Pilko

Must be exhausted after all that fitness work to the point where he can't be arsed to run about on the pitch. Says all the right things about wanting to be here and wanting to sign for us for ages but he might as well be wearing a sandwich board saying "I'm only here for the money" so far.

We've already played Barca once and whilst we made a decent fist of it I think over two legs they'd do us with a bit to spare. Bit like playing Man City in a one-off game at home which you'd fancy we had a chance in, but over two legs like the semi it was going to be nigh on impossible. Chelsea are up and down at the moment and I'd back us to make that a super competitive tie so I'd have to choose that, as romantic and cool as the Barca tie would be.

That'll have been a nice low stakes one for him for a change. Important to win on the night for confidence purposes, everyone came through alright and managed to give a few younger lads a run out. Whilst he'll be a bit concerned at conceding two, overall that went according to plan and he managed to use a few of the backup lads and give a few rests out.

Big chance to show something tonight and he didn't really take it.

Did well I thought, seemed to be solid and used the ball well. Not sure if Eddie rates him for him to make it longer term but tonight won't have done his career any harm at all.

Game won, no injuries (that we know of, touch wood), no suspensions, couple of young lads getting game time, hopefully a nice leg-stretcher ahead of the weekend. Well done lads.

Excited to see the anger on here when our final sub is inevitably Elanga for the last few minutes

We're allergic to clean sheets aren't we

Trippier Leo Shahar may as well start sending a lookalike to sit on the bench and do something else with his weekends.

Stop talking about American things and let's watch the best European tie ever made.

nae idea if he was any cop. Fun fact, I used to work with his brother a few years back and he was a good lad.

They'll need referees to stick to the rules super tightly and to create a few weekends where there's a mental amount of pens awarded in order for it to start to reduce IMO.

Would start Ramsdale or Ruddy, A. Murphy, Shahar and Neave for this along with 7 other first teamers. Should be more than enough. Ideal for Joelinton to get some minutes to build up his fitness too. Get the feeling that we may see only A.Murphy start out of the three young lads however and the other two maybe get off the bench. Most of all would be good to give Trippier a rest and if Miley is back fit give him a run out of some kind.

Wonder if the Sun Lin fans will stay "til the end" this time or not?

Kicking the ball away apparently not a yellow card anymore based on last night either. You could see Hall telling the ref "that's three times now" and they did it at least another two after that. No doubt had we equalised and needed to kill some time we'd have seen the yellow fly out if our lads dared to kick it six inches after the whistle went. Someone needs to tell that thick cunt from yesterday that you don't need to wave your card around for virtually every single foul. The Willock one was a disgrace, obvious foul and a definite yellow if the City player was on a fast counter attack - except he was on about halfway with most of the players in front of him. Proper amateur level decision making.

Hope he told Burn to fuck off after he was stood down from corner duty so our Olympic sprinter could ping it into the first man.

May as well be a hologram at the minute. Shit for the first goal.

He's just not got enough brains or ability, sadly. Nice lad and he'll have the odd effective game against shit teams or sides that set up with mad high lines.

Four away games in a row, three wins and our best performance at the Etihad in 10-15 years. Bit unfortunate today, just let down by Pope being totally shit on the first goal and a ridiculous ref who just gave City every little thing all day long.

Unlucky lads. Best showing at this ground in about 15 years.

Die in a fire ref.

Pick of the bunch in midfield, again.

Give it a few minutes, it will be if one of our lads does it.

That pesky confidence problem meaning Elanga can't hit a corner past the first man. He's fucking pony.