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Easy to forget it's still very early days for them as well. I don't even think they've played 20 games together as a CB pairing.

That's not right, he didn't have any shots against Man City a few weeks ago or Liverpool at the start of the season. Ever since he signed that massive new contract he's been a shadow of his former self

This absolute chancer is still trying to take credit for his form. His response? Before he wasted his time in your pathetic training sessions he was the most creative English player. I can't wait until he's sacked and replaced by literally **** anyone with half a clue

This is **** mental, everyone else on the list is a defender, carrying it forward from their own box under limited pressure most of the time. Grealish is putting these numbers up in the opposition half/final third. I wonder where the next highest ranked attacker placed.

I honestly think with the quality we now have we can both counter and break down a packed defence, Arsenal were fully set defensively in their own box before Grealish and Barkley toyed with them to find an opening for our first goal. Southampton were sat back in the second half, Fulham were deep too. So were both Leicester and Sheffield United come to think of it, although we did struggle to break both down. In fact the only defence we haven't scored against is the most open one we've played. So **** annoying neither of Grealish's chances went in.

Obviously it's not as prestigious as it's voted for by a bunch of self congratulating words removed but Parker won the Football Writers' POTY award by captaining West Ham to 20th.

Luckily I don't know any Dortmund fans so won't have to hear this The perfect heir to McGinn in 6 years time.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/54885688 Turns out none of his contributions at VP made the reel. Who'd have thunk it

I was under the impression that Bellingham was more of an 8 or even a 6 than a 10. England play 7 defensive players every game (8 if you count Pickford, although I'm not sure why you would) so we've probably already got too many attackers in the squad to include Barkley and Maddison.

Err what? We were on 37xPTS in 18th place, IRL we finished with 35 in 17th. Seems reasonably accurate I feel like the xPTS table from the end of last season did a good job of highlighting the lucky and unlucky teams. Newcastle overperformed by 12 points and were the luckiest. To my untrained eye that seemed spot on. Watford underperformed the most. They should never have been relegated. Hah. **** em. Whether that was down to 'bottling' is a debate to be had but a lot of bottling is often bad luck imo.

I think on balance it's more important to keep our hotshot, 6 goals in 7, record signing happy and confident by letting him stay on and try to complete his second hattrick of the season than it is to show faith in a guy who cannot seem to buy a goal at this level and who will be our 4th choice striker by January.

I thought they were fairly unlucky against Palace. The twelve year old they've got in goal hid under his bar and then dived backwards into the net for the first, they were yet another victim of 'VAR-tshirt line-offside gate', the second was a fantastic free kick which is unlikely to be scored (despite us managing to concede two of the bastards last week) and the third was just a ridiculous schoolboy error again from the goalkeeping schoolboy.

And he won a penalty for us which is the equivalent of winning 10 penalties for United

Brighton are a very good side this season and have been incredibly unlucky in several games so far. Understat's xPTS table actually has them ranked 5th this season ahead of us. Lamptey looks like the best value signing of the season so far. Can't believe Chelsea keep that 80 man squad of loanees and then sell him for £1m. Awful decision. They'll have Dunk back for this one as well, although Veltman has done well so might keep his place for a week. If Dunk does play they'll have that comically large defence that just looks awkward to play against. All that said there's no reason why we can't tear them apart as long as Mings winds Maupay up enough to distract him from doing anything useful.

We saw glimpses of his link up with Grealish last season but now Barkley is here we're starting to see it most weeks. His technical ability is very good and has never been in question, he's definitely improved his defensive 'bite' and willingness to battle as well. Fitness and athleticism are the only areas I have concerns over and they are (or at least should be) the easiest areas for him to improve.

Charles Montgomery Southgate must've been having his head massaged.

And in these circumstances (before a break) this is exactly what I want to see. We don't want to limp to 2 goal victories against the clubs playing in Europe, we want to crush them, see them driven before us and hear the lamentation of their women.

Just noticed Lawro has now predicted 5 consecutive losses for us. What a dork

He's very impressive Created six chances today. Six! Teams would kill for a player that can do that and we've now got 2 of the ****

He absolutely **** bitched Bellerin for the third. He is completely unplayable at times

He did it to waste time, obviously. Not because he felt like he had to. Go on then. Post his subs for the next game before kick off, including 5 minute windows. We'll all be impressed

He'll be benched for the two England competitive games, 5 extra minutes tonight won't hurt

The Roosevelts were 4th cousins twice removed or something as well

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