Pizy

If we're able to keep most of the ball at least we'll have good crossers in wide areas and someone to actually aim at in the box.

With the exception of AC, that might be the best we can hope for considering our injuries. That Spuds team really doesn't look at all scary. But neither did United's.

It's basically going to be a "who can be less shit with all the injuries" derby. I do like how Lamps said in the presser that the players fully realize how seriously important this match is. But they should have last game as well and shit the bed. I truly fear for us if we lose tomorrow.

We've fallen pretty damn far. And yeah, I actually wouldn't mind seeing Alonso or Emerson starting in their natural position instead of playing Azpi there. We need all the attacking threat we can get when Pulisic and CHO are both out. As for AC, just sick and tired of seeing him get pushed around like a youth player that was just promoted from the under 18's. At least Zouma and Tomori are built like tanks.

Kepa back in for Willy, Mount will be in for Kante, and hopefully Giroud in for Bats. I'd rather Giroud than an injured Tammy in such an important match. God knows I'd love to see AC dropped for Tomori or Zouma, but Frank seems to have fallen in love with him and out of love with the latter two for some reason.

Man, seriously wtf is going on with Pulisic? How does he pick up such a serious injury in training? Starting to piss me off.

No Kane, no Son, no Eriksen. Mourinho ball. They leak goals. But it probably still won't matter because we have so many key injuries ourselves. This is how it'll probably go - we dominate the ball, dominate the run of play, have 20 shots with 5 on target, don't score a single goal. Then, after getting pinned back most of the game, one of their smallest players like Lucas will get one chance in our box and score to win it. Story of our season.

It's just so infuriating and frustrating to have so many key players out injured all at the same time (and at the most important time!) of the season. Injuries are something Frank can't control, but it's the things that he can control that are starting to really bother me. Having Michy above Giroud in the pecking order is baffling. Frank has praised Giroud all season long for his training and professionalism. So if he's training so well why can't he get a sniff? The only explanation is that it's an ideological thing. Frank must think that Oli is just too slow or something. But he cannot possibly be worse than Batshuayi. Then there's the defensive decisions. AC is softer than two-ply toilet paper. He's skinny as a stick and gets bullied even by people much smaller. He falls to the ground constantly from soft pushes. He seems to go down for treatment or worse every game. Azpi, as much as I love him, should not be starting over and over as a LB. And then the keeper situation. Just put Kepa back in and ride it out. If he returns to form, great, if he doesn't get rid in the summer. But Willy isn't any better. Kepa's average level is better than Caballero's average. I just have no faith we'll even finish 5th-6th if we don't get Pulisic, CHO, and Tammy back AND in red hot form all at once. Teams can look at our team without those players and think "unless Willian pulls some magic out of his hat from outside the box they have no real goal threat." Everyone can get set up well in a low block and we have ZERO answers.

And that's top 4 gone.

How FUCKING lucky have United been here today!? TWO obvious VAR decisions that completely change the game go in their favor.

Christensen is massively soft physically and makes schoolboy mental errors. How he is a first choice CB I don't know. He should be a distant 4th choice. For all Zouma's limitations on the ball, he wouldn't be getting beaten in the air by fucking Martial.

United have been as shocking as I thought we'd be but are leading. Batshuayi is a black hole at the top of our attack. Everything just dies when it gets to him.

AC beaten in the air by a fucking small striker.... Tomori fucking PLEASE.

Very surprisingly, we've actually been very good up until the very last bit in the box. But without the goal we're living very dangerously. United look very passive and kinda like they don't have many ideas.

That's an easy finish for a good striker. DDG was leaning the opposite way and that net was wide open. Fuck off!

That was almost exactly like Son's red against us. What's the differences!?

Bruno Fernandes loves talking long shots and is a great goal scoring midfielder. Hopefully no howlers from Willy when those long shots inevitably come.

An ancient, mediocre keeper, a RB playing at LB, a past it Pedro, a shite Batshuayi, and a Willian who can look brilliant one match and invisible the next. And wtf did Tomori do to be seemingly dropped for good? He's easily better than AC for me. But yeah, this just again demonstrates how much we need in the summer. A couple of injuries and we look like a squad that wouldn't look out of place around 10th in the league.

That may be the worst Chelsea PL starting XI I've seen in 15 years. Wow.

My word! This looks like an early round FA Cup team! I can't see how we even score once here, nevermind stopping them from scoring. And Kepa is 100% done at Chelsea. Damn.

And it only seems to be happening with key attacking players, ffs. Our two best left wingers out with muscle injuries at the same time.

So that either means Pedro + Willian or more likely Mount out wide with Barkley coming in to midfield. Great...

I think if Kepa is benched again today he's done under Frank. I'd rather he does start and puts in a top performance. If we lose this I could genuinely see our leaderless players collapsing and sliding down the table. So nothing less than 3 points will do.

Only reason I'm a bit more confident than I otherwise would be is because Rashford is out. He seems to always terrorize us. United are absolutely bang average but as we've shown time and time again that doesn't matter this season. We can make anyone look fantastic no matter what kind of form they're in. Pulisic still being out is so annoying. He could've been huge in this game as well as the Spuds game.

This is why I'm still in the Chilwell camp. A bunch of people here are down on him for the price but I'm not one of them. Still young, knows the PL like the back of his hand now so won't need any adjustment period, and being English will fit right in with our other lads. The problem with him will be that both Manchester clubs and maybe also Spuds will try to make a move for him. Could even stay at Leicester since they'll have CL footy, who knows. But having both fullback spots settled with great young English players for the next 8-10 years would be amazing. The attacking threat from both flanks would be madness.