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Why is there always a small square of seats in the away end at Burnley left blank?

Most open PL title/CL positions in years? Anyone out of Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Tottenham could win it and all 6 of them fighting for the 4 places. Then you have Everton in and around them and pushing for a European place.

Good to see Sissoko is still all fart no shit. Absolutely no end product that bloke and just runs around.

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They were away in the southern Russia on Thursday, so the expectation is that they'll be knackered (they got thumped in that game too). Still think it's a good price though.

Their next four matches (up until the end of October): Stoke (a), West Ham (a), Southampton (a) *EFL Cup*, Arsenal (h). They could quite easily be rock bottom with 2 points after 10 games and out of the cup. Can only predict four losses there.

Cue the meltdown on RTG.

Rashford is such a great talent.

The names being touted around for the Villa job are glorious. Their own fans praying for Steve Bruce fgs Looks like either Bruce, McClaren or Warnock. Fantastic.

Shaqiri looks really tubby, is he? Or is it just muscle?

Rafa is and always has been a defensive coach, he'll never play with 4 attack-minded midfielders and 2 strikers, it wont happen and people need to give up fantasising about it. We'll win a lot of games (and already have done) this season by one goal.

Don't think there is any chance of Stoke going down, same with West Ham.

Man Utd missing everything.

:lol: They are only 4 points behind us. That makes us poor. No, it means we're better because we have 4 more points. That's how tables work, if you have more points you're a better team.

Wenger would be delighted at the chance to manage an international side and not worry about signing people.

Think this will be a fairly comfortable win, these are quite poor. How many do we have going off on international duty?

Been very good, he's outstanding in the air - barely loses a single header all game. Think he's been a very astute signing, considering a lot of us doubted it when it was made.

I love Rafa more each day.

Was better yesterday, he looks short of confidence and I think after a good performance or two (and a goal maybe) he'll kick on and come good.

Really like the look of Atsu, a player who will actually take his man on and can deliver a bit of quality too.

Ronaldo will be along in a minute to call everyone twats and claim that Dummett is good at defending. Despite evidence all season to the contrary and us having to watch the worst team in the Championship give him the run around yesterday. That nutmeg and Dummett passing the ball out for a corner shortly after

Add in the fact that they will also need to hit the ground running. They are 13 points off of automatic promotion, with these next four matches: Wolves (h), Reading (a), Fulham (h), Birmingham (a). That gap could quite easily increase as they will drop points in those games regardless of any new manager bounce.

Mitro came on and made a good header straight to Diame who then had the opportunity to run at goal, no? He then won a couple of freekicks and headers, that relieved the pressure. He made one huge error at the end, when he tried to cross the ball when he should have kept it in the corner. But I don't see how anyone can slate him for that 10 minute spell, especially when he was thrown on to do nothing other than relieve a bit of pressure as we were hanging on. Colback was okay, Diame better today than he was on Wednesday but I'd not have either of them in the team. Clark and Lascelles were very good at the back, again.

Agree on all points. Think Clark is outstanding in the air.

A 1-1 draw at home to West Brom is a disaster for anyone in the Premier League. Nobody would view that as a good result. Especially when West Brom dominated most of the game and should have won comfortably before the mackems got a late equaliser.