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Fair play to Forest, they looked absolutely appalling on opening day but they've dug in and ground out enough points to see it home. Hopefully West Ham haven't sobered up yet, Leeds take advantage and Everton go down

The League was still up for grabs at the time?

Always knew Liverpool weren't going to win 9 off the bounce too btw

One foot in the CL and we've already started to transfer the weight off our left foot too

Absolutely can not beat seeing Spurs in the fucking mud tbph. It's delicious, they're such a mess and Levy is a relentless wanker

Does the 'Bundesliga attacking stats multiplier' still apply with this lad btw? Honestly haven't seen too much of him, couple of Internationals an the odd RB game here and there.

Honestly need to sleep on that tonight and try and process what I've just watched There were years and years where I'd just written off the prospect of CL football at SJP again under that fat slug. Now we're a tiny little win away from sealing it. At home. At night. Against a desperately poor, disorganised and demoralised team. It's not done yet but fuck me, it's perilously close isn't it?

Not clicking that link to that tory shite but I'm assuming this relates their bullshit, obscene, ridiculously large 'covid' losses that were used to hide their reckless spending on utter wank?

Didn't spot the Leicester LB as I was typing tbh

Wonder which way this tight VAR call goes? Oh look, it's gone Liverpool's way

Game over

We'll never know about yesterday tbh, pointless discussion? I genuinely hope there's a good player in there too but I've got my doubts on the evidence I've seen so far. I hope I'm wrong but there's nothing wrong with saying he's been deeply disappointing since he signed, I'm not even sure that's up for debate.

Ok, fair enough, he created that chance that didn't get converted.

I don't think he's done anything wrong as such, he's not done much of anything at all tbh. I've not watched every minute he's played but in all his appearances combined he's got no goals, no assists, 1 shot on target, 1 booking and 1 tantrum. He's just not performed or produced anything positive at all

I don't think anyone is sitting typing away hoping that Gordon continues to be shit. Everyone wants him to develop a bit, settle in and start to produce for the team and the club, no-one wants him to fail and he'll get time to turn it around. But the fact is he's created nothing when he's had minutes since he signed. People re rightly saying that maybe that big chink of money we shelled out in January could have been spent on a different player who would (almost certainly) have chipped in with a few goals and/or assists. I think that's fair enough tbh - he has been poor and denying it seems daft. No-one wants him to fail here but on first viewings he looks a bit short in many areas.

Barca 2 up and cruising to the title tonight

Agree but that would mean sitting back against them and hitting them on the counter. At home. In a huge match we really need to win if at all possible. Doing that would go against everything Howe has championed - 'intensity is our identity' would go out of the window. Not saying you're wrong but I can't see Howe changing the approach to the game. We'll press them and hope they don't/can't play through us as easily as Arsenal did. I think

He absolutely should do this. But turning down the Milan, Inter or Juve job in the next 12 months would be very very difficult to do, surely?

Fair point

Brighton currently doing the team that did us last week. Not massively encouraging viewing I must admit

Oh dear

Fuck me ref

No card? Like no card at all??

Wolves did similar back in 1956 to Honved, they watered their pitch to make it "nice and heavy". Straight out of the fat Sam shithouse playbook

I think the most concerning thing was the lack of chances we created today. Robles barely had a save to make, think only the low Schar shot was all he had to do all game and that's disappointing. They made it difficult, dropped back and covered space but it worked for them. They'll be thinking 2 daft mistakes to concede 2 avoidable pens but pretty tight other than that. We never opened them up, got in behind them or hurt them all game. We might well look back on this point as the one that takes us over the line in 15 days time