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Fair point, I take it back. I’d like a front two of Colak and Sakala. Colak for the goals and a decent aerial presence and Sakala for pace. We can’t stretch the game with Morelos up there, he is so slow. Colak and Sakala could compliment each other well and we would be much quicker counter attacking.

For me, it’s just not good enough though. Scoring goals is his main job and he is wasteful more often than not. There was one other notable occasion where his lack of any pace whatsoever meant a very good chance with him through on goal ended with a fluffed shot because a defender had caught up with him. If Sakala had been in that position he’d have got right in on goal. There were other instances too where he was sluggish. He did have good moments but it isn’t enough.

I’ve criticised him for two specific incidents and he deserved it.

You are very overly defensive of him. I haven’t criticised him before, but that goal was on him, he was on the man and then completely lost him.

Classic Kent ruining a great breakaway there. Why is he still on the pitch?

Pathetic from Lundstram there.

We should bring Colak on. Morelos has done ok at times with some decent passes, but when opportunities come along he is just so slow and the chance goes.

Only explanation for that is that he is unhappy with the manager surely.

Irrelevant, you can’t defend that when he knew a yellow ruled him out of the next game.

What an incredible moment of stupidity from Lundstram. Did he just not fancy the Ajax game? Outrageous from a so called leader.

I’ve been impressed with Yilmaz too. Much better defensively than Barisic, and more positive in his play too.

I actually think he’s been ok. He’s playing as the furthest forward midfielder so will be involved a bit less.

That was a great example of why Kent is not a goalscorer. He should be anticipating that pass from Morelos but he never does, he’s hiding behind their full back as usual. Abada would busting a gut to get into the penalty box area there. Kent just doesn’t see it as his job.

Morelos just doesn’t have any pace at all

Yilmaz was being far too positive for Sands there 🙄

I’m looking forward to seeing how Yilmaz does. To be honest it’s more out of curiosity, we could learn more about how good he is at defending in one game than in a few months domestically. Midfield, I don’t know anymore. Looking forward to seeing Sands. I think we are weaker than we were with the Jack and Kamara of 2019 though. That’s not a good place to be. The front three, I’m not a fan of any of them so my expectations are low tbh. Very low. Wright will at least have a bit of hunger and energy surely as he is being given an opportunity, but he lacks much quality. All in all I’ve rarely had less optimism going into a game.

I think Kent has lost a yard of pace since joining. You never see him flying past people anymore, and most full backs in this league are slow. Matondo’s pace is on another level but he isn’t being utilised well at all.

Barisic’s one on one defending has been brutal in the Champions League, and Napoli have good dribblers of the ball. The higher standard has really exposed his weakness in that area, and I generally defend him too. I’d really like to see Yilmaz at this level to see what his one on one defending is like.

I’m relieved we finally have it, long overdue and we have already seen why.

Are you sure that isn’t a leaked starting 11 for the Aberdeen game on Saturday?

Still time if we change the manager.

It genuinely looked like both teams were time wasting until about the 80th minute.

We create nothing in the deck. It’s all about lofting it into the box.

Antiques roadshow is pretty tempting right now tbh

The only tactic I see is the Barisic overlap, and they’re reading that one every time now.