MOTD

[No Ney Never]

To be fair, that was a decent focus on how well we played..........makes a change!

[Wile E Coyote]

agreed, no ex gunners on mumbling or shoulder shrugging when asked to comment, breath of fresh air tonight.

[Vino blanco]

I'm not used to hearing words like excellent and fabulous being used about us on the tele.

[RingoMcCartney]

First time in many, many moons that we've had a fair crack of the whip.

See you all in 3 years time the next time we do.

[Bosscat]

She-Rah and Jug-ears were very complimentary but.... How could they not be, it was one of our best team performances in ages

[BOYSIE31]

Their report matched my ratings

[Wile E Coyote]

I dont like chelsea, I think when we were newly promoted and played them their attacking style was a thing of beauty. this lot look ordinary by comparison.

[tiger76]

If we play well, as we did today we'll rightly get praised, but we can't expect the pundits to give us credit when we are poor.

I generally find Shearer is pretty fair when he's discussing us despite his Blackburn links, and he gets why we play the way we do.

Having not seen the full game, what caught my ears was the lavish praise both Brownhill & Westwood received, and it must have been a long time since we dominated the midfield in such a fashion, and that even includes many of our Championship games.

[houseboy]

Excellent report on us from MOTD but then to be fair the ex bar steward does usually sing our praises. I think Shearer is a genuine football man and but for his obvious link I think he is excellent and better than most pundits.

[Chester Perry]

Shearer on McNeil

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/56390248

[Tribesmen]

Just watching MOTD again , hey as you do

[Foulthrow]

How come are XG came up at 0.79 (or whatever it was) when we could have comfortably scored 3 or 4?

[djemba-djemba]

They are generally pretty fair.

Most weeks there’s not much to praise.

[duncandisorderly]

How come are XG came up at 0.79 (or whatever it was) when we could have comfortably scored 3 or 4?

I've only seen the 3 minute highlights, but all the Burnley chances on there would have gone down as difficult chances. They'd all have been excellent goals, but there wasn't an instance where you'd expect us to score but didn't.

JBG hitting the post, Mee hitting the bar, Woods goal and McNeils goal would all have had a very low Xg. The fact two of them went in doesn't change that.

[Ric_C]

Good coverage last night, however when showing the analysis, it would have been nice to include some of that in the overall game highlights. Shearer is always complimentary about us (I think he secretly likes us lol).

Conversely, I couldn't believe how much of the Leeds v Chelsea 0-0 they showed, bit strange that.

Hopefully this is a starting point to playing more football on the deck, as the players look a lot more comfortable as a unit when we do this.

I fully agree with Shearer that Dwight should score more goals, he needs to back himself more.

[wilks_bfc]

I've only seen the 3 minute highlights, but all the Burnley chances on there would have gone down as difficult chances. They'd all have been excellent goals, but there wasn't an instance where you'd expect us to score but didn't.

JBG hitting the post, Mee hitting the bar, Woods goal and McNeils goal would all have had a very low Xg. The fact two of them went in doesn't change that.

Got to admit I’ve not taken much notice of Xg before but I thought it was based on the stats of previous games not the game being played

[expoultryboy]

Unfortunately I'm beginning to like Shearer . I feel very ashamed of this , and need to apologise to all at Utc ! I couldn't understand why 2 of our penalty appeals weren't shown or the other one not even discussed .

[Rileybobs]

I've only seen the 3 minute highlights, but all the Burnley chances on there would have gone down as difficult chances. They'd all have been excellent goals, but there wasn't an instance where you'd expect us to score but didn't.

JBG hitting the post, Mee hitting the bar, Woods goal and McNeils goal would all have had a very low Xg. The fact two of them went in doesn't change that.

Spoke about this on another thread but I’d have had Vydra’s chance down as a 50/50.

[Belial]

I'm with the others above... how was our XG only 0.75 (Mee, Vydra, Wood's attempts surely decent) and Everton's 1.70... aside from the DCL missed header I can't think of any other 'clearer' chances than ours