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If O'Reilly and McAtee aren't good enough to get any minutes then they shouldn't be in the squad and Pep shouldn't have been happy with the squad going into the season. Particularly when we carry a small squad, with some older, injury prone players (KDB, Stones, Walker, Ake), others who are...

Then he shouldn't have been kept in the squad in the summer. Same with O'Reilly. You can't carry a small squad for harmony reasons and make it smaller by having 0 trust in a few of the players in it.

Ta! No idea why they didn't have this realisation during the summer when they had opportunity to address it.

Can you park the bus against Dyche teams?

100% this. Running Bernardo & Gundo into the ground every game is doing nothing, least of all helping them. At this stage it makes no sense to expect them to perform better, so why not mix it up

Everton are inconsistent but they have the capacity to dig in & defend well, with a couple of players who can break at pace. We need to be clinical and reduce self-inflicted mistakes - a big ask for the team at the moment

Field tilt is where the game was played, eg mostly in Villa's half; defensive action height is essentially how far away from your goal your defensive line is (not entirely that, but close enough). From that, you can see we played a higher line, played in their half and didn't do that much. Our...

Oh yeah, it was tongue in cheek and purely based on football. I dislike Walker immensely as a person. My opinion of him as a footballer isn't better but at the moment, Pep is giving him the rope

Great analysis

They played well in the second half I thought. I'd compliment how they played out of our press, but that would make out that I believe we pressed

Bernardo played his 8th 90 minute game in a row for us. He'll start against Everton as well. Gundo probably will as well.

And being able to recover the ball quickly when losing it - which the players he picks aren't able to do. His selections and strategy have exacerbated our weakness to transitions, despite it being the thing he fears the most. Against Arsenal away last year (22/23 season), we ceded possession...

Wheyyyyy Foden! Perseverance from him and Savinho

Yes, yes he can. He's shown on multiple occasions he can set us up to be harder to beat, most notably on tougher away fixtures in the CL. He often changes tactics season on season, or even mid season to adapt to players. He also can see when players aren't performing. Pretending the best coach...

McGinn bossing our midfield there. McGinn

He can do better than what he is doing now with the players he has available.

I actually am starting to feel sorry for Walker - he's shown all season that he's shite and yet Pep continues to play him

Nah, United second half was worse than this as Villa are actually decent.

For anyone criticising Walker, remember that he has played this badly all season and possibly more. With him in our team, we average over 2 goals conceded per game. Pep brought him on.