Geogaddi

Just out of interest those that basically want us to throw this game / rotate / play the reserves , would you be saying the same if we were playing Dortmund on Wednesday instead of Man United ?

Comparing Eddie to Ten Hag, look where we were when Eddie took over compared to where we are now then do the same with Ten Hag and Man United whilst also looking at the cost of each squad, it’s not even up for debate who the better manager is.

Imagine wanting to throw this match

Eddie Howe: "You won't find me moaning about the schedule. "This is the pinnacle, where we want to be” Class attitude that from Eddie, some of the comments in this thread today are laughable.

We will be top 7 regardless of the result against Arsenal.

I would rather win on Wednesday than beat Arsenal like, if we knock Man United out we have a very realistic chance of winning this trophy looking at who is left in it. We will likely play the reserves on Wednesday get beat and then play a stronger team against Arsenal and still get beat anyway.

Surprised we are odds on for this,draw won't be a bad result.

Yeah normally wouldn’t mind a smaller club breaking into the top 4 but Villa have some sort of weird hatred towards us that makes it hard to like them .

Villa have had a good start but have been demolished by us and Liverpool in the two hardest games they have had .

We have only lost to teams in the current top 7 going back to the start of last season , you have to be a very good team to beat us and I see no reason why that’s going to change , take away the Villa and Brighton away games and you basically have to be elite to beat us .

They will attack us which will play into our hands ,4-1.

Think with Phillips is if even Pep can’t even get a tune out of him and he was coming back from pre season overweight and unfit you have to question his attitude and commitment .

They will make it hard but it should be a comfortable home win. I am at the point now where barring Man City, Liverpool and Arsenal I go into every home match confident we will win.

He’s elite but at the same time Doesn’t seem suited to playing up front on his own but it also feels like he’s wasted on the left , not really sure what the solution is.

Spurs have massively out performed pretty much every stat going to be where they are , no way will they keep that up all season.

By all accounts Eddie was desperate to sign him and he was scouted for months , have no doubt he will end up being class based on them facts alone .

They only have 12 points from the first 7 games in that farmers league mind , they are obviously a very good team but that is a very underwhelming start to the season.

I think we are a better team than last season and even with the extra games can still get a similar amount of points which should be enough for top 5 again.We are still a very very good team and you have to be a good team to beat us. People seem to be getting carried away by Villa after yesterday but both us and Liverpool demolished them.

I still think the top 5 will be the same as last season just not in the same order . Man United will improve , Brighton and Villa are similar to last season and Spurs aren’t as good as the league table shows .

Weird one, Isak and Wilson are both better than him.

Out of all the players we have he’s the one who could become elite , he should always be playing if he’s fit as should Wilson, still yet to hear a convincing argument as to why they can’t both be on the pitch at the same time .

Feels like this should be as comfortable a home game as you will get in the league for us. They don’t play in a way that means they can sit back and frustrate us which tends to be the only way we drop points at home to the lesser sides. If they come at us we will run all over them . 4-0.

Be tempted to play him again Saturday and keep Trippier fresh for PSG.

What an odd thread , the daft bastards are complaining about the bad luck they have in cup draws , they have literally had 12 home draws in a row in domestic cups over the last 3 seasons . They are probably the luckiest team of all time when it comes to cup draws.

He was playing with an injury at Brighton and we were 1-0 up against Liverpool until he went off .