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On a similar note to us hitting the long ball up to their defenders, why, if Newcastle are so good at defending corners, do we allow them to get set before taking one? Surely the sensible thing would be to take it quick before they get into position. We are also brutal in throw ins, surprised we don't get punished for time wasting , we seem unable to take them quickly and when we do get around to it, it's either to their player or we recycle it back to the goalie ( as seen several times against PSG). We need to be quicker and smarter atound these.

Several teams now have man marked us and we haven't coped, Newcastle twice , Everton away and PSG. We need to find a way to deal with that, we need to find an alternative to hoofing it long to a weak number 9 who can't run and we need to perhaps think on the pitch. I understand we may have a set up where some people are zonal and some are free but FFS once you see Mccallaister lining up against Dolf Lungren you know it ain't ending well.

Imagine Jota or Nunez getting picked in front of you!

A few things that seemed obvious today 1) the ref was letting them do as they wanted and we followed suit, either man up or call the ref out every time 2) everyone on here knew Bird was going to win the ball over Mccallaister, why didn't the players or coach 3) we started the game very passive again and insisted on messing around at the back 4)we have been over run in midfield a few games now ,and none of the forwards seem capable of playing through the middle- play another midfielder A Spidey team out fought us, played the red better than us and even when we had the ball we continued try to cross the ball when they had a giant in defence. Dumb Glad we don't have a game for a few weeks but we need to play Chiesa or a midfielder up front as Jota and Nunez aren't at it.

Not happy we decided to play from the 82nd minute then stop again once we scored. Not good enough from start to finish. Love in and k Sainsbury's need to be learnt. Everton did the same to us, out muscled, outfought whatever you want to use, they both did it and we look way too slow and passive all over

I'm no expert it putting your smallest player against their biggest isn't a great idea. Why we can't play football anymore is a different issue all together

Play Jones as the other midfielder and two out wide, Salah and A body

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Last week's game was the most non fussed I've been in ages, no idea why, maybe it's being happy with the league position and not being greedy enough ( I mean me, not a reflection on others). We lost a game of football on penalties to a very good team. Next year with the revamp and a kinder draw we will do better

Not long awake and I'm over the defeat. We got a tough draw, played poorly in Paris, a lot better last night, but over the two games we made an incredible amount of bad decisions. I don't think we can blame individuals, we just came up against a better and fast team. Once it goes to penalties it's easier to take a loss I think. The one thing that really annoyed me last night, our press was brilliant, forced their keeper to hoof it out and then we passed it back to our goalie from their half, several times !What was the point of the press ,to win the ball to do that? Anyhow, it's done, we're out. Hopefully the players are angry and use it towards Sunday and wrapping the league up. Until next year with a completely different set up when we go again

Phew, overall they edged it. It really could have been 3-3 , like last week could have been. I'm glad we came out second half and played well, no shame there, they're a good team.

Jones X3 maybe 4 wake the f*** up Otherwise we are good