Geordie Ahmed

Despite the changes on paper he named a side strong enough to beat us The issue and ultimately what will probably get him the sack is that his team looks badly coached bereft of ideas and confidence, whereas despite us playing a weaker side we played with confidence and a clear plan

We are being linked with Marcos Leonardo from Santos Though, based on our record of being linked with South American players he'll end up at Chelsea

19, not that it really changes your point Some talent and shows what a mess Chelsea are that they had to sell him to balance the books

This is my thinking too Plus, I know he's only one player but they'll be without Salah in the semi finals, which can't be a bad thing

Delighted he had a good game and even better he got himself on the scoresheet. Against City he didn't have a great game (not having a go as it wasn't an easy first game considering he didn't seem to play much for Chelsea even during pre season and it was against top opposition) so it's good to see he has put that past him. Last season the games I saw of him, it was his technical ability and confidence on the ball that stood out and he showcased that last night.

From a Man-U perspective they'd see it as poor defending but from ours I think it started with Joelinton winning the ball superbly, so when Willock had the ball their midfield was out of the game Then after that Gordon makes a very clever run, which has Lindelof starting to follow and drop, that run results in him blocking Maguire and by the time Lindelof realises it's too late Whilst Gordon doesn't get an assist for it, he effectively created the space so it's as good as an assist for me

He's fantastic, missed those driving runs of his He gets into decent positions to score, just needs to keep working on his finishing because someone of his ability should be hitting double figures with relative ease

Solid performance, considering the injury he had it would have been understandable if there was a hesitation to get stuck in but there was absolutely none He was happily getting stuck in and made sure to get the ball and the man Gutted he didn't quite connect with that header as a goal for him would have been lush

He's superb, defensively really solid and is powerful when attacking A different attacking threat to Trippier but a useful alternative to have Howe has a real challenge on his hands giving him sufficient minutes, understand why Trippier is first choice but his performances warrant more than the odd game

He was superb, especially in that second half He cleared quite a few headers and then he was just wrecking players when he was further up the pitch Since he returned from injury he was rusty in the first couple, then was good against Wolves and then back to his best tonight, long may it continue

Actually forgot how decent his kicking is Compared to Pope he looks like Ederson Obviously Pope is better in every other aspect but long term a keeper with good distribution would be ideal

Reguillon should get booked for waving for a card

That's fair the MOTM does have subjectivity built into it Like you said the average rating is more objective

Messi got 5 official MOTM awards, which is a record for a single tournament Also, just checked whoscored and they had Messi at 8.25 with Mbappe at 8.0, so Messi's rating was higher by a decent margin Which makes sense because he clearly had a better World Cup

If you think Mbappe had a better World Cup than Messi (I'm talking just performances here, not who won) then you either didn't watch it or are clueless about football

The problem with 2010 is that Xavi and Iniesta split votes If only one was in contention then they'd have probably won it

I understand those that are saying due to injuries we may not have a choice when it comes to prioritising what we do I think due to the injuries we won't really have a choice as to the team we pick, apart from the defence the front 6 picks itself really, unless Ritchie gets a game which is really chucking it

Not sure he'd be ready to start Willock yet After being out for a long time he has played 20 mins twice, starting him seems a bit of a jump imo With all the injuries he's limited in terms of rotating the front 6, think apart from maybe getting Hall in CM there won't be other changes

The following is the team that played against Everton on Sunday Team: Brown, Wiggett, Scott, Savage (McArthur 81), Heffernan, Carlyon, Stephenson (Ndiweni 90+3), De Bolle, Parkinson (Crossley 81), Huntley, Diallo. Subs n/u: C.Thompson, Harris. Parkinson got some minutes during pre season and he looked okay but nowhere near ready to play at the top level, the rest are way behind and sadly not remotely close

Even if we wanted to I don't think we could really mass rotate, certainly not in the front 6 positions

Wtf is Roy Keane on about Says Hojlund should have went down for a penalty "I'm not asking for him to cheat. He should kick the keeper" Errr, cheating is exactly what you are asking him to do you dog fiddler

Header was poor from Haaland really Still, Onana did very well

That's a soft penalty but also very stupid from Hojlund to do that

Man-U look decent on the counter, they'll get joy from that

You've been playing shit, that's a big difference Though, I do think you'll get something from today