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The subs bench against Chelsea saw two new young faces . Where is Kelly and Ibe , are they also injured ,as far as I know both didnt go out on loan ?

I was wondering this. Ibe would have been much better to bring on against Chelsea than Smith

Ibe does look promising and played some games for the first team also scored , hope BR doesnt have an issue with him

He said he'd normally have ibe on bench but he has a thigh problem

I saw Ibe play for the reserves (or u18's - not sure) recently and he put in a magnificent performance. He should be making it in the bench now and again.

As for if Ibe would have been better than Smith, I didn't see the game but im assuming smith played at left back replacing cissohko? How did he play anyway?

Smith played left mid, as far as I could tell it was a straight swap for Coutinho.

He didn't do anything particularly badly, just didn't have much/any impact on the game

Kelly not 100% fit

Ibe injured

he was awful. the only things of note he did was giving away a few cheap free kicks

Did you expect the poor lad to score a hatrick at the bridge?

I didn't, but face the facts:

Brad Smith:
Minutes played: 30.
Passes: 3.
Passing accuracy: 33%.
Duels won: 0.
Duels lost: 5.
Fouls won: 0.
Fouls conceded: 3.
Successful crosses: 0.
Unsuccessful crosses: 1.

This was clearly not a good game for the poor lad.

He was thrown in at the deep end, and sadly sank like a stone.

Hope his self confidence isn't broken for good now.