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Could have just fucked up both cups here has Gordon. Cheers

Gordon out of the final. You fucking idiot

That’s a penalty that. Go with your fucking head ya tit!

Completely forgot to make one of these bold. If it’s not too late then I’ll go for the West Ham 2-0 Leicester game as it hasn’t been yet, no worries if I’m too late!

Ideally Bruno doesn't end up in an actual foot race with Salah, more for defensive graft and doubling up which in my opinion Willock has been very poor at all season. All well and good Willock having the pace to keep up with Salah but if he doesn't have the correct mind set to actually track back and put the shift in then it is useless. Why would Bruno, the centre mid, be running after a right winger that stays high on the full back for 90 minutes? Salah would be Hall's job, but would get help from the LCM.

Shows how far we have come doesn't it, Saudi's bought us for almost £300m and now three of our players are probably worth that alone (not to even mention Tonali and Bruno's worth).

I am at a loss with this one for what tactics I would do, do we throw Botman straight back in? 5 at the back? Or just the usual? Think I would prefer to have Botman on the bench to bring on to help see out a plucky 1-0 win () and save him for the Brighton game: Pope Tino - Schar - Burn - Hall Miley - Tonali - Bruno Murphy - Isak - Gordon Starting Willock LCM against Salah/TAA/whoever plays RCM whilst they are attacking would not work, we need the LCM to put some serious graft in, so Bruno is the best option for me in Joelinton's (likely) absence from at least the starting eleven. I think we need to sit in and try and counter attack them. It would never happen but would genuinely love to see Osula start on the RW just to give us an unpredictability on the attack, and that would give us some serious pace on the counter.

Brighton 1-1 Bournemouth Palace 2-1 Villa Wolves 1-1 Fulham Chelsea 3-1 Southampton Brentford 1-1 Everton Man United 2-0 Ipswich Forest 2-2 Arsenal Spurs 2-2 Man City Liverpool 3-1 Newcastle West Ham 2-0 Leicester

He did that awful pass straight to Gibbs-White as well, although most the team was guilty of giving the ball away in the final third at times yesterday.

All teams are massively inconsistent so we need to stop panicking when we have a blip. - Forest are starting to struggle and have a tricky run coming up - Man City have been up and down all season, without CL you would fancy them to get top 5 but even they aren't great. - Bournemouth just lost at home to Wolves, yes they have had some great results against the big teams but they seem to struggle at times to break down some of the weaker teams and now that there run is over, we will see how they will react. - Chelsea are in freefall at the moment without a proper striker in the side and two of the worst goalkeepers in the league. - Villa still look pretty average most times they play, they have CL games to worry about again and three tricky away games back to back (Palace, Brentford and Brighton). If they get a decent points haul from those games I would start to worry, but again they are so inconsistent. So basically we need to stop losing our minds every time we lose a game we shouldn't because everyone is doing the same. Realistically Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City should get CL, but with two other places up for grabs we still have a great chance!

Three points is all that matters but fuck me, that second half was awful!

What was said at half time? One of the best first halves I’ve seen from us followed by this shit

They’ve deserved that, what are we doing this half?!?

I have been beating this drum for a while but depending on opposition (I.e. do we need a Joelinton battering ram in midfield) the best midfield trio is Miley, Tonali and Bruno. Miley has been fantastic! Also credit to Willock, will do him the world of good

What a beautiful half of football

The ref was looking right at this!

Twice Dominguez has kicked/thrown the ball away. Rules not apply to him?

Did well to not touch it with his hand and he follows the ball in to get those tap ins well, good lad Murphy!

What a player Miley is!

I can’t stand this referee

Shit from Murphy to lose the ball and the effort to put a challenge in after was so poor. But what was Pope doing! Frustrating because we started well

Duck me this game is huge, come on lads!

Leicester 1-1 Brentford Everton 1-0 Man United Arsenal 2-0 West Ham Bournemouth 3-0 Wolves Fulham 1-1 Palace Ipswich 2-2 Spurs Southampton 1-2 Brighton Villa 2-1 Chelsea Newcastle 3-1 Forest Man City 1-1 Liverpool

Buy Trafford for £70m and sell Pope for £60m.

Really disagree with this. Howe completely isolated both him and Hall with his tactics of going man for man. You have to be perfect to play like that and it didn’t work today. Hindsight is a wonderful thing but he got it very wrong today.