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The senate passes Ukrainian aid with a dupe majority. Hopefully the defenders get what they need quickly. Air defence needs to be a huge priority to save Ukrainian civilian lives!

Maybe, well at least until the summer transfer business starts

The Ukrainian aid bill finally passes through the House despite Republican opposition and now moves onto the Senate, hopefully by Tuesday at the latest. Ukraine desperately needs this to bolster their defence. Weird story this week with American, Russell Bentley being killed by members of his battalion after he’d gone to fight “Ukrainian Nazis” with the DPR. Russian Telegram channels are claiming he was kidnapped and beheaded by Russian soldiers on suspicion of espionage, who were demoralised and angry at the heavy losses in their area of Donetsk. https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/us-citizen-dead-russia-separatists-ukraine

Decent first half, terrible second half…………but right now, who cares? Those sweet, sweet three points are ours. We are now on the verge. COYR!

Get in

Urgh. Sibs was all alone on the edge there, shame NML tried to do too much

Long ball, after long ball, non of them working. Can we mix it up a bit?

Decent chance for Sibs there

Adams tripped while defending…….nothing given

Hopefully Max will give us some control in the middle so we can take the sting out of this game.

Birdy

We’re second to every loose ball at the moment

Cambridge close there, first to the ball on the edge of the area but fires wide

Good cross from Sibs but NML can’t get enough on it at the back post

HT Decent performance and cracking goal. We look the better side and carry more threat, but we have a couple of shaky moments at the back. Need to keep it up and get another.

NML howitzer from distance rattles the bar and then he goes and scores. Wonderful through ball from Sibs, great run from NML and a cool calm finish! COYR

Barks is back, which is a big boost for us in the attacking third for the last two games. When he came on yesterday he showed us instantly the threat he offers. If we can get Gayle back as well, then we can utilise both their quality in the final third when we need it. As decent as yesterdays performance was, our quality in the final third was lacking at key times for open play. Gayle and Barks could offer us a huge boost, if we’re struggling to break teams down.

1Wildsmith 6.5 35Nelson 7 5Bradley 7.5 6Cashin 7 2Wilson 6.5 12Smith 7.5 23Fornah 6 32Adams 7.5 10Waghorn 6 17Sibley 7.5 16 Tommo 7 4Hourihane 6 9Collins 6.5 14Washington 6 11Méndez-Laing 6 7Barkhuisen 6.5

Barks showing his quality immediately, missed him the last couple of games

This is good for our goal difference which could be hugely important.

3-0 bradley Another corner

Not sure why Richie Barker is kicking off about that Collins offside decision. It was a couple of yards off

Orient close to a goal there

NML through but the ball was bouncing high and the keeper closed the angles by the time he’d got it down.