Mazzy

Aresnal after this game play Man City, Brighton and ourselves in the next 4. With the other being a London Derby against Chelsea. They are deep into bottling territory now. They really have to Beag Man City else they have lost the title I reckon.

This is worse than Brentford first half. Atleata there we could blame it on penalties, no excuses today. Dan Burn needs to go right now off the pitch.

That midfield has got alot of energy and forward drive. Can see us getting caught on the counter at least once.

If that's him and Rashford out for the next few then they will struggle. As shown from that game having Maguire come in to replace Martinez is a step down.

They probably all say that at some point. But the lure of Man City is tempting. No doubt Kalvin Philips thought the same before he moved.

Give him a 8 year contract and I'm sure he'd settle for £199kpw.

Spending so much money on Rice and Bellingham that Targett stays as first choice LB

Ansu Fati being made available in the summer. Still really young, would've been perfect as a loan because I think they'll ask a crazy amount for him. But he's certainly the type Howe could transform.

I imagine we'll hear something closer to the truth from Howe tomorrow at the press conference. Not the exact truth ofcourse but, truth adjacent perhaps. Ideally Miggy will be back fit for Spurs so he'll take ASMs place in the matchday sqaud and then if we could get ASM back for the last 4 games or so to make an impact that'll hopefully do.

He does, but also, the commitment/desire that causes him to receive so many cards is also one of the reasons he's such an effective disruptor in this team. If he held himself back in the next few games to try not to get a yellow, perhaps he wouldn't be as prolific in what he does.

Easy goal for Madrid. Just another 2 to kill this tie off.

Hypothetically, if this happened and they were the only signings we made in the summer (aside from players for the U21s) would we be happy with this? I'm not so sure I would be.

I've no doubt Howe and coaching team will know all about it and have already got a plan in place for it. Its lucky in some ways that we play them after Emery has had run of games to get his style into that team so we've actually got an idea how they are going to play. Makes coming up with a system to beat them just that bit easier.

Wasn't Diaby a "flop" at PSG? And now the general consensus is we should spend £60M or more on him. Perhaps the kid just needs more time and a better environment.

Howe mentioned it recently. He knows the team needs to be rotated but the back 4 is the one area he won't do that unless forced. So I can't see Burn getting dropped unless we lose a couple and he is seriously at fault.

That's a truly bad appointment for Leicester. The only good decision they made was for it to be presumably only till the end of the season.

In that scenario could we not be classed as the "whipping boy" as surely our UEFA ranking compared to alot of other teams in the UCL will be quite low. So there could be a worst case scenario whereby we have a group of death situation consisting of Real Madrid, Marseille, Dortmund and ourselves?

Before these last 3 games I would've said we'd finish on 69, but after winning these last 3 I think 75 is probably about right.

That's a hell of a save.

Ben Foster the hero.

Wow! Penalty in the last minutes for Notts County.

Is there so little else to discuss that we are still talking about this. Let's move on....who would be our perfect draw for the group stages of UCL?

Great game at Wrexham now. 10 minutes to go and I could see it ending 4-3 or 4-4 easily.

Chose the Wrexham game over Coventry game. It's been alright so far but could end up being a bit dull, not alot of goalmouth action up to now.

I think we still need to beat Spurs after getting something from Villa to be really confident about UCL.