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People going to slate Maresca for taking Palmer off but I understand it. He is not really at it again tonight and they are beating the press easily. Pedro may do well paying off an actual target man in Delap.

We are being sliced open way too easily. Garnacho besides assists has been poor. Palmer is still not 100% and have noticed a few times now, where is teammates have ignored him and not passed. He also is a liability defensively as he is not able to track back at speed of their pressing. Caicedo is on a yellow and may be worth taking off. Has not been at it this game.

Caicedo, very clumsy. Now out against City due to that yellow ffs! If we lose tonight then we are doomed because we are not getting anything at City.

How can we be getting battered by a team who is missing all their RB and playing a CM kid in Miley at RB and he looks like prime Cafu. Burn injured. Pope injured. This is defo a managerial problem. He is not able to adapt. Pathetic. We should of been targeting that right hand side but no. Embarrassing.

Everyone wanted Enzo out the team and we have looked awful without him. He needs to come on at H/T and put James into his natural role. Palmer has been awful and a bloody liability too. He has lost almost every dual and defensively is a weak point as he cannot stand Newcastle's press. Absolute horror performance and really could be a lot worse, the scoreline. We almost start every game away from home like this and Maresca does not know how to address it. Pathetic.

That is annoying. Did not know that until now. I hope Palace beat Arsenal but I do not see it. They look really stretched right now. Arsenal's depth is crazy even with injuries. Palace have Sarr away at AFCON. Munoz requires surgery and that is their most dangerous side of attack. Mateta looks exhausted and their schedule is as crazy as any other team and does not help that Glasner does not rotate much. Would defo be better for us if Palace win but think Arsenal will win. Arsenal have a whole week's rest at the moment while Palace have had a game, week in, week out for like the whole season.

We playing Newcastle at a good time. They have a bit of an injury crisis. Burn, Trippier, Krath, Botman, Lascelles all injured. Hall was not in the squad tonight due to a minor hamstring injury, so Miley played at RB. Livramento went off injured late in second half and had a rookie coming on at LB and Howe just said now that it doesn't look good when a player goes down like that. So assuming he is out weekend. We also have a day's extra rest than they do. That is most of their backline injured. Even with Estevao injured, we have players who can hurt them. Just need to not capitulate like we have done in recent seasons at SJP and keep firm against the hostile crowd. Keep 11 on the pitch and hopefully we can pick up a vital points on Saturday. Like I say, a good time to be playing them.

Estevao must have an injury. Did not see him on training pics. It would make no sense to not start him, let along not be on the bench, when his minutes have been scarce recently. Baffling. If he doesn't have an injury, then lost for words...

Maresca is actually a clown. He left Estevao on bench for the whole game. The game was clearly running away from us and his subs were terrible.

He was not given enough time tbh. Had he been given the time, I am sure Arsenal would have had more trophy success. Look what he did with Villareal after and now Villa. When he is given time to build his squad, he does wonders.

Tyler Adams is suspended for them. They likely will have Tavernier who is an attacking mid/winger playing at CM. Big bonus for us and we should have a lot of attacking opportunities. I think we will win this.

@ZAPHOD2319 no game thread yet for Bouremouth. Game less than 24 hours?

The fact it says Arsenal are in for him makes me think this is BS. They already have Gabriel, Saliba, Mosquera and Hincapie. If they don't sign Hincapie permanently they will sign a cheaper CB.

Yep, have to give it to them, they look complete and even when they have injuries, they look good. Saka was injured for a bit and Madueke stepped in and did well. Gyokeres who they have bought for big money as the main CF, they are scoring goals without him playing. I think whatever the result, they will win the league. They are too strong in all angles of the pitch. Nwaneri who is actually older than Estevao and was seen as their big breakthrough star last season cannot get a start at all. That is even when likes off Odegaard have been injured and now he is back. I will give credit where credit is due.

Despite the serious injures he has had, his recovery pace is superb. You rarely see anyone get the best of him in a foot race.