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Such a shame there's players out there who we could bring here, but are restricted by Financial Unfair Play rules. We have a half decent squad, just needs a few key additions, and a few players moved on, and we'd be a CL regular club no problem.

I know Brighton are our direct rivals for a European place but I still want Liverpool to lose.

If 8th is enough to get us into Europe, that'll do me.

Perfectly timed after he's just signed a contract extension.

Anderson might be a long way from the finished article but he has the confidence to go for it if given the opportunity. In contrast Longstaff always looks like he hopes the ball doesn't come his way.

His first touch on both goals was fantastic. I've seen so many of our forwards move the ball wide, but on the first goal he cut inside the defender effectively blocking him from making a tackle otherwise it's a pen.

That was very noticeable.

I think that's fair. He brings a lot of assets to our game like pace and skill, but he does still lack the composure of a truly top player.

The second one especially looked a bit dubious. If he'd got the ball I would say pen, but he was just sticking his foot in the path of the defender without actually touching the ball. Anyway, I'm not complaining, it's usually us at the wrong end of those.

He looked back to his best today, looked really mobile for the first time in ages, he was causing them all sorts of problems. Give me this type of striker over a 7ft hulk who can hold the ball up any day of the week.

I think I would too. Dubs is just stationary on his line most of the time, and he's not a great shot stopper these days either.

Thought his slide to get on the end of the cross (by Murphy?) was stellar as well, was a great run into the penalty area.

He covered loads of ground, the most out of all our players, slightly ahead of Bruno. He just didn't have the ball most of the time.

It really was. I said early in the week that we'd need to score 3 to win this one because I knew we'd concede, but at 3-1 down I was basically chucking in the season. The way we play with a high intensity press needs a back four with pace, and preferably CMs who are pretty athletic too. We are a mess defensively, but with the right personnel we could fix that. One thing which was really heartening though was how we never chucked in the towel. If anything we got stronger as players kept dropping like flies and replaced with subs. It says a lot about the team spirit in our squad, and whatever you might think about our tactics, you have to give Howe credit for that. This team gives everything for him and that's not all that common in professional football.

Well that went from the depths of despair to euphoria. Absolutely amazing game, one which will go down in folklore.

We could have scored 6 in the second half.

That's a strike from Valhalla

What a fucking goal!!!!

Fucking hell!

Aye, thought there was a bit of that for the first one as well tbh, but this one was worse.

Has Isak ever missed a penalty?

Don't think it's a pen personally, Gordon didn't get a touch on the ball. But I'll take it.

Wtf are you on about? Just because I can see we don't have what it takes to get to Europe doesn't mean I stop supporting the team. I'm just not living in la la land.

Not that hard to explain. We are forced into playing too many players who aren't the shithousing type. They are the type to get shithoused.