Kanj

Willo yellow means Perch at CB now right?

Kick in the gut type match. I dont really even know what to say at this point.

Hes honestly looking better and better every match, and this includes his all-around play too. Great goal, love the man.

Praying its not too serious. Fuck Valencia. Disgusting challenge.

This 100%.

I would still think about starting him against the mackems because he's always motivated for that one. He deserves his cameo for sure, he 100% does after that shift & goal he put in the other day. Don't think starting him is going to do us any favors on getting Cisse back on track

Would like to see Perch & Bigi play the holding roles in front of the back 4 for this. Anita continuing in his current role as well with Marv coming in for Jonas. Yes, we probably won't see that but that's what I'd be hoping to see.

He's always been a pretty good defender and gash in attack. He sees the ball a fuck load though.

Feel like we've all invested in this transfer man.

He makes Obertan look a class above now. Yes, he's fallen that far off.

The difference is, Ba could play out wide and it worked well for the team and the player. Exactly, not to mention the fact that Cisse has never looked anything other than class in the middle of a 3. Spot on Ron.

Start this lad ffs. Cool as fuck on the ball, kept thinking he would have done so much better on nearly everything Jonas was fucking up.

Brilliant shot man. Get the fuck in.

Please fucking win today.

Whats funny is his Europa League volley goal was fucking classic Cisse type shit. Running 1 way, volleying the ball far post. Outstanding stuff. I'll defend him in that he gets fuck all chances, but I won't defend him in that he should have scored a few more this season.

I think its more accurate to say Ba himself was more at fault for not scoring vs. the position itself (LW). But there were so many more factors involved when you compare Ba's drought last season vs. Cisse's. And I'm not defending Cisse either, I just think that his issue is that overall the team around him is in awful form, and we aren't creating the same amount of chances that we were last season. (When Ba and Cisse were in the team together). Wasn't it that Cisse was getting 1 to 1.5 to 2 chances a match and he was just putting them away (when he went on that run?) Off the top of my head... BA - The entire team itself was firing on all cylinders, creating chances and scoring (for the most part) - Ba was failing to score chances he was presented, and he was getting a fair few each match - Ba was very, very good in his all around play at that time but his finishing was very poor --> Had he scored a handful of those, his insisting to play central would probably not be an issue to him and he'd be fine out wide --> Seems to me, Ba 100% blames the system vs. Ba blaming himself for that goal drought CISSE - The entire team itself is not firing on all cylinders, not creating chances and only Ba is scoring - Cisse is failing to score the few chances he is currently being presented. And they seem to be a few only. - To me, its a compounded issue with Cisse - he's not as comfortable as Ba was out wide (although Cisse is playing much much better, and his general play looks better than it has in quite some time) and he's doing himself no favors with snatching at chances --> He'll score when the team starts creating more than 1 half chance for him --> But he's doing no favors to himself when he's not putting the ones away that he should (Man City equalizer, which not only would have been a huge goal for the match, but the team, and for him) I think Ba will still score playing out wide, that's my opinion. I say that because his form is much different than he was in end of last season, his tired legs (looked absolutely knackered). But at the end of the day, whatever the f*** it takes to get us 3 points man.

Plus it's Christmas ffs, a bit of time seeing family and friends back in France does no harm whatsoever. He's Christian? Nah, I get what you mean. Its the holidays, he can't play. And fuck it, as long as he's happy I could care less if he goes off to France. Just get that hamstring 100% and do whatever the fuck you want in the process Hatem.

He'll be better off resting and enjoying himself. You really can't do much when you're hamstrung.

He's pretty average with the ball to be fair. If you give Colo a 10, Saylor is a 6, and Willo is a 1.

Disgusting, absolutely disgusting.

Douglas, Remy ...and one of Sissoko and Debuchy. Will be let down, who am I kidding...

Fluorescent colours only to be seen in wintery weather! Surprised so few have heard of Metalist Kharkiv tbh. They've got a few decent scalps over the last couple of years. I won't pretend to claim to know about them, obviously well aware of Shakhtar and Dynamo. Was far better versed in all leagues years ago, but as time moved on - couldn't be arsed. Seems like they have a fair bit of Brazilian fire-power and Flip mentioned they play good football. Tricky tie, far-away and it will be some cold fucking weather.