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Defo sketchy because the article has failed to realise that if United win the Europa League, they will automatically be in the Uefa Champions League and their is no standout team in that competition right now, so United could easily win that. Bilbao are very good but beatable. They still have to get past Rangers. Defo dodgy source.

He will sign a new contract. Prob, just wants more money. He has no reason to leave there.

You always call it Vesper.

I like the look of that Frankfurt keeper, Kaua Santos. Very composed and commanding. Made a terrific save at the end of the game. Only 21 (turns 22 tomorrow). Very impressed.

Madueke has made a big difference. Delighted for George aka Saka's twin.

So Maresca rested Palmer against Brentford only to play him 45 mins tonight. I honestly am struggling to understand Maresca's logic. Colwill also was 'rested' against Brentford but does not play tonight... bizarre.

We got a decent loan fee for Veiga and tbh he is playing regularly there. Not a bad move when you look into the loan fee received and the fact he is playing regular football and also featured in the UCL for Juve too.

At this rate, they probably will overtake us tonight. Leicester are embarrassing.

April's fools has passed. This is too late for the jokes Maresca...

Palmer will be a candidate but has dipped second half, however nevertheless he still has been good. Cucurella been good too, however for me Caicedo is our POTS. He was brilliant again tonight. Absolutely phenomenal. What a performance. His tackling is so on point and the way he controls the game in possession also is really impressive. You know he has been very good when no one discusses the price tag anymore. @King Kantemay disagree though.

Yes, I do believe Enzo will go on to become a legend here. He is improving and defo has got more of a physical edge to his game now. Contributing a lot more goals now also. Although I thought Chalobah was excellent, I would give to Caicedo. He was phenomenal also and made crucial tackles but bossed the game all around with the ball too and made it look so easy sometimes. Crucial win. Brentford is a tough one. They are a plucky outfit and we struggle against them but hopefully can put that right on Sunday.

Yep. United and Nice also played in same competition this season too after they come to some agreement regarding the shares.

I would keep him on the basis that although he has not had much output with G/A in past few months, he shown early season form which was encouraging and a lot of our players in the new year including Palmer have looked below their best. I am not expecting Sancho to score and assist bucket loads but he has shown glimpses of what he can do and with Mudryk situation uncertain and fact that he still has re-sale value, I would say keep him on. In a scenario where he stays and he has not kicked, on we still would be able to get decent money from him.

He has a weird agenda against Caicedo. Wrote him off the from the beginning since he has been here and has never really warmed to him.

I think you are totally of it. He is consistent virtually every game for us. He makes the odd rash tackle because of the role he plays, however he is consistently good. Albeit against relegation fodder, he was top class yesterday and made very good tackles which he had to be very careful of, knowing a yellow he would miss both Arsenal and Spurs. Yeah, I find this quite odd you said this as in the past 3 months, I would say, he has been more consistent than Palmer. As in for him not having any effect, he is regularly controlling games and even though he makes clumsy challenges which is normal when you are playing a 4-2-3-1 and not next to another DM who pushes forward, he is making very good challenges too. This stat was a month ago, in which since we have had a break and I doubt this has changed significantly since. People actually underrate how good his passing is also. His for Palmer against Villa 3 weeks ago is forgotten about because Palmer missed but remember that chance where Martinez slipped and Palmer failed to capitalise in the game few weeks ago, Caicedo was the one who played him in and that was a top pass, which he has done a few times this season. Palmer had a similar chance against Southampton where he was played in and Ramsdale saved. I am not 100% sure on this one, but that may well have been Caicedo who played him in again. He defo made the pass against Villa though where Palmer somehow missed. Yeah, I feel even when he makes the odd clumsy foul, he is still influential in virtually every game for us and he is crucial. If you are not seeing what everyone else sees, I struggle to see what you are observing then unless you are just looking for faults. Mac Allister has around 9/10 yellow card for Liverpool in all competitions this season and he plays a in a midfield 4-3-3 where is more protected but still makes fouls out of sometimes necessity and being clumsy, but he remains crucial to how Liverpool play. Caicedo has got silly yellows like the one against Villa for dissent and Southampton one was avoidable, but his performances have remained consistent.

Good to see the academy produced boys doing well. Aina could have easily got MOTM too. CHO with another winner against a top team. Scored a banger at Anfield in Liverpool's only loss. Haaland was non-existent. Don't think he got more than 2/3 touches in the game. Murillo bossed it. CHO was given MOTM, but for the whole game would have personally given to Murillo or Aina.

It will most likely be 5 teams in the UCL. City I think will be fine. They have played most of the so called 'big teams' already and have a bloated squad. I think they will be fine. We still have tougher games to go such as going to Emirates, Forest, Newcastle. Liverpool to play at home..

Must say, Alvarez has proved me wrong. Didn't think he was that good but wow he has been top class. Will hold my hands up when I am wrong. What a goal 👏

Tbh, although Nkunku has been poor recently, I think this is the game he needs to regain confidence. He got a goal and assist in the reverse fixture and hopefully this game he can put in a good performance and maybe a get a goal or two.

Our only senior wingers then for the next month or so will be Sancho and Neto and I would not be surprised if one of them get injured also. Quite ridiculous that we find ourselves in this situation and only the board can blame themselves for such stupid shortsighted thinking. We need Mudryk was suspended and let Felix and Carney go...

That was so embarrassing to watch and I could see from the start of the game that we were not going to deal with Brighton. Not one shot on target! Totally unacceptable. That bench is frankly embarrassing. That was pretty much a bench you expect to be see in the U20 World Cup. To think we had one of the best squad depths to one of the weakest is quite shocking. Everything that was questioned has now hit is bang on the face. Did not sign a striker. Did not sign a winger but loaned out Felix. I said it before but loaning out Felix without getting a replacement is one of the must stupidest decisions made. Mudryk is banned. Whoever is in charge for making these decisions should be sacked because they have left us depleted in attack. Now Jackson, Guiu and Madueke are injured. This means in our next few games for forseeable future, we will not have one senior attacking player on the bench. Bare in mind the decisions to loan out Chukz and Felix and not buy any attacking players was done with us at the time competing for FA Cup, Premier League and UECL. We are now out of the FA Cup but did the board really think we could be competing in three trophies with that little depth and knowing that apart from Palmer and Jackson, most of our attackers are prone to injury. And ironically Jackson of all people gets injured. It is just infuriating because we are going to see many more games like this where we are outclassed. The team is way too inexperienced and there is no experience on the bench either. That was one of Palmer's worst ever games if not worst game for us. But yeah, really worrying. You would have thought Marecsa would have worked on something new after losing to them in the FA Cup, but we just looked worse. George actually looked decent when he came on at least.

We were outplayed tonight. Maresca did not have answers. They nullified Palmer for most of the game. Nkunku struggled. Our bench options is so sad to see when you see how strong it was at beginning of season. We have the same team again on Friday. Not confident after what I saw tonight. We looked lost and in second half looked knackered.

If the result stays how it is and Liverpool progress, the Aston Villa and Liverpool game which was scheduled to be on 15th of March will instead be rearranged for the 19th of February which is a bonus for us as this is three days before we play them on the 22nd of February and we have a whole week's rest. This is due to the Carabao Cup final scheduled to take place on the 15/16th of March.

Oh sorry, I got confused. I thought you were saying we recalled Fofana due to Guiu being injured. Thanks for clarifying. I had no idea.

Nope, but getting rid of him while we are already kind of limited in attack and not having replacement signed up is crazy. He also is a mainstay in the UECL and the more we used our fringe players for that, the better chances it helps us in the league games as our first team players have more rest. Yep, but Pep always would sign a replacement. Even after selling Alvarez, Pep realised he needed another CF/attacker and bought Marmoush. We should realise how crucial depth is in terms of helping you compete in all competitions. Fofana was recalled before last night's game. Guiu's injury had no part to play in Fofana being recalled.