LionOfGosforth

Missing some good players tbf, straight red for Kamada as I type

Palace have been crap

Fulham 2 up, Smith Rowe again

This may be true but i've yet to see us function any better under EH than we did in the 22/23 season when Longstaff played much of it. I see the arguments against him and they usually revolve around how he is on the ball. His skills and vision on the ball are basic. He doesn't shoot well, doesn't create very much. Off the ball, he clearly brings things that EH doesn't trust others to deliver (yet). Whether the critics of him will see those qualities and agree it justifies his inclusion, I tend to doubt.

He has the look of a player that knows he will always be on the field and played where he wants to be, regardless of the needs of the side. Playing centrally doesn't suit him or them, no idea why he does. He hasn't added to their mix much that i've seen.

I genuinely wonder if the analysis would be something Eddie would nod sagely at in private and smile coyly. It's incredibly intricate and smart tactically to have a midfielder make those sorts of movements at specific times of games in specific parts of the field to trick specific players and allow space for certain passing patterns. And there are plenty on here that say he's not tactically well-versed. Howay man

Watched that earlier. Good stuff. Depends on how you feel about the player, this won't change the minds of those that dislike him but it definitely is the details that makes him important to this team and how he functions in it.

Camavinga, got a bit of Seedorf about him the way he moves

Must be weird being a game-attending Madrid fan. So much talent, yet they just look bored

Was just about to post that Madrid have missed a couple to be fair as well, Milan keeper just made an outstanding save.

Milan could be 5-1 up, been class on the counter

Rudiger scores, canny hit for a CB

3-1 Milan! great goal

Haven't ever thought he's a 9. So much pace and skill but needs to play in a different position, deeper and without responsibility. Madrid not the first team to wonder how to get the best out of him. He's all running as fast as he can and hitting the ball as hard as possible, no subtlety. Couldn't say what his best position is but don't think he's a 9. Now i've said this he'll score

Mbappe about as ruthless as a wet sock in front of goal

Ah the CL, so much drama, villainy, cheating and money on show, like an episode of Real Housewives at times

some save to deny Leao there

Pretty dreadful defending from Madrid, they're fun to watch moving the ball around but thats a shocker to concede, statues at the back

Morata puts Milan back in front

Took it well, just not a fan of how he got it. That said, you can't slide in the box anymore, players just engineer contact and go over, have to be smarter than that.

Vini cleverly cons another pen

Nothing goes right for Beto, hit the bar when it was easier to score, marginal offside rules out a decent finish

Offside

Everton level looks like, VAR review