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If both sides are at their best we are better imo. Better goalkeeper and defenders, and much, much better strikers.

Everton have laid out the blueprint of how to play against Brighton. Defend narrow and deep and don't press their center backs, then be fast and wide in transition. We can do the latter but probably not the former.

He really needs to step up in the next two games. Games like today's are the ones you expect someone like him to be able to control - put his foot on the ball and slow the game down a bit. He can do it with his quality but he wasn't close sadly.

Need to beat Leicester and Chelsea to get top 4. I don't see us getting anything from the Brighton game unless we make big changes - the way they play through midfield vs our non-existent midfield atm is a massive mismatch.

better than 1 in 2 in the Prem for us now. 37 in 72 is pretty good considering 44 of those games were fighting relegation. Would be cool if he got to 20 PL goals this season.

He can be dodgy sometimes, sure. The positives far, far outweigh the negatives with him though. He has been the most effective build up player in the league behind KdB this season. Take that out of the team for a better defender (Dumfries is not a better defender at all) and you lose so much more than you gain. There is a clear hole in the system when Longstaff isn’t playing as you’ve said. The midfield basically didn’t exist in defensive transitions today and it was the same against both Villa and Arsenal.

this is absolute madness imo. He has been incredible this season in all kinds of games.

ASM for Miggy imo. Get past their full backs and we're in. Keep Willock on. He's good for a goal here.

If Miggy has a right foot that's a goal

Proper heads gone stuff from us.

Both wide players cutting in and passing across will suit Leeds down to the ground. This was the wrong game to bring Miggy in imo.

They will be fine with that. We must get to the byline - that's how City scored both goals last week. The rest of the time they were pretty frustrated.

Big Jo holding with Bruno further up

Will be a very different game to last week, so still very excited to see Wilson and Isak starting again. Little bit concerned that Miggy is totally ineffective in games like this but let's see.

I'd be playing ASM on the right if he's fit. If Leeds are going to play deep the best way to tackle that is getting to the byline and using cut backs with players in the box, not cutting inside.

plays like he's taking the piss. Get him signed up

think Walker has done pretty well against Vinicius, mind.

it was the City v Bayern first leg that made me think that. It was like the game was being played at 2x speed but everything was just as precise as usual.

really dangerous to elbow people in the head, like

This Real midfield has absolutely nothing down their left hand side. Slow as fuck midfield and Vinicius Jr is lazy. Stones will just run through them all night.

you’re right, apologies. We’re all set for the CL then!

my only concern is we’ve been quite streaky this season. Whenever we’ve lost a game we’ve gone on to either draw or lose the next two games. We’ll have to break that pattern.

Also dodgy

wow, Steele is absolutely terrible