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AND THAT'S A FOURTH FOR ROM!!!

WHAT A BEAUTIFUL GOAL!

Have a feeling it's more of a positional thing. He can play the role McCarthy was playing. But, I agree with the sentiment ?

How did we not just score? Great pass from Ross Davies on for McCarthy

Absolute shit defending. Great ball from Wilshire. But, come the fuck on.

Love seeing Barkley throw himself about like this

I'm appreciating Lookman's reading of the game right now, both with the ball and without. He's working hard, too

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! GET IN! Lukaku again! MOTM

I think Lookman is this good. Once he starts playing smarter (rather than trying to do the spectacular in his own half, for instance), he will be a hell of a player.

Hahahaha what a crazy fucking goal! Great play from Lukaku

GET IN! Lukaku!

I know! That's what made me laugh.

Saw this. Had a laugh. Had to share

I don't know what the actual formation would be, but there are a few on the bench I'd rather see starting.

I was surprised at the accuracy, myself. My big takeaway from watching him yesterday is that he is very solid and responsible defensively, but that he also likes taking risks. Some of those risks (like the errant pass across the back line late in the game) scared the shit out of me. I'm hoping that element of his play (the sloppiness, not the risk taking) was a product of exhaustion rather than something representative of his 'football brain.' The stats made me feel a fair bit better about that though.

The difficulty in January isn't only locating the best targets. I'm quite sure we've located players we would like to have here. The difficult part is finding the combination of a player we like and a club willing to sell mid-season. We didn't let our best performers go in the middle of the season. Why would we do that? Why would any club either pushing for a spot high in the table or in fear of relegation let their best players go right in the heat of things? Good January buys (from what I've seen) come from a handful of situations: The player is surplus to requirements or desperately wants away. The selling club isn't likely to suffer without the player. The selling club isn't in contention for big rewards or at the risk of big losses in their league. The selling club is skint and has needs at other positions. Or, the selling club is skint or of a lower division and is always willing to accept good money for a player while they have them. In other words, there are a multitude of factors (most of which are on the side of the potential selling club) that make January a difficult window to secure signings even if you have targets. Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you get nothing. And sometimes you pay way over the odds because you're in need. I'm happy that we had a conservative January in terms of spending, even though the squad has been left a bit thin. Hopefully, this means that we can worry more about securing signatures in the summer and less about offloading the contracts of surplus players.

Yeah, too many players got too cute at the wrong times tonight. At least we got out of jail each time. I like seeing them take chances, but passing across the back like that is suicidal.

The stupid pass or the foul that wasn't a foul?

Lookman just made Adam (I think) look like a fool

How did we not just score there?

I'm thinking Lennon for Davies wouldn't be a bad shout. We're looking best when we stretch them on the wings. Lennon's speed could be useful here (his end product... well, who knows?)

We just can't get going this half

McCarthy for Holgate. Makes sense, I suppose. Baines and Coleman were mostly pinned back.

I wouldn't be surprised to see Holgate come off for Lookman and for us to go to a back four.