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Trying to put a positive spin on what happened, is that it’s a very early lesson in his career here to learn from and Nunez can come back from his suspension wiser. When you think about it we aren’t really shithouses ourselves, we don’t really indulge in the dark arts and whilst it is a bit galling when we see teams do it and get away with it, we’ve done well enough without it so if he comes back and focuses on his own job like the rest of the group do rather than reacting to the oppo then it might be a suspension well served in the long run.

Fucking abysmal half of football. Fuck all urgency shown against a team thats just been promoted and playing at home first up, yet we’ve still spent most of it strutting around and getting beaten to every ball. massive improvement needed second half.

Only just had the chance to give this a read, Dave and it’s even better than I thought it would be, very cathartic. I also just want to say thanks for your efforts in the reports all season, and thanks also to the rest of the lads who do the podcasts with you. It’s genuinely up there as my must listen to podcast every week.

Yeah completely agree, especially coming less than 24 hours after tonight. Can see there being quite a few wistful looking faces on the bus to be honest, which is totally understandable

Exactly this. yes, we can definitely look at games where we should have won, but we also pulled a couple of wins out of the bag when we weren’t at our best either. Its just the ebb and flow of a league season and until City turned up was always the same.

Kostas’ little face there at the end of that interview. Love him.

I think that is probably the only valid criticism that can be levelled at us this year. Arguably lucky to take points of City and we dug in to get them, but the performances against Chelsea at home v 10 men and away when we went 2 up are the stand out ones where we should definitely have done better. As was the loss at Leicester and being 2 up at home to Brighton. Being objective though, it’s incredibly bad luck for us to be getting points totals like we are doing and only having 1 league title to show for it. Teams coming a close second in a race to win the league will always have games where they’ll kick themselves but we’re on course for 92 points which by any stretch is some achievement.

Not for the first time this season I’m thinking, lets just move on and forget this. testament to the mentality of the team that we can pull results out of sloppy performances but we dont half make hard work of it at times.

Agree, I’m not having that they look particularly up for this more than you’d expect any team to be.

They wont roll over, they’ll just get beaten very easily. City will put 4 or 5 past them

To be honest as good as they are, us keep giving them the ball has helped them.

We’ve literally had a 2 minute spell in this game, otherwise fucking terrible thus far. Basically arsing around everywhere within 40 yards of our own goal is going to bite us big time unless we buck up our ideas, urgency and application.

That 3 on 3 we just had summed us up today

We won, let’s just leave it at that.

These lot are much better than I thought but we’ve not helped matters at all over the 2 legs. On the bright side we’ve lost a game we could afford to, we need to shape ourselves though moving forward. Mo needs to find his mojo sharpish.

Front 3 have been shocking tonight, zero threat. this dickhead will give us a red to even this up, can see it coming.

Wouldn’t be surprised to see us make another triple sub like in the first leg.

We looked more dangerous, it lasted all of 5 minutes but it was better than anything before Edit: Goal!!

Blatant foul on Konate there

Quite telling of how bad the performance was that a triple sub seems to have instantly improved things

It’s almost as though we’re missing a certain player who was constantly available, and teams rarely ever ran through us at ease with them in the team.

Just a feeling thats all with all these Covid related postponements going on, i just cant see the Spurs game going ahead as well as others and the league maybe calling a break before we get to the point where teams have 4 or 5 games to catch up on the flip side of this is that there will barely be any time to fit games in so we just might end up seeing a load of patched up teams playing each other.

Think we were always comfortable but the difference in intensity between the first and second halves was night and day, thought we were pretty sloppy until Naby came on and in fairness, i think it was a great sub and made a significant difference Sadly think that might be the last football we see for a few weeks now though.

Annoying isn’t it. It’s not even close to being hindsight either. We’ve dropped 6 points from winning positions this year that very likely don’t happen with said never injured, incredibly consistent midfielder on the pitch.

Yeah, McManaman at his worst tonight. Constant stream of utter drivel.