Benji

Another game where we have the only yellow card despite materially fewer fouls. The early challenges on the wide men are incredibly effective on us, but the refs allow it to happen every game.

You’ve generally got to move to get injured.

Great. Their right winger is going to murder Thomas.

Cooper for me. I thought it was the end of the Rogers era - but Maresca gave me hope we still had a lower half PL squad that could rebuild, invest wisely and improve. The Cooper appointment said absolutely everything about the running of the club from top to bottom.

Come off it. Did you watch Millwall?

Tbf it’s a poor pass into him. Lots of space in front and he pings it behind him.

EFL got to get their point deductions one way or the other.

We’re too easy defend and every club has worked it out. Get in to our wingers early, as soon as the ball is played in. They’ll make a mistake or slow the game down by playing it back. And there’s nothing in the middle or overlapping as a plan B.

That’s handball.

Jesus

On the positive side, he's again reacted to the weak link in the last game (Thomas). The problem is if results continue as they are we will run out of players to bring in.

Team selections and some substitutions are grating on me, but I don't see how we improve by another change. Getting into a hiring and firing strategy every few months rarely works and he seems to have made good progress behind the scenes, particularly with getting certain players back on side. He has to be given time and then if results don't change by say end of January then fair enough, but no one is going to come in and turn this current group of senior players into world beaters. He's not immune from criticism though and the thing that worries me the most is that the style of football we were told was his philosophy, including high intensity, pressing and creating the space to consistently use the wingers (which were evident in pre season) are no where to be seen in the league so far. And this obsession with Faes/Jannik playing together is costing us points every game. I don't want him to fill the first 11 with kids, but there is no reason why as a minimum either Okoli or Nelson shouldn't be playing. And do we really not have someone coming through that can compete for Luke Thomas's place?

Barely a love in - I think he’s bang average. But he’s not frequently costing us goals.

At least Jannik plays some decent forward passes - so I can understand why he’s there. But Faes is costing us a goal a game now. He has to give someone else a chance.

He’s generally been good at identifying weak links and dropping them. Faes has to be next - he’s costing us a goal a game and we aren’t scoring enough to do that.

Some lovely triangles being played. His biggest accolade so far is getting Winks back on side. Him and Ricardo are just too good for this league, particularly together. Throw in James and it’s a great route from back to front.

Thank god it’s not Skipp, I just cba to deal with him right now.

Ryan Mason shaking his head can get in the bin. They were even worse than us, and couldn’t make the most of a homer ref.

Bobbyyyyy ma boyyyyyy

I agree about Ayew, obviously. Sourmare has been fine, certainly good enough performances for the Championship (I haven’t seen anything better from any other midfielder we’ve played including tonight). I just don’t think the overall performance is as bad as people are making out. Ifs and buts, but if it was 0-0 at half time I imagine most would be confident we’d win this in the second half. I’m pretty confident we will at least draw.

Don’t really understand the negativity. Dominating the game so far and yes bad defending for one chance and a striker doing nothing, but I’d be confident we still get something from this.

Ha - fair point!! Forgotten him already.

When was the last time we had a goalkeeper who didn’t kick the ball out of play more often that not? Definitely since (and including) Kasper it’s been all of them.

Ma boiii BDR on to win it.

Only surprise with the changes so far is that Skipp has survived.