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That looked really nasty. I realise that it wasn't intentional from Dawson, but even so he still should have got at least a yellow card for it. He took a wild swing for the ball when he knew there was another player's head very close by. It was reckless and could have caused a very serious injury. I'm astounded that VAR didn't take a look at it, because the ref on the field obviously missed it completely.

Obafemi on for Long?

Macca has kept us in it there. This has been an awful performance overall. We've gone off the boil so badly in recent games.

Can't seem to even get out of our own half at the moment.

What on earth was Djenepo thinking there. Never, ever going to make that tackle.

Antonio coming on soon. Bad omens.

At least he's trying to make stuff happen. Now Long on for Adams. Not sure that's going to improve things for us TBH.

Since Covid an' all that. Wonder how much he's getting paid for this?

The ball down the line to Theo from KWP then was the kind of thing that Bertrand needs to be doing for Djenepo on the other side.

It's not Djenepo that's the problem. It's the fact that his FB distrusts him so much that he won't pass the ball to him.

You can copy and paste it into your post. I'm with you. It looked much closer when you look at the FB on the far side, and there was no forensic VAR examination of it.

Too close.

Best move so far. But would have been offside anyway.

It would help if Bertie actually passed the ball to him. He's got so little faith in him he will pass it to anyone else but him. It's completely nullifying the threat down our left side.

I don't understand the ref's thinking there. Dawson took a wild swing at the ball when he knew Adams' head was nearby. Def should have got at least a yellow card for it.

Two strikers plus Armstrong who is very much an attacking player. No Redmond in the squad - is he injured again?

Yeah it was always going to be a big ask for him o come in today and shine, in his first PL start, on Boxing Day, against a resolute team playing primarily to avoid defeat. In the circumstances I think he did really well, coming in to replace one of our most effective players so far this season.

We've won 2 of our last 7 games. One of those was because of a very lucky late penalty decision in a game we didn't deserve to win, and the other was against the team bottom of the league with 1 point from 11 games. No team that is forced to start Shane Long when they have one striker injured is going to challenge for the PL title.

What is the fooking point of waiting until the 91st minute to make a sub?

Oh FFS!

THEEEEEEEOOOOOOOO!

How was that not a foul on KWP?

The one and only time in the match Long shows a smidge of quality, and of course he is offside.

So according to this ref, putting two hands on someone and pulling them off their feet isn't a foul.

The spin on the ball took the bounce away from him. No way he could have judged that.