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Comfortably the worst performance of the season against a Millwall team who were garbage. A huge opportunity missed.

Having taken the time to digest the PSR ruling, it is clear the rules currently discriminate against the likes of Leicester, Forest, Everton. This is all about club ownership, and the big 6 not wanting to be threatened and potentially lose out on lucrative CL money. For what it's worth, the...

Brilliant performance after two disappointing results.

Having had time to reflect, that was another very good City performance. We're taking time to move the ball quicker, but when we do it is working a treat. A tactical switch at HT, pushing Pereira forward created more overloads and 80% possession eventually tires the opposition out and...

Great performance - blew Plymouth away in the 2nd half, when we were far more ruthless. We could've gone into HT level or even behind, but for a combination of casualness and poor finishing. Last 30 mins was dull but fully understand why - game was won, a raft of substitutions and then slow the...

That result and performance is the mark of champions.

From first whistle to last, we were far too casual all over the pitch. Moved the ball too slowly and started with the goalkeeper passing out to an under pressure RP and lucky not to concede. It didn't get any better.

Great performance, a good result, and crucially another victory ticked off. 14 down, 16 to go. My take on the season so far as follows......... Plan A is possession-based football. Plan B is do Plan A better - yesterday, we moved the ball quicker in the 2nd half, started breaking the lines...

This will have a long term negative effect on Everton, similar to when we went into administration 20 years ago. The financial scrutiny they are now under will prohibit them going near the FFP line again, seriously wrecking their ambitions to spend big and put players on big wages. They might...

We’ve become a bit ponderous in attack in the last few matches - in the final third, we’re going sideways and low risk, rather thank as we did against Preston where we sliced through them down the middle with incisive passing.

Very good performance, could’ve scored more. We’re intimidating teams before we’ve even started.

When Preston finally decided to press us, you can tell we're getting better at dealing with that as we knocked it around really well. Teams will really fear coming to the KP as it looks like press and get picked off or sit deep and have the legs run off you.

What is odd is that we've long since accepted that players & managers make mistakes that lead to goals, sendings off etc, but referees are not allowed to so we have to have VAR. Surely human error is and should be part of football, so if players can make errors, so should referees?

I thought there were encouraging signs yesterday, especially in the 1st half. Coventry stepped up the pressure in the 2nd half and we didn't cope well with it, conceding and then looking like conceding more. That said, we hung on, regained composure and started pressing them back. A big...

4-2-3-1 formation for me - The 3 being Barnes, Maddison and Tete behind Ihenacho

I won't criticise Daka. He was asked to essentially play on the left wing to offer pace on the flank but clearly not his right position. Far better down the middle, but needs must. Given how overrun we were in midfield, I called for the extra midfielder to be brought on and we looked much better...

Maddison represents our business model well. Buy promising young players, develop them and then sell on for a big profit.

Sandwiched between a CL double header as well might help us

Vestergaard explains reason for staying at Leicester Jannik Vestergaard has told a Danish TV station that he wanted to leave Leicester City this month but was unable to because of personal reasons. The 30-year-old has made 23 appearances for the club since joining from Southampton in the summer...

I agree with much of this. Tete does allow us to play the 4-2-3-1 better, linking up with the lone striker as we've tried Barnes doing that before. It also puts Madders back in the middle of the 3. Youri & Mendy/Ndidi and then the back 4. A shift to 3 at the back can only happen if we sign...

Might be worth reverting to the 3-4-1-2 formation to play Nacho and Vardy up front in the absence of Maddision's creativity and to give Barnes a break.

Spot on. The recruitment team are bound to have plan A, B, C and any letter up to Z. This has to include players we'd like to sign but also a contingency if clubs don't want to sell the actual player e.g. Maddison and Newcastle. It will also contain a prioritisation on the outfield position e.g...

Great result, much needed away win. Started poorly again, we looked certain to concede before we actually scored. The same happened against Leeds. Haaland and his mates wont be so profligate. That said we look back to our best once we got started. I've always said when Youri plays well, we play...

The irony shouldn't be lost that our track record with players we've not heard of is way better than those we have - I give you Ndidi, Mahrez, Kante, Okazaki vs Vestergaard, Lookman, Perez, Ihenacho, Bertrand......I never judge till Ive seen them play but sometimes the ones you've never heard of...

The badge on the front means way more than the name on the back. Players will come and go, but the supporters are there forever.

Time waits for no man. I don't begrudge Kasper signing that one more lucrative contract abroad, experiencing a new league and culture in preparation for what surely will be a career in management. I have so enjoyed what he has brought between the sticks, another in a long list of goalkeeping...

Very good defensive performance, showed a lot of resilience

Chucking away points for fun this season - how many is that from winning positions?

I think Daka will come good. His performances in the EL pre-Christmas were excellent and like most players coming into the PL, there was always going to be a period of adjustment. The Austrian PL is no EPL, but he has attributes you can improve on e.g. his speed, like Vardy's at that age, is...

The ECL is far bigger than the JPT. Look at the size of the clubs left in it. It would be up there as one of our greatest achievements if we were to win it.

Great result and a very good performance especially from the back 4. Rennes started strongly and we were fortunate not to fall behind with all the pressure. Once we got in front, we pushed on and looked the better side. Rennes are technically excellent but lacked a cutting edge. The 2nd goal...

A really solid performance. Back 4 very good but the quality we can bring off the bench changes games. We bring in Maddison & Vardy, them Rodriguez and Barnes. For all our difficulties this season, we have some real quality when it turns up.

Funny old game football - poor performance overall, should’ve lost on the night but scored 3 really good goals. The last of which was as good a team goal as you’ll see.

Much the better team let down by some poor finishing and two very poor pieces of defending. Wolves won’t be top 4

Some sort of reaction after Sunday

Having had time to digest, it's obviously massively disappointing to ship goals at the end like that. That said, given the last 2 years and the lack of crowds for the large part, to witness such a dramatic end to a game, it's why we all the the game & the live sport. You take the rough with the...

Fantastic display from him. Touch tight to Salah all night and put his foot in when needed. Blocked quite a few crosses from TAA as well. He’s growing in stature and I’d have him as first choice left back

Unbelievable performance given the circumstances. The back 4, to a man, were exceptional as was Kasper. Luke Thomas was MOTM for me - did brilliantly against Salah and also kept TAA quiet

Merry Christmas!

We have no idea how Covid has impacted some of the players. They were out on their feet at the end and the fact the first choice played 60 mins tells me we’re trying to manage the schedule. Liverpool did the same but started their weaker XI