Pizy

Slow motion zombie football for the most part. Everton man-marking all of our attackers and midfielders which means we're really struggling to get them the ball in dangerous areas. We've had almost all the ball but can't do anything with it without moving it quicker. Everton are only really threatening on set plays and when they win a cheap foul.

Why do we continue to start so slowly?

Knew Richarlison would start despite the fitness concern. Not looking forward to watching that diving bastard. I remember last time we played against him he was on the floor rolling around numerous times and the ref fell for it repeatedly. Hopefully we can keep him quiet today. Everton have a pretty strong looking first XI but have terrible depth. They don't look to have anyone on their bench who can be brought on to hurt us.

Think Marco Silva is using a bit of gamesmanship in regards to Richarlison. I definitely think he'll play. Everton are shite away against all the big teams but this is certainly a dangerous game. Wonder if we'll go with Morata or Giroud. Morata's in good form but Everton are a physical side where Giroud may be more effective.

Every damn stream I watch keeps eventually dying and our players look like they'd rather be back in London rather than the middle of nowhere Europe. The Europa League is such a slog in these early rounds. Players don't look bothered and I can't blame them.

Kovacic can play there. Or we could've slightly tweaked the formation for this one match. Not like BATE are a top team. Im not mad at Sarri for starting Jorginho or anything, just worried that he'll suffer later for playing so much early in the season. He's probably our most important player after Eden.

Just what Jorginho needs. More minutes on his legs and a long journey just before we play a pretty good Everton side.

When he isn't sulking, moaning to the ref, and throwing himself to the ground at the slightest contact he's actually a very solid player. Go figure! Id still rather start Giroud against the top sides but it would be great if Morata can build up his confidence against the smaller ones.

Honestly, our only real weakness currently is the self inflicted defensive mistakes. An errant pass here, a poor lunge in by Luiz there. Other than that every once in a while we're super comfortable. This game changed like a snap of the fingers with the introduction of Hazard and Kova. Our two best technical players came on and it was like the whole team knew it was over. Kovacic has to come back in as our first choice 3rd midfielder. Barkley is a good option to bring on if things aren't working or when an eye for goal from midfield is required. He's not as tight and comfortable on the ball as Kova, though.

Similarly to Burnley, Palace tried to come out super quickly and punch us in the mouth. Seemed every ref decision went their way, every deflected ball fell to a Palace player, and of course Zaha morphs into God-form Messi against us. But about 25 mins onward we took control and dominated. Barkley wasn't poor here but he put us in danger several times on the counter due to loose touches or square passes across the middle. For me, this is the sort of opponent Kovacic needs to start instead. Much better close control and in tight spaces.

Must not be updated for daylight savings.

Waiting all damn weekend and playing after all our rivals will have played is excruciating. I hate being the late kickoff. And now to top it off our match isn't even televised here in the States so I have to watch a shitty stream and hope it doesn't cut out 10 times during the game.

As mentioned already, these cunts always seem to raise their game for Chelsea and then proceed to revert to their normal shite selves immediately afterwards. So I expect this to be annoying as fuck. It being at home and us being in good form I think we'll win it comfortably in the end but after struggling and getting aggravated early on.

Cahil needs to be sold the moment the clock hits midnight on Jan 1. He's completely past it and panics like a 17 year old CB in the face of danger. Give Ampadu those minutes.

Cahill, Christensen, and Emerson. Fucking hell are they shit defensively. It's expected with Cahill and excusable with Emerson since he barely gets a sniff, but wtf has happened to AC? Since the latter part of last season he's been woeful. And he and Cahill had the audacity to moan about playing time! Here's why you aren't playing, lads! Anyways, we look great going forward even with players rotated. Kova, RLC, and Cesc all looked sexy on the ball. Willian good, and even Morata looks to be in good form lately. The attacking training under Sarri is really apparent through the whole squad which is awesome. Zappacosta keeps this up and he may start pushing Azpi for certain games. When we have a shit load of the ball against weak opponents we can use his delivery and forward runs.

You'd imagine that if he continues this form until January and was still playing for a smaller team there would be a line of big clubs offering huge sums for him.mus getting a full Enhland international for £15m is genius so long as he keeps improving under Sarri.

Awesome performance. Perfect Sarriball. Pressing, passing, movement were all superb. All of the midfield 3 were excellent.

Dominant after the first 10 minutes and played some very nice football. If we had a couple of killers in the final third we'd be far out of sight by now. Don't think anyone played poorly that half.

Hopefully Kepa and our defenders are well prepared for the aerial assault from Burnley. That's likely to be their game plan. Long balls and set pieces that try to expose what is our biggest weakness.

Shit. Not confident at all with this XI. Our attack looks so blunt. And in a match where we were likely to completely boss possession I would've thought Kovacic made more sense than Ross because he's much better at keeping it and controlling it. Hoping for the best but ready to watch yet another physical side bully Morata for 70 minutes until he's taken off to his usual sulky reaction.

Kovacic, man. Amazing footballer. So beautiful to watch when he's on the ball and when he's off it he's always finding that pocket of space. Puts in a defensive shift as well. Hes the glue that links the defense and attack. This is what he has that Ross doesn't.

Man, the race for 3rd and 4th is gonna be crazy. Must say, it's would be unbelievably annoying if Arse finish above us while we're both in our rebuilding year. But they have two world class goal scorers who can mask their faults. I'd kill for either Auba or Lacazette up top here. All of our rivals have that killer striker but us. Lukaku is useless in big games (as he was against us the other day) but he'll still mop up against fodder and get to 20 PL goals. Morata and Giroud can't even manage to do that. If we miss out in the end it'll be because of that I'd think.

In good form for sure. Thought Kovacic was once again good today so lots of people calling for Ross to replace him in our best XI I disagree with. Kovacic is better in the middle third of the pitch and with intricate link up play whereas Barkley is better in front of goal. Tough selection dilemma for Sarri. Plus there's still RLC and Cesc who haven't even shown what they can do in this team yet.

Giroud has to start every single PL match. Even if he only scores a handful of goals all season he offers 10x more than Morata. We desperately need to go all out and sign a goal scorer in January if we want to finish in the top 4. We cannot survive on Hazard carrying the attacking load all season.

Literally all 4 goals today came from moments of dreadful defending. This is the first glimpse of David Luiz morphing into a clown so far this season. Dove in TWICE on different players 50 yards from our goal, one of which they scored on. As for the game, we were in control and comfortable the whole first half. We then completely stopped playing our game and abandoned our identity. Our attack was pretty woeful overall. Not a terrible point in the end considering we were about to lose, but United were there for the taking if we had more quality up top.