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All the central midfielders were on it today. I think Winks's levels have tailed off a bit over the last couple of months but he was a class apart today.

Nelson is super smooth on the ball. Glides with it.

It would have been when McAteer played on with a Stoke player down injured

Yep, we were rubbish after the 2nd goal. Very very lax in possession.

Everton fans are absolute cringe

Am looking forward to the mental gymnastics of Everton fans if Forest get a deduction that relegates then whilst Everton finish 17th.

Hull have signed Abdulkadir Omur. We were heavily linked with him in previous seasons.

I'm not sure Doyle is overweight necessarily but he has absolute tree trunk legs. So that helps him to ping the diagonals, but contributes to him struggling defensively in one one one situations. He is sluggish whilst backpedaling and moving laterally as he just can't sort his legs out quickly enough. That was happening even before his injury where he was getting beaten frequently, especially on his inside, by average championship wingers.

Main take aways for me here are that Justin starts over Doyle for the foreseeable, there is a bigger role for Albrighton to play than he has been getting previously, and Nelson looks like he is good enough.

He was excellent last 30 mins tbf.

Been a good 2nd half from Yunus, pleased he's on the score sheet. He is clearly a talented player, just missing the physical gifts which would make him more of a success.

Only Stolarczyk, Cover and perhaps Nelson can come out with any credit there. Everyone else been atrocious. The midfield is being walked through, and then Doyle and Coady are getting rinsed repeatedly by the movement of their front line. They're both a step too slow. Appreciate it's a makeshift side, but for a system manager, you want to see evidence your second string can plug into it. There is none.

Doyle and Coady miles off the pace defensively

We will get mullered if we go up without major surgery. As soon as Ipswich, who were crap most of the game, upped the press we lost our composure completely. I'll give Enzo a pass on the inertia in making subs today, Albrighton for McAteer I'd have done earlier but aside from that I don't think we had the quality to impact the game off the bench.

Ipswich won't be as bad as that second half.

Southampton 1-0

It's borderline really. It was definitely reckless in terms of force but it was one footed and his foot was low. Ridiculous from Fatawu to go in like that anyway.

He has had a very good season at Luton, been really impressive. Not sure he will fancy the bench of a newly promoted side, assuming we make it.

Same, would have been a great story if Littler won, and he was an absolute credit there with how he reacted to the defeat, but I was pleased Humphries got this one. Understated personality aside, It's not as if he's a boring player either, lovely quick and smooth throw.

I don't think it needs to be JJ or Doyle. Doyle could also rotate with / put Faes under pressure with Ricardo inverting from the left hand side instead. You'd lose a bit of the front foot defending, but gain another distributor at the back with JJ being the quick covering defender.

He was fine 2nd half, nothing outstanding but was pretty pleased with his contribution

Couldn't get off the bench in a shocking Arsenal performance today. Would absolutely take him here, but there'll be a few established top division sides here and abroad who'd be a bigger draw and pay decent fee for him though.

Ipswich offered very little in the 15 mins I saw there.

What a goal that is Excellent work rate again from Fatawu

Going under the radar a bit but Winks's level has dropped quite a bit over the last month or so.