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Think Coady can only really play in the centre of the in-possession back 3 and I'm not sure about Faes on the left. Harsh on Vestergaard, but can see him coming out, JJ on the left and Faes on the right of the 3 with Coady central.

No it was Tyler Morton

Hermansen Hamza Faes Coady JJ Winks McAteer Ndidi KDH Mavididi Iheanacho

His was a freak one too as it was a result of contact. ACL's only usually occur from bad placement of the foot or hyperextension of the knee.

Still leaves you without someone comfortable on the left in the 3, in possession. Ricardo Winks Faes Coady JJ

Doubt it, he has Gvardiol, Ake, Akanji and Sergio Gomez at Man City to compete with for the left side of their defence, and I can't think of any clubs that use the specialist role that he is playing for us here. Makes perfect sense for him to join us permanently next summer.

We don't, but can always get them back on loan again. If we get promoted then I think we'd make signing Doyle permanently a priority. Somewhere between £15-20m would probably be enough.

Doyle? Casadei only young, hard to make a call on him just yet. Vardy should stay until he retires, too

Convinced our current side would batter these and Luton.

Good to see Maddison doing well. Such a joy to watch him play football.

Robinson did not put in ‘a great challenge’. It was a yellow card all day long.

What’s the point in Sheffield United and Luton being in the Premier League? Actually embarrassing.

I'm assuming he's counting the Community Shield.

If we use 2 up top at some point this season then think it's likely to be a system similar to the 4-1-3-2 Man City have used so far with Alvarez and Haaland, rather than a traditional 3-5-2.

He has so much potential, think this season in the championship is the best thing that could happen for him on a personal level. Think this system brings the best out of him too. I fully expect him to go on to be a decent Premier League player in years to come if he’s playing in his current role over the next few years. He’s got all the raw attributes for it, and his passing and technical ability will only get better with time and building confidence.

Yunus the championship equivalent of Bernardo Silva

It clearly was controlled by Berge into his path with his bicep.

Possibly an unpopular observation but I think this system suits a striker that runs in behind more than it does someone like Iheanacho. If the number 9 is able to break the lines, then it creates room for the number 8s to occupy the space higher up the pitch vacated by the defenders that drop deeper to stop the 9 from running in behind. If the opposition defence push up to combat this, then space is created in behind the back line for the 9 to get in behind the back line. Haaland and Alvarez score quite a few goals for Man City by running onto through balls.

What is that angle on VAR

Who’s the other Southampton centre-half? Is it Charles playing there? Or Downes filling in?

Played well against QPR. Not so good against Sunderland but didn’t get much help.

What do we reckon? JJ straight in for Faes or Ricardo inverting from the left?

I think in the Premier League that you're meant to have 4 players that were at the club for a certain amount of time between 15 and 21. Might be an old rule or me being wrong, though. Edit: I think it's a rule that only applies for European competition, not Premier League. Therefore, irrelevant right now.

Academy quota due to Thomas and Barnes leaving?

Burnley’s issues this season are that they’ve bought in a lot of players, changed Cullen’s role, and Kompany is refusing to play Charlie Taylor at left back and putting loads of players who aren’t left backs in there ahead of him.