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Villa have European commitments.

At the time we got Luque, I'd have Luque over Boa Morte 10/10 times. His injury completely ruined him.

If we lose, it'll most likely be because Man City plays better than us, thus it has to be a way over the top reaction because while we don't care about the result, we care about the performance, which will obviously not be good enough because we lost.

Still maintain it is worth trying to put the player with best stamina in the squad to ghost Rodri for the full game. No matter where the ball is, someone stays right next to him at all times to try to eliminate him from play. Give him a yard and all play goes through him. Best player in the league.

Harsh to claim they are a joke. It's a mix of blame between medical team, the players and Howe imo. Most likely scenario is that the medical team has advised that players can play, but are not recommended to, players being willing to play and Howe playing them out of desperation hoping they get through without getting injured, and its backfired spectacularly, amplified by a few freak injuries and a long term suspension. Biggest injury prevention method we had was rotating players more frequently earlier in the season before fatigue set in and increased the risk of injury. This is the main thing I'm hoping Howe has learned this season and that he changes his ways next season.

Bruno Guimarães Rodriguez Moura and Joelinton Cássio Apolinário de Lira

Not even the most desperate Saudi club would pay anything close to £20m for a 32 year old permacrocked Wilson.

Almiron > Palmer

None of the goals today would have been reviewed by VAR?

We got the Hulk Hogan second wind from Bruno. Smooth sailings from now on.

Besides the OG and Burn thinking he's prime Salah the highlight of the first half for me was a middle aged Sunderland woman eating cheesy chips. Let's make some more memories in second half now

They are. Pritchard is 30, O'Nien 29, Rusyn 25, Ballard 24, Patterson & Clarke 23, Alese & Neill 22, Hume & Ekwah 21, Bellingham 18.

Eh? Did you watch Burn? What the fuck was he doing?

Pope would not have saved that.

Pope wouldn't have made that save.

He was 29 when he joined Chelsea. Bit late to become world class if he wasn't already

Adriano is the definition of should have been world class.

Fled to Lapland and put her husband last place. Worrying.

He just ran away from the ball when Varane nearly put it in his own goal, so wouldn't count on it

Ice cold penalty though

Jack Grealish is the most pointless player in this Man City team. Doing his best impression of Newcastle version of Damien Duff with a few rollovers before passing the ball backwards

Loved that he showed confidence in running with the ball against Forest, and being successful at it. All previous games he's been very quick to re-distribute the ball, which isn't a problem in itself, but good to see that he can pull off a man and create space too.

Can't remember if I posted in this thread earlier today, but I think we'll give Liverpool a significantly harder match than they're anticipating. Whether that translates to points or not I can't say, but I predict Klopp being a malignant tumor on the sidelines. Just hope he doesn't get the satisfaction of going into full blown cancer mode if Liverpool turns it in their favor towards the end of the game.