Thor

Essugo deserves a start, as does Santos. Enzo, Essugo and Santos would be my pick.

Would not mind one of our players two foot tackling these idiots.

Its fine. His hand was in a natural position. So you're allowed to stab players at that point.

One of us! One of us!

I'll say something controversial - but I don't think KDH is anywhere near as bad as people say on here. He is the easy target, but I actually think he is fine as a cog in the wheel.

Doesn't matter. Santos on the bench.

Extend Maresca. His offensive fluidity is insane. The players ball out under him.

Kick rocks Benfica you dirty sacks of shit.

Essugo will ball out in place of Caicedo. Not worried about that.

Caicedo is the greatest footballer to walk the earth. Caicedo Fenomeno Nazario.

Sanchez would have been burned at the cross if he did that.

Suck a fat dick Benfica you bunch of twats.

They must have went to market and realised no one wants him close to what they're asking. Now he is stuck here.

Yeah I remember we were all high on him and he was great overlapping and not playing this inverted BS. Gusto can be impactful, but he clearly is a very limited player who needs to stick to what he can do. Maresca is trying to make him something he is not. If we're sticking with Maresca I want Gusto gone since he is just an option that keeps getting selected and clearly sucks at what hes asked to do.

For as much as we shit on KDH here, he is the only one working hard and playing between the lines trying to make something happen.

It isn't the players. It is the manager. He has made Cole look like shit and our team has tanked creatively since his "tactics" have been implemented.

Take off Gusto and put Maduake in. At least he can drive the ball and produce magic every now and then.

Side pass, side pass, side pass. Cut inside and cross to forwards who don't head the ball well. This is Maresca ball. Get rid of him. Taken every spark and creativeness out of our team. Has turned our best player to mush.

Hope to see a few two footed tackles from our boys on the 120th minute. Grubby disgusting team Benfica have been all game.

Apparently getting hit 50cm away from the ball getting headed facing the other way and landing from jumping is not considered natural position. It isn't even making the goal if it rolls through. Shocking penalty call especially considered the one not given to us. Gusto is horrid but not blaming him for that.

You'd think there is only like 15 good players we should go for in world football if you read this forum.

So much this. People were willing to see the club spend more on Nico Williams who is statistically worse in every category compared to Gittens. All this while Gittens has had a pretty intrerupted season all around. I'd love to see us get Fofana done as well, but lets see. Need a LW and a CB imo. A budget LB would be nice too.

Disagree. Jackson would do the same thing but then kick it straight at the keeper. We have a saying for players like Jackson in the Balkans. He is a cow that produces million dollar milk, but then kicks it over as you go to collect it.

Such a silky finish. ST I was never too worried about when Delap came in. I think he continues to kick on. Get another ST to push him along and compete, and get rid of Jackson. I thought he was a far better pick than any ST on the market given his price and quality. Gyokeres, Sesko and others were a risk at their price - and I don't think there is much of a gap in quality if it all.