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7 points off, quite a lot.. Remember last season when Liverpool was chasing us by winning every game, while we had a bit of a dodgy form towards the end? We still kept ourselves ahead by 2 points, although I think the lead started out with 9 points. Anyways "just" 7 points off with 10 games to go means that our chances for 6th are very slim, unless we go on an insane run. 7 points is a huge gap.

Pretty sure he played the majority of his carreer at CB before Newcastle? Sometimes at LB with Brighton, but mostly CB there aswell from what I remember.

Wasn't that impressed by PSG in the group stages, but maybe they will get their act together when it really matters. Real favourites to win the whole thing for me. Man City nr. 2. So the winner in that game will obviously be in a great position.

Still can't believe we didn't get a pen for that.. Literally a red card challenge inside his own box.

Fair, don't know all the details on this one. As someone mentioned though, we could've probably subbed him in some games.

There is reason to believe that Miley or Anderson could've done better anyways, considering how Longstaff has played with his injury..

A bit puzzled as to why he would play and injured Longstaff over the others. Both because other could do a better job in this scenario, but also the injury can get worse. Worth the risk? Did his sports science team tell him to pick him?

The solution to our ongoing midfield crisis, potensially?

Watkins injured. Pretty bad for Villa if it's serious. They don't have good cover there.

Lifestyle aswell. Diet, alchohol comsumption, etc. Andy Carroll didn't do himself much good on that part.

So Southgate knows about Tino? He's evolving.

And this is what google says about hamstrings: A hamstring strain, sometimes called a pulled hamstring, happens when one or more of these muscles gets stretched too far and starts to tear Yet it's a well known fact that hamstrings are more likely to happen to players who get overloaded. When you are tired the muscles doesn't support your body as well as they used to, so they don't protect you as well from unnatural movements. That's just one of the factors. About ACL:

Did you know that managing workload in reltation to risk of injuries is part of a managers job? Players who are being overloaded are of a much higher risk of injury, those of the kind that Gordon, Willock, Isak and Joelinton and Trippier got for instance. I don't get how people try to deny that the manager has any control over how many injuries that we are likely to get..

Probably out for the season, which is one thing. A knee injury could very well carry over into the next one. Right now I'm just hoping that he won't miss the start of next season..

I was very pro Howe earlier in the season, simply because of this. He talked about it in the interview with High Performance. That is exactly why I'm so disappointed that he seems so stubborn in some areas that doesn't work. Saying that you allways try to learn by your mistakes is one thing, but it's not worth much if you're still repeating mistakes. It's a bit confusing, because he says he allways tries to learn by his mistakes, but in another interview he says that he believes that if you keep being consistent with what you do, good things will come eventually. For me those 2 can be a little bit conflicting.

I just watched that goal back, and couldn't help to notice.. Kind of looks like most of our players just gave up as soon as he went past Schär? They all just stopped and looked resigned. Mudryk still had to get past Dubravka and the defender running towards the line, there might be a rebound..

When we bought Barnes and didn't get a right winger, I suspected that part of the reason was that Howe might have been happy with how Almiron and Murphy fit into his system. We know he likes players who can press like Almiron. Unfortunately pressing isn't everything for a winger, and Almiron hasn't even been close to replicating what he did in the first half of the last season. Maybe it was a bit naive? It feels like whenever a player has a really good run of form, Howe has this belief that if he keeps playing them then they will find that form again eventually. Some players only have 1 purple patch in their carreer. Mediocre players can be key players for some months, and then return to normal. Then again, maybe Barnes was just all we could get in terms of wingers at that price point.. I wasn't against it, but I was also puzzled that we didn't seem to focus on the urgent need for a quality right winger.

Over a short period of time, many injuries at once can be bad luck. But consistenly getting a bunch of injuries every month throughout the entire season, the manager will have some responsibility (look at Bielsas last season at Leeds, Howes last season at Bournemouth). Wouldn't be surprised if we break a Premier League record with the injuries. The first ones last year involved some freak ones, but in 2024 most of the injuries are of a different kind. The manager runs the training sessions, decides who will play and when to bring someone off etc.

Palmer made a fool of him at times. If anything, yesterday was a good example of how much better Tino is than Burn. Crazy how Burn just automatically got his place back after injury.

The first injury of Barnes was a freak one, but a hamstring injury is very unusual for him. Kind of alarming. Hope he is fine, obviously.

I don't think that was the real problem. It's more about how some players who join us goes from never injured to allways injured once they sign for us. It's not something you can predict, but surely it can't be pure coincidence at this point?

He has had 1 injury in his entire senior carreer before joining us. Similar to Isak.

The point is that every club gets decisions like this against them, but somehow Man City almost never do. The fact that it was accidental doesn't matter all that much, accidental penalties are made all the time. It was dangerous play.

I know we hate Liverpool, but how can these decisions keep going Man Citys way? Is it really just pure coincidence? If someone made a statistic from the last few season, I'm sure that whenever VAR/referee got it wrong in a City game, 90% of the time the decision went Man Citys way. While their rivals for 1st often gets these decisions against them.