The Kraken

No need for that.

Alright, who voted for Theo Ffs?!

I still think it’s worth exploring Diallo in a midfield 3, with JWP and Lavia. It’s far from ideal, but in the rare cases when Diallo has looked it’s ok it’s been when he’s been further up the pitch and looking to break the lines. In a 2 man midfield he’s mostly hopeless, but I still cling to the hope that in a 3 (and the more advanced of the 3) he might be ok. Perhaps it’s clutching at straws but I think it would also make our central midfield a bit more solid. Also might give a bit more licence to have Edozie involved from the start, and then I’d go S Armstrong on the right and Adams up top. At least until the January window when, let’s face it, any new people in are going to be challenging for a first team spot straight away.

Pretty shocking first half, much better second half.

I’ve also been back row in the Anfield Road end before, it’s a disgrace they get away with it.

Hope that’s just precautionary for Lavia. He’s been a rare bright spot.

Piss off Allison! Good save.

Lyanco on for ABK.

AMN looks to be a much better RB than he is a CM.

Nice from Edozie but got to take these chances.

Haven’t showed much of him but quite a bit. Straight after the first goal he was passing on instructions to Elmo.

Theo supposedly coming on, and we know what that means.

He did well to hit the ball, let alone the target.

That whole move summed him up. Off side anyway, tried to control it with his right but missed it, made the ball but a powder puff of a shot.

Aside from that we’ve been fine! It really was a good first 15 minutes followed by an absolute lesson for the next 30. As someone else said, I hope this is Selles’ choice of lineup because it’s just not going to work. If we come out for the second half with that line up this could get ugly quite quickly. Hopefully the World Cup players will go easy on us….

We are completely overrun in midfield. Our midfield is basically a bunch of players who are all running towards their own goal in an effort to get back behind the play.

Perraud could’ve stopped that attack before it started, he completely fluffed it though. Fair play, Saints are giving it a go. But the gulf in class is massive.

Get in!! Terrific delivery.

Crap goalkeeping tbf.

Usually find that when the OS lists the team, the order is accurate to what the formation will be. It could be a 3 at the back, but I reckon more like it is actually DCC at RB and a version of 4-2-2-2. So, not ideal. I was hoping he’d make central midfield more competitive by going with 3 CMs in there but I think we can view this as a Selles team.

I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth.

How many more ‘look at me’ posts does SOG need Ffs? Such a boring, whining troll.

Knock yourselves out.

I seem to recall the original loan had interest of something huge like 9% pa, so not really a surprise you’d want to get lower than that!