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If Villa hits form again now it's kind of crazy how similar their season is to ours last season. We also had a dip in form in january where most people started to doubt, but got back to winning ways in february.

Earlier this week I literally joked about Anderson being back being a bad thing, since that means one of our current CMs will get injured. Seems like it's bound to happen.

Oh dear.. Hodgson opted to play him again and he lasted 10 minutes. Talk about being short sighted. Literally made the same mistake some days ago and didn't learn at all. The game was pretty much over aswell, 3-0 at half time.

Going back to what he said in that interview.. "I truly believe that if you keep being consistent with what you do, good things will come." Being consistent can be great, but sometimes we need some flexibility..

When was the last time Burn got dropped for having a bad game? Livramento has been way more consistent overall, so why is it then that Burn keeps the spot regardless of his overall performances compared to Livra?

I kind of wonder why Livra lost his place though? He barely had a bad game. It seems like Livra is held to a way higher standard than Burn for some reason, because Burn can drop stinkers without losing his place while Livra has to be a world beater to keep it. Maybe it's tactical? I just feel like it doesn't really send the right message. Right now they are not really competing for the spot, because Burn will play nomatter what.

Doesn't even matter. Expect him to start next game.

I'm starting to think that we are stuck with Burn as a starter until he's 40.

Just 2 months left until Willock and Anderson are back. In the mean time there's Alfie Harrison.

Van de Ven is very quick for a CB..

Wouldn't be the first time that we decided to start a player who shouldn't. Why did Pep "risk losing" to us by putting De Bruyne on the bench? He had been injury free for a good while at that point. He was one of their very best players available. When did being careful with a player whos had a muscle injury stop being a reasonable thing to do? If you think leaving out Isak for one game is bad, imagine having him being out for several games. We would be "risking points" for way more than 1 game if he gets injured. Obviously it's up to the medical team and Howe to assess the injury, so hopefully they make the right decision..

He said things in the media first with the Sancho situation.. Such gaslighting.

14 g/a in the league aint that bad. He might be wasteful, but he plays really well in general and he rarely gets injured. There's a reason why he's starting every game ahead of players like Gakpo and Jota.

What happened to Maddison? Muscular again?

Captained Saka over KDB.

How does Man City have 0 injuries in their entire squad?

That means that one of our current midfielders will get injured now, because our injury situation is programmed to never improve. Worrying.

We've been playing at the same level at home. Just a huge difference away from home really. We looked like ourselves in 2 away games in the league, second one being yesterday.

Seems very expensive for an injury prone player. Unrelated, but: When are we going to realise that letting the player decide may not be the best solution? Why does Premier League managers do this? Even the medical staff said that he shouldn't start..

Last season we were frustrated with the amount of goals that our 3 tall defenders scored, which was 3 in total (2 from Burn, 1 from Schär in gameweek 1). This season they've got 8 goals between them. Our corners has improved a lot.

They suffered from several injuries to key players. March, Fati, Veltman, Lamptey, Wellbeck, Webster, Enciso and Estupiñan has all been long term injured. Their squad is not deep at all either. Adringa went to AFCON, while Mitoma is playing in the Asian Cup.

Chelsea spent £25m on the goalie who got dropped for Steele..

Yeah, since september..

We kind of need 2 strikers at this point.. And sell WIlson. If we just have 1 striker as a backup to Isak, that 1 striker could still get injured and we are back to square one.

Yeah, that was my point. I just wrote it in a confusing way. I just don't understand how it doesn't heal, or why he keeps getting injured. It's not the amount of games this time.