Fulham (no, seriously, this time I'm sure it really is Fulham) Sat 14th Sept 3pm not on TV

Yeoldhammer

Love to know what Lopetegui's thoughts were when he decided on this 11.

buffybegood

Predictably Antonio has been awful; you didn't need to be Mystic Meg to get that right.

Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes

It would be nice if we weren't completely second best at some point this season

jay_in_cpt

Fortunate to only be 1 down IMO, It's really been VERY VERY poor.
Without sounding negative, just the way it was.....
Let's hope JLo sees the same, no one really showed their worth in that half...

Anyhow.... COYI.

jay_in_cpt

buffybegood said:

Predictably Antonio has been awful; you didn't need to be Mystic Meg to get that right.

Who hasn't in reality....

steve

Not good is it

buffybegood

Just seen their goal again, Mavropanos was really poor; not only did he play them onside, he just dawdled over, probably expecting the ball to go dead, giving their player way too much time to knock the ball across between Mavropanos's legs.

jay_in_cpt

AWB has also been very, very poor IMO......It needs a hell of a reaction from the HT talk and surely a change OR 2......

buffybegood

Summerville and Paqueta on for Antonio and Soucek.

buffybegood

Really bad news, Emerson down injured.

buffybegood

buffybegood said:

Really bad news, Emerson down injured.

He's back up, but that's twice he's taken knocks.

buffybegood

How was Robinson not booked there?

buffybegood

Lukic finally in the book, he shoulda seen yellow for a foul in the first half as well when he dragged Kudus down with no attempt to play the ball.

MIAHammer

I never understood why we didn’t go for Traore when we had the chance.

buffybegood

Looks like Coufal coming on for Emerson.

buffybegood

MIAHammer said:

I never understood why we didn’t go for Traore when we had the chance.

Because, despite his speed and physicality, he generally has shown very little end product.

buffybegood

buffybegood said:

Looks like Coufal coming on for Emerson.

AWB has switched to LB, Coufal playing on the right.

buffybegood

A chance for Bowen but their keeper out quickly to smother the shot.

buffybegood

After being hooked at half time, hopefully we won't be seeing Antonio starting again any time soon; it's no wonder we start matches slowly when we're effectively starting with 10 men.

Giant_Hammer

Any improvement this half Buffy?

Yeoldhammer

It really hasn't been that much better

buffybegood

Rodriguez in the book now.

buffybegood

Soler on for his debut, replacing Rodriguez.

MIAHammer

Soler coming on for Rodrigues

buffybegood

Coufal has been caught out twice already.

buffybegood

Alvarez in the book.

buffybegood

Yeoldhammer said:

It really hasn't been that much better

I disagree, I think we've looked much better in the second half. Doesn't help that we're having to chase the game though.

MIAHammer

Alvarez still diving in. He needs to be careful not to get sent off.

buffybegood

Ings coming on, for Alvarez.

Soler in the book already, a bit harshly imo.

Yeoldhammer

buffybegood said:

Yeoldhammer said:

It really hasn't been that much better

I disagree, I think we've looked much better in the second half. Doesn't help that we're having to chase the game though.

Hardly, we haven't worked their keeper at all and Fulham have looked more likely to score a second than we are to equalise.

Though I do understand the bar for improvement from the first half wasn't hard to beat.