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Tanking us on purpose so there's no chance he is made permanent. Rowett playing 4D chess with KP.

You have forward runners in the half spaces, why do our wingers demand the long way round every time?

I hope that means no more Ayew! Who can you point to for consistency? Apart from JJ and Fatawu (who is consistently unpredictable) I have a hard time naming anyone. Skipp? Nelson? Not even the keeper and that's usually the easiest position to name. Neither Daka nor Ayew. Neither Ricardo nor Hamza. Neither Mavididi nor Monga. We're up shit's creek looking for consistent performers. Can we just go FIFA and play 4-1-2-1-2? Put anyone anywhere? All out attack, sweeper keeper, CB up front? Don't mess about Gary, hook anyone at half time you want. If it's that or relegation I'd much rather embarrass a player who I think is underperforming...

I defended Ayew before the game. Hold my hands up. I'll be glad never to see him in the shirt again.

Ayew makes sense considering how well the wingers played last game. You want someone who will drag their centre backs away from the box and give a newly energisrd Fatawu or Mavidid the space. Bring on Daka at 60 minutes when everyone's tired to get at them and keep the action in their half from that point on, hopefully while being a goal or two up.

Good to see Fatawu tucking in to midfield in the defensive phase. Leaves Ricardo to handle the wide spaces on the right rather than retreating back to the near post.

I wouldn't hate to see a midfield box of Winks Skipp James Mukasa. Skipp has played LB for us before, swaps out in the back line with Ricardo when playing out the right. The Maresca way with fresh talent.

Sure is

Mukasa looks tidy

All we need now is Vards back and we can reveal the secret to time travel is the January window

Play as little football as possible. Solid tactics Kingy

At least Matty Elliott has finally found love

Back to your regularly schedule programming

What I love about JJ is that he never looks gassed. He maybe runs more than any other player but you would never tell he's just done a half marathon. Stoic.

Daka on for Ayew at 60 minutes, get in behind

Skipp, Okoli, Mav standouts so far. Nelson covering well. There's something to like in this lineup. Just need to replace Ayew and LT.

We are using our weakness as a strength. When they ship forward to target Thomas, they give Mav the space to break, like he just did then. Smart tactic, presumably from Marti and the staff.

Feel JJ just took himself out of position to prove to Marti he needs to be up there attacking the ball centrally, not supporting out wide or playing a holding role...

Interesting to see we've gone back to Enzo's 3-box-3, at least at home. Gets plenty in the attack but leaves us with little at the back.

Never been MC out until now... You can't survive this...

They have our 6 yard box on their mantle piece

Absolute shower

Any chance BEK returns?

Good to see they finally figured out Fatawu can also run on to a forward ball rather than only take it to feet with his back to goal. Hope to see more of that next game, lofted balls for JJ to get on the end of.

We're not even a scalp at this point