McCreadie

Assuming full fitness, yes.

Agree.

Missed the first half, but the second was textbook game management. Nice to see this side start to do that. Gave the ball away a bit too easily, but overall, unconfidently dominant, whatever that means!

Also, we have 7 bodies more or less in the 6 yard box, Perhaps they would all be more effective just lined up on the goal line! :-)

21 makes a dummy run past the near post. 24 makes a dummy run, checks and pulls back to get the 2nd ball, if it happens. 7,4 and 6 are running at the 6 yard line that we are defending, attempting to get on the end of the cross. How are we ever going to stop them from scoring from a standing start on the 6 yard line? Not rocket science - if you run and jump you will get higher than if you just jump. This is the zonal weakness. The very least we should be doing is getting in the way.

Agreed. And so avoidable.

And counting...

I get that, but IMO, defending a corner successfully should not take 3 months to coach.

We are conceding exactly the same goal again and again. It does not matter how succesfully every other team is doing it. We are hopeless at it. It is not rocket science to defend a corner. They have had 3 months to sort this out and have failed so far.

Well we are making a pig's ear out of it, so change it, or get the sack.

This inability to defend a corner is embarrassing schoolboy rubbish. Sort it out.

Why are we still hanging onto this awful zonal system? We cannot play it. It is failing us time after time. So stupid.

So pleased for Tomori and Mount, who both had very good games today. Unfortunately, Barkley is not of the quality required going forwards. Not sure he is going to be content with forming a queue behind Kante, Jorginho, Mount, Loftus-Cheek, Kovacic and Gilmour either! Wish Pedro (and to some extent Tammy) would stop shooting straight at the keeper.

Means the square root of nothing in the grand scheme of things, but I thoroughly enjoyed that. Gilmour in particular, did very well.

Wonder when the last time was that we had 10 'academy' players in a matchday squad?