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I'll take it, but Harry Kane is immune to the offside rule. How many times this season has he benefit from these situations!?

Arse have been the opposite of us this season. We started well and dropped off a cliff until recently. They started poorly and are now in top form. Commentator on American TV said a bit ago that they have United next up but then a bunch of easy ones in their final 8. In my opinion, it would be embarrassing to finish behind them this season. They don't have a better squad than we do, just more reliable goal scorers.

That was a sitter for Lacazette.

Spuds are used to bullying and imposing their will physically on their opponents. Appears they don't cope well when other big teams do that to them. Both ourselves and Arse have shown up and hit them in the mouth.

Spuds looking a bit like us us when Kane is out of form. Really solid build up and possession but totally blunt when it comes to the last ball.

When you think Spuds will lose (like when Kane was out recently) they somehow grind them out and keep winning. When we actually want them to fucking win they let you down. Hoping they get at least a point here.

Bournemouth were defensively woeful going into their game with us and humiliated us while keeping a clean sheet. Since that game theyve reverted to being shit and got hammered by Arse last night. Fulham have an even worse defense and will now maybe get a new manager bounce. Not outside the realm of possibility that they summon the spirit of Pep's Barca and perform well for one game against us and then proceed to revert back to shit afterwards. Luckily, it appears a switch has been flipped with our players and manager so can't see us losing this.

Yeah, he was solid yesterday. Caught taking a second too long on the ball a couple of times but he worked tirelessly in the middle just like Kante did.

Absolutely fantastic workrate and tenacity. Closing them down in groups, pressing them super high up the pitch, all wingers tracking back and helping the fullbacks. We did to them what they did to us at Wembley.

I get people here being bored and annoyed, but at least we look like a competent side these past couple of matches against top opposition. We haven't been a clown show like we have been in other big games. Wasnt a poor performance, just okay.

Pedro doing well pressing and closing down but not doing much where we need him to. Not really getting service into Higuain at all as a team. CHO could come in and spice things up. United and Arse both winning, too. We need to win this to stay in touch with them.

This could get ugly if Luiz and Alonso decide to have a walkabout as they're known to do.

Motherfucker. Alonso with dodgy as hell Caballero starting. Disgusting.

If Sarri goes, our next permanent manager will likely be someone in the same sort of position that Sarri was in. Someone with a great record at a 2nd tier club who wants to prove they can take the step up to the big stage. No big name manager will touch us at this point. Honestly, there aren't even any big name managers left out there other than Mourinho so that doesn't matter. The big name managers we've been linked with in the past year or two are well settled and have no reason to leave (Simeone, Allegri, etc). And I hope the club don't get it in their head that we need a club legend or former assistant because it'll end in tears. We need someone highly experienced in a big league and who has managed star players/egos before. Can't afford to take some massive risk when you're competing with Pep, Klopp, Poch etc.

I'd bet good money that Alonso comes back in against Spuds and gets targeted.

Is Sarri trying to get the sack? My desire to even bother watching this has evaporated.

Front 3 of Hazard, Higuain, and CHO with Emerson at LB for the final this weekend, please.

Fuck off booing Jorginho. Idiots.

Emerson is literal light years better than Alonso. He carries the ball so well. He 100% needs to be our first choice LB.

It makes me straight up angry how poor we are. I'm now past the annoyed and irritated phase. It's actually hard to motivate myself to watch us at the moment. So many bang average players who wouldn't look out of place at a side like West Ham or Bournemouth.

You joke, but I'd have him back tomorrow if offered the option. Could drag us to a EL title and at least kick some of these players in the ass. Give him a short 2 or 3 year contract and a summer to clear out the stench in the locker room. He'll have us respectable again. He'll desperately want to repair his image so surely wouldn't blow up the whole thing like he did at United.

Mourinho...

I'm not even watching the 2nd half. I'll check the score later and hope we don't Man City it again.

When the ball turns over quickly we are utterly clueless. It's our biggest Achilles heel. We have no recovery pace and leaves massive areas of the pitch completely vacant for opponents to attack. That's down to coaching. If we're going to play this shape and system Alonso CANNOT bloody play!

Dominate the run of play in two seperate circumstances, then switch off and they instantly punish us. Both fucking times. Just fuck off. The left side of our defense is a god damned joke. Unreal.