I don’t wanna pour cold water on the two new boys; yes, they looked good but was it merely “fresh legs” in what must have been a tiring game? AWB is good, but he made a fair few mistakes today.

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Agree to an extent; Schlupp was poor but I didn’t see Andros do anything to warrant not being taken off .

Pretty much everyone else was meh but sorry the worst by far was Luka. Poor passing, poor positioning, poor free kicks and most of all where was the captain after the first goal? Everyone stood round looking shell-shocked and there was no geeing them up at all. I begin to wonder if his best games were alongside Cabaye? In which case bring in Kayoute and Meyer asap. Not knocked off the ball, driving forward whenever they could and wanting the ball.

Oh and I think you are very harsh about Ayew.

I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.

I thought Ayew looked liked a handful and a massive upgrade on Benteke.

It's quite shocking how reliant we are on Zaha however. We look so so poor without him.

Sorloth won't cut the mustard longer term. Max Meyer looks like he will be a good signing for us. Hard to tell at this stage but I think he looks good. An actual creative midfielder.

The best teams have 4-5 players that can turn a game like that and get back into it. We only 1 and he wasn't even on the pitch.

I'd say Wan-Bissaka is something to be positive about, so is Meyer and Kouyate. So our new signings look good, apart from Sorloth. He is another mediocre striker, it's just a question of how long Roy holds onto him.

Zaha and Ayew upfront is going to be quite dangerous.

So much for a great start to the season...!

Hennessey kept us in that game. He played superbly, without him we’d have been dead and buried much earlier.

First goal was a neat finish and piss poor defending by the CBs, second goal was 1 on 1 with everyone up the pitch and in no way his fault.

I would just like to say I haven’t enjoyed a game less in ages. We were poor apart from 15 mins towards the end. This is also compounded by the new season ticket holder sitting next to me who doesn’t stop moaning from start to finish. He will end end swallowing my fist before the season is out if he doesn’t shut the f*** up. Rant over.

With every miss, Benteke is digging himself a bigger and bigger hole of low confidence to get out of. Macca and AWB were solid, as was Hennessey, but Schlupp and Ayew didn't do enough. I think we should line up like this v Huddersfield

Hennessey
AWB Tomkins(if he's back) Sakho Souare
Meyer Kouyate Macca PVA
Zaha Townsend