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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.

Seems you may be right. He is already back in training and would be a shock to see him not involved on Sunday.

Has had a stellar season since joining Everton. Has started every game apart from the suspension he served and virtually plays 90 mins every game. What a goal he scored tonight too 👏

That game was spectacular. Spurs coming back from 2-0 down to win 3-2. Even then that was their first win at Arsenal for 17 years. Must be so painful being a Spurs fan. Anyway today shows how clear Arsenal are off the rest. There are 3 players who were out injured who defo start full fit and they managed to win so easily without those players. If we win next week, we close the gap but we are not competing with them. They also have got harder fixtures out the way than us too.

Maresca already confirmed Palmer is out for the Arsenal fixture.

I am annoyed by it. Arsenal are the team to chase as they are top. If they win, they extend their lead over City. I would of preferred City to win and we do our business in silent as I don't think we will win the title if being honest. We still have not played a 'big team' away from home yet.

Delap is perfect for these type of games. Excellent strength and hold up play.

Don't get people's issues with Neto. He is very underrated. He is criticised for his end product but already is on like 3 goals and 2 assists right. He has improved.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11743/13471813/antoine-semenyo-bournemouth-forwards-lb65m-release-clause-becomes-active-in-january Yep, as predicted, there is the release clause. Was way too random for him to sign a contract extension without a release clause. Will be interesting to see if someone goes for him in January. I hope he stays there till the summer tbh. I think Liverpool right now, would be the best option for him as I don't see us bidding for him.

I think Neto is an important player to keep around. He may not always produce the numbers, stats-wise, however he does a lot of defensive work for the team and this season is offensive output has improved. Is already on 3 goals and 2 assists in the league. He only got 4 league goals last season, so is well on course to get his best ever tally. Forest, West Ham game he was fantastic and also thought he was quality against Benfica too. Think he is a very good player to have around. I actually prefer him on the right but equally he is good on the LW too.

Well the plan is for him to be back for both: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/13463768/cole-palmer-injury-enzo-maresca-hopes-Chelsea-forward-will-be-fit-to-face-barcelona-and-arsenal-in-november

This comes at a good time for us. Let players rest. Palmer should be back. Allow the likes of Enzo, Caicedo and Pedro to get over their niggles (assuming they are not called up for international duty).

Another world class performance 👏. Feels this is just the norm now, nothing is even posted in this thread after the game he had 😄

He was registered after Essugo got injured. He started against Benfica. Is a possibility he can start there tomorrow.