McCreadie

Good to see Werner still putting in 100%. I thought he worked hard and did well today. He will come good. Havertz, we will need patience with. As others have mentioned, he needs some physical rebuilding, before he will hit his potential. Much like Hazard and maybe even de Bruyne and Salah were rebuilt after first appearing in the PL. Lots of weights and core strength work. Billy did very well. Ziyech has much ability.

We really need to take full control of this now. Get Werner on. Get CHO on. Pummel them into submission. Just about the clearest red you will ever see.

Avram is the very last thing we need.

Like I said, no-one is ever going to be happy with 9th. However, I would rather finish 9th and 14 points off than 5th and 30 points off.

Obviously no-one’s going to be happy with 9th and you really didn’t need to suggest that, but if we were to finish 14 points off top place, having been THIS bad, it would be easy to see how we could make those points up (and some more) the following year... we were never going to make up all 30 in one year.

Well there is that. Half the season gone. If we are just as terrible in the second half of the season as we have been in the first, we will finish 14 points off top. Thats progress right there! Imagine if we start playing slightly better! Be positive!

Havertz did well. Positive. Werner also. Yes he missed that one shot (which, if he had gone low, would have been blocked), but he was everywhere trying hard to make things happen. Giroud had been anonymous since half time.

Mount’s finishing. Pulisic’s finishing. We should be 3 up.

Agree with most of this. Injuries, Covid and no pre-season on top of that. There have been some moments (albeit very brief) where he has looked exceptional. I’m not expecting us to see the best of him until next season. Even then, the Euros are likely going to destroy pre season.

Throw everything at getting Simeone here in the summer.

Abysmal. Change required.

He’s finished

Likely.

Brendan's sat at home, staring at his phone, desperately willing it to ring and and reading his russian phrase-book.

The end of Frank