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More likely to be Tino with Tripps on left. He will rest trippier and hall will get his turn. He is far less experienced than livramento...

We keep playing the way we are and we will be top four again this year. Other teams will all have a drop in form/results (see villa today - gap shortened!)

Played well on the left, him and livramento on each side gives us far better defensive cover and attacking verve! Haway eddie, sort ya life oot!

What about lloyd kelly from Bournemouth, is he playing well???, eddie was interested last summer

Come on fulham! Do this lot and send them into an eternal downward spiral!

Like to see him coming on after 60 mins today, give willock another run out and bring on super press monster miggy for last 30 to maintain the 2-0 lead

That is a very "press-worthy" front six!!

All out against this lot, would prefer a fullish team here rather than dortmund and would also like to see livramento carry on, tripps on left: --------------------Pope--------------------------- Livramento------Lascelles------Schar---------Tripps ----Bruno--------Longstaff--------Big Joe---- ----Willock--------Calum--------Gordon----

Yeh, looks a really good player! But as Villa are on the up i can´t see them selling..

For me: Up and coming striker Right centre back with pace Possibly defensive midfielder

This is the typical game that everyone expects us to win 'cos Manure are going through a rough patch. We all know what happens when we get into this frame of mind...

Thought he had a great first half and then second half looked a yard off it or just tired...

Watching the game yesterday, we were crying out for subs to help out jaded players. Dan burn and tripps (his worst game) should have been subbed because wolves were taking the piss down both wings. Neto was unbelievable in everything he did until his injury! I was screaming for some new legs from 60 mins on... Thought eddie would have thrown on a couple more subs as their second goal was always loking likely to occur. Dortmund will be difficult; today and tomorrow to recover, fly out on tuesday and prepare for game wednesday... phhhh!

It was always going to be a tough season for us. The way we play; 90 mins of high intensity football will always result in more wear and tear on players, add to the t the typical injuries and anomalies (tonali) that occur and we are deffo rowing hard against the current. I honestly think we will struggle to make the top four again this year, but with two more windows next season should take us much closer. Real important signings to be made must be an up and coming centre forward, a pacy centre back and perhaps bring minteh back in the summer to challenge for the right wing spot.

Our next seven league games are no easy run; we have 3 winnables: Wolves/Bournemouth/everton and the others are against top six teams Arse/chelsea/Manu/Tottenham. I think they will define our season to be honest. If we do well in them I can see us getting a couple of reinforcements in jan to keep up the momentum. With Tonali about to be banned, we will need a central mid replacement in jan, it will be nice to get willock back and big joe up and running again also.

I thought the 35 million loanee from chelsea was to be our next left back when big dan o targett leave/retire. Can't see it before a rapid centre back, right winger and striker

Would prefer bruno to get his fifth yellow against palace tomorrow, miss wolves and be back for Manu.

Not sure if Tonali will have the right mindset for this game with all that is going on around him, if big Joe is fit would prefer him back in

Could also have both wide backs push up further as phillips could drop to form a back three

We would change to a 4-1-4-1 formation if we got Phillips, kind of like the chelsea set up when Kante was there. The front five would be pretty formidible: Miggy--Bruno--Joe--Gordon ‐-‐-------Isak---------

Big joe to replace Tonali in the middle and gordon to come back on the wing. We will massacre Palace!!

We need this international break to get some of our injury crew back into the team, especially Botman and even Calum to help ease the load on isak.

My thoughts on the game: In the first half we seemed lethargic and second to everything, West Ham were good for their one nil lead although we seemed to be defending well. One thing that stood out to me was Lascelles reverting to bad decisions and taking too long to execute, the result was a few short hospital passes and intercepted balls which could have led to more damage, will be glad to see botman back asap. Second half we wanted it much more, got the goals and then quite clearly the last few games caught up with us and it seemed all energy drained from us. A bit more nous and we would have won this; In the 86th minute or whatever it was we can´t go galavanting upfield when we have a one goal lead, we committed too many forward and were caught out by fresh legs and a greatly taken goal. ***A draw away and without a few of our top players (Gordon/Botman/Joe) is a great result. We are 4-5 points from the top four, patience and trust needed. After the break we will have a few players back***

His control of the ball and immediate turn toward the opposition goal is top class, I often thought yesterday that he didn´t have that many great options. He made a few mistakes yesterday but was decent tbf...

Aye, playing well. To be fair, PSG seem to be playing a 424 where the front four do fuck all in defensive or covering sense. They are really poor...