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EUROPA   game 4   November 6th 2025
  Sturm Graz 0
      Nottingham Forest 0    
One of the more forgettable matches, so here are the player ratings in beans..
Victor - another in a seemingly endless line of Brazilian blow-up rubber goalkeepers.
Savona - handsome, talented, of lissom thigh and sturdy mien. Good lad.
Malenkovic - the story goes that he once took a dislike to a wall because the bricks were not set in Flemish bond so he knocked it down with his head.
Morato - like all the defence, apart from rubber John Victor, looked comfortable against what turned out to be no more than a light breeze.
Williams - best at everything. Especially penalties.
Sangare - looks good when no one is sitting on him, like a comfortable armchair.
Yates - did okay. Should have scored. Didn't.
McAtee - if it looks like a leaf, and plays like a leaf, it is probably a leaf.
Dominguez - buzzes around to some effect, but not as much effect as if he was played in the middle or whatever.
Gibbs-White - not much is going for MGW at the moment. Missed a penalty. Played like an over-enthusiastic dick.
Kalimuendo - little guy, seemed a bit lost. Does anybody talk to him? Does he understand stuff? Is he afraid of doing things wrong in case Dyche eats him? Sadly, we may never know.
Subs - Abbott (energetic, promising), Ndoye (fluff), and Murillo (God knows).
Dyche - clearly went mad towards the end of the match Seemed to be labouring under the delusion that defenders were more of a goal threat than attackers, or that Sturm Graz were a clear and present danger. Neither of these things turned out to have any chance of being true.
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