jim5000

There are still tickets available for this match.

Been on general sale for nearly 24 hours and still around 100 seats left from a small allocation of 1300. Seems foxes fans really aren’t interested. Over £100 for tickets for two people to go and watch us get beat 4-0 at old Trafford for the third time this season, when it’s going to be on TV and at an awkward time to get to.

Our problems conceding is not all on the defence. Yes, they are slow and Faes is error prone, but Soumare and Winks offer absolutely no cover for them, and we play a system which exposes their weaknesses, rather than plays to their strengths. It does irk me though, how terrible Vestergaard is at headers considering he’s 6’7” or something

I mean really, we’re just reverting to our average level after a life changing decade. We’ve always been a yo-yo club, and the current owners have got us back to that level

He’s got a shit squad to work with but he doesn’t know how to do anything with them. Sets up in the same 4-2-3-1 formation every week with the same players, when it’s glaringly obvious we have no strength in the middle. He hasn’t tried a single other formation. No additional midfielder to help Soumare or Winks, not tried 3 CBs, nothing. Usually you don’t want defence first but we are carved open so easily he should have tried *something* He has no intention of trying to grind out a few 0-0 draws and build from there, he is persisting with an approach that we don’t have the players to compete with at this level. Our defence is terrible, our midfield offer no protection and no creativity, and we barely register a shot per game. Yet Ruud persists. He’s clearly not the right man for the job and doesn’t know what to do to change our fortunes.

Have we had a shot yet?

He has Football Manager levels of tactical ability. 4-2-3-1 formation, high line, high press, and hope for the best. He never adjusts for the opposition and is totally rigid tactically.

Everton have just replaced Dyche and now they’re flying. Dyche is not the answer

They just needed a good talking to

Ruud out

One simple pass takes out our in entire midfield and back line

Have we even had a shot in the first half?

Needs a good halftime talk from Ruud here

They are there to hear it as well

It’s our midfield. Everton can pickup the ball 15 yards inside their own half and they are running directly at our back four. Our midfield offers absolutely no defence, and I hate to say it again, but the why we will never escape relegation with Soumare on the pitch.

Good job we strengthened in the January window

Very disappointing window tbh. The club had the chance to reinforce in a bid for survival, and instead we've kept our crap loan player that can't get near the team, and signed a backup RB.

It will be the same team and formation as last week. Only potential change is Mads back in goal if he's fit.

A slowdown you mean

Ayew plays to give us an outlet. He’s the only forward we’ve got with an ounce of muscle, and he is there to challenge for the long balls to relieve pressure.

He only ran back and lost the ball because there was nobody with him to pass to. Everyone was camped at the back. I liked his burst forward. Showed he can take on and beat players, and he relieved some pressure on the defence for minute. Everyone else was just booting it out to come straight back at us.

One swallow doesn’t make a summer.

He wasn’t as bad today, but wasn’t asked to do too much defensively by Spurs.