DJ Barry Hammond

When do the squads actually travel and join up? I know Nigeria’s first game is the 14th January, but wouldn’t they be there at least a week beforehand… which would cast doubt on related players for the Millwall game?

Does it need to be pointed out that what a manager says in front of the cameras doesn’t necessarily match what is said behind closed doors? It’s perhaps also worth mentioning that it’s in a manager’s interest to promote a positive atmosphere within a squad.

They may have had 19 shots, but they didn’t trouble our keeper much - just the 3 on target. In terms of serious chances, I recall the free header from the corner… and the guy falling over in front of Ricardo. There wasn’t much else, but equally we didn’t create much second half either, bar the penalty shout. If we take the positives - that’s a point away from home against 2nd and despite being well clear past the halfway stage, we’ve got areas that can still be improved on going forward.

Will be really interesting to see who starts.

Bugger - that’s the cheating centre half too isn’t it!

Harsh on Casadri, he’s offered something for me.

Utd / Villa game not bad either tonight! (Now 2-2)

Ah - we can’t make anymore subs now can we because that’s 3 stoppages. Enzo knows he can make two or more at the same time right!

Yeah, that’s a penalty - for shoulder to shoulder you have to be close enough to the ball to play it.

They’ve not shown a replay yet have they?

The lad needs game time given he’s going to be needed in the weeks coming up.

Barton would hate that!

I imagine we will sign a striker in the summer… it’ll be interesting to see the type of striker Enzo actually wants in this setup.

Tactical foul like that is always a yellow - necessary booking

Good foul be N’didi

That is such a quality move from us there… shame about the finish.

What I really like about us… we’ve clearly been coached, you can see what Enzo has been doing in terms of shape, play and movements. It’s such a far cry from Rodgers.

Full back made a poor choice to tuck into Daka in the middle. That is a common tactic, yet, I wouldn’t say that was necessary for Daka especially as the centre half was close and he had no immediate wing support to drop in. The poor choice is then made even worse by how close the full back got to Daka - and by concequence how far away he was from Mav.

In other news, Ten Hag isn’t seeing out the year as Utd manager!

But it wasn’t - fair play to the ref there too, he had to nudge N’didi out of the way to keep his eyes on it.

It looks bad, but Mav has had an age to pick a spot and the defenders lose doesn’t help. The biggest thing for me is that is was so telegraphed that the keeper should have had a better spring on it - the dive was a little flat, never got upwards.

Brilliant! For all of Ipswich’s focused setup, to give Mav that much space on the edge of the box is criminal.

Yeah, we’d do well to stay humble. I really dislike what modern fan bases have become.

Shame that for Hirst.

It was because Daka disguised the pass. The pass to N’didi was difficult to thread, but he should have gone for it.