GeordieDazzler

Watkins off with a hammy in the Villa game

Another daft hand ball pen given in Celtic game

We will have knocked Real out of the CL on our march to the final by the summer so will be an easy decision for him to make.

Vitinha had a bit of a Ruben Neves-esque whinge in his post match. Scored our only chance apparently. Must be a Portuguese thing.

I feel he had sort of lost possession before he got the contact. Not sure I’d of liked it given against us. The foul for Benficas pen against Real was very similar to Burn getting hauled down on the corner. Seems like you are just allowed to foul tall people these days.

Can a yellow be appealed or are they wiped anyway after the league stage? Honestly feel the club need to get an explanation for the Elanga caution as it honestly seemed like the ref forgot he’s given us the free kick

Only thing with a Chelsea tie is I’m not sure I want to play them three times in a row our away league game is the weekend between the play offs.

His time for a big move was the summer. This season has dropped the stock of a lot of strikers. Doesn’t feel like anyone is scoring at an exceptionally high rate. Haaland hasn’t scored since 20th December in the league but is still miles clear as top scorer. Thiago the only other stand out.

Nearly 50m for JSL shows the absolute dearth of PL ready striking options.

That Norwegian lad who got a brace against Real looks decent like, only 21 and all - one to keep an eye on? edit: never mind https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cp8y8epekwdo

We weren’t one down But yeah the first twenty was a bit hairy but after that they struggled with our physicality a bit or just chose not to engage with it.

I think they are a refugee club Donesk or Famagusta if that makes sense. Where they are from has/is a bit of a warzone so they play in Baku.

Do we get our second leg at home in the playoffs due to our position in the table?

Hilarious how much PSG bottled the physical battle. Every corner short and not a single long throw. Think Macca pointed out second half they were basically not contesting high balls against Botman, Burn etc.

PSG have been playing football without a break for nearly a year and a half so if there is any team more tired than us it’s them. Still will be a tough task.

Roma look mint here

it’s been dark af all day tbf

Not in the arrivals photos so be surprised if he’s playing

Como beat Torino 6-0 earlier. Not a single Italian in the Como team, in fact only Italian in the match-day squad is the third choice keeper. Shite that. These boutique club, vanity projects can get to fuck.

The club always seems to take the view of the long term unless their hand is forced (like with Wissa) and I think Howe is okay with that as long as he’s allowed some influence on who comes in. Villa seem to have their stalwarts in McGinn, Watkins, Roger’s and Konya etc and make very of the moment signings to try and solidify their position.

Arteta loves a City cast off almost as much as he loves a Chelsea one.

4 goals in 18 in Ligue Un Kalimuendo and Guessand haven’t exactly made the case for buying random Ligue Un strikers.

Against these and Bilbao it was quite stark how much bigger we were physically. They had plenty of skilful lads on the ball but both basically got overpowered.

Yeah strangely muted, supposed their team got dog walked a bit but surprised how quiet they were. Better than the Gallic drone of PSG fans that never stopped but didn’t correspond to a thing that happened on the pitch. We didn’t really let PSV have any to sing about I suppose. Fyernoord in ‘02 came and sang in English the whole game including singing ‘small town in Sunderland’ at us Breda were very rowdy as well iirc.