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Manquillo regressed? Dubravka regressed? Fernandez regressed? They most certainly haven't.

Don’t think that’s true tbh. Fernandez, Dubravka, Hayden, Manquillo, Shelvey, Lascelles, Ritchie... all here last season, all have arguably had better seasons this year.

Yeah, we had that spell where we showed we could be threatening. Just makes it all the most frustrating because it leads me to think the players either didn't have the belief or just couldn't be fucked. I thought Carroll done all he could, Saint-Maximin tried but was hampered by the tactics and made some silly errors early on. Joelinton & Lazaro gave it their best too after coming on. The rest, nah.

Precisely the reason I’ve disliked having him in our team for years now. Not the fact he’s shit at football, it’s the way he carries himself around the pitch, half arsed, grumpy. Shelvey gets grief for it but Gayle is far worse and it’s never touched on.

Love Bernardo Silva man. So good.

Really can’t wait to see the back of Gayle like. Poacher apparently FFS.

True. Painful to watch like.

Darlow who is supposedly due to be sold too... fuck sake man. Dubravka could have easily been the difference here, our best player by a mile this season.

Aye, either way not playing Dubravka in this game is really really stupid. A good 30% less excited for it now.

Poor standard between Chelsea and Leicester for two teams with such good players like. Littered with individual errors.

Bless him man, can tell he was probably pure loving it and thought man the world needs to hear these lyrics. I rate it, better than most footballer crack online.

I'm just assuming one of him or Hayden will be out given their knocks, but really crucial we get Hayden in the line up if we have a chance here imo. Wishful line up more than what I expect. I was also thinking Joelinton could do a sort of wide target man role (I know he's not a target man but can be someone else to aim at along with Carroll when we're penned in).

So what? Let him play an hour then? He will hardly touch the ball, rather use him as an impact sub. Problem with that is we might be already out of the game by then. I’d rather start with our most threatening team and against City’s suspect defence, Carroll is a great option.

Can see a 2 man midfield with Shelvey in it getting completely over ran. Hayden and hope one of the Longstaffs are fit is our only hope. I disagree, neither of them have played for ages and weren’t in very good form anyway. Shelvey looks sharp to me and grafted well since the restart.

Think starting Carroll with Jo on the wing makes a lot of sense in a game like this personally.

Hoping for: --------------------Dubravka---------------- Manquillo---Lascelles----Fernandez---Rose ---------------Shelvey---Hayden------------ Saint-Maximin------Almiron-------Joelinton ----------------------Carroll------------------

Harry Maguire is probably the least graceful player 'top' player I've ever seen, everything seems like such a fuck on for him. All the grace of a reversing dump tru.... I won't bother

Decent stop from Krul that.

I'll be excited tomorrow morning like, for sure. Not so much now but match day always excites me regardless. It's ingrained.

At first I was like, eh it's mad how Saint-Maximin didn't make this chart... and then...

Certainly not from my point of view, really like him.

Noticed against Villa he lifts his head up very late, when you watch Saint-Maximin as soon as he has beat his man he lifts his head to get a picture of what's in front of him.

FFS man Please don't ever leave Saint-Allan.

Still offering a fair bit to the team imo. When we're penned in from a set piece, the way he picks the ball up and drives us up the pitch is impressive. I appreciate he's still lacking consistency in the final third though and probably isn't going to be a goalscorer you can rely on for 8-10 goals like you could with Perez.

Woodman.