Stottie

Good performance and great result. Before the game, I saw that Swansea were bottom of the league in shots and crosses per game and so it prevailed. They look very poor in the final third, as you might expect a team suddenly without Sigurddson and Llorente. I thought Clement missed a trick when he took Sanches off for Bony. They were having a good spell, so I think it would have been better to go like for like and bring on Routledge to keep up the midfield pressure. We scored shortly after and were comfortable the rest of the game. The team and system look great, especially when Blob doesn't have to do much. If it takes idiot pundits' eyes off his obvious talent, Merino can do a dive like that every game for me. The lad is a class above.

Lascelles MOTM for the big incidents, but Merino the best player on the park. Joselu did well again, as did the other lads at the back. On that evidence, we can tick Swansea off as a team who'll finish below us.

Get in!

This game is there to be won. Their formation looks like a mess.

Not bad, we've let them have it but not do anything with it, corners aside. They look as dishwater dull as they were way back when under Rodgers, all meaningless possession, and a bit ropey at the back, even to long balls. Joselu looking good and wow, what a save. 50p heed from their CH stopped them scoring though, so honours even is just about fair. Sanches one is a deffo booking.

Hope Mitro is not watching, because he won't get away with it.

2-0 and down to ten men away from home and you sub off Salah who's got in a couple of times, not Wijnaldum.

With the new rules or guidelines on head injuries, isn't the ref supposed to order any player off who looks a bit groggy in case they are concussed? If that is the case, you have to take a much stricter line on fouls to the head because they are more likely to end up with the opponent off the pitch. 3-0

Do it two minutes into a game and you don't even get a yellow card! Fantastic consistency from the refs.

HT. They were both good deliveries for the goals, but there is a big soft center in the middle of the Liverpool defence. They've nearly been badly caught playing it out a couple of times too.

Bruyne does it again. Works the space and puts it on a plate.

Even in the still, the Huddersfield one looks worse.

Hope Bravo's been practising stopping shots. If dangerous play is a red, then I suppose it's a red. It's a shame for the game as a contest, with Mane looking good, but that's just the way it is.

Huddersfield one was much higher and much worse

Both goals from dodgy set pieces. Not a bad shout. A fair bit of set pieces is coaching, not just delivery and finish, so they may still be good at them without Sigurdsson and Llorente. Will whoever we play at LB be up against Routledge? I seem to remember him scoring against us before.

I wouldn't start Shelvey for this. There's too much risk of them winding him up.

The stories about Gayle, the Mitro elbow and ban, and no new keeper are concerning, but with Rafa we won't be in the worst three.

Based on his goal record alone, I'm surprised we'd didn't hear more about other clubs coming in for him during the summer.

Benitez has been consistently undermined to the point where it would understandable for him to actively look elsewhere. If this is now the case, what I don't understand is why he would break the exclusive to Louise Taylor. I need to hear it from someone else first.

The "Rafa bought a load of shite too" argument is wrong. He's done wonders to shift all the deadwood we had from beforehand in so little time. (Does "released" for Riviere mean a free transfer?)

Yep. Even people who can't stop going to matches can do that.

I guess anyone defrauded by buying a ticket to watch "70M" of new signings would need Rafa and his people to testify against the club. So you might get your money back, but Rafa would be a dead man walking and the club would hire another Pardew yes man. fwiw, I think this is much worse than what happened to KK because we have a specific budget Rafa was told he had and many specific examples of cheap players he could have spent it on. Unlike KK, Rafa is supposed to have control over transfers.

Fleetwood are League One. If Woodman is now England U21 level, that's below him. There's a good chance of coming up against cloggers at set pieces with lower league officials to protect him. He'll learn goalkeeping tactics for that level too. Good footballing side in the Championship is the lowest he should go.

It's possible that Brighton play in a way that does not highlight Krul's weaknesses, say kicking. So him not suiting what Rafa wants to do does not necessarily imply he won't be of use to one of our rivals.

Would there be any chance in buying out the Heed as a fans' federation? They're only four leagues below us, it was three last year.