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Kante

Pedro's been poor today but we don't really have anyone to bring on in his place.

That was a ridiculous save from Thibaut. But wtf was David doing throughout that attack?!

Oooh that was unlucky, WIllian.

HUGE credit for Kante for that goal. He made all that happen with his interception.

They've got 8-9 players in about 10 meters of pitch at the edge of their box. Hard to get more defensive than that. They're happy to give us space on the flanks when Costa has to beat 3 or 4 defenders to any cross into the box.

It's really hard to break down a team playing this defensively. We need better movement and more runs into the box.

Wishing for an early goal to make things a lot easier here. Come on you blues!

It's the main game on beIN so there should be English streams.

We desperately need to raise the tempo here. We're giving them way too much time to adjust.

It was more of joke about him getting cleared so late. But he's making mistakes and poor choices that have little to do with tactics. I think we could use a second striker on even more than a creative passer in midfield.

Maybe it would have been best had Luiz been ruled out of this one today...

WBA defending well so far. Can't afford to concede the first goal here.

Are you suggesting that Kante should make more mistakes leading to goals?

I absolutely, 100% support Nathaniel in pushing Aguero down. Great to see him standing up for his teammates.

I was most happy for Willian on Saturday because he's been really struggling on the pitch since his mom passed away. Great to see him regain some form. We will definitely need him to be on his top game this month.

Just DON'T get complacent!

Almost felt bad for Pep. He must have had some awful Torres flashbacks from Eden's goal!

Guys, I have some bad news. I will not be able to see this live, so our chances of winning are practically zero. We have not won a single broadcast match that I have missed in years! Sorry about that...

One thing is for certain, we'll have to perform better than we did against Tottenham if we want the points here. I honestly would bite your hand off for a point right now. It's not pessimism, but rather maths and probability. We're well due to drop points in the league.

There was also the European Super Cup against Bayern where we lost on pens. But I'm guessing that's officially a friendly.

Had to watch this in a cafe in a meeting so missed quite a lot of it but it looks like we were lucky to come out of the first half level. Felt we controlled the second half much better. Not a world class performance by any stretch, but an incredibly important 3 points to give us some breathing space for next week. Don't think we could have won it without Pedro's moment of brilliance, so went for him for MOTM.

Yeah, I remember that. Late 2013, I think, when were top of the EPL for a week or two in Jose first season back.

NO one prefers facts to curses, Tomo...

Never heard of him but he has a bad-ass name. It literally means "The Invader"