The Prophet

While I'm obviously not blaming the fans, it sounded like the crowd thought we'd wrapped it up as much as the players did. The second half atmosphere sounded largely silent, punctuated by the usual moans and groans.

Can't argue with that Edward.

It seems the plan was to kill the game second half, but we ended up becoming too passive and nearly paid for it with some sloppy box defending.

A two goal lead v third in the league?

Stop sitting back please.

For goodness sake, you guys are so dramatic.

Aye, team and crowd need to do their bit today.

It's not ideal, but we won at Forest with a midfield of Bruno, Longstaff and Willock.

Longstaff massively out of favour these days.

I have no idea what tactics we're going to deploy or what personnel are available, but I agree.

Isn't the rumour that he's on the bench though?

U wot?

I didn't think it was a penalty either, but it definitely treads into re-refing the game territory.

Another fine day for VAR.

Absolute cowardice not giving a straight red there

Nice to see the knives already sharpening for Longstaff and Willock.

He was on the bench last week.

To br fair, us and Villa have been in the European picture for three seasons now.

This was the team that turned them over at the City Ground...

He's usually pretty solid with team news. Tried to unsuccessfully branch out into transfers.

It always felt like Rashford would start well. What will be interesting is whether he can maintain form over a decent period of time, particularly if he signs permanently for Villa on a nice long contract

Villa have now played two games extra too.

It's going to be some scrap for top five.

It's the KaKa MO.