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On a positive note, I thought Hato was fantastic yesterday. Solid defensively but also his capabilities of bringing the ball out of defence was clearly evident yesterday.

No Pedro. Delap, if there was any time to step up it is tonight.

I get why people would be annoyed at the transfer link, however I have been watching him closely recently and he is a very good player. Reminds me of Modric. Obviously not as good as him, however excellent dribbling, close ball control, good passing range and ability to drive through midfield with the ball. I thought he was outstanding against United in that 2-2 game and was MOTM against Arsenal last weekend. He goes under the radar compared to Anderson and Wharton, but Alex Scott defo is a serious talent and will get better. I like him a lot. I think his value will rocket up in a few years so it is one of those, we don't go for him now, we will see how good he is in a few years when he is out of reach.

United will have Martinez and possible Maguire missing next week Saturday. Hopefully the honeymoon period for Carrick is over and this where we see a dip in form. We need to win at all costs. Lost, then getting top 5 seems hugely unlikely. We win, then suddenly United now are drawn into the race again. Need a big performance. Hopefully James is back too.

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/13527515/enzo-fernandez-Chelsea-drop-midfielder-for-port-vale-and-man-city-games-over-real-madrid-comments Yep, official. Would not have played today anyway, however dropping him next week is a big call and I actually think it is the correct call.

What an embarrassment. I know we would lose before the game but to see the lack off effort and fight was inexcusable. Everyone should hold their heads in shame. Palmer also is worrying me. I am not sure where is best position is and there are many games this season now where he just looks ordinary. For a player of his quality, you should be expecting him to rip fear into the opposition. He makes the odd nice pass but his guile, ability to beat a man has just disappeared. Our fixtures are not good. I think even Newcastle may finish above us at this rate. Shambolic. Every fan that attended that game deserves a refund. Can't believe the state of this club right now.

A mix of frustration and anger. Was never a 5-2 game. We had many occasions where we could scored a few and then a crazy last 10 minutes completely changed the game. I struggle to see how we overturn it. Not because we need to just make up 3 goals. We have seen it happen in the past, however more to do that we now play a tough game on Saturday whilst PSG have a whole week off, due to Ligue 1 postponing their upcoming fixture. To the game, thought Neto was very good. Caused a lot of problems. Enzo played well too. Team did in general. What annoyed me was the subs. Another game where Rosenior made subs to kind of preserve what we had and it ended up backfiring. I thought Garnacho should have come on earlier, with how stretched the game was. We were causing them issues out wide and on that big pitch, this is the type of game Garnacho could have made a real impact. Really frustrating because the scoreline suggests we got Spurs'd but we never. Just lapses in concentration. Keeper hugely at fault but is it their fault when the manager constantly keeps implying on playing out from the back. Stick with your philosophy, however sometimes respect the opposition.

Rosenior taking off Neto at the end was stupid. When playing with 10 men always smart to have a player with pace as your outlet. He took him off and we had no width. I think Enzo should have came off at that point. Damaging result. Next week I expect that Liverpool will beat us as I don't see us getting anything from Arsenal. This is our next fixtures: Arsenal (A), Villa (A), Newcastle (H), Everton (A), City (H), United (H). All extremely tough games and defo will be some dropped points there. Liverpool have West Ham (H), Wolves (A) and Spurs (H) next. Football is not played on paper but Liverpool will fancy winning all those fixtures. Going to be a real difficult month and if we manage to be in top 5 after those fixtures conclude, then we must have done something really well.

Why does Estevao have so many games where he keeps going missing. It is really frustrating!! What is the issue now?

Pundits said that it was not an injury for Cucu. Interesting.

Gusto worries me on a yellow card. Is very clumsy. Got sent off against Forest when on a yellow, earlier in season and got lucky with the incident in the match whilst on a yellow.

You have said this like 3 times today. You defo are excited 😄

Big bonus that Calvert-Lewin has not made it. Hopefully we can win and make a statement with a few goals too.

Hooked at half-time this evening too whilst 1-0 down. Don't think he has scored since November.

Rosenior just confirmed Neto and James failed fitness tests this morning.

Palmer on bench for me if Estevao is presumably back. Has not been himself and I am not sure if this is the game where he can influence directly from the start. We will need a lot of support defensively and type of game he has struggled to impact before. Sanchez James Fofana Chalobah Cucurella Santos Caicedo Estevao Enzo Neto Pedro

No Estevao in squad??? Why does he keep playing then suddenly disappear from squad?? So frustrating. Think this will be quite a difficult game.

In August yes, I agree but in January, they should have done business before City went in. VVD will be 35 come end of season. Konate still not signed contract. I If they can give big salaries for ageing players, they should have paid Guehi his demands, considering he is the future and present and is arguably best CB in league.

With Guehi they did tbh.

He has not scored a goal from open play this season in the league and they are getting relegated. Palace are obviously desperate but they should be able to negotiate that fee down.

The ref trolled the Palace fans with the penalty announcement 😆

That was their best available team, bar Kepa for Raya (which was out of choice). That was more of our B team due to the injuries/unavailable. Not sure if you saw their actual line-up, because I am not sure where you concluded that was their 'B' team. To the game, in the circumstances, I will take that 3-2 loss, considering the players we had unavailable/injured and considering they went their strongest outfield team available. When the teams was revealed, I don't think much of as had any hope and when they went 2-0 up, I thought we were in for a hiding. Also thought again when they went 3-1 up, we was going to get battered and we did ride our luck but fair play to how the boys battled and give us a fighting chance. Still a tough ask, however second leg, you could argue that 5 players who were unavailable last night in Gusto, James, Caicedo, Palmer and Delap will all be starters in the second leg.

I think Arsenal will play, pretty much, their best team. They rested all their key players on the weekend against Portsmouth. Kepa may keep his place as has been the cup keeper throughout but other than that yeah, expect to see pretty much their best team.

Estevao did not play any minutes midweek and only played 45 mins against City. Pedro came off in the 60th minute mark against City and only played around 15 mins against Fulham. We are taking a bit too many risks with our lineup. Look what happened with Palace earlier... this is not an easy game. Surprised at the lineup...

We need to stop thinking about reputation now. It is backs against the walls. Get Palmer off and bring on Estevao or Garnacho as Palmer will not be able to track Robinson defensively. He isn’t going to help much right now so use players who have pace for the counter and can help us defensively.