Pizy

Thiago Silva had already been rested a couple of time in prior matches so I have no idea why he has been rotated today. We could predict as soon as the XI was announced that this defense would struggle no matter how shite Arse have been in recent games. And my God, I can’t wait until this summer when we can finally address the LB situation. We desperately need a Alonso replacement. I’d even take some boring guy who isn’t great going forward so long as they can defend. Chilly + a new LB and we have a colossal upgrade.

Our midfield is totally nonexistent and the left side of our defense is a nightmare. We’re making them look dangerous in nearly every attack. Kante is basically 1v3 or 4 every time. Kova is very much missed. Or in form Jorginho to calm things down and stand in the ball.

FUCKING CUNTS ONCE AGAIN JUST HANDING ARSE A BAILOUT WIN

Unreal. Fucking GIFT on a godamned plate. Arse posing ZERO danger and we hand them a goal.

I think it’s pretty dangerous to assume that before this match. What seemed like a comfortable run in not long ago is actually quite tough if we’re in the position of needing to win them. Arse, United, West Ham. Everton, Leeds, and Watford all potentially in desperation mode and needing 3 points. Leicester is never an easy fixture. If let off the gas and go on a little poor run we could be in danger.

A couple of bright youngsters apart that’s a shocking Arse team. If we avoid playing down to shit opposition as we’re known to do by being lazy we should be spanking this lot. But it’s pretty easy to see us giving them a lifeline if we let our level drop. Those young Arse kids across their attack will give absolutely everything. This ugly looking defense we have need to really be on it.

Don’t like completely rotating the defense at all. Arse are going to be desperate x100 to win this after 3 straight defeats and know this match against us can be a springboard to turn things around. So we rotate Rüdiger and Thiago both out? And as good as Reece has been at CB we take away his best attribute playing there. I’m perfectly okay with rotation across the attack but we should’ve played our best possible team today, gone all out for the 3 points, and then rotated heavily against United if necessary with much less pressure. Can see this being very choppy and disjointed. 😔

Damn, I desperately want to win this one. Would absolutely cement our CL place and we can sit back and not have to concern ourselves with the others for the rest of the way. Yes, we’re likely safe now but to be completely at ease for the last 7 matches would be great. As poor as Arse and United are, we haven’t had the best record against either in recent years. It isn’t inconceivable that if we hit another rough patch of form in these next 2 matches we could be dragged back into the mud with these pretenders behind us. Win this and our players are stress and pressure free the rest of the way.

We’ve shown numerous times this season that we can comfortably compete with Liverpool when we’re on the same pitch. But when you watch them against other sides you immediately notice the biggest difference between them and ourselves is the insane crispness to their passing and movement. The speed with which they pop it around is nuts. Almost telepathic. It’s just 1 touch and bang, 1 touch bang almost every time. We’ve some players who can play this way but too many who can’t. We need to phase these players out this summer.

I dream of us signing a killer, versatile attacker in the mould of any of these Liverpool players to pair with Kai and Mase. Our scouts together with Tuchel need to be laser focused in finding the next Salah/Mané/Diaz/Jota.

Fucking hell, what a goal.

You could tell how much they respected him during and after the match. They probably would indeed love to get their hands on him as would any other big club. Thankfully there’s absolutely zero to worry about. He’ll be here for his whole career. Rüdiger on the other hand… 😬 Wouldn’t be surprised at all to see him choose Real Madrid.

If the figures being talked about are true (and they surely are) we were never in a million years going to be in the race for Haaland even if Roman were still here and willing to spend big. Lukaku or no Lukaku we aren’t a club that would pay any player £500k a week. There are only 3 clubs in the world who are willing to do so and those are Real Madrid, PSG, and City. And the latter 2 have literally limitless cash funneled through their clubs. Honestly, I’m not sure just how much scarier he makes City. They’re already completely dominant in the league and score more than anyone else. He should certainly help them in those games where City created chance after chance but couldn’t score and therefore dropped points I guess. That’s the only reason Liverpool we’re able to catch up. But I don’t think he’s this transformative signing like he would be if he came to Chelsea.

Assuming we manage to keep Rüdiger (and I know that’s a big assumption) we should be going hard after 2 new CB’s, not just 1. A Christensen replacement and a more “on pitch general” type who plays centrally to rotate with and eventually replace Thiago Silva long term. I liked the look of Sven Botman when we played against Lille and I know he’s moving this summer with Newcastle after him. He’s a giant who would suit the league, is only 22, and is made for that commanding central spot in a back 3.

We can kill them stone dead and put a nail in the coffin with a win here. Whilst this isn’t a “must win” or final for us I hope we treat it like one. I want to monster this lot and win by 3+ goals.

Funny what happens when inject some pace and intensity into our attacking play. Palace looked like a Championship level side in that second half because we actually looked alive.

We’ve completely negated Zaha’s influence with Reece but as a consequence of his positioning our attack suffers. Much as I love Azpi, this is another match that shows why it’s best to move in this summer. If Tuchel had it in his mind to use him as a CB in the squad that would be different. But he simply isn’t a wingback at this level.

Made it extremely easy for Palace to defend us by playing walking pace football. Didn’t even work the keeper or the defenders at all. Really allowed them to have the exact sort of choppy, slow game they would’ve wanted.

No idea what to expect. One match Palace can look really good and go toe to toe with the big clubs, the next match they can look dog shit and get battered. Would be nice if we start like we did against Madrid here so Palace don’t even have a chance. Aggressive from the first whistle and take the game to them.

Knowing United they’ll shithouse themselves a flukey win against the most in-from side in the world with a CR7 goal and then proceed to put in an embarrassing effort their next match. I really don’t want United to sneak into 4th so I kinda ant them to lose even though I also don’t want Liverpool to win the league.

Martinelli and Saka will suddenly play out of their skin again when they play us. I remember them being at rock bottom with Arteta in the verge of the sack (was it last season or the season before, o don’t remember) and they beat us.

Btw, I called it live during the 6-0 last weekend that Southampton would be desperate to bounce back and atone for the embarrassment against Arse. And they did just that. That’s 3 straight embarrassing losses for Arse. 😂😂😂😂 Still, now we have to not take for granted that they’ll roll over for us next…

I see Ronaldo has bailed United out of a shocking, horrendous performance yet again. Where on Earth would they be this season without a 37 year old who does fuck all for the team except for score goals? They’d be about 10th or something!

The message was sent to the City players before even kicking off that Pep didn’t care about this match with that terrible team he put out. They look like an overawed midtable side today.

Liverpool are going to win at least a treble. Quadruple unless we stop them in the FA Cup. 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢