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To be fair, even we've not lost 7-0 this season. Yet!

Really finding it hard to get excited about this game, which is very odd for me. Haven't even bothered listening to any LCFC podcasts this week. Just hope that for once this team can surprise us by getting a win against a top team but our recent record against Arsenal and the big 5 generally does not bode well.

I'd forgotten how bad bottom half Championship teams are. Like watching a different sport to the PL.

Yes it was dire. We had 1 tame off target shot in the whole game and 'achieved' the lowest xG ever, I think. After Arsenal scored just after half time, they basically killed the game such that the ball was hardly in play for the last 40 minutes.

Putting our tickets on resale again for this one. Can't face another 230 mile round trip to see Arsenal stroll to an easy win whilst Ruud employs exactly the same approach that has led to 8 defeats in 9. Fear that I'm losing my love for the club. Even my boys are not bothered for this one as they think it will be a certain defeat anyway. Sad times.

What a guy. Heads and kicks everything and then drops 2 F bombs live on TV in his interview!

Just what I thought. The big lads at the back for Plymouth were absolutely superb.

Still had Jota, Nunez, Diaz and Chiesa on for most of the second half.

Agree, which layered upon the ineptitude of the club's negotiators, means we have no hope of getting £30m for BEK when we get relegated at the end of the season.

True but the people running the club are hopeless at negotiating. For example, we only got £30m for Barnes, a proven PL player with decent numbers who had a few years left on his contract at the time.

I want to back Ruud but his selections, substitutions and adherence to a system that is just not working are all massively frustrating, even if we do see the odd glimmer of hope in some games.

Another sorry example of how modern football is dying through the growing domination of a few mega rich clubs who are able to stockpile all of the best talent. How are we supposed to compete when they’re now even poaching our best 15 year olds, let alone players who’ve played a couple of years in our first team and done well?

I should be fuming at the way at the way we lost that to a last second offside goal but instead my overriding feeling is one of relief as we were heading for a defeat anyway so it just saved us the pain of 30 more minutes of turgid, error-strewn football between 2 awful sides with no confidence - and possibly a shoot out in which it's hard to think of 2, let alone 5, of our players who you would fancy to take a pen under pressure (we don't even have anyone who can take a good corner, FFS!). After 60 minutes our race was run, sadly. RvN again made the wrong subs and Ndidi having to go off left us predictably easy to play through. What a truly miserable season this has been.

Suspect we'll be down well before then at this rate.

Justin was tucked in so narrow in the second half he was playing more as a RCB, leaving Garnacho acres of space or expecting the RW to deal with him instead (or not in the case of their first goal). It must be a tactical instruction from the manager.

He's not much use in the first 60 either. It's mind boggling. Just stands still, and then lays it off or falls over.

Made the wrong subs yet again.

If RvN is still manager then, he'll pick Ayew, Reid or Mcateer ahead of him.

The 2 pensioners on the wings again. Dear oh dear.

Vardy, Winks and Faes will be the ones missing with 'light injuries', I suspect.

Scenes on here when Reid and Ayew play the whole game or get brought on as subs ahead of Monga and Evans!

Have to say that I'm hugely impressed by Howe. Yes, he's had money to spend, but he's also improved so many players who were looking as bad under Bruce as ours do now eg Murphy, Longstaff, Schär, etc. Last night he showed it is possible to change shape to suit the occasion and be successful, rather than doing the same thing over and over like Ruud has been doing.

Is he surplus to requirements there? If so, has to be worth a gamble.

We will tempt him in with a 3 year deal on £90k per week, no doubt.

This link is so utterly depressing that I fully expect it to happen.