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Two for Bernal, good for him.

Never really impressed me tbh.

The amount of injuries are also due to the type of games we create for ourselves. Instead of taking care of these ordinary games through sensible yet cynical attacking play, we do a whole lot of nothing and then have to overextend ourselves in the final stages to fight for a result. The best...

No shifts of play through the midfield. No qualified combinations in the final third. Not a single attempt at a through ball or a run to make it happen.

I don't know which was worse, our defensive or offensive performance. We seem to have lost the absolute basics of defensive awareness and disciplin. Covering spaces, tracking runs, coordinated pressing. They carved through us with the simplest of moves. With the ball we look lost as well. We...

word on the street is he can juggle the ball over 70 times in a row

Three of his most prolific seasons (10/11, 14/15, 18/19) came after failed WC campaigns. Always been interesting to me.

I don't think you can say that it's unfair if the result contradicts the xG. It's still up to the team to score the chances they create. It's possible that Villa were lucky against Brighton but xG alone won't definitively tell us that, as it would still possible that all Villa's goals were...

Experienced players are right to get angry when youngsters take a shot at goal? That's fucking stupid. Young creative players should be encouraged to play on instinct without having to worry about upsetting seniors. Unless there's an clear and obvious option for a better play, which there wasn't...

Lewandowski needs dial back his moaning when the kid takes a shot from a fair distance instead of crossing it to him. Don't want him to start second guessing his decisions, just go for it.

Pedri is more talented but that doesn't mean he's the better player in every situation of the game. Fermin did a lot of good things today that Pedri wouldn't have done. I especially like that Fermin is more aggressive in his off the ball movement.

It's a hopelessly desolate position that second striker one. Too easy for the opponent to isolate and shut down. If we want our midfielders to create danger, they'd be better off dropping a bit and launching runs from deep. At least that's unpredictable.

He's not the quickest in general but the situation I'm referring to was a warm up issue. Guy looked like his hamstrings were about to give out trying to hit the gas.

Came close to giving away a third goal because he couldn't sprint after coming on. Embarassing stuff.

Weird role. Receives it in advanced positions and dribbles backwards. Not really a player who can do anything with his back to goal.

The criticism seems a bit exaggerated. Balde, Cancelo, Felix, Gundogan, Ferran have all been worse in my book.

I'm a fan but both of those goals were his fault.

Glad that he's getting minutes. Have to admit I thought he wouldn't even get in the team.

Is he still training with the first team? Might be an item in Frenkie's absence.

Real really missing a finer touch when Modric isn't there.