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Would never slag any player off on social media, coward’s trick. He should never have had to play the minutes he’s done this season. It’s not his fault or anyone else’s really. He’s a really likeable lad and I don’t have an issue with him being a squad player other than the fact that he generally looks even poorer when he’s not had game time. Would be happy to see him play in cup games, Europa and get minutes as a sub in the league but starting him this much is just not helping him or us sadly

I agree, certainly until well into the second half of next season. As frustrating as this season has been there are still very few issues you can square back to Eddie. The only thing that I remain completely baffled by is the lack of minutes for Tino. Almost everything else can be excused based on injuries and a depleted squad

Gordon is excellent at cutting inside with the ball and always beats his man or wins the foul. Down the line it’s different. Barnes is all about receiving the ball in the final 25 yards, cutting in and striking at goal. His game is fairly limited but extremely effective when used properly

It wasn’t disgraceful by any means. The lads were trying but nothing was coming off and we looked massively disjointed and lacking any sense of what to do with the ball until the last twenty mins of normal time. It’s very hard to pick apart what’s going wrong at the moment. I think things will improve now that we can rotate and players can rest but I think we’ll remain inconsistent until the end of the season

It’s very clear how much quality he has and the footballer he’s going to be. No one other than Bruno receives the ball as well as him and he reads the game well when he has the ball. However, as others have said, physically he’s not there yet and he doesn’t read what runs to make. Defensively, is the weakest part of his game and the area where we’re suffering the most in midfield. Not sure what the answer is as I really like him but a loan next season is probably the right call

They also beat Chelsea and Spurs away from home in February and have been looking like a quality side in possession

Wolves are quality now. I don’t think it’ll be turgid. More likely to be a fast paced game with them taking the game to us. Think it’ll suit us but we’ll almost certainly concede at least one

The competition likely gets extremely difficult from now on. On our form earlier in the season and last season I’d go into any match thinking we could win. I do think we’ll be much improved for the quarter final but we need a favourable draw to make the semis. Liverpool, Man City, Man U and Chelsea would all beat us if we were away. If we were at home to those sides I think we’d lose against Liverpool and Man City. Not sure about the other two

I love the directness of Tonali’s reason “gambling addict”. Entirely accurate but still so weird to think that’s why he’s out for ten months

Aye, Tuchel

Hard to say anything remotely positive after that. There are a lot of things you can’t control but he could cut out his flopping tomorrow and it would be an instant improvement. You cannot be laying on the ground after someone tackles you by winning the ball

Agreed on the position, I like him and we need a player who can score from 20 yards but we needed that player on our right. I still think he’ll be overall a good signing for us but there were some priority signings we needed before him

Agreed, the long ball hoofs can’t have been what we practiced. I just don’t know what that performance was tonight on the ball. Hopefully they can start making improvements in training now that we’ve actually got a squad to play with

Great pen from Anderson, hope he can get some decent sub appearances at the very least

Pleased that we’re through but that was horrible almost from start to finish

Come on Schar, redeem yourself

Think this might be the worst I’ve seen Sean play considering the opposition

Must be saving him from pens

Tino’s been quality, given us so much more in terms of carrying the ball

Cannot understand what our game plan has been tonight. Blackburn have played very well but I can’t understand how we’ve been set up at all. Fuck off Barnes

Our players have absolutely zero confidence at the moment

Fuck off man

Have we got another sub we can make to take Longstaff off?

If this goes to pens I think we’ll lose. We have to win this in extra time

Longstaff really has to cut out flopping after being tackled