DANILA

I want Giroud to start, has had a great intl break with France. He is better than Abraham IMO who has a dreadful attitude

don't need our best squad to beat NC comfortably. Assuming Pulisic will be out for a while again?

Would really like to see some proper attacks from open play rather than the crossball we have been using all season - this is a good game for that against a weak team. Want to start seeing some progress on the attacking tactical front and don't want to be dominated by Sheffield for 15 minutes at a time after scoring.

I saw through the Krasnodar result and people were roasting me. We can't attack AT ALL - all we try to do is cross it in, we never make any plays through the middle. Again our defense and attack is not connected at all. Terrible performance so far again

Think it's just the camera angle - Werner is listed as having 8cm on Pulisic.

Unless I'm mistaken I'm pretty sure it was Kova - he also gave a lot of attitude to Azpi for not passing and Werner doesn't do that as he's new... I think it was either near the end of the first half or near the beginning of second.

He was begging for a pass from Azpi when he was open in the middle right at the edge of box, and Azpi passed it to their keeper per the usual. Probably could have scored from there

Krasnodar outplayed us in attack today, we were lucky. This result masks another dreadful performance

VERY worrying

Let's suppose Lampard is sacked tomorrow - who is available as a caretaker? Theoretically could Poch come right away or is he on long-term vacation?

Werner is looking frustrated because he's tired of this nonsense from an out of depth manager

lucky goal masking our absolutely horrendous quality and play

I wouldn't give Lampard until Jan - we spent >200M in the summer!!! There are teams far below us in quality that pay with some strategy, tactics, etc. - look at Lokomotiv last night FFS! If things don't pick up, and it sure doesn't look like it, I want Lampard replaced. Don't care much for legacy - need to separate church and state / player and manager. No hard feelings if the sack is early;

Also not playing kovacic and starting Pulisic on his off-wing just when he is coming back from injury - talk about reintroducing confidence.

Yeah, Zenit stadium was almost half full in their last game.

We'll win 1-0, get dominated for periods of 10-15 mins, get outshot, and Lampard will say it was a great performance. Just my prediction but hopefully we get a solid 4-0 win here.

His career at a top club is sadly over

Definitely. Kovacic as well, who was our best player last season and Lampard is consistently going with Kante who loses more balls than he makes passes

I think Werner, Pulisic, Havertz, Ziyech are already wondering what theyve gotten themselves into with Lampard...

Did anyone watch that can give an opinion on how he was tonight?

really hope he picks it up - right now his best play is passing it backwards. Really want to love him

Haven't had a chance for 30 min - wait, haven't really touched the ball either in their half

They're dribbling circles around our players

What is Hiddink up to?

If Puli plays on the right im going to lose my mind