Arteta complaining he doesn’t have the players he needs.
Also Arteta - replacing a LB with a LB while bringing on another LB and leaving yet another LB on the bench
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Nice to see Newcastle hitting form and Forest dropping ahead of “checks notes” playing Liverpool and Arsenal respectively. 
On a different note, how good is Isak? English media keep banging on about how Arsenal need such a player but on this form, he’d easily be a target for the likes of Real Madrid and Bayern if they were looking for strikers.
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Not wishing for it to happen or anything like that, but I’m just saying Murillo leaving 1 on Isak wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
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Tbf, you need different players for different balls.
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Wow, I step away to prepare brunch and the match is decided
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Commentary finally starting to talk about Gordon’s theatrics…seemingly preparing for him becoming a Liverpool player 
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He’s coming home?? 
West Ham hadn’t any form though had they?
“Form” it’s one game… 
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This game has been great. Felt like a throw back to the first division days.
Bigger picture- good to see forest salvage a bit of pride with their second half performance that maybe gives them a bit more confidence than they’d otherwise have going into the arsenal game. Also Isak looked a little uncomfortable coming off late
Finally, has CHO finally surpassed Sancho, the player whose shadows he was in for much of his career
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yeah, it’s been a good game.
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Quite happy watching that. Forest made a fight of it in the end and looked well up for it, they’ve worked hard to get where they are and wont give up a CL spot if they can help it. I think they’ll give it everything against Arsenal on Wednesday.
As for Newcastle they are leaking a lot of goals atm, we’ll get plenty of chances against them but will have to defend better than we have been.
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He’s not good enough.
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Hilariously that made me look it up, and FBref has him at 4 goals in 26 shots, so 15.4%.
How many people would have thought that he’s actually shooting better than average in our team? Salah is on 18 in 91, which is 19.8%. Whisper it quietly, but Jota is on 5 in 35, which is 14.3%. Díaz is 9 for 49, which is 18.4%, and Gakpo not that different at 8 in 42, which is 19.0%.
Peak Haaland for City was 29 in 116, a flat 25%. Since then he’s been 18-20%. Isak though, with 17 in 66 is running at 25.8%, having been on 16.3% and 22.2% in the past two seasons.
Whisper it even quieter, but in terms of shot conversion rate, Núñez is actually outperforming his past two seasons, which have been 10-11%.
I’m guessing the main reason for the underperformance is the rest of the team, like Szoboszlai’s frankly abysmal 4 goals in 51 shots, or Mac Allister’s 2 in 27, and Alexander-Arnold’s 2 in 33. Mind you, these counts seem to differ from the Premier League stats above, as it has us on 64 goals in 445 shots, which works out to 14.4%.
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None of those stats take into account the position of shots, i.e Haaland is mainly a poacher so his shots will be closer to goal and therefore a higher percentage rate.
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Or a “goalhanger” as we used to call them.
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Yes, that is very true. Whereas Núñez’s shots seem to come from outer space.
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Mark wood has a higher percentage of goals to shots taken than halaand.
I somewhat doubt Mark Wood does.
I assume you mean Chris.
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Mark is the secret twin brother. Chris rotates him in when he wants to put his feet up and have a breather.
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