Pizy

Ridiculous first touch and goal from Hazard!

Barkley in the final third. 😂😂😂😂 It's almost comical. Kante is better when he gets around the box! That was supposed to be one of his best attributes at Everton. Shooting and being dangerous going forward.

You need someone aggressive and decisive in that advanced midfield role in Sarri's system. Both Barkley and Kovacic are tidy, controlled players but they have zero composure or desire to get involved in the last move. RLC needs a run there. His powerful, surging runs will cause all sorts of trouble for teams.

It's really embarrassing how terrible we are in the transition phase. We simply cannot cope when the ball is quickly turned over. Alonso is a ghost defensively, Luiz has no pace, and every opponent knows it.

How does their #11 keep getting the ball in 50 yards of wide open space over and over again? Where the fuck is Alonso? And my goodness is Barkley completely redundant in this system. Offers nothing at all offensively and is lazy defensively. Also takes an age to pick a pass.

We'd still be very vulnerable to counter attacks through the middle but we'd surely be much more dangerous going forward. I feel like this is the team we'd play if Mou was managing this squad.

Pochettino inevitably ending up at United is going to be a nightmare. Gets the absolute maximum out of players he has and will have unlimited funds to actually spend unlike at Spuds.

We should be beating Huddersfield regardless of the team we put out, but it's still annoying seeing Willian and Barkley starting again. This would have been the perfect match to start RLC and CHO in those two spots.

I stopped worrying about Spuds a while ago. There may have been a brief hope that we could reel them in but they're simply a better team than us in Sarri's first season. All about 4th spot and EL for us. Europa League probably being our best shot at CL qualification.

I just don't fucking get it. We are demonstrably better in possession, we are dramatically better at controlling games. We have a very, very good squad of players. We are just mentally embarrassing. We get smacked in the mouth and cannot recover. Happened exactly like this over and over again this season. Utterly dominate in the first half, the opponent goes into the break and their manager says "get stuck into to them," and we then collapse. We always have 70 or even fucking 80% of the ball, making the opponent look toothless, and then fall apart. It's ridiculous. Im not even gonna put the lions share of blame on Sarri. Our players are constantly guilty of self sabotage with their lazy passing. How many fucking times do we see a lazy sideways pass into the middle of the pitch that gets intercepted and launches a counter? How many!? We fucking kill ourselves.

They have one of the worst, if not THE worst defensive records in the league and we couldn't score. They've won like 3 of their previous 13 matches coming into this. And they've embarrased us 4-0. Now outside the top 4 with both teams around us looking far better than us. Both Arse and United can score goals for fun while we can't score at all. Roman would be making a change right now in years past.

This is well and truly the most embarrassing performance of the season. The one and ONLY way Bournemouth can hurt us and they're doing so over and over again. Clown defending.

Weakness on the counter aside, that was a good half. Much better at moving the ball quickly but still not quick enough.

Getting plenty of clean, good looks at goal but are shooting straight down the keepers throat. Really need one of them to fall for Higiuain since he can actually finish.

Higuain's hold up play and movement are absolutely superb.

Hopefully our central defense holds up against their pace. That's really the only worry. Well, that and whether or not we come out like timid babies like we've been known to do this season.

Very good looking XI. Very strange exclusion of CHO. Injured?

United have a brutal fixture list coming up soon enough. Hopefully they get smacked back down to Earth during that run.

Oh, fuck off Burnley. Just fuck the fuck off.

That we spent 35m on Drinkwater is likely why we wouldn't do the same for Paredes. We got burned badly by wasting so much on a squad player. Club clearly don't want to do so again. I don't agree with that because I think Paredes is miles better,minutes that is surely the club's thinking.

Great. Said this before, but we better hope like hell that Jorginho doesn't get injured. I really dont want to see Ampadu at the base of our midfield against top opposition. Looked iffy against a lower league side the other day. I'm sure Sarri will again stress his desire for a midfielder in a couple of hours. Fucked up if the club just ignore him.

Don't understand this at all. Completely bang average PL player who looks right at home at midtable Everton. Not like he stands out there as being way better than anyone around him. He isn't nearly good enough for PSG.

If he's still hell bent on leaving come the summer I'd still sell him. Doesn't seem like the type to kick up a fuss if we refuse to sell him now, though. Since that appears to be the case there's no reason to be bullied by Bayern now.

Think this will be ou first true look at Higuain. Unlike Wednesday, Bournemouth will actually try to play football and not stack their whole team in their own half. He should have space here and they have a terrible defensive record. Obviously a must win game. I pray that Emerson gets the nod ahead of Alonso and I hope Kovacic is preferred to Barkley. Maybe even RLC in that attacking midfield spot to give us pace and dynamism. I really don't want to see Alonso and Barkley force us to play ponderous and excruciatingly slowly like we did for much of today's game. We need to play fast and direct against them.

Ampadu is soooo clearly not fit for that role we saw today. Was very poor when trying to spray it around and also left pass after pass short when trying to play in tight areas. I'll forgive him since he's so young and barely plays, but I think his future may be in defense rather than midfield.