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Sunderland have attacked teams so much better than we have, which is why they've scored seven goals while we've only scored 7. Just seen this. What you don’t say is that Sunderland have an xG of 7.3 (on fbRef) and we are on 4.9 The other thing is that 6 of our 7 goals have come from behind. So we d...

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The only time our relegation rivals have bettered our results against the same teams are Sunderland against Forest (win vs draw) and Villa (draw vs loss). You are comparing apples with oranges. For everyone's perspective:- Sunderland West ham (h) 3-0 W Burnley (a) 2-0 L Brentford (h) 2-1 W Palace (...

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What ClaretSpice says above from Carragher in that first paragraph is what I was posting since Saturday, Esteve did a noble job trying to defend that break single handedly and just fell short in terms of strength at the end. Tuanzebe did what he was told - be aggressive, step up, and rely on pace if...

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Parker has earned the right to manage this Club all season, regardless of the position we find ourselves in. We are not a sacking Club - you only need to look down the road to see where that gets you. He's done a brilliant job in difficult circumstances at the beginning, the majority of summer sign...

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To be fair to Loum he has hit the woodwork twice (most of any player in the PL per minute played) and had other dangerous shots narrowly missing too, so he has hardly been anonymous. A young lad signed for a big price who in my mind should be a bench player at this moment while he gets up to speed w...

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It seems this is due to Relevant Sports the US sports promoter winning a recent court case with FIFA, coupled with FIFA regulations not being strong enough, so UEFA felt they had to back down rather than have a ‘legal’ precedent set in court that would open floodgates. Unfortunately in my mind I wou...

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I don’t agree at all with dropping Ekdal and keeping Laurent in the back five, but Tuanzebe, though he was rusty, also has 50-100 Premier League games from memory with Man Utd, Villa and Ipswich and he has some pedigree, so I don’t really get the knee jerk reaction to him. (for that matter, Broja to...

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On the evidence I have seen this season he is more than capable and doesn’t appear much of his peak, just a bit. This lad O’Reilly as a midfielder who has been playing at left back to fill in. Seems odd to bring him in when we have a right back crisis. My instinct is Tuchel is going to be a flop. Le...

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I think it all depends. If Parker does well, makes sensible decisions, and we go down narrowly, then he should get a chance to get us back up. Conversely, if he has a stinker, refuses to adapt, and continues playing players out of position, or players who aren’t as talented as others, etc, and if re...

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Very odd coming across these quotes from Scott in my tea break. So it was a tactical choice to play somebody quicker, push higher up the field, and try to aggressively win the ball back? The trouble was it cost us the goal, Tuanzebe missed the tackle stepping up, Esteve was having to cover much of t...

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As a way of keeping this feature ‘bumped’ I’ll just say it was very disappointing he missed so much despite blowing so often, especially several incidents where a player boshed another in the face (for both teams) or a boot was trod on, and no foul was given. Then there was leaving Florentino off th...

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Our start last-season was frustrating, with Parker getting strongly criticised. In the end he was proved right to stick to his guns. In the Prem, similarly the start has been frustrating - only at this level every lapse in concentration has generally lead to conceding a goal. We got away with it by...

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Dubravka 8 - kept us in the game Walker 6 - energetic but wasted one great opportunity on their goal-line to control the ball and pick out a pass Esteve 5 - a couple of good moments but was exposed running down the outside of him several times, including both goals Tuanzebe 5 - looked rusty but with...

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We haven’t got good enough players to play in a five. A five requires wingbacks to provide the attacking threat, which means centre backs are always getting pulled left and right, and without the three in midfield means players like Tuanzebe are having to step up to tackle or press - which cost us, ...

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Frustrating match this. We've done ok, but you can't help feeling we didn't start the right XI. Some obviously like the 5 at the back, I really don't. Sacrificing Les on midfield for Laurent at the back is plain stupid. JBL should be nowhere near the squad. Broja ditto until he's scoring in the 21s...

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We look better in a four, I know they are sitting back but no surprise. Controls midfield more.

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NewClaret wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 05, 2025 3:31 pm
He’s about 4ft tall, doesn’t track back and weak as feck in the tackle. No way he was ever starting in the Prem.

I could name 20 Premier League players of that ilk, Buendia today being one.

It is fine as one of a front three. Same if Tresor was playing.

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I’m not going to panic about losing away to a team that nearly got top 4 and haven’t been weakened particularly. But I am increasingly befuddled by our overly defensive tactics and leaving out flair players, which simultaneously is leaving us with the worst defensive record in the league. It isn’t w...

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I’m reminding myself that we have played 6 teams out of 7 that got in, or nearly got in, this season’s Champions League.

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Yeah - but 0.85 against is hardly a shambles! Villa have some very good players. Like you say Foster arguably had the best chance of the game. The shambolic bit like the above poster said, and the other guy’s freeze-frame shows, is that we have defenders wandering off, Tuanzebe for the goal when Wa...

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On the plus side Florentino looks brilliant against the side he nearly joined a year ago. Top, top player and may yet make the difference this season.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Oct 05, 2025 2:49 pm
0.81 xG for Villa. Haha.

0.1 for Burnley. That’s the biggest problem.

(nonsense stat though because Foster was onside and VAR would have given the goal, yet it doesn’t count in the xG stats, nor does Watkins’ missed tap in from the early corner)

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The back three / four / five are all over the place, there are people wandering out of that defence like going for a walk in the country. It isn’t working and, frankly, it looks a shambles. We need a back four with two tight-ish fullbacks. That would allow for Lesley to come on, for Laurent. I’d swi...

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Kitchen as useless as ever. That was a clear foul on Anthony and a chance to throw a ball into their box.

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Darn it. Esteve weak for me, should have muscled him away.

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Getting disturbed by these obvious cheating attempts to get the useless Kitchen to send Foster off. Konsa tried it then and got hurt in the process.

As for Lyle, not the best start by his recent standards.

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Just reading the October newsletter. The VAR meeting caught my eye. 200 frames per second and 3 frames often viewed. Usain Bolt could run 6.2 cm in 1/200 of a second, so if VAR is looking at 3 frames that is a margin of error that is visual. Amazing given those technology limitations that it is not ...

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Agree with the OP. We had only 3 primarily attack minded players throughout that game, Forest had 4. Then we took one off on 81 to finish the game with only 2 (Anthony and Foster, who was replaced by Flemming on 88). Forest had the highest possession since they returned to the PL in 2022. So to me i...

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Calling the episode...the season starts now....is the problem for me What about the 4pts already won What about performances against United and Liverpool, the season has already started, and we've done ok...yet you focus on the game against Leeds being a must win....what if we've won at villa? Is a...

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Bournemouth 2-0 Fulham
Leeds 1-3 Tottenham
Man Utd 2-1 Sunderland
Arsenal 3-0 West Ham
Chelsea 1-1 Liverpool NAP
Everton 1-1 Crystal Palace
Newcastle 2-0 Nottingham Forest
Wolves 0-1 Brighton
Aston Villa 2-1 Burnley - Anthony 48 mins
Brentford 2-2 Man City
26 goals

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Aston Villa 2 Clarets 1 - Anthony 37 mins

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Just seen this and having heard the latest version there are some quite harsh comments. Yes, I chuckled too when Daz described himself as an optimist, he should have been prosecuted under the Trade Descriptions Act for that :lol: . He is dour but also has some good insights and as far as I can recal...

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I really like that chart, never seen it before and it is certainly dramatic (though representing something we all know). I do think it shouldn’t end in 2010 if used nowadays, even though it won’t change the substance of it.

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Decent article here that gives a bit more detail into Beyer's woes over the last couple of years. It's in German, but you can translate it easily enough in the browser https://www.sport1.de/news/internationaler-fussball/premier-league/2025/09/die-unglaubliche-leidensgeschichte-eines-fruheren-bundes...

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Happy with a point here, Everton unlikely to go down under Moyes but we need to keep them in range just in case.

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Amazing today. The US came back more than I thought, but we had some gutsy street-fighters to see it out. So pleased we got that final half point to take the injury out of the conversation. I suspect the abuse was far worse than we picked up on TV and some players, not least Rory, were on gas and ai...

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Sky noticeably are not showing many adverts. A few, but brief. Just got to stomach the annoying Andrex poo advert 10 times, plus the Gillette and Rolex ones. As soon as proper 401 UHD starts at 7pm instead of the red button I’ll watch delayed and fast forward ads.

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Already 0.5 points today for Europe courtesy of Hovland getting it in the neck, so to speak.

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Only just noticed in the stats that CoolClaret linked above that Scheffler has been in the top 6 players for strokes gained in the last 3 sessions. Interesting. That stat measure, which is good because it has an average for the field of zero so ignores the easiness of the course, does have one iffy ...

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Yesterday was probably my favourite day of golf TV viewing in decades, with rivals being Rory’s Masters win and Seve’s wins. The atmosphere was disgusting and classless but it added to the sweetness of the (imminent) victory. To jeer Rory about his rumoured marital issues while his wife was within t...

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Pretty terrible day for us but need to focus on target points not how rivals do. Control the controllables. Ignore the rest.
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Fantastic so far and I finished my round today then put the Ryder Cup on when home and only had Man City on audio in the background, right decision. That fan told to **** by Rory then Rory sticks it to 3 foot behind the bunker :lol: The US team picked the wrong captain, the sympathy vote after what ...

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Harsh scoreline but we brought on 2 late defensive subs then shipped 2 more goals.

That should be a lesson for us. It needed more attackers at the end to gamble at 1-3.

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This is now the situation where we need Tresor on the bench for that explosive unpredictability when risks are needed.

I can see the rest grabbing 1 goal, not more. Edwards to a lesser degree than Tresor, proper pedigree so he should get a run at them too, even if he isn’t the best defensively.

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If Jones had done his job correctly with Haaland’s handball it would be 1-0 now (assuming we had bothered to attack at 0-0), Walker wouldn’t be on a booking and a City player would be on a yellow for waving that imaginary card. Couple of other mistakes I’ve spotted too.

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Gotta be fair, Anthony has his knockers but he gets 110% out of his ability (which is decent, just not top, top class) and is the first name on the attacking team-sheet and richly deserved.

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Rampant bias by Rob Jones as usual, waved Walker on then changed his mind when he won a dangerous ball

Let’s not forget it would be 0-0 if he had done his job properly and spotted Haaland’s handball.

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Afternoon all. For all those wondering what role Magic Mike could play here, I would pose the question “what if we go 1 or 2 down”? We need game changers. Parker has a lot of strengths but his side is often like a join the dots kids exercise - there is only one way it tends to go and we could all na...

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Very little Yankee chanting, we have really silenced the crowd. Of course they always come back in the afternoon in fourballs.

Disagree with this preferred lie rule but it benefits Europe as we find the fairways more often - otherwise why would the US team cut down the rough?

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Brentford v Man Utd 1-2
Leeds v Bournemouth 1-1
Chelsea v Brighton 2-0
Man City v Burnley 2-0 Haaland 37
Crystal Palace v Liverpool 0-2
Forest v Sunderland 2-1
Spurs v Wolves 3-0
Aston Villa v Fulham 1-0
Newcastle v Arsenal 1-2 NAP
Everton v West Ham 1-0

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