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Yep, both attacking midfielders absolutely terrible so far. Not much on the bench to excite in those areas either.

Good break from Sulemana and Onuachu. And THAT is why you don't wait until Bednarek costs us games until you take him out the fucking lineup.

The lack of good service we provide Onuachu is actually laughable. He's consistently doing better than you'd think when the ball comes to him and yet we can't put a ball in the box anywhere near him. Can't see us holding out til HT at this rate.

This is why you can change a winning team if one of the individuals is shit.

Just doing absolutely nothing on the ball at the minute, can't keep this up for much longer. Playing like we're defending a goal lead again.

Sulemana been awful so far, needs to get into the game far more. Absolutely dictated things vs Wolves, albeit vs 10.

Horrible from Stu, no conviction on that whatsoever. Onuachu completely free too.

We've signed a 6'7 striker and given him one headed chance in 3 weeks.

AMN leaving 10 yards of space for the winger beside him multiple times a game isn't going to go too well with Gnonto.

Don't love it but can't argue too much with the logic. COYR

McCarthy, Bree, Aribo and Edozie starting for the B team tonight.

Looks almost identical to Pedro Neto who is about 8 years older! I'm sure this thread will be bumped in a negative sense in about 2 years time.

Few fixture changes. Bournemouth at home moved to a Tuesday night which is going to be a pain. An additional note about the Arsenal game as well - Friday 21 April 20:00 Arsenal v Southampton (Sky Sports)* *This will move to 23 April, 19:00, live on Sky Sports if Arsenal are involved in UEFA Europa League the Thursday before. This is also subject to Southampton's participation in FA Cup semi-finals

With all due respect, you spend most of your time arguing against consensus about Elyounoussi and Bednarek whilst literally admitting you weren't watching the game we were talking about. You're comfortably the least informed poster on here at the minute and are just responding half the time to spark an argument. Are you Norwegian or something? I'd prefer it if you didn't waste my time replying to me any more going forward because I don't think I've got any value out of anything you've posted this month.

The bloke literally replied to me you weapon, could you get any more boring?

Don't think you need a specify a ground for that one.

Not going to flood the entire thread arguing about the guy so I’ll leave it there. Fingers crossed he’s not in the team, or fingers crossed I get quoted calling me a twat at 4:30 if he is.

The position he plays in the 4-2-2-2 is quite literally an attacking midfielder.

I mean half of that is remarkably self explanatory. Fair enough. I think the disagreement is the importance of this game then, for me this is an absolute must win. We can’t continue to give all the teams around us points like we have.

I'm not quite sure what you're confused about there, @Saint Garrett. This is not the player who you need in a must win game against 19th place Leeds. How anybody thinks otherwise is simply beyond me at this point. We've scored 2 goals (3 including JWP's rebounded penalty) from open play in 9 league games since the WC, we need more creativity in the team in these types of games and he is quite clearly not that.

MLG definitely has a good footballing brain in his defence, he's just also a bit of a tit. I think people need to remember we're playing catch-up now for the rest of the season, we need to be a bit more aggressive and that should lean into starting players such as Edozie in these attacking roles rather than Elyounoussi or AMN(??). Certain games are more set-up for Elyounoussi's work rate off the ball and absolute lack of talent, the next two are not those.

Elyounoussi's role on Saturday was to be very defensively minded, something which we do not need in an absolute must win game against probably the worst team in the league right now. He'll have to be far more involved in the offensive side of things than he was vs Chelsea, and the few chances he had at that are definitive proof that he should be nowhere near this team.

Is that Garth Crooks? That settles it, he really is shit

It is an unusual approach but I would do it simply because it is Bednarek. Rather get in before he costs us another game.

Just not having it with him. Appreciate the part in the clean sheet yesterday but we all know what'll happen soon. Get him out the team whilst we can.