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Old guy wins it for me, especially for the first 2, and then the first 4 he's going down with sickness. Koreans just a perfect mix in there. First guy so tiresome, had to fast forward.

Bring on the children, and ritchie!

Anderson has been so good today.

Van de slipperry doo

Can the commentators fuck off trying to sell our players.

We are doing well but woulda liked a 2nd here. The random punts from everton could get a lucky bounce. Would also be nice to get a few goals ahead so we can put on some academy fodder and rest some purples.

If everyone that went off against West Ham are unavailable what do we look like today, something like this? Murphy - Schar - Burn - Hall Longstaff - Bruno - Willock Ritchie - Isak - Barnes Depending on the fitness of Barnes/Anderson either of them probably cant do 90 so might as well have some pace coming off the bench. There is an argument for Dummett at either fullback to push Murphy ahead to avoid Ritchie as well. But this is looking a bit tight.

For some absurd reason I thought I'd turn the stream on 30 mins early. It's an honour to watch Jamie Carragher talk about man city vs liverpool as pre-match buildup. I didnt mute it right away.

Villa is one of those teams that always leave a foot in even when there is no chance of getting the ball, hope they get done 5-0 here.

Havertz is such a wanker, always gets away with it too.

It's been the same for about 8 games now. Players can just kick us from behind the entire game. If they did this against Liverpool there'd be 4 yellow cards and Christie would have been off.

Refs are just getting worse every game.

Notice Gibbs-White trying with all his might to push Botman and basically nothing happens.

How does Yates not have a single yellow.

Can we not play like this for 60 minutes again. Put Livramento on ffs.

Feel like we were too handsome after Shelvey left.

Can we please just put 1 defender with pace on when we are basically just defending counter attacks already?

I have had this very reaction for months.

Feels as harsh as against PSG this. It feels almost worse that Chelsea are allowed to go through. Cheating bastards with their red card tackles and diving. Bringing on hundreds of millions in subs whereas we can bring on Matt Ritchie. Players make mistakes and Trippier has been amazing for us.

Not sure about this. Do we have 5 players who can still kick a ball hard enough?

Gordon looks slightly worse to be fair. I think they are just shattered. Both taken quite a few hits too this game already. The ref doesn't know how to blow the whistle unless its for a Chelsea free kick.

Well good luck if we ever stop having VAR with these refs. Then again i guess he would still have gotten everything wrong in the game, except maybe a sending off or two

Can't believe how poor Nunez looks when he's not playing us.

Subs now. Shola and Shefqi Kuqi on please.

Front-three have been pretty bad for a while now. Almiron looks like he might benefit from 2 weeks off matches and a few shooting/passing drills. Don't think I've seen him hit a ball cleanly for about 5 matches. Miley and Krafth looking like our best players offensively this half. All of our players having off the ball movement and pressing as their main attribute offensively is all well and good when they can run for 60 minutes, force mistakes and get subbed off. But we just aren't doing that, and we seem clueless in how to beat a settled back 4. Fulham haven't even defended well at all. There's loads of space but we just arent finding it. Next transfer windows really has to be about offensive quality.