TRon

We're lucky it's only 1-0.

Getting another footballing lesson in Europe.

Our front three look about as threatening as a trio of rabbits.

I'll bet we paid a lot more for our players than they did.

Kind of pathetic how our corner kicks are worse than theirs given English football's reputation for direct football.

Their technique looks quite a lot better than ours.

That's what it comes down to at the end of the day. He's a finisher, our team was built around getting supply to him. They don't do that at Liverpool. Plus there is also a chance he might just be physically shot and not capable of doing the twists and turns he did for us a year ago when he would go on jinking runs. In his last 6 months here we didn't see much of that either.

The only name I heard mentioned so far was Samu, and they were quoting £80m for him in the summer. Unless his price has come down a lot, can't see that happening with Wissa and Wolt already here.

It will be even more interesting to see what sort of striker they can bring in for around £20m.

While it's great that Isak is doing shit at Liverpool, I don't really want to revel in Ekitike's success too much considering the cunt's swiped him from under our noses.

The good thing is, with Miley and Willock performing pretty well, we do have the option to rotate in midfield now if we feel a rest would benefit a player. I think Bruno is the only one who seems to be the vital cog, but at a push we could even rest him tomorrow and get a result. We have to start trusting our squad.

Think there's enough of a gap between the games for us to play our strongest sides for both with the mackems being on Sunday. Especially with us making 6 changes against Burnley.

I'm not even going to think about this until the day of the game. It's a winnable game obviously, but will be a slog, and who knows what sort of side we'll put out with PL and CL taking priority. If we get through great, if not, well there's always next year.

I'm not convinced either, but you aren't going to get Murphy winning those penalties or getting players sent off by showing defenders a clean pair of heels. His pace hurts teams. Granted Murphy has better deliveries, I'm just saying Elanga does bring different qualities to the game.

Goal of the season contender that.

For all the criticism, he is causing problems for defenders in his last few games. Won a penalty, got a defender sent off, and teed up a goal.

Going from how he's handled the crosses in the two starts he's had so far, I'd say there's no chance we are going to take up the option of a permanent deal.

Tbf, I didn't get to see the game live yesterday, but watching the extended highlights back this morning he was more involved that I thought. Still a negative contribution with the penalty conceded, but he did set up Wolt for what should have been our opening goal. I'm hoping there's more to come and we haven't really seen him at his best.

The statue should be modelled on that picture tbh.

While Elanga has looked a bit clumsy at times, there have been some electric moments where you could see he could win games. With Ramsey I just haven't seen anything that suggests he's a top player. He's a tidy player at the moment, but pretty anonymous mostly. He doesn't look a bad player, just not someone who improves us, so not really sure what the point of the signing.

Glad he was brave and was liberal with the rotation. We got the result, and hopefully we'll look better for the next couple of games as a result.

Not sure about that after that shitshow against Spurs mind. But he's got more credit in the bank than Elanga for now so probably right.

Not much doubt who the captain is these days.

Pope has been really commanding in his penalty area for the past few seasons, but even he's been flapping at them this time round. I don't know if that's because defenders are crowding the keepers more as a tactic on corners these days.