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They need to get Rafa on one week like.

The thread title with the 'a' separate from the rest :lol:

Lovely keeper gloves them like, bless him for thinking he needed to scribble the Prague badge out though I'm sure nobody would have minded with him putting in a performance like that.

Absolutely love Juve's kit. They consistently have some of the best shirts in world football for me. On the game, I fancy Spurs to level this up, I don't know why.

Luv u really, KI. You're my favourite person to disagree with on here

I think Rafa will absolutely introduce Slimani as soon as he's ready regardless of the current form of others.

Aye, whilst I've been in support of Shelvey & Ritchie when others haven't, I've been one of Gayle's biggest critics from the beginning of the season, but his little knock down to Ritchie was absolutely brilliant on reflection & I thought he generally worked very hard and made a real handful of himself against Utd.

I hope so. He's had his fair share of critics this season and rightly so at times, but I think the majority of us really like his passion and work rate, and if he added some of those goals from last season back into his game he could be really useful to our survival hopes.

As you have said yourself in the past, we post things on here to have discussions, you can't then moan when someone takes you up on a point made. You misread the article, it's okay - just let it go man

Backing Ritchie to get his second here. I say that now I bet Murphy comes in with Ritchie dropping to the bench knowing Rafa

Well you said he shouldn't talk about other teams like that in public, but he's not he's talking about how good we played and were set up & how it led to errors and made the opposition struggle to assert themselves. That's where all his points come back to, absolutely nothing wrong with that in my eyes. Think you're taking too much from the article headline and not enough from the substance of his comments themselves.

He deserves full backing like, he's earned it the hard way through performances. I and many others have been massive critics of him in the past but he's well and truly turned it around this season & last.

Aye but he's making the point that the way we played didn't allow them to settle and led to errors. His comment is largely focused on us and not them, despite the headline of the article. "We were aggressive..." "We set up really well..." "The manager got it spot on..." "...but it was down to our pressing" Think you're misinterpreting the focus of his comments a bit by saying he's focusing too much on the opposition.

Have you got him a Valentine's day card?

Where did you see/hear Rafa mention anything about who the centre forward would be? It's not that he explicitly said one of them would start, it's that he commented on both Slimani & Joselu in the week leading up to the game which would suggest to the opposition preparing to face us that one of them was likely to play. https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rafa-benitez-discusses-whether-slimani-14270745 https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rafa-benitez-gives-upbeat-fitness-14245354 I'm perhaps reading too much into it, but if it was his intention to throw them off, then it was a very astute bit of tactical work.

Maguire is also a really good ball player and perhaps less prone to a mistake than Stones; although I'm only saying that based off general consensus, I haven't seen enough of Stones lately to really know that to be true.

It was a good strike that like. I don't get the opinion that he is a poor striker of the ball or a poor finisher. I think he's very much proved the contrary when he's been given the chance to get in the positions. He's comfortably the best finisher in the squad not counting Slimani.

Tarkowski shouldn't be overlooked either, he's been fucking excellent. If the likes of Jones & Keane are even in the discussion, Tarkowski simply has to be as well.

Aye it was in the first 2 minutes I think, Martial drifted by Shelvey with a nice change of direction and Diame just clattered him and set us away on the counter. We sustained about 10 minutes of attacks from that point on and I truly started to believe we were getting something out of the game Big moment for me was Dubravka collecting the cross after his first good save, he must have came 7-8 yards to gather that, massive boost of confidence for the back line.

http://i66.tinypic.com/foey9v.jpg

Does this mean football will cease to exist next?

Indeed, won every header asked of him today, some of which were very awkward namely a freekick they had in the second half. What a defender he is.

Alan <3 Dubravka

I'm reluctant as to get a full back who can defend as well as Dummett and also attack would cost a fortune and would probably not be feasible for us. I think if he was replaced with more attacking player we would miss him massively. The solution may be to get a back up attacking left back to challenge Dummett but not to replace.