He's had some good oportunities recently, but some truly terrible shots I was going to make a Jenson comparison - pretty certain that was his name. Played for Arsenal in the early 90’s scored a screamer for Denmark in the Euro semi - if memory serves me correctly against West Germany. I think he e ...

Ok league goal. I knew I should have googled it. I might start a “who we need to sell thread” to make up for my lack of research.

Amps has such an all round explosive game, a 90 min player without a doubt. The only negative in his game for me is a lack of goals. Against Brentford we hopefully saw a cameo of future promise when his 25 yard low pile driver went just wide. I suspect that when he does score and I have sneaky ...

Probably a bit of all of those. Their home form was exceptional or at least results suggest that so was surprised at how poor they were. Or has Daniel Farke suddenly become the master. Outthinking (to some extent) Pep 2nd half (had to cheat to get his troops organised), pounded Poundland Pep ...

I don't score for hard work, it's expected. I mark down for lack of hard work. And I'm f**king sure Willy would have put in a hell of a shift had he started. Gnonto got in mine as he delivered the only real moment of quality plus worked his socks off and helped out in defence.. Moron here. I have ...

I don't really blame our cbs if they play a poor pass out of defence tbh, they are doing what they are told. Struijk won a lot of duels and interceptions Probably the main reason Igor Thiago was quiet and helped with Outtarra You obviously missed that Bijol was pretty much man marking Thiago at ...

Surprised to see Struijk getting not much love Struijk Stach Okafor Gudmonssen DCL Gnonto He had a very good game, all the defenders did. Limiting Brentford at home to so few opportunities was impressive. But Stach and Ampadu in the middle were immense for me, Tanaka struggled in this game, which ...

Rodon was fine today. He doesn't need to be his usual self when the big man is winning so many aerial duels. Brentford only had occasional moments, due to silly errors on our part in the main. Brilliant having Willy a game changer coming off the bench. CB’s have different responsibilities when you p ...

Some interesting debate

Victor_Notts-17 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 7:47 pm Child...

I would get into a battle of wits but I never go to battle against an unarmed opponent.

Tough one this - Stach put so much effort in for the initial 60 mins he ran out of steam somewhat. But he was instrumental for us getting control of the game. On that basis. Stach Ampadu DCL Gud Bijol Struijk Willy put in a great cross for the goal but for me it does the other players a disservice ...

I am not convinced we would have won if Brentford hadn’t scored. We would not have been as offensively minded and the subs would have been different. I think we would have played out for a draw and probably swapped out Tanka for Gruev. It was a great point, I do not lament the fact we did not win. ...

Victor_Notts-17 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 5:27 pm Do you have blancmange for eyeballs?

Ok let’s consider your hypocrisy. Goalkeepers do not have a great game if they let goals in. Surely the same consideration has to be applied to a striker who fails to convert chances.

Think on it.

So Bijol does not give Thiago a sniff, an in form prem striker and gets low marks, presumably he lost a few points for their goal ? Bijol totally pocketed Thiago,in fact he dominated him. He was on a par with the other two. Who both made errors as well. I won’t say anymore but he was in my top 6. ...

SG90 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 6:29 pm Take the point, but mistakes cost us 2 points imo

No team can play every moment perfect. It was a clever move from them.

Chilli D wrote: ↑Sun Dec 14, 2025 6:23 pm Okafor does some good stuff, just not enough of it

He just doesn’t do enough off the ball for me. But he was very decent today. Was unlucky not to get on the score sheet.

Brentford were lucky overall - we were the better side - good for confidence.

Great point

Heart attack averted

DCL jumps like a Salmon