Ramarena

India has officially asked Russia to stop this through diplomatic channels, which is pretty unprecedented given their, till now, cozy relationship. They’ve also been forcing Ukrainian POWs to fight against their countrymen, probably because they’re starting to run low on human resources they can extract from the occupied territories.

1Wildsmith 7 35Nelson 7 5Bradley 7 23Ward 6.5 6Cashin 7 4Hourihane 6.5 32Adams 7 27Blacket-Taylor 6 12Smith 7 17Sibley 7.5 11Méndez-Laing 7.5 10Waghorn 7 16Thompson 6 25Gayle 7.5 2Wilson 6.5 7Barkhuizen 7.5

Funny player is Barks. Didn’t contribute a huge amount in general play, but in key moments he really can produce the goods!

Get in

Absolute sitter arghhhhhhh Waggy!

Another goal mouth scramble but Bristol get it off the line

Poor touch from NML there, good opportunity

Cash clears off the line. Need to address this midfield problem as they are starting to cut us open

They’ve cut through our midfield too easily a couple of times now.

Yeah Bradley looked seriously guilty

Great work from NML finds Barks on the edge he takes it first time and buries it! Cracking finish!

Wonderful

I said it earlier but the ref really needs to stamp down hard on their gobby number 6

Barks hits the bar and a goal mouth scramble ensues and Gayle pops it in!

Get in

Close! Cash header from a long throw deflected over

Just like the last few games

Their number 6 needs having a word with

HT Bristol are seriously poor, but are starting to get a grip on midfield and coming into the game a bit more. We started fairly well, but there’s no real link between attack and midfield. Hourihane is playing some decent passes, but we miss Birds mobility to link up with the attack. Hopefully we can find a way to get a bit more cohesion in that final third. An obvious solution would be to bring an extra midfielder in. We need to offer more threat!

Seriously poor there from Barks putting the responsibility onto Adams with a really careless and sloppy pass

Gilt edge chance from NML’s cut back for Nelson but he fails to make a decent contact.

Looked like Gayle to me

Shame that was offside

Really nice one touch move to get us up the park, shame Barks couldn’t get his touch round the defender