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Bizarre game. At first glance looked like Martinez deliberately elbowed Jackson in the stomach to stop him getting back up to get to the ball when they were both entangled.

Lol, Leicester players just had a Christmas party in Copenhagen and made a sign saying "Enzo, I miss you" Leicester fans had no idea how lucky they were

A tight defence and goal scoring phenomenon Mo Salah. A dangerous combo.

Pretty happy overall, for most of the game made them look like a pub team, admittedly a lot of the blame for that is probably more on them than anything... Still worried that we are not super cut throat (Noni world class clearance from Cole Palmer's shot due to him being situationally clueless and brain dead, never seen anything like that tbh) and a total liability in our own box (feel like every game we are liable to give pens+reds). But overall big progress from last years (where we did not even resemble a Chelsea side).

To be fair our two worst players were probably Malo Gusto and Cole Palmer

Can't complain about 3rd in the league, only Liverpool really look on a different level to us. Maresca's impact is remarkable. Did not fuck around whatsoever and got us into shape way quicker than I could have expected. One thing we still clearly miss is big game players who step up when we need them most. Maybe Caicedo is the only one who steps up or at least maintains his usual level in the big games.

Looked pretty clearly offside but still, overall happy with 1-1, nothing to separate us really. Palmer didn't look like himself at all today. Starting to really get a rep as a flat track bully who disappears in the big games.

Sanchez showing time and time again why he keeps getting the nod World class shot stopper when he's in form

Two completely even teams tbh Palmer having a bad game in general, not just on set pieces, looks like he is really struggling - perhaps not at his best after the horror challenge on him?

Cracking pass from him just now to be fair

Just take Malo Gusto off tbh

Is there anything more embarrassing than doing a big celebration against a former club and then it turns out you didn't actually score?

Colwill is a classic case of a guy that needs a couple of years on loan in Germany or somewhere while being assessed to see if / when he is ready to play for us in PL Has obvious qualities but just not ready for playing at this level

Pathetic to stop the game for that

James has barely scored a goal since 2021

Colwill is a poor decision maker and a poor tackler

Not a great performance overall but eh, we are clearly a work in progress. Top 4 sitting above Arsenal, Villa and Spurs after 10 games. League is hard and no games are given for free these days - see City + Arsenal results. I'm pretty happy overall.

Can hardly complain about the draw vs Forest, they are ahead of us in the table and looking excellent this season. PL is hard.

Arsenal and City both dropping points in games they are favourites for, nice reminder that PL is hard af and we should not be so hard on our guys when they can't win literally every game

100%. The stamp on Neto's foot when we were defending a corner for example was clearly intentional.

Sanchez is our best shot stopper by a mile and we have defenders who leave their GK in serious situations multiple times per game. Might be unpopular but honestly think Maresca is right in picking him at the moment, even as shit as his distribution is compared to Jorgs, we would be worse off with him in goal overall in PL imo. Obviously, scouts/directors should have found us two better goalkeepers than Sanchez+Jorgs (+Kepa+...), but that is another matter. Maresca works with what he's got and when he speaks to the press he speaks positively about players who there is no intention from the scouts to replace, because what the fuck benefit is there in doing otherwise?

Penalties are quite simple to understand: is it a foul, and was it in the box? This incident passed 50% of the criteria.

Hard to follow your posts and what they mean but if you are referring to the Nkunku "pen", it was never a pen

Lets all laugh at Man Utd Actually going to get relegated

Not only did Reece play well, he didn't get injured or get a red card I guess Enzo must have had a word