Cf

I guess when half the league change their managers any new manager bounces sorta cancel each other out.

What Emery has done should prevent any other PL club going anywhere near Gerrard. It won't of course. But it should.

We're 6 points ahead of them with 2 games in hand and a much better GD. If they get top 4 over us we don't deserve it.

At least.

Cant afford to not have put any of these away.

Nice pass to the keeper there.

Would be a very soft red that but was basically the same offence.

Superb goal.

Hodgson

Yeah. I don't recall seeing the lines. And didn't play resume very quickly rather than the usual ages they spend analysing it?

Hmm watching highlights I might be completely wrong there.

I think if I remember right that the reasons Isak's was chalked off against Liverpool was because the linesman raised his flag just as the shot went off so VAR can't do anything about it. So it was a linesman error because he should have let the play finish. He was onside.

I can see why it wasn't given in real time. Ref is miles away. The argument for it it not being a penalty I guess is that Jiminez's touch was also bad. He's not nicked the ball off Pope he's kicked it away and not even really towards the goal. It means he's running across Pope which causes him to go into him. If it was given I'd have no arguments but the fact there's discussion means I think stick with on-field decision. Refs should perhaps be a bit more forthright in saying to the VAR "I was miles away - what do you think?".

Isak and ASM linking really well.

Get in. From a Trippier delivery too. Great header.

That's comically bad officiating there. Free kick for falling over.

Danger with Burn is similar to players like Almiron, Longstaff, Wilson, etc. No-one can deny the exceptional job they've done in getting us to where we are. But longer term we need upgrades and the longer they stay in the team the more these players will start to grate through really no fault of their own. I do find the Burn/Targett thing odd though. Apart from let ASM run with the ball a bit we don't have any movement on our left so it seems such an obvious change to make.

Last few performances I'm not sure we'd have noticed the difference if Wood was on. Injury or covid, but for whatever reason a switch has flipped and he's shit. I hope he turns it around but not feeling it at the mo.

That was a lot closer than it looked at first.

We don't have Bruce managing us anymore.

Why was that corner blown?

Yeah. Don't think Karius was at fault there. If it doesn't deflect he needs to be down there to save it.

It's not game over yet but ffs. Just not going out way recently is it?

Quite how Schar's skull is still in tact I don't know.

Wow what a view!