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I've deliberately not crunched the numbers too much. A very big if, but if Palace beat Forest and Bournemouth beat Villa, would a draw do here?

Does Miley play on the left of CM? You were saying that you wanted more cover for Tino in that post but Miley plays more centrally as far as I am aware, and not sure he would have the pace to cover for Tino even if he did switch out wide left.

The footballer equivalent to Paris. Incredibly favourable PR, but in reality a bit underwhelming and at times absolutely shite. But vibes and 'aura' and that though.

Apparently not!

If the crowd want nights like PSG again then earn it and help the lads over the line. They can make such a difference and it lifts the players.

Yeah Points GD Goals Scored Head 2 Head What i said in my original post was if we have the same points and GD, potentially it could come down to head to head particularly with us having the more difficult remaining fixtures

I'm hoping you're right and thinking you are. If this season has shown anything it's that we can turn up when it matters. I had no idea how much that cup run and win just showed how much our mentality has changed.

Has Bellingham gone backwards or was he never as good as we thought?

Oh Jenas too

Out of interest, which players have we, as a fanbase, "hated" after leaving us? Cole seems to be the obvious one. Cabaye, Owen, Enrique, Duff - possibly Carroll at the time?

If Wor flags can whip the crowd up and they are up for it (UCL at stake FFS) we'll win on home turf.

Bellendham and ‘Trent’ are going to be unbearable. A truly despicable team.

Happy to, once you plug and wipe your minge.

I'd probably disagree there too, it's one thing being able to find and execute passes from wide areas with time and space on the ball, another thing entirely to find those passes in congested, more central areas of the pitch. When Alexander-Arnold went into midfield he looked like Jeff Hendrick.

Watching the match in real time, I kind of thought a draw was a fair result and also a good one. This morning I watched match of the day 2 and they clearly thought we were slightly the better team, which the stats seemed to back up. I'm not getting into a stats debate, still think a draw was just about fair. Maybe Barnes could have swung it our way, thought he was excellent. The point being that we played well and a loss wouldn't have felt right. Quietly confident of CL now, but the Chelsea game at home is going to be huge. Think we'll turn up again for that, even though they're a good team.

He’s an incredibly unique player. Can’t think of another player with the same type of skill set really. I probably agree that his defensive frailties prevent him being anywhere near the ‘best PL RB’ conversation, but equally I think he should be included in the ‘best PL passer’ convo, up with the likes of KDB, Fabregas etc for me.

H2H is a last resort tie breaker in the U.K.

Palace will do us a favour tonight and we’ll beat Chelsea on Sunday - KEEMON

I would have Walker, Neville, Zabaleta, Lauren, Ivanovic, Sagna, and Azpilicueta ahead, along with the mentioned names. If I was picking a team for a big game, I’m not relying on TAA over any of them.

Maybe they should buddy up with these since Bilbao are our amigos.

the still looks bad but it wasn't reckless and it was just a follow through.

I thought it could easily have been a red

Brighton barely threatened us apart from the goal. Sure they'd had 3 shots til stoppage time where they had a couple They were bang average

I thought we were over the days of neat passing DMs costing £100m

As a right back, to be exceptional and to be regarded as the best the league has seen, I think you need to be a quality defender first followed by the ability to effect the game in attacking positions. Alexander-Arnold is literally nowhere near the conversation as the best right back, defensively-speaking, the league has seen. There's been hundreds better than him. He's a great passer when afforded the time and space his position in Liverpool's set up tactically affords him. He's excelled in that area and his quality has been allowed to shine, which is testament to him, his coaches and his teammates equally. He's not the best right back the league has seen though, nor anywhere near the best in the world. To add to the names you mentioned, Bacary Sagna, one who rarely gets mentioned but was a far better right back than Alexander-Arnold.