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That’s been Cumming.

That’s the million dollar question though - has he really not been affected? Just teasing - it just sounded funny when you said it

He trusts his judgment based on the fact he’s been hit in the head a lot?

Have you been watching the game? What sort of team do you have out? I was worried about our squad beforehand because of all the players we have out on loan but had forgotten it was U19. We have a couple of very good 16-year olds and actually the U19 team we have is very similar to our U21 team. I thought your U18 team was doing well so I presumed your U19 would be good too, although obviously Barca is quite another question.

Villarreal U19s were a reminder that Spanish clubs seem to teach whiny cheating at a very early age

I’ve seen that Breaking Bad meme too many times this last couple weeks. Let’s not do this again.

In the Centre circle at Anfield? Each to their own I guess.

70 years of it tbf.

Think we had the better of the first half, got outplayed in the second, all that matters is the result really. We look like what we are, a team under new management with a couple of new players trying to work things out. Going to take some time. We were weirdly casual at times and I think when we’re attacking we’re not familiar enough with each other’s movement to make the right decisions. I think it will come.

The annoying - well let’s just say corrupt - thing is that the VAR and reffing in our game was as it was supposed to be. Ball bounces up and hits the Villarreal player on the hand, refs take a look and say nah, you’ve got to be sure to give a penalty. Then you put Real Madrid in a game and what happens?

Was great in ours tbf.

Think we’ve edged that but they look pretty good. Clearly geared to quick transitions and trying to nick the ball on the press, which has already meant leaving gaps - we just haven’t exploited them. This is where Udogie overlapping Simons would be really effective.

There’s not many sweeter strikers of a ball tbf.

You have to. The ref was giving them everything they asked for, so we rightly started asking ourselves.

Their press is good but should be exploitable. We’re not breaking quickly enough to do so. Agree that’s not a pen either but that’s one of those where I want them to be consistent.

Mine.

Because he committed a bookable foul and then they wanted to check to make sure they’d not missed a penalty?

Ours

Def not a penalty for me.

Doesn’t touch him, goes over on his ankle, ref guesses again. Absolute bullshit.

Me too, although they always say they “punch above their weight” for a small town despite the owner being a billionaire who‘s pumped a ton of money into them over the years.

Another just fucking rubbish decision. It’s my perennial bugbear with refs in European competition - they guess far too much of the time which means a clever dive will win a free kick every time.

Villarreal looking neat and tidy.

We’ll see. Still got Maddison, Kulu and Dragusin out for ever, and Solanke’s injured yet again despite us signing him with a great fitness record. This month will tell us a fair bit.

Don’t think I’ve ever seen an own goal quite like that. And that’s one of the worst non-corners given I’ve ever seen too