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Might be a case of the players starting to adjust to his strengths. We didn't really have wingers who liked having the ball hit out in front of them before him.

Imagine Elanga scoring the winner here, turning his career around, and ten years later we're at his testimonial laughing together about how we thought he was shit for the first six months.

It's such a relief that Son left at the exact right time so I can have my fill of schadenfreude re: Spurs without feeling bad for him.

Watching the Tottenham highlights

Watching this live while drunk was still one of the funniest moments of my life

Not peak Newcastle either given how many key players we're missing. We're really giving a fantastic account of ourselves against a ton of adversity.

IMO given how they're struggling to deal with Elanga, we might actually get some joy here with Woltemade dropping deep and puling CBs out of position so Elanga/Barnes can cut inside. Worth a try since Osula looks completely spent.

Never for a second thought we'd get a penalty there, my heart rate didn't even rise.

This does feel a bit like the PSG game in the sense that they are clearly better than us, but we're probably going to score.

To Real Madrid.

Refs really should make an effort to go into the game without checking who's a yellow away from a suspension. Shouldn't be influenced by that, even subconsciously.

All we have to do is play Barca every week and Elanga would be totally worth 55m.

(whispers carefully) is... Elanga good now?

The laws of nature dictate that we cannot have more than two fit fullbacks at once.

Would take Osula off at halftime, if only because he's absolutely running himself into the ground.

booking for that after what he let them get away with

We're going to get absolutely lit up at the Camp Nou, but man just give us this one win.

If I was a Barca fan I imagine I'd be a bit miffed that the offensive strategy of "hit it over the defenders heads" was this effective against my team.

They struggle with our physicality but we really do have to score before we start struggling with them having actual good footballers.

Really just got his fingertips on that, so close.

Elanga looks like a real player now

Osula absolutely got tomahawk'd there. Ridculous.

I see, so this is what the reffing is going to be like today.

Fuck that, beat these and beat three more and we're back in the CL next year.