TRon

He's a cracking finisher, just not much of a winger.

Nope. Just don't waste any more money on players who don't belong on this stage and wait until the right one becomes available.

Not sure why, the long ones have all been shite.

Ekitike is clearing all our weak corner efforts now as well.

He's gone AWOL for sure. This game looks a bit much for him.

Yeah it was a brilliant strike with no backlift, don't think Thiaw had a chance to close that down.

He was always going to score today unless we had worked out a plan to somehow stop him.

We are matching them everywhere except up top. Their strike force is just much better quality.

We played well for 35 mins but in the end the quality counts. Can't really complain too much about it.

Tbf they were giving us plenty of praise until we fell apart.

Ekitike has destroyed them, they are shattered mentally.

He could play us by himself and he'd still score.

Fuck right off.

We just can't stop Ekitke.

Shame all ours have been shit.

Willock is on fire here.

Fabulous work Willock!

Or just Liverpool's inside man.

Wtf is Gordon playing at??

What's the point in having a huge cb in Dan Burn at the corners if Gordon is going to give them a free kick by nudging the keeper?

The thinking must be just to get at them with pace and relentless running.

Honestly think the reason it hasn't worked out for him here is partly down to him wanting to be back in London. Probably we should sell, but only if they are willing to stump up a reasonable fee. $25m+ at least in today's market IMO.

Given their turmoil and defensive weakness, we should be able to get a result there. But cup final apart we always seem to blow it against them. If we do lose I just hope Eddie sends them out with instructions to stop Ekitike at any cost. Please no more goals for the sniffy cunt.

Howe was desperate to get Ekitike long before he was even on Liverpool's radar. I can remember when we were first linked with him a lot of posters thought he was too scrawny to ever be a main striker. The only thing which stopped him coming here was he thought he was destined for the biggest clubs in the world, and tbf he's signed for two of them since then.

I think that applies to most of our players tbh. Bruno maybe the exception, but our final pass is quite often poor and that's because most of the players don't spot the opportunity early enough.