turvontour

We have averaged one point a game when Grealish doesnt play for seasons now.

We're starting El Ghazi, Nakamba, Tuanzebe etc, bringing on Keenan davis.

When I literally cant remember a Watkins goal that went in near post. And yet it is where he always shoots.

Why does Watkins shoot near post. It never goes in near post.

That's mad isnt it! 5 straight defeats after that game.

No the main commentator. I dont mind Hinchcliffe too much. The main guy commentates like he really doesnt like us.

Thought exactly that earlier. Bailey, el Ghazi watkins etc should he quick players. Look so slow.

Hes so weak in the challenge.

It is like the team we fielded last season when Grealish was out. With Elghazi just playing instead of Grealish.

Should have been sent off El Ghazi, as should Hause last game.

Who is the bell end commentator on sky?

The discipline has gone in the last few games.

Doesnt move towards it or make himself big.

Incredible stat that if we lose tonight, we will have lost the joint most premier league games this calendar year. We are a win or lose type side, but hadn't appreciated the extent of that.

Football is so short termist nowadays. The media is to blame. They know that 4 teams want/expect to be top 2, 8 teams want to be top 4, 10 teams want to be top 6 etc. And they go after the lowest placed manager in each section.

We're so ponderous, it feels also that we deliberately slow the game down whenever we win a free kick, throw in. Its annoying that long throws are now our tactic. I always thought that teams using long throws were essentially accepting that they were the inferior team.

Ye looked like someone who used to play premier league football. Annoyingly though he wasnt getting the basics right, which should be the minimum. Was a really poor pass from him which 5 seconds later saw house and Konsa probably deserve to be sent off.

I'd agree with the poor run angle to some extent as it happened last season. But where it is different this year is that he doesnt know his best formation, he doesnt know his personnel in either formation, the players have lost their discipline and we have literally not been in the last two games. Atleast when we were bad last season, we were generally still in games to the end. The counter to it all is that as you say, a month ago we came away from Old Trafford and everything was great. Smith therefore needs time to rectify this. Another couple of games like this though, performances and scoreline and his job is in the balance youd think.

Hause should have def gone for me. Absolutely stupid thing to do.

It absolutely wasnt as clear cut as the commentary team were making out. I get that if you go through the back of a player then it's a pen. But if the players doing the splits you can obviously kick through to the ball. The arsenal player is clever and lunges towards Targett playing the ball. I suppose it's only what Grealish used to do for us. Annoying though that the refs take was that it was fine when 2 yards away from it. He wasnt shown anything different on the monitor to what he saw live.

The ref mouthed "he won the ball" to the Arsenal player appealing immediately after the challenge. That was the refs take when right in front of the incident. He's then shown footage of the incident from an angle miles away and changes his mind.

He so often has that shot at the keepers near post, and it's so rare that itll go in.

We really didn't look right today with the 3 at the back. It felt too congested, and doesnt always seem like they know their responsibilities. To me, simplistically, Tuanzebe isnt a good enough quality player to be starting games. When we signed him I felt that he is ok back up.

Buendia is Barkleyesque tonight.

They've been the poorest two for me, Buendia just shades it. Watkins getting booked after a minute told you all you needed to know about tonight sadly.