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How are we supposed to play any football if this is what we see when the centre backs have the ball?

It’s more complex than being made out here. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen huge numbers of people taken in by central and Eastern Europe. Many are 18-30 males avoiding getting called up. Most are working and studies show they are bringing more money into the countries than they are...

I think he’s learning like an intelligent manager. If he was excellent already he wouldn’t have sent out that shit show in the first half. An insane recovery though.

We had a football nerd meet up last year. Most of us were sharing our thoughts on xG but he’d painted a couple of fingers sky blue and was finger blasting anything that moved. Gained and lost so much respect for him that day. But mostly lost. My own xG

I’ll give you a red box you little minx.

Ffs man. @Frostie is a total c**t. Can’t stand that charade of a poster.

I feel like we’re already all about Grimes. And love how good he is at what he does. But should we be sure placing so much on him? There’s a balance to be had, and I feel we got a bit too complacent in recent weeks.

You meant me right?

Credit to Lampard, he tightened it up significantly 2nd half. Grimes started higher (blue box) and played much closer to Torp. Rudoni's operating area was reduced (yellow box) and he wasn't getting quite so wide, so often But most significantly, the wingers started deeper and were tucked...

Repeating some of what I said in the match thread but the midfield was very dysfunctional first half and was the root cause of most of our issues. EMC and Esse very high and wide. Grimes operating like a quarterback (in the blue box). Rudoni playing with freedom in the 10 role and popping up...

and bashing one out for the next 90? :LOL:

I think it was Fatawu who went through after Grimes did his Kastaneer impression. I swear in real time it looked like Rushworth had dived before the shot was even taken and then just casually caught and held onto the ball. I reckon he's got one of of those time-turner's from Harry Potter!

I assumed he didn't give the EMC penalty, not because of the contact, but because he felt the ball was too close to the keeper already?

Rushworth for me. Great finger tip save first half, the tightest Cruyff turn you'll ever see and a couple of very good blocks 2nd half too!

Lampard 4/10 first half sending us out in that much disarray, and 9/10 for the tactical tweaks and subs in 2nd half.

Will be hard to do the player ratings today because many of the poor first half performances were down to the dysfunctional formation rather than individual performance.

Leicester fans must be fucking fuming about how easily Luke Thomas went down under the 'challenge' of Sakamoto for the goal.

Rudonye

I thought he was really good for the first half and being strong with Leicester players falling over all the time.

Makes me laugh how this commentator keeps saying 'Sakamoto' in a Japanese accent but he's the only player he does it for.