cosmicway

3-0, well done. Pool had the bat's bone again.

The Russian team was of the level of Wolves-Palace. Mendy was excellent.

I watched from Spanish tv channel. Their commentator said "penal" after the first replay. There was no long time lapse before they saw it, making it impossible for VAR-Atkinson to come back to it. I expect the commentators of SKY saw it likewise.

What do you think about Timo and Kai ? I think Timo is doing well and against Sevilla it was an exception. Today he did not have any real good chances. But Kai -for the moment- is for Aston Villa.

No lottery ticket. Some of the good Chelsea names have demolished goal posts from that angle.

In the last minute Kante had the ball in a good shooting position. Just try it and let De Gea save it for heavens sake. He kept dribbling himself and the match ended with a United attack.

Not only that but one minute after the Mc Guire - Azpi embrace, Atkinson varred us for a possible penalty in favour of United ! I thought for a moment he was lookin for Mc Guire but it was us being investigated - for nothing !!

MU with Atkinson engine. We escaped defeat thanks to Kepa staying home.

Ridiculous. Anything less than a 2-0 win against United counts as defeat.

Apart from the last fifteen minutes we did triy to move the ball towards their half, it was n't parking the bus. Timo lost his irons yesterday and he made a Morata out of himself in the last minute of the first half. Also with 2-3 clean headers their keeper was lucky because the ball went straight at him. I don't know how Sevilla compares to Bayern Munich but they are certinly the betters of Real-Barca-Atletico these days. I believe now that things can only get better - not like last year when the initial good performances in the league was obvious they could n't last.

Tha last two Spanish visitors beat us. Atletico 1-3, Valencia 0-1.

Krasnodar looked fairly mediocre to me against PAOK. They won both legs, 2-1, 2-1 but they are not really that much better than PAOK. And Rennes failed to beat them tonight (1-1).

1 point won for sure, but again we can't be happy with a draw at home against anyone really.

Not bad against a top European side. It's a good one point. In the return leg anything can happen but Sevilla can't be more dangerous than they were tonight, it's not going to be a nutmeg night.

The top Spanish sides are not doing so great either. Real-Barca and Sevilla lost yesterday and the day before. Only Atletico won.

Barkley was getting better.

Clean sheet ?

Trump wins the American election:

Amidst the gloom and doom, Timo is the new Chelsea super star. The other man from Germany, Havertz, has yet to show his true colours.

What you say is in a sense true because they had some more shots from the edge of the box that could have found the target. I explained Kepa's flaw though. He 's not so much of a ball dropsie but he is not using his legs. Then the defense we have do this thing too: They don't play safety, they are too anxious to see the ball pushed forward even when the scoreline does not dictate such necessity. Those are two regular mistakes I have spotted, plus Christensen-Alonso-Zouma being somewhat below the level of the club. Also it's all about running. You know why we were better than PAOK Salonika ? It's not because we have such superior ball skills. It was because we ran like an express and they were barges. Against Bayern Munich, it was different. We were the barge, they were the express train.

Another thing about the defense is they 're not taught to watch after their *ss. Zouma behaved as if we were 1-0 down and we were into "attack or die" mode.when he made that dangerous pass to the goalkeeper. He could have quite easily have kicked the ball out for a Southampton corner.

Kepa cannot work with his legs. He stays put then he dives but he cannot reach balls. That last minute shot could have been easily parried if he moved a little to his right before diving. He had time. It's the umpteenth time. Before that he made some good saves and he cannot be blamed for Southampton's second goal - that one was Zouma's error. Thankfully the season will be over soon - only seven months left.

Sevilla one up in Spain tho.

Los brexiteros (Aston Villa) - Klop 4-1 !

Better this time.