Andy

We've been shite away from home for ages tbf though. 4 isn't a terrible shout based on our form across the season.

I'm not totally convinced by the "playing through injury" excuse like. Obviously it might limit his work rate, but I'm not sure that it restricts his capability to pass the ball 10 yards, stay on his feet under pressure, or react at the speed of other players. I think he's a big confidence player, and when he isn't confident he hides off the ball and struggles on it, which is what we're seeing at the moment.

Not really a massive surprise that the first half was difficult given it was their last stand, but we were rank bad too and gave them something to bite in to. Longstaff and Murphy were rotten in particular. Second half was better, but 5-1 definitely flattered us. Feels weird to be negative after such a scoreline, but we need to be much better next week as Burnley have been grinding out some results

At least he's keeping it simple to get his confidence back and not wastefully surrendering possession by trying elaborate and unnecessary back heels

He has some good attributes, but he seems to not have a clue what to do once he gets in the final third. His passing falls to pieces, he rarely looks like scoring. It's difficult to tell what his best position is tbh. He's strong and good at breaking up play, but he doesn't look like a natural DM, and he doesn't have the end product for a box to box or attacking midfielder. He's approaching 40 appearances for us now, you'd expect at least a little bit of output at this point.

The energy levels were definitely the most annoying aspect tonight. You can forgive us being a bit sloppy when we have some pretty average footballers plugging holes, but they were first to every ball and looked more hungry. This has been the case over and over again this season away from home, from the very start.

Literally put anyone in midfield instead of Longstaff. He is clearly shot for confidence and hiding. Honestly think you could put Dan Burn in there and he'd offer more.

Thought Longstaff could've stayed on his feet tbh, he's hiding at the minute and would rather go down than try to get a shot away

Said it the other day, it's pointless worrying about other results when we are this inconsistent. I know this one isn't done yet but we've been poor against teams in the bottom half far too many times this season.

Our defenders in particular are taking too many touches every time they have the ball, really slow and sloppy

Hopefully we have turned a corner with the last couple of results, but I'm more worried about our own consistency than I am the fixtures and results of the clubs around us. We've been canny wank in games you'd expect us to win this season Have a feeling we'll finish 7th

What happened to the whole "the contact continues into the box" shite from literally the other week

Great first half that, hopefully we can keep it going. The system is working perfectly.

If Tino is fit to start, I wouldn't be surprised if Krafth is right back, Tino left back tbh. Hall on the bench.

Excellent refereeing that like, 99% of refs would've made the easy call to just give the home team a penalty there