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Lovely goal, love how buzzing he was to score too

Really good first half IMO

No fucking way is that offside

Absolutely awful this half, would be 2 pages in the Elanga thread by now if he had dished this up

Would like to see him get a solid run with Joelinton out, would be nice to see him a bit higher up the pitch and getting a few shots away.

Fantastic that

Least we can turn it off now

If it was genuine why don’t we just sign him now for the summer? Liverpool are doing it with that central defender

No chance, just play the kids and forget about it

What really annoys me about these games is that especially this season, we’ve seen far worse team than us go to Anfield and get a result, or a narrow loss. Every time we go there, we get hammered regardless. It’s almost expected that we will concede 3+. the above applies to the Etihad as well, it’s a real problem.

I don’t find it that strange, he seems to always get a bit of stick from their fans so was just in response to that IMO

Wasn’t a yellow card that challenge on Alison

Frattesi to Forest on loan, isn’t he supposed to be a good player?

So when do we find out if it’s Barca or Chelsea?

From the left back? Tv only showed the centre back

The willock offside goal looked tight on the replay; when they showed the semi auto offside it was against the wrong player, so not even seen any proof he was actually offside yet either.

Has to be in the next England squad for me.

Their form and defensive injuries is giving me the slightest optimism

Just coming today that, looks accurate according to the UEFA site; vs 21st or 22nd in play off then if we win vs 5th or 6th in L16 https://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/02a0-1f5779647b95-29ad8ef754a8-1000--champions-league-round-of-16-and-knockout-phase-play-offs-wh/

Been one of our brightest players this half.

I just think we are too structured and safe these days. I mean today I kept noticing Barnes was basically RWB in defence, meaning Miley was coming out to pressure the LB, and if we did win the ball back, our players were too deep to take advantage. we need to take the shackles off a little bit IMO

Looking at that, the fact we have played City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Spurs at home and scored 2 goals in each game, but only won 1, is very disappointing

Yeah there is that, Gordon has scored the odd couple & Bruno too, but it just feels like we don’t consider it as a viable option, our build up feels slow and laboured and by the time we have the ball in those areas, there is no space. It would be nice if the ball went to one of the wide players, and instead of taking multiple touches and passing it backwards or sideways, they just cut inside and had a dig.

One thing that irritates me is we never seen to create long range shooting opportunities, or take any long range shots. I’m not saying we should spend all game taking pot shots, but you look at Buendias goal and Cunha/Dorgu goals today, I feel like we are never having these kind of efforts, or even finding ourself in the space to have these efforts.

We don’t play to his strengths at all, if we are going to play him then we need to change the system