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Yeah I don't think he got it right today. Having seen both Hoj and Lemina play well in the last two games, he reverts to a CDM pairing that we know doesn't work very well with Davis. It's taken him almost half a season to work out that Redmond and Tadic are more effective when you play them on their preferred sides. This constantly rotating Hoedt and Yoshi is just insane. It's obvious that Yoshida is the better player so why keep leaving him out? Hoedt cost us badly today. Realistically, we should have beaten Bournemouth today. But due to setting up all wrong from the start we gave them the whole first half and were lucky to be only 1-0 down at the break. Two decent performances in the last week, and the manager learns nothing from them. Poor stuff really.

Had chances to win it in the second half, but then we were lucky to be only 1-0 down at HT, so I guess a draw is a fair result in the end.

Probably because there was a sub during stoppage time.

I'm really not sure what he was attempting there. Should have leathered it.

Once again, Forster palms a save straight at an opposition player. Just pure luck that he got away with it this time.

Amazing that it has taken Pellegrino almost half the season to work that out isn't it.

Looking so much better now. Really got them on the ropes. Have to find the knockout punch though.

Great chance to take the lead there. Bertie should have just knocked it to Austin for a tap-in.

Great goal from Austin. The only player in our whole squad capable of that kind of positional sense and finishing. Props to Redmond for the assist as well.

Finally a sustained bit of pressure on their defence. It's taken an hour of play for us to manage, mind.

He's still the man most likely to make something happen for us.

Not looking great, and it seems that Pellegrino has learned nothing from the last two performances. We're dithering too much and not really causing Bournemouth any problems. Tadic his usual useless self. Boufal is at least trying to make things happen but perhaps needs to calm down a bit. Austin not had any service and won't create anything himself, so I would maybe swap him for Gabbi at HT. Need to make some changes, that's for sure. We'll get nothing if we stick with the same setup as in the first half.

Been coming

Hahaha! Could have been given because Boufal obviously didn't play the ball, but the dive was soooo obvious.

Anybody found any half decent free streams?

Looks like the chickens are finally coming home to roost on planet Donald then. Flynn accepting a plea bargain and agreeing to testify against Trump and his family by all accounts. This would be great TV drama if it wasn't so horrifyingly real.

Straight out of the Arsene Wenger school of fence-sitting that is.

You must have been watching a different game from me then. What I saw was a hesitant player who consistently gave away possession when trying to make simple forward passes and put our defence under pressure on numerous occasions with some awful backward passes. The only contribution I remember him making in an attacking sense was his involvement in the move that led to Lemina bursting into the box, but even that only came about because Redmond's attempted through-ball got a lucky ricochet off a defender. And don't get me started on how he criminally ducked out of the way of the FK that led to their first goal. He was supposed to be the one-man wall and he made no attempt to even jump, let alone get his head to the ball. That's unforgivable IMO. None of these things have anything to do with how he was instructed to play.

So Redmond's excuse for being so utter sh!te on Wednesday is that he was instructed to play that badly by his manager? Utter, utter b*llocks.

I was showing this to a work colleague on YouTube the other day. We concluded that poor Oscar couldn't make up his mind to go for the ball with his left foot, his right foot or his head, and he ended up trying to play it with all three simultaneously.

£50bn (at least) to get us out of the biggest free trading block in the world, just so that we can go on to try and negotiate a deal that will allow us to retain as much access to that market as we can get, but on vastly inferior terms. And all so that we can regain the sovereignty we never actually lost, give an imaginary £350m a week to the NHS, and not have to put up with listening to people speaking Polish on public transport. Wonderful

Of the midfield central 3, Lemina was usually the furthest forward with PEH and Romeu sitting deeper. Hoj had a pretty decent game IMO, and between him and OR they broke up a lot of City attacks.

Yes, I see that now. Although I'm not convinced that's the right setup in a game that we should realistically expect to be winning. And I'm not convinced about JWP's suitability for the RWB role. He's not really quick enough to get up and down the line that much, and would leave Yoshida quite exposed as the RCB.

It was the same on MOTD2 on sunday night. Apart from a brief mention for Charlie Austin's ability to find space in the box, all the discussion was about how bad Everton were. Although, perhaps that was inevitable given the fact that both the studio pundits were ex-Everton players.

Please not Yoshida at RB. He was an absolute disaster when Koeman played him there. I've not seen enough of Pied to make a sound judgement but he surely has to be a better option.