Sideshow Luiz

Courtois just scored on too (already). C'mon Sunday, stay amazing.

The ball just keeps falling to RLC. It's not like he's busting his ass to get in these great positions. He kind of just drifts and the ball ends up with him and he just shoots, deflection, doesn't matter. Giroud, busts his ass, header from point blank...crossbar.

And RLC can't stop scoring.

OMG, he can't buy a goal right now

Willian on the left is a different player.

Get in Ross!!!!!!!!

Palace up 1-0. Pen, just before half.

How the hell does Morata get a booking for that?

I think he prefers Barkley's defence and if Sarri rates RLC as his worst defender, then LW is probably his best position today. Personally, I'd do the same as you, but I can see what his thinking is. Maybe a re-shuffle at half time.

I just bookmark reddit soccer streams: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccerstreams/ The top streams are at the top, sometimes you have to do a little digging. Buffstreams is always the goods. They aren't streaming it today, but whoever was at the top has a pretty good feed.

I guess it was CHO or RLC for the bench, and RLC deserved it. Sarri always said that he wanted either 2 wingers and 1 CM or the reverse for the bench. First time this year it's been 3 of all.

Shit, Pedro needs to come off and we don't have a winger on the bench. @Vesper, you may well see Barkley at winger.

It was pass pass pass ... goal. It was a nice piece of play from the right. Barkley drifted over and played a nice first touch (IIRC)pass through for Morata who was making a run before Barkley got the ball. Tidy side foot finish around the keeper.

Great goal. C'mon Morata, we don't want to dip in to the striker market.

Sarri has said that he doesn't like 3/5 ATB. I can't find the source, but I believe he was directly asked about it. Though, it should be said that we effectively do attack in a 343 diamond. I'm starting to come around to the idea that Kante is kind of a rotation option right now. Against the bigger teams, no doubter. But against opposition that we need to break down, we may find that Kovacic and Barkley/RLC might be a better option. Kante is the best midfield destroyer out there, but in a team that has the ball 60-70% of the time, that's less of a need. If he can start getting further up the pitch and doing his thing of winning the ball back, but in the final 3rd or opponents half, it should lead to a lot of goals. I'm hoping this happens.

I'm skeptical. i wanted Belotti, and it turns out he was super overpriced after being red-hot.

That's my biggest concern with him, his dad likes to talk a lot. We were tired of Courtois' dad, and now AC's dad seems to want to talk to the papers a lot. Bailey's step father is a whole other level.

Willian Hazard Pedro Kovacic Kante Jorginho Alonso Luiz Rudiger Azpi Kepa Bench: Giroud, CHO, Barkley, RLC, Zapp, Cahill/AC, Willy Yes, I know it's not going to happen, but that's my selection.

Tottenham are going to get bumped down. We'll see what happens with Man Utd,. And we are destined to play Napoli, destined. Europa league is going to be interesting.

SU-per, su-per Ross. SU-per, su-per Ross..... JK

Shit, forgot about Drinkwater. Bakayoko is infamously unforgettable.

Yeah. He really got the best out of him.

Not even. I'm not a "he needs to leave" kind of a guy. Except for him. His continued presence angers me.

And the papers were using the term "star' in the clickbait headlines.

That was actually a position that he rotated a bit. Zeilinski would play in that role, same with Marco Rog. In matches agsint Utd, Spurs, City, etc, I think Kante is an automatic starter. When we have to break down teams like West Ham, etc, I think he can be rotated for a more attacking player like Barkley or RLC. Now, I understand that this makes Kante a very over qualified rotation option and getting 100M odd is good business (Damn, why does he have to be so likeable?).