Jase

The League Cup needs to be cancelled.

It's Henrique, lads.

What about defensive quality? As welcome as James has looked more like himself and played well in the last 2 games, let's not forget that in the games before that, he showed that he's still got much to learn before nailing that starting full-back position.

Sarriball.

I don't think we'll sign Benrahma even if Willian doesn't resign. LW - Pulisic/Werner + Mount is an option as well) RW - Ziyech/CHO + maybe Havertz Adding Benrahma seems overkill. Would use that money to go fix that defence!

Liverpool fans are weirdos...

The thing is, we do not have to gung-ho in this considering we need only a point. IF we can play it smart, we can get it but that is 50-50 given we are jumping between two extremes right now. If it makes you feel any better, we have won 6 of our 8 home league games in 2020, including wins in the last 5. That last bit there is a bit off the mark. Wolves need to win if they want to guarantee Europa League in 6th but they will need to play qualifying rounds UNLESS we win the FA Cup. If we do so, then the 6th placed side will go straight into the group stage and the 7th placed team will get the Europa League spot and go through the qualifying rounds.

Was just thinking this yesterday, having Rice in the starting XI would give us the flexibility of switching from a back 3 to a back 4 and vice versa in matches. He can drop deeper to go with the other 2 CBs and make it a 3 or play slightly further up as a DM screening the back 4.

TBF, I doubt any manager would play anyone who has had a knock and isn't 100% fit for 90 minutes.

I know we don't have any other options but Kante is a classic case of Lampard running a player into the ground.

More realistic market? Unfortunately, it is 2020 and not 2010.

But it doesn't change the fact that Mount is not going give us consistent goal contribution and the same goes for Willian. Goals are goals but his goals since the restart have come from penalties and a free kick. And for all the good performances Mount has put in, it's worth noting that he has been subbed off a couple of times recently - HT at Leicester and Sheffield United, in the 59th minute at Liverpool. So much for that 150 IQ... The point is, we might as well have thrown the kitchen sink at Liverpool and taken whatever risks. We were already losing at that point anyway and Liverpool were having so much joy against back 3. Change the system and give them something different to think about. Instead, Lampard was seen smiling/laughing with someone at one point and looked like he could care less about what was going on. You mentioned Alonso...then what the hell was late sub for Emerson for?

But that is a common theme with them, no? Mount, for all the hard work he does off the ball, becomes absolute brain dead in the final third. And Willian is...well, Willian. I understand that Lampard did not want to risk Pulisic from the start but I just think he could have made the changes earlier. Furthermore, I have no idea why Lampard stuck with the back 3 till the end. At 4-3, I thought he should or would have brought, say, Loftus-Cheek on and threw the kitchen sink at them because conceding more goals at that point wasn't going to make any difference to our qualification hopes anyway but nope, he kept 3 at the back and Liverpool just exploited it till no end.

Sancho...50 million!? WTF are United on??

Would love to be proven wrong but I would not get my hopes up on that.

What threat? The trio of Mount, Giroud and Willian are never going to get us goals. All slow and not very creative either. When Abraham, Pulisic and CHO came on, Liverpool suddenly looked more in trouble because they suddenly had so much pace and running in behind to deal with.

Another reason why Willian's contract shouldn't be renewed. Lampard just seems to be obsessed with Willian and will play him in every game even if it means running him to the ground.

An additional 10 or 15 minutes might have made a greater difference.

What he does is definitely easy on the eye but as you alluded to there, he is like the Willian version of CM or IMO, Hazard of CM but without the final product (yours is a better comparison lol). When you watch him, it is hard not to feel that he should be doing more, that he should be trying to do more such as play defence splitting passes, play through balls, drive at the opposition into the box, get a shot off etc. Kovacic has talked about wanting to score more goals and has rarely looked like scoring. The two goals he scored for us this season were his firsts since the 2016/17 season!

Has Kovacic even been consistent? He has dropped out of the XI a couple of times and there are games where he has been good and then games where he has been meh. Plus, he doesn't even make any impact when it comes to the attacking third. That initial period aside, once Pulisic settled in, he has consistently made an impact and become our best attacking players in such a short period of time.

This. I have tried to be patient with Kepa this season, even after all the mistakes he has made but it has gotten to the point where I don't think he will make a save anymore. He's just there to make up the numbers but otherwise, he's just a ghost in goal. Better off not even playing a goalie if Kepa is gonna play.