Unbelievable

That’s never a pen. Man U had two better shouts earlier

Ridiculous decision imho

Fuck off Arteta

Pen..? Never in a million years

That won’t count surely?

Offside

Wut? Everton have mostly been an upper midtable side for at least 20 seasons running. They’re nothing like Sunderland in that respect.

Another pen shout

I feel a pen could have been given there. Bone headed defending

Ten Hag is on a hiding to nothing with Man U next year. Big mistake going there.

What you are saying is striker was (in your opinion) the priority for January. See I disagree. We were defensively all over the place, so to me any of the three defenders brought in were more important at that time and looking back that feeling has only got reinforced. I mean, look at us now even still with a massively dysfunctional attack. We have no winger with end product and no (fit) striker capable of getting into double figures. I know Wood has done so before, but on the evidence with us so far who would want to rely on him doing it in the future..? I do agree we needed goals as a priority shortly behind shoring up the defense, but they've mostly come from defenders and midfielders showing that you can get by in the relegation scrap without a formidable striker. What you can't get by with is the likes of Lascelles and Ritchie having to withstand heavy pressure for 90 minutes and being expected not to crack.

Fair enough. I still disagree, unless by your definition either the first player to join or the striker was going to be the most important player to join. If we're talking most important, I'd say Trippier was much more important in terms of place in the squad and as a statement of intent/sign to other players that we are a club on the up.

Howay man HUGZ, when someone calls Wood our most influential January signing that can to be questioned surely?

Even if we lose vs Watford and Leeds without Wood, which is not a given, there would have been plenty for Trippier et al to inspire others with. Look how comfortable we are with 6 to go. What was required was a drastic change of form, but we weren't up against the wall in terms of timing at that point yet.

Not having that at all like. Wood has been the least influential January signing I would say, and by some distance. Trippier has brought stealiness, leadership, defensive stealiness and goals. Targett the same on the other side minus the goals. Burn has massively strengthened our weakest area. Bruno has brought our midfield play to a new level. Wood by contrast has made a nuisance of himself up front and battled hard, but we still miss Wilson massively and nobody in their right mind would consider him as a first choice striker going forward. Considering the fact that Howe has managed to get a tune of unlikely players like Shelvey, Fraser, Kraft, etc. it would have been interesting to see how Dwight Gayle could have done. I appreciate that Wood has contributed to us becoming a much better side since he arrived, but it's been mostly graft and allowing us to play a certain shape. In terms of actual attacking play he's sadly not offered what I would have expected from a 25m forward with proven PL pedigree. He just joins a long list of bang average NUFC forwards we have had to rely on in recent years and it's the very first position we need to upgrade in the summer.

VAR

Hand ball

What was wrong with that?

Plus it’s good for our league position no..?

Get in

Might not stand this

2-0

“Only 2”? Klopp deserves MOTY for being utterly brilliant and getting his side back into the title fight when everybody was convinced it was done and dusted at the halfway stage. Him and Guardiola are the league’s standout managers and out Eddie has a long way to go before he’s at that level.

Burnley are playing some excellent football here tonight it has to be said

Romeu could have had two