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A bit over the top. Yes he has scored 6 goals, but he hasn't been that much involved in every game, and in some games he never looked like a threat on the ball. Probably been carrying a bit of an injury, but I don't really think he's that much better than players like Botman, Bruno, Gordon and Trippier right now. Surely Botman would go into that PSG team?

Will be interesting to see if the Liverpool, Sunderland and Man United human rights activists will even care if this one goes through.

I watched highlights from Leicesters CL quarterfinal vs Atletico. Leicester were absolutely robben on several occasions, and VAR would've probably corrected them. I've seen highlights from other older games too, same story then. Nearly every game they got a key decision wrong. It's easy to forget how bad it was before VAR, we were just used to big mistakes back then. Whenever VAR makes a mistake, someone comes out to say that the solution to that is to scrap VAR.. As if that leads to less mistakes. Anyone who tries to say that the decisions are worse now because the refs have gotten too lazy to make the decision, and then it's not clear and obvious, needs to start watching older games and compare them to modern ones.

Would be funny to see what they would say if Qatar bought them.

That clause better be difficult to trigger!

Fortunately he only has 1 yet in the Champions League. Yeah, I think what bothered me the most about the PSG incident was that he did it in what was our first home game in the Champions League for 20 years at 2-0 up vs PSG, when it was one of the few ways that we could actually throw it away (judging by how PSG wasn't really hurting us that much). It could've ultimately cost us advancement from the group of death, especially considering the suspension on top of it. The occasion was massive, and the timing for something like that could not be much worse. All because Ugarte barely bumped into him. Maybe a red would be soft, we didn't get a great replay. But it's a massive risk to take for no particular reason.

My friend who is an Arsenal fan warned me about Bruno after that Southampton red card, and told me about how much Xhaka has cost them. I ridiculed him, and told him that it was Brunos first red in his career, and he didn't even do it on purpose. I found the comparison ridiculous. He gave up the discussion because I was really defensive about it. I still think it is a bad comparison, but I'm also starting to realise that he was probably just observing how emotional Bruno is, and not just that incident in particular. PSG game could've been a whole different story with a different ref, and people would've cared 10 times more about what he did if he was actually sent off vs PSG, and we lost a 2-0 lead because of it. Completely unnecessary. It's easy to downplay it when it hasn't really cost us yet.

I honestly wonder if we showed Man City too much respect in our league game against them. They didn't look all that great, but some of our players looked a bit scared of taking any chances going forward. Even after their goal. City hasn't looked as good as last season. We did face them when they had Rodri available though..

Funny player. On form he scores 2-3 per game. When he doesn't, he looks pretty bad.

I can see this in the future, but I don't think that it would be fair to start Tonali over Longstaff now from what we have seen so far this season. At the same time we need to play Tonali so that he can build relationship with his teammates.

I feel like VAR should be able to check yellows if a player is already on a yellow. Either to potensially cancel the second yellow or to give it if the ref missed an obvious one.. It has the same consequence for the game as a straight red most of the time..

Here we go again.

I was one of those who said that Jones red vs Tottenham was correct, but I don't get hoe this one is not red when the Jones one was..

Was White even offside there? They are supposed to wait incase there's a goal for VAR to check unless they are miles offside.

Some refs would've sent him off right before half time at 2-0 vs PSG. The ref didn't give it. I was saying in the match thread that these things can throw the game away, but got a lot of stick just because he had played well and people said it wasn't even a yellow. Now the same thing happens again, lucky not to be sent off. Bit too emotional sometimes.

Dummet has also played at left back quite a few games I think. Only Wilson and Dubravka has never played as a fullback.

This will probably be a tougher game than what the PSG game was at SJP. Crazy.

Serhou Guirassy with another hat trick. 13 goals in 7 games. Last 2 seasons he scored just 9 and 10 goals for Rennes.. He's 27. Crazy

He also got a new contract at around £350.000 per week..

People were saying in the match thread that anyone who thinks it was even a yellow are stupid.

Brighton hasn't lost twice in a row in the league since october 2022..

The only reason I checked his pass percentage was because I felt that he kept giving away the ball cheaply, and the stats were saying exactly what I thought that they would say. He had the lowest % out of all midfielders and strikes on the pitch. That's why I mentioned the stat. But I seriously think that pass percentage gives me more reliable information than xG or xA. It's much harder to define expected goals, while a pass to the opponent is allways a misplaced pass.

I think that xG and xA is not the same as passing accuracy. Something similar would be "expected passing accuracy". Both Tonalis passing and the comment about xG and xA was based on what I saw in the game with my eyes. I would make a compilation on some of his involvements for you if I can figure out a way to download the game, because you seem to have missed it.

Newcastle xG 1.05 PSG xG 0.96 This tells me that we should not allways take xG and xA so seriously.. This suggests that we scored 4 wondergoals from nowhere, when in reality only the last one was a screamer.. How did PSG almost match our xG? Even their manager admitted that they didn't really scare us for the most part. If we scored just 1 goal this game from those chances that we had, we would be kicking ourselves, while PSG scoring just 1 was pretty fair.

He has trained his left foot to also be able to function as a right foot when required.