The Prophet

Although we're more likely to beat Chelsea, I think I'd rather play Barca. Two trips to Stamford Bridge in a week sounds lifting.

He might have, I was only half listening.

The Champions League handball rule is awful.

Reports in Brazil that Bruno’s injury is a grade three muscle tear, circa twelve weeks out.

Played 4-4-2 v Villa, according to the man himself.

Three away wins in a row, including progresion in the cups. Lovely.

He was pretty average, but so were most of the team. Didn't think he was stand out bad.

Hasn't he been injured a fair bit?

Ended up surprisingly deep at times. Find it hard to read into performances given how much of a cakewalk it ended up being.

Sounds mad given we've just won 6-1, but don't think there were many standout performances, simply because there didn't need to be.

Picture the scene.... Your team is playing in their first Champions League knockout. They're 1-5 up without ever having to really get going, a last 16 tie against Barca or Chelsea looks a cert, you're overjoyed. Except you're a member of NO so you're fucking raging and you can't wait until the end of the game to start criticising players.

Class that. I wasn't expecting them to be as comically bad, tie was done after ten minutes. Good professional performance, without ever having to get out of neutral.

Completely agree if we were to get knocked out over two legs, but I don't think we will.

That's an incredibly bad faith argument like. They're correlated to league position, not an accurate predictor of team performance. Anyway let's smash these.

I'd draw a distinction between "decent" and "fine" though. Wouldn't exactly be ecstatic with it, but it also wouldn't be a disaster.

A "failure" is a bit dramatic like, a failure would be not qualifying over two legs. They've beaten Frankfurt and Copenhagen over there and drawn with Chelsea. They're not that daft. On paper we should win, but chuck in our schedule, the travel, along with a home leg to come and a draw would be fine (granted we should be going there to win).

Still don't think a draw would be a disaster here.

Oh Faes.

Hopefully back for the second leg. Wouldn't risk him at City.

I hope we've been in his ear regarding what's happened to Trafford and what will end up happening to him if he ends up at City.

Hall?

Bayern will have their work cut out beating us in the final.

We've now drawn City in a cup competition in 2023, 2024, and twice in 2026. Mad.