Sunderland at home Wednesday 3rd December at 815pm

[danperkins]

The lack of pace on the wings is tragic

[Kenneth]

If we're going to create space, we need the midfield in possession, looking for midfielders and attackers, turning from challenges etc, not CBs.

[Kenneth]

Good effort Dom.

Everyone in the stadium knew Gakpo was going to cut inside and shoot.

[danperkins]

Great strike

[Tatterdemalion]

Really bored of seeing Gakpo trying to come inside and shoot on his right. Occasionally he'll score a worldy from there, but it's just not a high probability play.

[BootRoom]

Salah and Gakpo must practise the cut-in-and-fire-it-at-a-defender-2-inches-away a thousand times in training, they've both got it down to perfection.

[Kenneth]

This is where they score isn't it? That's how the story goes.

[BobTheCharmer]

Gakpo has always been ****. Now he's even ****ter.

[Tatterdemalion]

I mean surely, as a player they must get a feel for the oppo anticipating that they will always cut inside. Doesn't personal pride even suggest trying something different once in a while?

[kingfunk]

Well at least we’re not losing, not quite back to crisis mode just yet.

[Tatterdemalion]

1st half : expected better
2nd half : expect better

[danperkins]

Well that was ****

[kingfunk]

Gakpo has always been ****. Now he's even ****ter.

His ****ness is underrated.

[Doc_Piptorious]

Clean sheet at half time. That's an improvement on recent weeks.

[Kenneth]

Okay, that was decent. It wasn't good, but it wasn't bad. They've kept Wirtz quiet, which is probably our biggest problem, the midfield can't get much padding going. We go direct from the defence a lot but it's never going to be productive and the fullbacks are being pegged further back then Vs west ham. One small point, but when the full backs were taking higher positions, it looked like macca was the one dropping into a back three with the CBs, and I reckon we'd be better off with grav taking on that duty.