Saint_clark

Passing it back to defence from the right corner flag area is criminal. What are we building from the back for if not those kinds of opportunities? Gabbiadini been poor so far too.

I do agree that Austin would suit our style of play much more than any of our other strikers, but i'm interested to see what Long and Gabbi can do together up top. A lot of good movement in that front line, and Tadic has shown in the past he's capable of picking the killer pass.

It's essentially two up top, it's very rare to see a Premier League team play an actual two up front anymore.

As we should, the two of them are more than capable of keeping control of midfield.

Long will be the focal point, winning headers and running the channels, with Gabbi making runs from deep into the space Long creates looking for the lay off or the pass from Tadic/Redmond.

Well at least he is trying something different, it's a step in the right direction. I hope this selection isn't just because Davis needs a rest from internationals and we'll go back to the usual line up even if we get a big win today...

Agreed. We've got good stats other than the one that matters. Everything that we've tried so far isn't working. We should try something different in attack. Maybe give Boufal a few games. Good idea, doddisalegend. Good idea.

Please god let this happen, just once can we have a manager that actually plays the best formation to suit the players.

Puel played him there and it coincided with Gabbiadini banging the goals in.

If his words were twisted, what did he actually say in the first place?

Good, it's a disgrace Premier League reserve teams are allowed in it. We shouldn't be trying to progress.

In a way it's a shame he didn't get himself fit and professional from the get go rather than when he joined us...his natural talent was clear for all to see. But then if he had, he'd probably have never come to us anyway...

Yep, much better idea is to stick with someone who hasn't done it all season blindly rather than actually giving an opportunity to somebody else - who by the way is younger and didn't play his entire career thus far in this country.

Pretty sure I know what you're referring to and he was at full stretch just to toe poke it on to another player, no way he'd have been able to get a shot away.

Don't think he's suited to our formation or style of play. Might work out better as one of the three behind a striker or in two up front (3 at the back please!), but he doesn't do enough team work to play on his own up front.

Looking at the positives - Boufal looked good when he came on. Fingers crossed he gets given a run of starts now, as it's only fair after Redmond and Tadic have been untouchable all season. ...That's about it. Oh, Forster seemed to be coming off his line for balls into the box a lot more.

Which of you ****s said crouch was gonna nick it at the end???????? So fortuitous there...but not sure why Cedric turned back in the first place.

MAYA!!! Boufal deserves a run of starts in place of either Redmond or Tadic.

It'll be Yoshida.

These commos are starting to annoy me with "Swaresh".

How the **** has the ref given the freekick their way

Lemina marking him.

Streams are dropping like flies now...

I forgot how f*cking whingy stoke fans are.

Totally agree, with the exception of changing Redmond and possibly giving Boufal a chance - or at the very least, sticking Tadic on the left and Redmond on the right. How have I never heard of this before? Doesn't look very legit...