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How does one sleep, ever again, after that ffs?

Rio Ferdinand saying how in awe of the atmosphere he is. This is the type of fixture he said we couldn't dare dream of under the previous owner. Utter plank.

Heard the other day it was max 2 slots. I think the idea atm is to have all 5 nations go into qualification, then somehow dish out the 2 slots depending on who hasn't qualified.

The Champions League goal show is the absolute pinnacle of armchair football viewing like, I wish I could do it every time it was on

It's Man City making the game boring, mostly. Just holding on to the ball forever, as they can do against almost any side while very rarely attempting a more risky but incisive pass. Then when we get it, there have been lots of tactical fouls as always. We have been wasteful with the ball after the first 10 minutes but this is what they did to us at the Etihad, just bored us to death til we were demoralised. Not a fan

Exactly my thoughts. Don Goodman said they'd dominated every single metric. No, they've just completely dominated possession and not done much with it at all. They bore me to tears tbh, was the same at the Etihad.

A few days late but for next time, it's on the red button on TNT now.

Lazio GK scores!

Under Howe we've never been through a rough patch without coming out of it looking better than before it. People were saying CL was over when we'd dropped off to 5th or 6th last season. No idea why some are always in such a rush to tell everyone we're doomed.

Just quoting this again as we're on another new page @The College Dropout

Some people have got nerves made of cheestrings like, fucking hell Was a poor performance today but even so we had chances. Howe will be under no pressure other than to address recent performances and results, and rightly so. They'll work on it, we'll be fine.

As usual, jazz ruins everything.

Exactly what I thought while watching it, we definitely went 432 with Isak and ASM up front.

Annoyed you switched? #neverforget #actuallysozm8t

Liverpool fan used to like us when we rolled over for them twice a season and didn't threaten the CL places. Shocker.

3-3 at home to Man City last season. It's a very small sample size across 1.5 seasons against two of the best sides in the league, and you're still wrong.

End of?

It's not baffling like, they're thick as fuck. Thankfully (hopefully) they are a minority who can be easily ignored.

fuckin hell, on a hatrick

I just got rid of him

Yeah, injuries should trump everything really, even minor annoyances Don't wanna go on about it but Shaw will probs lose value as well unless that's blocked or limited cos of injuries, can't remember.

Eh, you left Shaw in? He's injured for a little while isn't he? I transferred Shaw out, left Gabriel in but the latter is on v thin ice.

Very frustrating game. They're still levels above us and can control the majority of a game like that when they want to. A few sporadic spells where we looked OK first half, and a decent period of about 5-10 minutes in the second. Man City appeared to actively decide to play keep-ball for the remainder at that stage, and we couldn't get the ball back off them. Think we can be flattered by how conservative they were with the ball, they were very risk averse tonight. And might sound daft when you've just been dominated but I'd far rather watch us every week than them. Find them a really dull watch on the whole.

Aye I'm a bit tetchy not having Salah for that fixture. Although I'm sure that 9-0 he had no goal involvements, or 1 assist at best? Was a freak occurrence though. Leaving my side as it is and waiting to watch everything level out a bit. Gusto might be a good shout in for Colwill if he's going to play in James's absence. Will see if that happens this weekend.