UP FOR THE CUP - Part II: Exeter Edition.

Better than Liverpool, anyway. Bed time, I think.

Miguel is starting to resemble the Greek and the American.
A sort of a Vlach-man Turner Overdrive.

Very good…

We know from having seen it that if you take that side and swap out a few for significantly better players (e.g. MGW) and let it play together every week.. it’s maybe just about good enough to not get relegated from the PL.

You send out that side knowing that the most likely outcome is that it is about enough to get through. Throw in two errors leading to goals and you’re in bother and lucky to go through at all, let alone without having to expose your better players to something you’d rather not.

A calculated risk that didn’t pay off, but we’re still in it and I expect a very different approach against Ipswich unless the club officially doesn’t think it’s worth trying to win the cup.

Tv just said Taiwo has broken his nose.

Williams has a mask he can lend him.

You ain't seen nothing yet...

Possibly the biggest problem was 77% possession. We just aren't used to it.

Don’t push it….

A week I think.

A couple of you have alluded to it. We don't know what to do against a defensive team that hasn't left space for us. We get the ball into the box but not the players to pick up the second ball.

Bye bye Temu Grealish. That joke isn't quite so funny now.

Well Eric de Silva Moriera looks a shell of the player who played in the league cup. Jota Silva was absolutely wank. He was annoying the shit out of me. Taiwo and Sangare were very good in the first half and Danilo doesn’t tackle but he sure can pass. Sosa has ability but I think his lack of understanding English probably was the fuck ip when it came to the pass he should have sent to MGW. That was pretty terrible but he was still better than Jota.

Yatesy seemed off his game which for a game like this is something. Miquel had a nightmare and we could have actually lost.

Awful for Taiwo but nobody passed to him in the second half which was weird. Moreno was poor but Toff’s was fine.

A dreadful game really. We should have bossed the second half by passing Exeter to death. Without Milenkovic and Murillo we are dreadful at set pieces.

File under wet Tuesday night in Exeter and move on.

Bloody rubbish but hopefully a rocket for the Fulham game.

At least we are home in the next round.

Chicago: Knackered.

I would go this far for set pieces. Otherwise it's just last season again.

I can't believe how annoying Jota was

At least he’s stopped doing the jump.

Well yes, but the point was I’d have thought after nearly 3 hours they may have worked out the need to hit it slightly harder