Good shout, not ruling out Alioski by the way. He certainly wound young Greenwood up a treat. Ref was crap. How he gave a free kick against Bamford when he chased his own flick-on was scandalous. Poor game overall though it has to be said.
Very good defensively, very poor with the ball. llorente and Philips top performers for me today. No one else could find a white shirt when we had the ball. Great save from meslier and no foul ups. And we didn’t lose to the scummers. That’s my full set of positives.
I'll take that as a hard fought point against another team of twelve. We can all see were we need more quality but these players give everything, that's all I ask
Afternoon all. The Shaw hand ball should have been a pen. I thought Philips, Dallas and the defence were very good today. I still don't understand why Poveda gets on. I just can't see whats good about him, he's too small, he's not quick and he doesn't seem to be able to go past anyone. I thought Harrison and Costa struggled. We just couldn't find a man with the ball so we just kept heaping pressure on ourselves. Good point against a team that have a good away record
No team in this league wouldn't take 5 points from Liverpool, Man City and Scum. We can definitely compete! We're above one of the big six.
I don't what to say. Christ we just beat Man City took a point off Liverpool and Scum all on the trot . a couple of year ago I'd of laughed in your face even thinking that but I'm frustrated as hell because I wanted a win so much there. to be honest it wasn't coming was it. Scum had a full strength team out and we missed our talisman Raphinha and marquee signing Rodrigo. That's a mammoth effort really when you look at it from where we have come. Still not changed my mind on Roberts or Costa though infact I've even put Roberts infront of Costa. He is weak as Pizz won't challenge any 50/50 balls or even 60-40 balls in his favour. You know when he has had enough when he goes into injury mode its a sign take me off. I thought we defended very well out there today and Phillips ran fecking miles and gets my MOM not because he created anything special but he done alot of the unseen dirty work out there today Battyesk. Thats 6 unbeaten with 2 very important players missing the bulk of it. Frustrated yes but let's put into reality what we have just done these past few weeks Might not of won but we defo ended Scum's title challenge so a little satisfaction.
6 undefeated, 4 against the CL contenders..pundits were spot on about us running out of steam ..****ers.
We have: Away Brighton Home Spurs Away Burnley Away Saints Home West Brom How many points can you see?
Agree with almost everything said by everyone, but would add Koch wasnt brought on as a CB he was brought on to look after Fernandez and allow Phillips to look after Pogba. Poveda was a mile better than Costa and Harrison and hardly had the ball. Hes got skills and runs at defenders, we just didnt get it to him enough and on top of that we had zero final balls into the box today from anyone
Did anyone stay up and watch the UFC early morning? One of the matches was Chris Weidman v Uriah Hall. Unfortunately 15 seconds into the match, this happened:-