Tiresias

plenty of lasering going on of ronaldo's eyes

Ronaldo is shit

what a great pass

See Zidane has tried to amalgamate Wenger's early fashion choices for smartish suits with his late career puffer jacket obsession

Also I get all my opinions from the illuminati direct

He's not a great player like but oh boy praise a player who has long struggled for any improvement and suddenly we're calling him maradonna and are conformists scared of being jumped on. We shouldn't be in the position where we have to rely on as unreliable players like Perez Gayle and Joselu and yet here we are (well until Slimani is fit hopefully). Gayle and Joselu don't think have demonstrated much worth but at least perez has improved. Not brought goals of course which is what we need. The reason people might be saying similar things might be because we all watched the same match and saw an improved performance and commented on that. If everyone had different individual opinions, that would be a bit mad.

Yeah reckon he'll be sacked by them before end of week, new Chief Exec will want own man in

Watching it live it is kinda maddening the inconsistency of the high boot rule, remember when some pundits were practically calling for Shelvey's head for a similar tackle. Thing is I understand it is dangerous and needs to be discouraged, but I don't think there was any malice in Valencia's tackle. Studs straight into someones head should always be a red fair enough but yellow was fine for that I thought, unless we do want to start red carding ever kicking high up completely.

On Hazard, reckon when Neymar flounces off to Real Madrid in Summer Hazard will be PSG's replacement. It's slightly maddening that Hazard is nearly top tier but not quite consistent enough. I think he has been the best player in the league at times, sort of hyper efficient, direct and hard to pin down. However it really seems to not take much for his levels to drop a bit and he becomes invisible. I think if he was more full elegant and with a bit more flair he'd almost be forgiven the erraticness, he would be a classic european no 10 a bit too cool to care all the time, but he looks and plays like a super modern athlete so his dips in form become just strops.

He would have already if he was more consistent when it mattered. As opposed to Bale... Hazard's still been very good this season, just not quite the same as last year. He's easily good enough for Real Madrid. Aye but you need to consider why they bought Bale in the first place, was just as massive hype vehicle as it was for his performances. Hazard is very talented and technically could play for anyone but he's not as consistent as he should be against bigger teams. If he were someone would have bought him by now. Bale was incredible for Spurs like. I don't think it was hype Yep that Spurs squad was otherwise fairly mediocre, Bale just couldn't be defended against though, he's go through the gears and just belt one in out of nowhere. Really benefited from having a team that he was clearly the best.

Smalling and Jones aren't good enough on the ball, as indeed Neville pointed out. One of them is ok but we lack for confident technical defenders. John Stones is the best with ball at his feet by a country mile but he is also a massive idiot.

Really wish that early chance he got and dragged just wide had gone in, would have really boosted him, he did nearly everything right, shot early before defence had caught up, turned well, just a bit off target . His work rate has improved, doesn't seem to be as weak as he has been for a while, helped a lot by the exemplary closing down from the two behind him as well.

As if man united fans are in manchester like. Only day I miss the three plastic man u fans who used to work with me who had barely ever been near manchester

Obviously Sanchez is a worldy, it was a mistake by him but I also think Mourinho underrates creative types (he let De Bruyne go ahahahahahaha), he sold away Mkitaryian (I know I can't spell) who while not perfect played deeper and was at least a bit more creative and so he is left with Mata who is good but I think on the decline and Pogba who isn't really creative anyway even when playing well. He's got a wealth of great goal scorers but no great assist merchant. He was rumoured to be after a proper wide player in summer, then that seemed to become Sanchez so they could gazump City. They were desperately narrow and no-one threading great balls through.

big fan of that firmino assist

fucking hate that liverpool strip

Favourite moment was the extensive instructions he was giving to Hayden who was coming on with 30 seconds to go. I know it was to waste time but still 'JUST FUCKING CLEAR IT' surely

You're jinxing us when you watch!

Now please, more of that. He always has it in him but hope he can keep that level up against every team

Good, some silly bad passes that he needs to cut out but otherwise can't complain after helping assist and saving a goal

Only complimenting us to slyly dig at his own players

Diame was great, so influential in breaking up their attacks, again and again all over pitch. No idea where he got that from, hope this gives him confidence and keeps replicating that. Shelvey very good too.

haven't jumped around in my room like a tosser like that since last season when we beat Brighton just as it looked like our promotion bid may be in a bit of trouble