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Until Faes gets bombed out I can never be truly happy with a starting lineup, but looks good enough to beat pompey - need the performance to follow though.

Neither of these teams are very good are they. that third goal looked offside to me.

Anyone know where I can watch the game in full?

Those boos are deserved. Shameful.

Not enough desire. Bunch of pricks

Manager hasn’t helped with the subs, but the players need to take some responsibility. Skipp unbelievably poor.

You bunch of dickheads

Man we have some honking players

Thomas needs hooking at the half. VK ain’t very good, but Thomas on a yellow and their winger regularly getting the better of him.

Ricky must be struggling physically . keeps getting hooked and clearly bot able to start 2/3 games in a week. Let’s hope we don’t need him! Otherwise, good lineup.

People are in a funny head space this season, judging by some of these comments. I don’t think I’m any exception to that. I was actually in a bit of a mard at full time yesterday despite the late equaliser which got an angry rather than elated celebration out of me. I felt against such mediocre opposition and with such domination of the ball, we should have got a lot more out of the game. But we did play relatively well. It was certainly our most coherent and consistent performance of the season despite the sloppy goal conceded against the run of play. Soumare was decent enough last night. Progressed the ball well and didn’t let the game pass him by. I don’t think he’s the answer but on that single game basis, the criticism levelled at him is not warranted. Similar story with Ayew too, really. The day after the night before, I’ve softened a bit, but still have some criticisms. We’ve no central attacking threat. That is largely on recruitment, but Marti needs to stop persisting with players who are not offensively minded in offensive positions. JJ isn’t a 10 - not creative enough. He looks like a tidy player but needs to be playing deeper next to winks, who looked imperious last night. Ayew needs to come out. He’s got a role to play for us, but leading the line ain’t it, and I’m not convinced playing behind the striker is either. Holding the ball up and winning fouls when we are protecting the lead late in a game is what we should be asking him to do. We have to give Daka a whirl, or get Carranza up to speed sharpish - anything to stretch the play and get someone in behind so we aren’t relying on some magic from our wingers - such an obvious ploy that they are getting double and even triple marked. I absolutely hate Wout Faes. Hate him. Never hated a city player more in my life. He’s not a good defender and there is zero justification for keeping this wantaway clown in the team over a prized asset like Nelson. I like the grit we have shown, and with a couple of personnel changes I feel we can really start to click.

Well that’s been our best first half this season and we don’t deserve to be behind, but we just look so blunt. Having no threat down the middle means we rely so much on the wingers doing something, but they are being doubled and even tripled up on. James is a tidy player, but not a 10. Ayew playing ok but not even our furthest forward player half the time. Bouba having one of his rare good games, but he needs to come off so we can drop James and Ayew back a position each and get some attacking threat through the middle. Horrible defending by Faes for the goal - why we are playing this want away clown over Nelson or even Okoli is beyond me. We are still well on top so I have belief we can take something from the game. West Brom not up to much.

Faes is dirt

Defensively we are better, but it seems to have come with a big cost in attack.

Patson a parody of himself. Literally cannot stay on his feet.

44 ****in 2

Both our CBs overplaying now. Lethargy in front of them.

Hamza having a rotten introduction. Needs to shape up, sharp.

****s sake, can we take just one good corner please

Winks been excellent today. Ayew is spent. Maybe JJ not fully fit, but wrong sub for me.

Come on Leicester!

Mav you div

Well done fats. Full back in trouble now

Mav and bouba need hooking before they cost us

Slowly growing into the game.