Illy up top would have caused them more problems in 20 minutes than Barry has done in 20 games. We had Alcaraz on the bench, Rohl on the bench, Tim on the bench. Could have added more energy, more craft, try and pass our way around them. He could...
Its not about the big decisions, its all about the ones that seem inconsequential. Pickford getting booked for raising an issue with the referee, Liverpool not for delaying a restart. Giving an offside for a player that hasn't touched, or...
I think what everyone has to remember is that he was the only striker we could have got in the summer, the £60m+ we spend on him and Dibling couldn’t have been better used as <checks notes> no other striker would have come to us.
Its mad though as it was so obvious the subs/set up was wrong within 10 minutes of Barry coming on. It needed Moyes to be pro active, it wasn't difficult to see. To do nothing just basically handed them the win. It doesnt matter that it came in...
Criminal to have a 3rd choice keeper on, making his debut with our tails up and all we mustered was a illy shot straight at him.
Reminded me of the fa Cup game against their kids, powder puff stuff and you knew the sucker punch was coming.
….i certainly didn’t, i said to Mrs Eggs I thought they’re more likely to score. I think we became detatched after the subs, the reality is we didn’t test the substitute keeper.
Our substitutions certainly didn’t help our cause.
He played pretty well for a week or two but he just carries no goal threat. He needs to go back to being a bench option so we can try something different in attack.
Surely we've realised by now that you can't expect to be successful if we play...