Pizy

I think he's still an elite manager of attacking football but simply doesn't have the resources or personell to compete with the other big boys. If he was here or one of the Manchester clubs where he can buy and attract almost any players he wants I think he'd be challenging for the title. At Liverpool not only does he have to fight like hell to keep his best players, but he also has to shop in the 2nd and 3rd tier in the transfer market.

Everyone loves his passion and seems to think he's a football genius. Even Liverpool fans give off that vibe that they're just glad and lucky to have him. Like he's blessing them with his mere presence.

Yep. Also, they're yet another side where every single player is extremely comfortable on the ball even when pressed. Literally from keeper to striker. Something we don't have, sadly.

Thought this last season but it's even more apparent this season - Spuds have an unbelievable squad. So strong in every area of the pitch and don't really have a single weakness. Dominating Liverpool here without 3 of their best players in Rose, Wanyama, and Dembele. They have crazy depth and play great football. It really highlights how inept our board have been when fucking Tottenham have a better squad than us.

I thought our defending was bad. This is criminally, comically bad! Does Klopp train defending at all?

First Drinkwater sighting I hope. Would also get Zappa more minutes from the start of course. He looked dangerous immedietly yesterday and it's about time he started pushing into our best XI.

Not worried about him at all. It's clearly going to take him a bit to fully settle in and develop. Something we knew when we bought him. Something Conte knew when we bought him which is why he said himself the idea was to keep Matic and slowly ease Baka in.

Jeckyll and Hyde footballer. He looks like an absolute donkey like Torres at his worst some games and extremely dangerous other games. Still think he'd benefit hugely from a season long loan under a good coach where he can play every minute of most games. Somewhere like Stoke under Hughes or Everton.

Of fucking course, the match after we made Palace look like world beaters they go and lose to fucking Newcastle. Just fuck off!

Use this fight back and result as a reset button. If we get DD & Kante back so we have some fresh bodies and much more control in midfield and we can get back in to the business end of the table. Kante being out means that about 5-6 of our other players are greatly effected. Primarily our CB's and Bakayoko. Kante allows Baka to simplify his game and make the easy decisions. We've seen these last few matches without him that Baka is so raw still that he overthinks and rushes his passes and is often out of position. Even getting Drinkwater fit will be huge and allow us to maybe play with 3 in midfield. He'll provide a bit more control and calm.

I think people in here saying Luiz should be dropped are crazy. It's Cahill that needs to make way for Rüdiger or Andreas.

That game was probably dead for them if Cesc scores that chip. Dead for us if Richarlison scores one of those sitters. Kante coming back will solve many of our problems but overall our players have to sharpen the hell up. So many careless instances and passes that we kill ourselves with.

AND BREATHE. Game changing subs. All 3 had great impact on the outcome.

If we lose this I think Conte may only have Bournemouth and Roma to save his job.

Waterford are popping the ball around at will. They are a better passing side than us. This is shocking. We literally cannot get or keep the ball. FFS!!!

Season from hell part 2. Everything that can go wrong does.

This is the most embarrassing defending I've ever seen. Players literally widefucking open standing in our box.

He's going down easily but so is Watfords star player and Moss is calling it almost every time. It's the inconsistency that makes me angry.

So fucking flukey and lucky. Over and over again Richarlison goes down so easily and is getting every whistle. No joke, it looks like refs are under instruction not to award Morata free kicks because he's going down a little easy. It's infuriating.

You know this guy will dive with any bit of contact. Be smarter!

Morata needs to be physically strong today. Marco Silva will have his defenders under instruction to be very physical with him knowing that PL referees are lenient most of the time calling niggly fouls. If he feels contact, goes down, and doesn't get a whistle a couple of times he may grow frustrated and be thrown off his game.

Azpi at wing back it looks like. Honestly, that back line looks nice. I just worry about Cesc partnered with a not fully fit Baka. Baka himself just tweeted a few minutes ago saying "push through no matter what," so he's obviously fighting and taking a big risk by playing here. Hopefully we take the game to them and don't allow them to get comfortable.

Even in that disgrace of a performance against Roma we still managed to score 3. Even if we're somehow under the cosh against Watford we'll still have the attacking quality to punish them. It's the midfield and defense I'm worried about rather than the attack.

So after seeing the quotes from Conte's press conference it sounds like there will be very late fitness tests for both Luiz and Baka. And even if they do play tomorrow they'll be well below 100%. Not good at all against a team in great form. I think we're going to need some individual magic from Morata, Hazard, or Pedro. That is, if Pedro even starts over Willian.

Good if Luiz is fit but still annoying if we have to use him in midfield out of necessity again. In a one off, desperate situation like against Spuds earlier in the season he can do a job. But he's clearly not a midfielder and was all over the place against Roma. Over and over again he charged after Roma players and cleaned them out with a foul from behind. He'd have been booked about 4 times for those same challenges in the PL. Midfield is what I'm really worried about here. Not only will we look poor in that area but due to us struggling there, we'll also look poor at the back. This is a 100% must win game. I'll be seriously worried for Conte's job if we lose in an embarrassing way.