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I think the away form is largely linked to not playing with the same intensity and press that we do at home. This must be to try and save legs either for the latter half of the season or more likely because of injuries and squad fatigue. I don’t doubt that they’ll have a plan in place for trying to make us more defensively resolute away from home but we’ve not played with a consistent back four all season and our midfield lineup has been very inconsistent too

Don’t really see how the argument is in the middle. We have a manager who dragged us out of the depths with some amazing football. He gets us CL football, he has us qualified without a freak refereeing error. He takes us to a cup final for the first time in over two decades. He gets us extremely close to qualifying for the semis of the same competition the following year, despite playing Man City, Man U and Chelsea. All while we experience an unprecedented injury crisis. People are criticising rotation and in-game subs. I think we’re all on board with that. If people are criticising much beyond that or questioning whether he’s the right man for the job then they need their heads checked

His passing seems pretty brain dead at times. Never saw him before he came to the PL so no idea what his level is really. I love how much of an idiot Nunez is though

Trossard doesn’t usually start does he? He must be pretty much the best player in the league that doesn’t start regularly. Unless he does, and I just don’t follow Arsenal enough to see it

Love him, no idea what sort of business we’ll do in January but I just hope he has proper options in the new year with players coming back. We’ve massively missed our wide players. I wasn’t all in on having needed a RW in the summer but I am now, whether it’s this window or the upcoming summer

Injuries, fatigue and awful tactics, oh my. Ten Hag needs to click his heels three times

Man U going for another match where they try their best to Mount zero attacks? Not watching but the stats look like it’s a Ten Hag classic

The fact it’s not televised may dampen it down mid-game if it goes badly

I’ll support managers I believe in to the hilt. I can’t really conceive of what would make me stop believing in Howe. It would have to be a total change in his footballing philosophy. Pardew, I turned on in that season we finished 5th as I could see he was an absolute charlatan. Fair play to him for achieving 5th, fair play as well for being a snide wanker who had absolutely no understanding of how to manage players, build a team, coach players, create tactical systems. Howe has clearly evidenced that he’s an elite coach and an incredible man manager. I don’t really see any flaws in him other than his choice to rotate and in-game substitutions being up for debate. Everything else is phenomenal and the reason why we’ll win something with him within the next two years if he’s still here

This has been an awful spectacle for where football is at with technology

The VAR show tonight so far

What an appallingly stupid bit of defending. Not saying it should be a penalty but it could easily have been given

He’s as far away from £50m in ability as you can imagine. If he’d come through at our club he’d be a million miles from playing for England. He’s got a good attitude and he does what he’s told, that’s about as good a comment I can make about him

These are more positive quotes

Worrying

They only want a “fair” competition where the odds are massively stacked in their favour

Who are the PlayStation bros?

Aye, I checked after I posted. They must have gone on some run

Ooof, it just gets worse for them

Can’t read it, is it tripe? When they’re talking about pressure, are they talking about from the board rather than fans?

Hope they’re monitoring a bank account with over £120m in it too

Hope we absolutely go to (Luton) town on these boys

I imagine Liverpool are desperate to free themselves from being unfairly treated by anyone and everyone and willing to put pen to paper on a league where they play themselves 10 times a year and that’s it, so that Klopp doesn’t have to worry about the players being too tired

Would be hilarious if Barca and Real Madrid face further financial sanctions because of this

Can’t wait to see Barca and Real Madrid play each other an additional fourteen times a year. Maybe just kick them out of La Liga and they could up it to Fifty matches against each other per year