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We havent been good. Most of our players bar Bruno has been pretty crap. He hasn't been great either seeing as he's eventually realised he has to do it himself if we are going to get forward and ends up trying too much, but i guess the alternative is to pass to Longstaff. Not too surprising though and people yelling "eddies's shit" etc seems a bit OTT. We are still starting so many average squad players with all the injuries. Burn, Murphy, Krafth, Longstaff are not great players, so we are relying on a few players to pull something out of the bag and it didnt happen for us tonight. Also that was a pen, and at 1-1 it could have gone anywhere. Commentators going on like Crystal Palace have been Barcelona dominating us is ridiculous, it was pretty even and a couple of bounces the right way we would have won it. Just find it a bit ridiculous the people shouting LONGSTAFF SHOULD NEVER START AGAIN. He's the 6th choice central midfielder, he's limited and short on confidence and i also think he is getting worse every game recently. But if we are playing 3 central midfielders do you bench him and start Joe White? He is what we've got and if Eddie Howe doesn't think he should be thrown to the wolves then he will start the next game which I'd expect him to.

Feel like its quite even. They have most of the posession but we have definitely had the 2 best chances. Shame Barnes couldn't feed Gordon in the start there. Would be nice if some more of our purples were out there. Starting to show the amount of players we have on the pitch now who go into sideways and backwards mode. Feels like Bruno has to feed our front three all by himself. Guessing we will see Hall/Livramento at some stage. A little shout for the ref who hasn't done much wrong so far as well.

Old guy wins it for me, especially for the first 2, and then the first 4 he's going down with sickness. Koreans just a perfect mix in there. First guy so tiresome, had to fast forward.

Bring on the children, and ritchie!

Anderson has been so good today.

Van de slipperry doo

Can the commentators fuck off trying to sell our players.

We are doing well but woulda liked a 2nd here. The random punts from everton could get a lucky bounce. Would also be nice to get a few goals ahead so we can put on some academy fodder and rest some purples.

If everyone that went off against West Ham are unavailable what do we look like today, something like this? Murphy - Schar - Burn - Hall Longstaff - Bruno - Willock Ritchie - Isak - Barnes Depending on the fitness of Barnes/Anderson either of them probably cant do 90 so might as well have some pace coming off the bench. There is an argument for Dummett at either fullback to push Murphy ahead to avoid Ritchie as well. But this is looking a bit tight.

For some absurd reason I thought I'd turn the stream on 30 mins early. It's an honour to watch Jamie Carragher talk about man city vs liverpool as pre-match buildup. I didnt mute it right away.

Villa is one of those teams that always leave a foot in even when there is no chance of getting the ball, hope they get done 5-0 here.

Havertz is such a wanker, always gets away with it too.

It's been the same for about 8 games now. Players can just kick us from behind the entire game. If they did this against Liverpool there'd be 4 yellow cards and Christie would have been off.

Refs are just getting worse every game.

Notice Gibbs-White trying with all his might to push Botman and basically nothing happens.