Pizy

Sanchez needs to be benched after today. I’ve had fucking enough of that.

You honestly couldn’t have written this in a movie script because it would be too unbelievable. Two slips by THE SAME PLAYER directly leading to two goals.

City drop points, Arse drop points, Brighton drop points, United lost. We have a MASSIVE opportunity here to put ourselves in an incredible position with a win. We can basically discount and stop worrying about several teams behind us with 3 points here and focus solely on Arse, City, and yes, maybe even Liverpool going forward. Hope the boys are as hungry and desperate for a win here as us supporters are. Putting 12 points between ourselves and United and 11 between us and Spuds would be delightful.

I was saying this expecting both Romero & VDV to be out. Plus their keeper. That maybe with all those injuries he’d try damage limitation and try to grind out a boring draw.

Both starting CB’s miraculously fit for Spuds out of nowhere. All I’ve heard this week was how Van de Ven was out long term and Romero was a slight doubt.

Having picked Sancho here instead of Noni I guess Maresca is predicting that Spuds will be very defensive and allow us to dominate the ball. Sancho is more effective when space is tight and you need someone against a low block. But I actually expect the opposite. I think with their injuries and defensive woes they’re going to go all out attack just to try to make this a back and forth, high scoring match. For that reason I’d have started Noni for his ability on the counter to kill them. Pretty surprised as well that he trusts Badiashile as a left footer out of position on the right over Tosin. Not complaining, though. This is a super strong team.

Man United fans were 1000% convinced that they’d be nailed on for top 4 this season during the summer. And almost every one I saw was laughing at the idea of Chelsea finishing above them. It was all about how we were a “chaos club” who would blow up because of all the players we bought and because we hired a manager from the Championship. We could go 12 points above them tomorrow if we win. Before we’ve even reached Christmas. 🤣🤣🤣 Can effectively count them AND Spuds out completely as any sort of threat to us for top 4 if we get 3 points tomorrow. Huge, HUGE opportunity.

Badiashile looked really solid coming in for Fofana on that right side but I’m not sure I’d feel totally comfortable playing him against Spuds as a left footer there. Tosin for me is a safer bet. He may have played midweek but he doesn’t have many miles in his legs this season. He should be fine playing again.

That should look totally different with what I assume will be the same team from Villa with Moi at inverted RB and Lavia back in the side. We should be much more secure defensively. Surely it’ll be Tosin or Badiashile partnering Colwill. My choice would be Tosin. Huge threat on attacking set pieces and corners and also a mountain defending them. Plus, he’s not as prone to crazy howlers on the ball like Disasi is.

They not long ago spanked both Manchester clubs too, didn’t they? But then lose to small teams and look pathetic. They do still have Son, Kulu, and Brennan Johnson who can be dangerous if we allow them to be. But from what I’m reading from Spuds fans is that they are totally shambolic at the back and at keeper. With our attack being so good we should be slaughtering this lot. We should start with our most aggressive wingers here, so Noni & Neto. Those two plus Nico pressing and Palmer pulling the strings should be far too much for them to handle. It’ll be all about how locked in our defense is as to not allow Spuds to have a chance.

They look like absolute sure dog shit and have key injuries. We have to put our boot on their necks this weekend.

I feel like Badiashile is good enough to stay with us as a rotation CB for lesser competitions and he has been okay as an emergency injury fill in. Disasi is the one who isn’t good enough and can go.

Feels impossible to predict this one since you never know which Spuds side will show up. They look devastating going forward one match and then absolute dogshit the next.

The insane luxury we have in our attacking midfield depth is amazing. Being able to rotate Neto & Sancho who looked great last weekend and have Madueke and Felix come in is fantastic. Currently it really doesn’t matter who is playing in these position because they’re all doing well. Hell, even Mudryk has been pretty solid recently and he can’t even make the bench! I feel like the only position where we could use another quality depth option is in CM. Caicedo is tasked with so much and with Lavia’s injury concerns were short in that defensive area. I don’t know what the loan conditions are but Andre Santos has apparently been killing in at Strasbourg again and is tailor made for that position. Could he be recalled in January?

Should be subbing Caicedo off as soon as we hit 4. Can’t afford a freak injury to him of all players.

Fucking finally. I’m surprised that tap in didn’t happen to hit the post or something the way this match has gone!

This is a joke! Do these guys work on finishing!?

All it takes is one of those quick breaks for us to concede. That’s why we MUST score again.

This is comical now

HOW THE FUCK DO WE NOT HAVE 8 GOALS TODAY FOR FUCKS SAKE We’re just asking for some fluke as goal conceded!

Literally HOWWWW, Felix?!

I can’t find a single stream that doesn’t play and then freeze every few minutes. It’s infuriating.

I don’t think City’s shit form will continue much longer so with that in mind I’d probably take 4th. Is it? With these defenders and torrential rain that can cause horror mistakes? I’m not so sure…😬 If Colwill and Lavia were playing and we had more defensive security it would be over but with these guys? Idk.

Pretty much the last throw of the dice coming out of half time for them will be a kamikaze like attack to nick a goal and make us nervy. So hopefully Gusto and Disasi calm down and Caicedo gets some help in midfield. Far too many times Gusto or Disasi are lunging in going to ground and letting players by them.

We looked incredibly dangerous with pretty much every attack. Aided by some utterly suicidal playing out from the back by them. Should have about 6 goals. But even now it’s pretty shocking how easily Saints are getting at our defense even with 10 men. This fully changed back line is SUPER sketchy. Absolutely feel we need another goal to feel comfortable.