Tsunami

When you need legs up front to see out a game I can’t fathom what Eddie is thinking about by bringing Wilson on. His body is knackered. He possibly looks fine in training; he looked slow, weak and was blowing out his arse 5 minutes after coming on last night. Love the guy, thanks for the memories.

I was surprised how poor he was operating on the left in the opposition half. Didn’t realise how reliant he was with his right foot, it stopped him overlapping which is a huge downside for us when we break. Trippier is far more suited and used to playing there and I reckon Tino’s pace could be used to match Diaz. Tripps is going to have a long afternoon no Mayer which side he plays. His experience and sledging may be of more use against Salah, so long as he avoids an early booking. Barnes is going to have to work his bollocks off tracking back.

Ref Watch just challenged Dermot to measure out 10 yards to see how good he was. He got it spot on; anyone guess where he stopped?

Hope not, don’t fancy fingering the turnstile operator to get in and then leaving early.

Jeez

Lpool can’t cope with PSG movement and pace, got absolutely no foothold in midfield.

Looks at him, pushes him; all ok.

No sympathy from me but he’d have every right to look back at the 2 he’s taken to the head this season where nothing was given. Both were a lot more forceful.

Haha, didn’t look at the teams. Who was it, he was chucking himself all over the place and was also walking a tightrope for a 2nd yellow. Or was that someone else as well? 😂

No chance that gets overturned. Veltman is a twat mind.

Sheff Wed lost to Arsenal in both.

How many goals had Dubs contributed to with his distribution? Pope’s throwing contributed to 2 at the weekend. Pope’s passing is woeful but it hasn’t cost us a goal. Howe has got to get the defence and Pope drilled into not exposing his lack of control. We mustn’t forget that Dubs is hardly Pirlo, that he’s just turned 36 and isn’t as good a keeper as Pope. Pope turns 33 in April and he’s definitely lost something. Hopefully a run of games will help him. He’s been criticised for both Forest’s & Lpool’s 1st goals. He’ll be disappointed for both but Murphy was at fault for the Forest goal with (imo) Pope being caught closer to his line than he’d have been if there’d been a normal attack and not us gifting possession around our penalty area. Lpool’s 1st went through 2 sets of legs with 6”7” Burn standing on the 6 yard line. I think that’s a far harder save to make than it looked. Give Pope the opportunity to play himself into better form.

In a game like this Bruno needs a holding/ break up player beside him. Willock is probably the worst option, he provides no protection for Bruno. As we’re not breaking in numbers and have an unfit Wilson up top Willock’s skill set is pretty redundant to make any impression.

MGW in place of Bruno would the upgrade imo.

That’s an awful goal. Can argue Pope should do better but it does come through 2 sets of legs before he can commit.

Taking no chances for Sunday and not giving Lpool any practice for the final - I hope. Take or medicine tonight and don’t complain. Of course, we’ll get hammered and twist on like bitches.

Lost on penalties, 2 of ours and 1 of there’s nearly landed in my back garden in NE23.

3-3 last minute

Winning 3-2 at Altrincham from 2 down after 10 mins. Altrincham have just “missed” a penalty where the player stopped his run up for some reason and our keeper dived. Ref gave us a free kick. No replay shown, was really weird.

2 down already

Stick Vlad on for the last couple of minutes at LB back and get him to put Salah out for 5 weeks. Something like a metatarsal, nowt serious as that’s not right like…. Can you imagine the uproar.

Pope is streets ahead of Dubs as a keeper. He’s useless with his feet so we need to recognise that when we play out. Pope’s keeping abilities will win us more games than Dubs’ distribution skills. Pope got caught too deep in his box for their goal because Murphy dropped a clanger that had the whole defensive out of shape.

Not sure what to make of that. Could have scored 7, could’ve chucked 2 points away, Murphy’s passing was truly abysmal and he’d have missed his goal if he’d been 5 yards further out. We were almost collectively too passive and sloppy in the 2nd half. Just pleased we won, I was a little disappointed in Forest tbh.

Young is a cheating git but the referee had a clear view of it in real time and it shouldn’t have been overturned no matter how bad the dive was. No idea how low the high bar for overturning a decision now is. Remember when Longstaff nearly exchanged shirts at Wolves 2 or 3 years ago and it was deemed fair.

Ashley Young making a meal of it went against him for once.