Smal

if there’s a player who can get Emerson sent off it’s Gordon, mind

Our shape in build up has been wrong as well by the way. Not enough options when we have it at the back and has resulted in lots of hoofs/passes to Dan Burn

I don’t think Burn can play two games in a week. He looks absolutely dead on his feet after he was amazing on Sunday.

I’d change to a double pivot so we can stick the third midfielder closer to Rice here. They’re playing through our midfield too easily.

Howe’s fuming

Howe is a fucking magician man. Everything he touches turns to gold.

love Dan but he’s done everything wrong so far this game

Saw this earlier today, but he's obviously feeling a lot better than he did

Willock and Isak as options off the bench though lads, that's pretty good to have.

Chelsea bringing back Frank, Leicester going for Martin O'Neil, Forest sacking Cooper... The PL is absolutely fuckin' nuts

Just watched the highlights again I don't dislike any football club apart from Man U. Such a satisfying game. We absolutely ruined them all right.

Shearer would be able to just shoot from anywhere on a 5 a side pitch. The whole game would be the other team's keeper picking it out of the net.

“Fuck the tories” chant from Liverpool fans met with “sign on” from Chelsea fans

bizarre to me that Sterling isn’t getting a game here. There’s loads of space in behind Liverpool and they’re really easy to play through.

Brentford are away at Man U tomorrow night as well though. It's the same for everyone.

From the daily heil so not linking but:

Yeah, we had no Bruno for that game. He will make a huge difference obviously.

Feel like he’s been in and out of the team so much this season that we haven’t really had chance to get him in the pitch with Bruno, Willock and Isak (+Almiron!) at the same time in those kind of games. One of the features of our play on Sunday was flooding the right so that we could isolate ASM 1v1 against Dalot and it worked really well. We have more threats for the opposition to deal with now so they won’t be able to double and triple up on Maxi.

I thought it at the time with the eye test, but when you look at his numbers from the game they’re exactly what you’d want from Maxi in this team. He was pretty flawless to be honest. Right up there with Trippier on the day. Hope he keeps working hard on his fitness so he can be sharp for longer in the games. That’s the main downside with him.

Massive, massive games on down at the bottom of the table, but the one that's on telly is a mid-table shit-off. The TV deal is a disgrace for UK fans, like.

his header and assist was pretty incredible watching it back. He was running and leaping pretty much full pelt to get on the end of it but still managed to direct it inch perfect.

yeah, his control and quality in tight areas is absolutely elite tier. Very exciting because we have the midfielders and wingers to thrive off that ability. For the first goal on Sunday, both Willock and Bruno's movement off him is the prime example of that. Really good to have two different forwards like Isak and Wilson to choose from as well.

what a fucking team, man

must be a bit of decency bias due to the last squad, be he’s consistently introduced players. Even in the last game he gave Toney a debut.