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Wow another loss for PSG. Lille 3 points ahead with 9 games to go. Plus PSG has CL. Next 2 games for PSG - Lyon and Lille. Also interesting that Lille has no player in top10 goalscorers in the league.

You mentioned how Carlo has bad record in national leagues. But Conte is opposite. Horrible record in European comps but amazing in domestic. 3 seasons with Juve = 3 titles and 2 cups 2 seasons with Chelsea = 1 title and 1 cup And now getting title with Inter and last season 2nd place after years and years of Inter being from 4th place at best to mid table. Also won Seria B with Bari and got promoted with Siena. He always delivers. Curious to see what will happen to them next season tho...

Yes it's done imo. But also Milan honeymoon is over. Yes they have a couple of injuries but they were never really in race. They may struggle to finish in top4. Napoli and Juve are definitely much better teams. No top players in Milan midfield and attack.

Well, last team that won title over PSG gave some amazing players. Mbappe, Silva, Fabinho and some flops like Bakayoko, Lemar, Sidibe... Lille is still top of the table with 9 games to go. I am sure they have same good players for top teams. I noticed most mentioned one Soumare is usually on the bench.

Two better English LBs are playing this game than what we have. 😒 At least at the moment.

Reading this thread now, many of you may get things you wished for. - get past Round of 16 CL - almost there. - close the gap to City/Liverpool - we are ahead of Pool! I never understood this narrative many have that after finishing 33 points behind Liverpool last season that finishing lets say 20 points behind them would be progress. That is not how football works. We saw it many times. We finished 6th, 1st, 10th, 1st in space of 4 seasons. Things happen. Injuries, mentality after success and motivation is another big factor. - Comfy top4 finish - not likely. - Fa Cup trophy - still good chance. Signings did not met our expectations. (except Mendy and Silva). And now we have to look at this season in two parts. With Frank and with Tuchel. And this is most positive thing about our season. This change but also most negative. Depends how you look at it. We did not expect title before the season so this season can still be amazing, next two months will tell everything, too early to judge in terms of results.

They also have tough game but are they really in the race anyway?

We got point. Everton lost, Spurs losing... West Ham at OT. This may be good weekend for us in the end. Massive point!

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This is for Puskas award. I was just about to say how can Jose make team with Kane, Son, Bale, Lucas, Reguilon make so defensive. Arse players in attack are brainless in the final 3rd. Not surprising considering the best ones are on the bench.

Wow! WHAT A GOAL!

I do not see hype with Smith Rowe. Why is he playing ahead of Auba, Pepe, Willian... Artetas son.

Leicester winning just 3 games in the last 14 rounds last season is the reason why we got 4th place... Expecting another fuckup by them like that is pathetic from us. If we win 20 points from possible 27 in the next 9 games we are easily in top4. Focus on that.

What is Barcelona doing? Why did they swap Arthur for Pjanic who is old and now barely plays? And now they think soon 33yo Aguero and soon 31 Wijnaldum are going to help them?

Where is this talk of him leaving coming from? There is more chance of him becoming player on Sterling, Mane, Salah level than being a flop.

Atletico is also low scoring team. Considering how good our defence is under Tuchel it would really need miracle to happen for us to conside 2 goals.

City is just too good. But them getting knocked out in CL is one of the highlights in every season for me. I'm enjoying it so much!

Vlahovic is very promising striker. I usually dont fall for Serbian players but this one looks better than Jovic for me. 11 goals in last 16 Seria A games. 190cm and strong. It is huge difference between Haaland and all others but if we do not get him this one is the one to watch.

He was mentioned because we were discussing our offensive play and wing backs are big part of it. Apart from front 3, they are our most offensive players. And absolutely every game under Tuchel can be taken as indicator why Alonso is better for this position. Ben looked frustrating in every game he played in offensive part while Alonso looked natural and fluid.

Cech and Lollichon. Frank has nothing to do with Mendy.

Also Chilwell played in 3 of 4 draws under Tuchel. Not blaming him ofc but he did had chances to score against Wolves and today. Him and Ziyech should be away from starting 11.

Without Olie wonder goal and 0:0 I would not fancy our chances here. 1:1 would do it now. They need to attack us. Mendy, Azpi, Chris, Rudi, Alonso, Kovacic, Kante, James, CHO, Werner/Havertz, Giroud.

I think Tuchel will also realize that he needs Giroud as short term solution this season. His goals has been decisive last season and can be again. Olie has goals in him, we saw it many times, lately against Atletico. I expect him to play much more next two months.

We are not conceding any goals. 2 in 12 games and one is OG and one is when Zouma played in the middle which should never happened. Our problems are easily fixable. We have enough talent upfront to score a goal. We still need to find that lineup because we have no idea who are our 3 starters up front. This is why he is constantly changing because no one of 8 attacking players is saying with his performances: I should start every week.