Andy

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

This would be nice but I don't think Howe will do it, probably weakens our options off the bench a bit too much.

I think it's at least partially because the defensive line isn't right due to Pope being out too. We aren't able to compress the play as much and we end up with defenders being isolated. I think width has become a bigger element of the game in the PL in general again this season too, it seems like every team has a rapid right winger now, probably to exploit the fact that most of the LBs in the league are shite.

He played like a 19 year old who has started in that position a handful of times in his career. He has the toolset, he just needs the experience, especially when it comes to judging when to press and when to jockey.

That's never ever a foul for me like, certainly not enough to overrule the on field decision.