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Whole back 4 have been really poor. Cannot live with Watkins in the air on his pace. Midfield getting over run and poor decision making up front. Need to revert to that 2nd half formation from last week. Get Wilson in up top. Drop Isak into the hole and Hook Gordon as Murphy looks abit brighter than him today. Need to up the sharpness though, been 2nd best. They do throw themselves to the ground at the slightest hint of contact. Linesman and ref have been proper homers so far.

Feel like arsenal threw it away on that Jesus/Odegaard double sub. They were starting to get a few counter attacks and Odegaard was stil threading some nice through balls and Jesus was battling away. But remember thinking who the hell is this when that Kiwor came on. Going 5 at the back with 10 + injury time to go just invited Liverpool on.

Man Utd's run looks the easiest of the three of us. But there are bound to be upsets/shocks along the way. Who knows how they will perform without Rashford if he's out for a number of games. But I'd say they have about 8 expected to win games from their run in, we have about 5 and spurs have about 5.

Our Achilles heel seems to be defending against pace. Villa have plenty of it, especially with Watkins in form. I think this will be a high scoring game. I'd probably like to see us start with the team we had 2nd half today if ASM and Almiron are still injured.

When he starts getting on the ball and dictating the game we look so much better. Ran the show most of the second half.

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Yeah I think that game for them is massive. Beat Liverpool and they might just do it. But lose and it could all fall apart very quickly I could see. Any word on Rashford injury? Heard he went off today with a knock. Could be impactful for Man Utd.

Just looked at Arsenal's fixtures and Man city's and have to say I think Arsenal will get pipped unfortunately for them. I don't see Man city dropping anymore points and Arsenal have got away fixtures against Liverpool then City and then us. It could possibly be a repeat of last season aswell if we get a result against them as it could be the nail in the coffin. I hope our game is irrelevant and they win it anyways as probably prefer them than City winning yet again.

This sort of handball, where the arm is close to the body and if you didn't have arms it would have just hit the torso is ridiculously harsh. As others said, it hits the advert patch on his sleeve so I thought anything above the sleeve wasnt handball? They need to change the phrase "handball" then if we're top of the arm.

Yeah he's getting abit Kieron Dyer with these hamstrings. They seem so prone to pulls and tears. It feels like it's holding back his ability to perform at 100%. Even recently despite contributing to the team he looks scared to run at full speed anymore. Maybe rightly so if he is getting minor strains so easily.

Have to say. Despite him playing way recently. To the eye, physically he hasn't looked right to me. Perhaps this hamstring has been playing up a little for awhile and they are just trying to manage it and avoid him getting a longer term strain. Shame if he's out of Villa and worse Spurs as I think having all our attacking options makes a big difference.

+ a goal for himself harshly ruled out. Great cameo. Looking more like the Wilson we expect. Poor effort at the end when Bruno played him through however.

Missed him. But perhaps while he and Almiron are out then the Wilson-Isak partnership is the way to go.

Looking at spurs fixtures. Could easily see them getting about 15 points. So I think that home game is must win. Keeps them at arm's length and even if we get less points in remaining fixtures it will be hard for them to overtake us. On paper our run in is tough. But need to forget that and the boys just need to have confidence in themselves and know that they are 3rd on merit and can beat anyone.

Wasn't a pen for me. Player anticipated he was gonna get hit in the head and threw himself to the floor. Ref didn't give it so should never have been overturned after 30 replays slower down. Contact doesn't mean penalty l, been said a million times but never gets less frustrating. Wilson's looked clearly the top of the arm above the sleeve and was down by his side. Again how is that given? Seemed a collective effort to try to hold us back today and they failed because our quality still got us over the line. Coupled with spurs getting saved by a horrendous decision and all.

Good positive changes at half time. Changed the game. Now for him to get the better of Emery. ?

I'm more worried about the Villa game than Spurs. Think we have enough to beat Spurs at home if we turn up.

Yeah that period after half time where Bruno and Joelinton took control of midfield was really impressive. Really don't think Wilson's goal should have been ruled out. If it isn't I could have seen another 1:5 result. But we had to hang on and survive all their long balls after that. Was surprised actually, didn't realise they were so reliant on long throws etc. We looked far superior once we got going.

Defensively haven't coped at all with their pacy lad. I'd bring Targett on and possibly Isak into the 10 or wide left and Wilson in.

"Clear and obvious"

Hope ASM out is just squad rotation like at west ham. He was just hitting some form so wouldn't want him to be injured again.

Yeah Schar has been the better of the two. That's not a slight on Botman at all as he has been fantastic in his first season at such a young age. But Schar has just been outstanding. It's actually been great to pair Botman with an experienced older player to learn from. They compliment eachother so well also. If he had been partnered with Lascelles then this season would have been vastly different.

Was actually disappointed he didn't come on sooner. Would really be keen to see him start a game at some point and see if we improve even further. Burn has done great this year but the only times we tend to look vulnerable in a game is when teams attack him.

Yeah I don't understand. He's played many years here and has demonstrated great range of passing. Not just that but he clearly looks up and sees the run and pings it straight through to Jo with accuracy and good pace on it. Perfect pass and vision. Lifting take from Redknapp to say he didn't mean it. But then I don't expect any decent punditry to ever come out of his mouth.

Fab Schar's pass was delicious. Great run from big Jo aswell. So proud of this team. Every one of them now are playing great. Burn despite playing to his maximum is still a worry each game though. Part of me is still convinced Targett would improve us further if he gets back in. But it's getting increasingly difficult to say what our best lineup is anymore. So many players in form.