TRon

It's pathetic.

Tonali not much better tbh.

They did.

I thought Pope used to be a shot stopper?

Similar shite goal like the one we conceded against Forest.

Was going to post the same thing.

What a terrible cross Murph...

They are still questioning the penalty

Fuck off with the penalty claims you commentating cunts.

Already looking forward to this game 100% more since I wrote it off!

If that's why he's not on the bench count me in.

Well that's the point, we need to be pessimistic for that to work. Don't start talking about winning.

Let's just accept we are getting beat lads and take anything we can get. It's like a free hit really.

Think he'd have been on the bench if that was the case.

After the slating he's been getting over the last 24hrs on here, Wilson is nailed on to get a goal.

I'm with Howe on that one.

Don't know why he played 80 mins on Sunday when we were 4-1 up. Just asking for it tbh.

I was furious with that.

Hopefully he'll get more than the usual 5 mins. If h gets a good 20-30 mins to run at Liverpool I think he could cause them some problems.

Looks like the game is being written off. Isak is the one player they would be worried about, he's raped VVD on multiple encounters. Ah well, would probably have lost anyway, not the worst game to miss I suppose.

Isak benched. Could at least make it realistic if you are going the ITK route.

Tbf, if any team needs an injection of pace in their side more than us, it's City.

Ba was fantastic, very underrated in England because his career was kind of short over here. Look at the goals he scored for us, think he probably could do just about everything, good in the air and with his feet. Even cracked a decent free kick which we didn't see enough of IMO, although we did have Cabaye on hand as well.

Agree, thought he's looked generally decent in the cameos he's played as a sub, he's getting into goal scoring positions, and he was never much more than a goal scorer anyway. Still good to have him as an option, but he's not ever going to be much use on the counter.

It does sound negative when you phrase it like that, but the general idea is right. I would not risk any player who is not 100% and maybe go with the cup semi final formation we had against Arsenal. We aren't likely to get a result anyway, I was reading today that Howe's record against Liverpool in his managerial career is 20 played and 17 lost of those. Can't really blame him, not easy to go toe to toe with them when you have worse players, and he would have done that at Bournemouth as well. But it doesn't work most of the time, and with our creaking CBs can't see it working this time round either.