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Heart was in my throat during those last few minutes. Nail biting stuff! Huge, MASSIVE 3 points! GET THE FUCK IN!!!

What a strange looking team Pep has set out here. Fernandinho at fullback against Hazard? Delph as the lone CM player? Kompany back in for such an important match? Very weird. Think if we give it a real go we can score several here. If we sit back and let them dominate the ball (which we always fucking do against them) their attacking players can tear us apart. All I ask is not to lose here. PLEASE!

We simply cannot lose tonight. We just can't. Will be utterly demoralized if we do. I'm trying to hold my nerve but am shitting it already! Spurs have such an easy run in that if we give them any more hope they'll surely pounce and take advantage. It would be a collapse that we'd never forget. Huge, HUGE 3 points needed tonight.

Man City have an embarrassing defense. We have a defense that (as we saw yesterday) is capable of embarrassing mistakes. Which one will come out on top? Find out on the next episode of Premier League!!! Seriously, though, if Hazard plays like he did against Palace he should wreak havoc. Personally, really hate playing against City. I hate when teams boss possession against us which they always do. You know the cunt Aguero will turn up as he loves to do against us. Althgh I dread it, I expect a lot of sitting back, absorbing pressure, and hitting them on the break. I'd love to see us surprise them and go all out attack like we did yesterday.

He was essentially a winger today. Similar job today as he normally has. He was forward most of the time and only had a bit of defending to do which he has done most matches anyways. Don't think it was his position that was the issue today. Just that he wasn't decisive enough when he got into great positions. This is the reason someone like Sanchez would take us to a whole new level. He'd have scored 3 today if he were in some of the positions we were in.

Not his defending as a wing back I'm criticizing. He really wasn't troubled much in that respect since we on the front foot nearly the entire 90. It's the fact that he got in to promising position after promising position and didn't deliver. Don't remember him even having a go at goal either.

Watch Palace now go and get hammered 3-0 midweek against Southampton, too.

Know everyone's criticizing Costa and rightly so, but some others had shockers as well. I though Pedro was poor and I think that may have been David Luiz's worst performance this season. He lunged in seemingly 5 times trying to knick in front of a pass and completely missed it. Hazard was completely untouchable in the first half but then kind of went off the boil. Cesc didn't really do much in the second half either. City game is unbelievably massive now. Win and I'll be confident we'll see the job out. Lose and I'll personally be very, very worried looking at Spuds' remaining fixtures and with Kane still to come back soon. Would be hugely embarrassing to lose the title from where we were.

We're in serious trouble if we don't beat City now.

This is getting ridiculous now, ffs! So many huge chances that get blocked or stopped. So frustrating!!!

Feels like it's all going against us today. Two terrible mistakes that lead to goals aside, we've destroyed them. Ref terrible and of coarse their keeper having his game of the season against us. Need on get the ball to Cesc and Hazard every time we have possession. They can't stop either. We can still win this.

Two unbelievably flukey and lucky goals. My fucking god!

Come on, Cesc! Need a big game from him!

Pedro at wingback against the pace of Zaha/Puncheon/Townsend may be a problem...

He barely trusts Rashford and Martial as it is and won't even put Luke Shaw on the bench most of the time. Think he'll really pay £85m for a teenager? Not so sure. I mean, it would sort of make sense if they keep Ibra for another year to mentor him but using kids isn't really José's way.

Just can't imagine Southampton selling their best two defenders in the same window. Plus, some of the club's above Southampton like Everton or Liverpool will probably be sniffing around Romeu as well.

Curious how we'd replace Moses if he's out. Simply move Azpi there and bring Zouma in or change the formation altogether? Makes the most sense to do the former. Zouma, Cahill, and Luiz collectively should be more than enough to deal with the threat of Benteke and the barrage of crosses that are likely to be put in. Just really hope Hazard and Costa are completely fit. Spuds and City again have tough matches this weekend so 3 points for us would be huge after a lengthy break.

I agree. He's a slightly above average player who a couple levels below the sort of player we should be targeting this summer. If he's not good enough for PSG he isn't good enough for us.

Think this'll be an ugly, frustrating match after coming off the long break and with some of our top players either out or not fully fit.

Was insistent that RvP would stay as well, wasn't he? Just think if a huge offer is made like £50m they'll sell him to us. Hope we try everything.

We really should be offering Arsenal something they'd be foolish to turn down for a player in his final season. I'd happily see us pay £50m for him without thinking twice. I highly doubt PSG would offer that much when they've got so many AM's already and neither Juve nor Bayren ever really spend huge amounts on single player. Only reason Juve finally spent so much on Higuain is because of the Pogba money. Hazard and Sanchez in the same team wouldn't be fair. Add in any striker up top and our attack is unstoppable.

Yeah, I'd be really worried if he was our main man going in to the season. If he's even being considered I would hope it's to be to play alongside another striker.

Hopefully if we do target Lukaku we get that wrapped up and agreed before we sell Diego. They see us sell Costa to China for €100m and they'll jack the price up even more.

I just have the feeling with Diego that he'll never truly be settled and happy here. Wherever Lukaku moves I think he'll be for 10 years or something. I'd rather that be here than anywhere else. I think Costa is definitely off this summer and I'd hate it if we straight up replace him with Morata for silly money instead.

Is it pronounced Tee-a-moo-way?