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I'll be gutted if Salah signs with Liverpool again and they don't lose him on a free. Them winning the league this time is a fair compromise for them not getting a mental Saudi fee for him last summer. No moneyball advantage for their data people now, so his replacement will cost them very big.

fbref do Champo stats. They reckon Trafford has saved 10 goals based on the quality of the shots he's faced. The stat is called "post-shot xG - GA". https://fbref.com/en/comps/10/Championship-Stats#all_leaders While this stat is based on actual shots, actual shots in the Prem will be hit with more venom. Bournemouth's keepers, Kepa and the backup, lead this stat in the Prem. Average distance from goal from shots taken against Burnley is 17.1, which is fairly average.

Another shit goal. It started with Tonali forcing a pass. Crap defending after that.

We've got them rattled, if nothing else.

Soccerstats' form tables also show you the average number of home or away points for the opposition faced in the 4, 6, 8 etc. games covered by that form table. So you get an idea of whether someone has been racking up points in easier fixtures etc.

Hazy memory says Trent came on that side and instantly changed the game. Most important thing is to not concede on a hoof to Salah, like we conceded on a hoof to Marmoush (sp?) or had Pope sent off before the last final. We normally raise our game against the better sides, subject to the cursed fixtures of Man CIty and Liverpool away. Isak has VVD's number every day of the week and they can't handle Gordon on form, going back to when he was at Everton, so there is potential. I just hope we don't give them any presents. I hope the ref doesn't give them any for blatant dives either. If Darwin Nunez magically mutates into Mbappe again, so be it.

They've just won three on the spin to end the relegation talk, but Tottenham are still well down the league on +15.

Fingers crossed with it, but we've been avoiding draws and that means we can lose a few and get dejected by it, but are still accumulating the three points when we play better. Both Villa and Brighton have fewer losses than us, but are below us for winning fewer games. fwiw, we drew more games in the season we finished fourth (P38 W19 D15 L5) than we have since (P64 W31 D11 L22). Even just a continuation of that form for our remaining twelve games, W6 D2 L4 would give us 64 points and a strong shout for top five. We've been conceding a lot of goals recently, so that is the major concern.

The big book of football cliches says its a sign of a good team to win when you're not playing well. I don't think it applies to teams that are 4-1 up at half time.

Football bloody hell. Just as well we turned up for about 20 minutes. The rest, especially the second half, was very bad.

Come on young Sandro. Good to see Barnes back too.

Need someone to get a grip here.

Actually paid to watch this one and am not on a river for the first time in a long while. Now on a three pound fify monthly trial giving me this in 65 inch HD goodness. Money well spent! Just getting the goals again now. That pen is outrageous, given where Sels ends up, and the fourth is the Willock of old. Happy times!

Isak to fifty goals in the Premier League in fewer games than Henry and Aguero.

Fuck me! 4-1!!

What a comeback. Well played lads. Great resolve!

With that midfield, we might need the ref to be strict today. One that lets everything go like the one vs. Bournemouth (most fouls committed in the league) will likely see us bullied out of the game. However the ref plays it, we need to be more sensitive to what you can get away with than we have been in our non-City recent defeats.

Contract extensions under current administration >>>>>> contract extensions during Ashley era. Its been hampered/hamstrung by PSR, but I think the process is working and we should trust it.

Paxo knocked the stuffing out of him!

Cursed ground strikes again but that was still woeful capitulation. Team selection was wrong. Trippier might have been the correct call when we needed his experience to overcome nerves when 2-0 up against Arsenal, but he's well past his best, was a poor choice today, and got crucified. The rest of them weren't much better, esp. in central midfield. Fulham was a weird game but City today and Bournemouth outplayed us start to finish. We played with no authority at all and couldn't even manage a decent ten-minute spell.

First was a gift, second looked borderline offside (show me some lines!), but was still poor defending from Trippier again. Third looked like we'd given up. The guy was in acres.

Makes up for that effing seeding in the Carabao. Give the little clubs a chance! Fantastic from Plymouth. Big ferk up by Slot, so lets see if they can go five minutes without rimming him. Put Mo Salah and Trent on for the last twenty and its probably a different game.

Definitely. Players like Caicedo and Enzo aren't even match winners. Isak has 48 in 74 in the PL, albeit in just 62 games of minutes. Without wanting to jinx it, he looks likely to hit 50 as seventh fastest in PL history, faster than Henry and Aguero. Given that we don't need to sell, any starting bid should be for a league-proven Henry or Aguero. That's just for us to pick up the phone.

As ever, lethal from one yard. Which someone else wasn't.

Osula wide? Or doing some Josh King thing Wilson and Eddie did at Bournemouth? As someone in my late fifties, I wouldn't mind a blast-from-the-past big man little man.