once.

Really looking forward to the race today, whoever wins there’s a story to it. Have a feeling for Russell, don’t think Sainz has the bottle to actually win a race personally.

Finally got around to watching Evil Dead: Rise on Saturday night, very good indeed! Very narrow focused story which helps and both the direction and acting is above average for the genre. Few nods to the originals and a few ideas borrowed from more recent films. 8/10 for me.

There's something quite similar already on Netflix called The Nurse, its Norwegian with subs and was pretty good.

Have to be careful not to overanalyse one bad team performance. We aren't a team full of world beaters, we will lose games and we will look ordinary at times. By all means critique the performance but making sweeping statements about how good or bad someone is after two games is just pointless.

Wasn’t too bad of a race today, not a classic but better than most this season. Helps if you just ignore what Verstappen is doing…

Still very early days but Tielemans hasn’t really impressed me so far. He’s going to have to prove himself in the cups and European games to break into this midfield for the prem games.

He's a lot better for the way we want to play imo. Digne is fine as rotation and for certain games but Moreno is definitely my preferred option.

I’ll second that. It’s amazing Fassbender didn’t get typecast as a funny man after that.

Don’t think he had a game anywhere near as bad for us in his second spell, I would have been fuming if I was an Everton fan.

How much could they say about a player who hasn’t even made an appearance in the prem.

I thought the same, early opinion is that he would be best in back 3 where he isn’t the organiser like Mings would be. Maybe that’s Carlos while he’s out? Not sure if we can utilise him like Stones at Man city? Whatever way we go I’ll trust Unai to use him in the best way for Villa.

All the best to him, it certainly says a lot of his talent and reputation that he goes for 14m without even making a prem appearance.

All I can think is that the refs snap decision more often than not was the correct one, that’s what came with 5-10 years of prem experience. Now with the benefit of up to 3-4 minutes to pore over it all sorts of bias and precedents come into play and it’s clearly not helping. Maybe we need to leave VAR to offsides and incidents the ref has totally missed. Everything else is left to the refs on field decision and monitor review if needed.

It’s not quite the same villa as the last 10 years where anyone who needed to break a bad streak or some kind of record was guaranteed to do it against Villa.

Feels like they are overturning more reds and apologising for bad decisions more often than before VAR , not sure what that says for this new and improved officiating.