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Feel confident about this, just get the sense Isak will turn up against these.

I hope it's Barnes left, Gordon right. Barnes and Livramento have developed a good partnership and understanding, breaking that up and shifting Barnes to accommodate Gordon makes little sense.

That's why it will be a cut back into the 6 yard box. Wilson's finishing is top quality, just hasn't had the opportunity to remind us in his recent appearances.

Wilson will score. Cut back into the 6 yard box.

That is the LND yes

Hmm, struck with a ball to the face and Guehi has to go off? Would like my centre back to be a bit more robust than that, Schar withstands worse every game.

Surely Pep's team talk just needs to be showing them the clip of Henderson's foul and sending his players out in fury to hit some blasties at him for 45 minutes.

If Henderson saves this penalty after that man...

Don't understand that, why does it matter if Haaland is moving away from goal if Henderson has handled it outside of his box?

Palace have entered City's half literally once in 11 minutes, they're going to need a bit more than that.

Ben Arfa remains something of a secret, an inner-knowledge only Newcastle fans know in England. I think other fans see him as just another flair player like Boufal, Taarabt, Bolasie etc. I don't think many realise he's one of the greatest talents to ever play in the premier league. Evra is given Nasri, Benzema and Ben Arfa - yet he's immediately swooning over Hatem. Rightly so.

I always really liked our current badge, I now think it's the single greatest piece of design work ever produced in the history of mankind after seeing the ocean of abominations in this thread.

As a professional graphic designer, any doubts over the future of my profession in the age of AI have well and truly been eradicated upon browsing this thread. Thank you.

Watching Sheffield United - Bristol City and Vinicius Souza would be an interesting proposition for us as midfield reinforcement. Probably as close to Joelinton in terms of style of play and stature I've seen.

Terrible finish from Diaz, I feel like other than Salah, Liverpool's forward options are a bit lacklustre.

Won't be, but should be manager of the year if we do get the Champions League place. His achievement is more impressive than that of Slot. Easily one of the best managers in Europe.

I reckon it'll rarely look like a typical 5 unless Chelsea are in a phase of sustained possession. One of the centre backs, likely Schar or Burn will be pressing high. Should be a good game this.

Hot stuff from Donna Summer

The footballer equivalent to Paris. Incredibly favourable PR, but in reality a bit underwhelming and at times absolutely shite. But vibes and 'aura' and that though.

I'd probably disagree there too, it's one thing being able to find and execute passes from wide areas with time and space on the ball, another thing entirely to find those passes in congested, more central areas of the pitch. When Alexander-Arnold went into midfield he looked like Jeff Hendrick.

As a right back, to be exceptional and to be regarded as the best the league has seen, I think you need to be a quality defender first followed by the ability to effect the game in attacking positions. Alexander-Arnold is literally nowhere near the conversation as the best right back, defensively-speaking, the league has seen. There's been hundreds better than him. He's a great passer when afforded the time and space his position in Liverpool's set up tactically affords him. He's excelled in that area and his quality has been allowed to shine, which is testament to him, his coaches and his teammates equally. He's not the best right back the league has seen though, nor anywhere near the best in the world. To add to the names you mentioned, Bacary Sagna, one who rarely gets mentioned but was a far better right back than Alexander-Arnold.

If you say so. I'm just talking about Joe Willock's performances in the Joe Willock thread, so I don't think measuring him against Bruno and Tonali who were both well below their standard today is really that relevant.

Again, I don't think anyone is singling him out based on one performance, it's that over a long period of time he hasn't done enough when given the opportunity, so I and apparently many others are looking keenly at his contribution. I don't think he contributed much of note to the game today and looked his usual frustrating, haphazard self. More of the same Willock we've seen for a while now. Whether or not he was better than Bruno and Tonali is irrelevant to me.

Willock was poor today. I'm not sure what you mean by telling on myself - I don't rate him, I'm not trying to conceal that opinion.

Yes, because his performances are under scrutiny as we await him to show us something to suggest he's good enough to be part of the team going forward. Tonali and Bruno both had individually poor games, but I don't think this is about individual games with Willock anymore. It's probably been approaching 2 years since he performed well and he's now had ample opportunity.