Sanchez 6 - did nothing wrong
Veltman 9 MoM - superb snuffing out Grealish and added attacking threat
White 7 - looks at home in the Prem
Dunk 7 - he's back
Burn 7 - guts and skill, great stand in
Alzate 6 - neat, didn't impact the game
Bissouma 6 - set such a high bar, seemed slightly off his...
Sanchez
Veltman Dunk White
Alzate Biss Lallana Burn
Ali Mac
Maupay Trossard
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Thought he might start Welbeck but more likely to come off the bench. I'd start Karbonnet, but know that GP trusts BDB.
I thought he looked slower than we had been led to believe but looked very tidy, confident on the ball and precise in his passing. Good debut.
I thought Moder looked good too. As Kalimantan says, taller thn I was expecting. He got involved in a lot and showed a great deal of promise.
Extremely...
I am sometimes staggered by what other Albion fans see that I don't. Maupay works his socks off closing down oppo defenders, he's great at holding the ball up and is our leading scorer (though not in a purple patch at the moment).
No-Lo is the way to go.
All the big brewers are sitting on large investment funds waiting to see which No or Low Alcohol producers emerge ahead of the pack. If you have shares in one of those.........
As a sidebar for all you Scrabble players, "za" is now an acceptable word and is in the Scrabble Dictionary - being a shortened version of the word pizza would you believe. As is "zas", the plural.
I suppose, either 11 or 10, not many points. However, as CJ points out, we struggled to generate points early on in the season, so could happen again. But it doesn't feel to me like that's our trajectory right now.
So matching that terrible (still shudder when I think of the Bournemouth game) run in Hughton's last season would get us to 35 points. Feels like we should be able to do that.
Someone asked (on a thread I can't find) if teams prepare differently for different refs. So I asked a Manager. Here's my interpretation:
Players do get warned about a refs history with the club, propensity to use red/yellow cards and style of refereeing.
Managers will try being chummy with the...
Apparently he's on a £10m bonus if he keeps them up. They've signed a couple of players who look like they will have an impact. Will it be enough? I doubt it. I hope not. I like WBA, I cannot stomach Fat Sam
Let's agree to differ. I don't think he elbowed him in the face. I think his elbow glaced his face as they were wrestling for a best position to attack/defend the free kick (my guess is that he was being held and he was lifting his arm over the defender to try and pull himself free and into the...
Because it is so clear that he was trying to free his arms and get past Mitrovic to get a better position for the freekick and was very obviously not trying to elbow him. Odd that you can't see that as a possibility.