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Felix is such a choke artist. On matter the occasion. At least he is consistent thats why i never wanted him at this club first of 2nd time round

It depends. If palmer is on the right, he can not really stop short of tracking back and chipping in to defend. This would make the team lopsided and disorganised against the ball. As a no. 10 he might get away with it when you have a striker as industrious as Jackson. I did not really like Felix and palmer in the same lineup tbh. We looked much better vs villa than vs Leicester as a consequence. Palmer is tailor made for that role in the box midfield. Fernandez joins him to have another ball distributor in attack, while Two proper wingers stretch the opposing defense

This is still a a squad with 1bn+ spent on, so I don’t really like this “ahead of the curve” or “ahead exceeding expectations”. When you spend that amount of money, Top 4 should be a minimum requirement no matter how young the team or inexperienced the coach that being said, I like how Enzo has brought back the joy, the football looks great, everybody looks like they are enjoying themselves and we are banging in goals for fun. I particularly like how Enzo has proven himself a lot more versatile than we feared. His footy at Leicester was quite one dimensional pass orgies, but we have seen our team play super direct on the counter, classic wing play, under lapping and overlapping defenders, mid press, high press, low block. We have also seen a lot of players who looked like lost causes show how good they actually are. The problems at the back are quite clearly quality issues. I still believe we would be further ahead without a lot of these stupid clownlake BS and more common sense but Enzo has made the most of what he got. final thought, what I also did not like was how ppl on here said Enzo has no personality smh. From day one he has been a sanguine, positive presence with evident passion for the game and clear ideas. His lack of experience might still catch up with him and it is rare for someone like this to win big titles but on the other hand the more experienced Poch failed spectacularly when it mattered. While the trend was going up at the end, I perceived him as inadvertently toxic at times. It looks like Enzo has learned from and built smartly on last season

Oh Shit. This lineup looks weak af. Basically no real striker and midfield. Guiu is pants and KDH/Casadei are not DMs. For Heidenheim this is not just their cup final, this is by far the biggest game of their history. They will be 100% motivated. I doubt our XI is ready for their intensity

It was basically the same as the Bayern goal yesterday. Goalie fails to catch an easy ball under minimal contact. Refs always give it in favour of the more established club when it is a big call that is just a tiny bit ambiguous

Ref just stole a last second winner from villa. What an astonishingly bad call. Juves stupid keeper ran into a villa player, dropped the ball, Morgan poked it in. Then the juve keeper went down as if he had been shot and got the foul. What a disgrace

Wonder if Liverpool would have won the league last season if they had got rid of Klopp earlier. They look like the shackles have come off

That opener was again a new kind of goal he did not have in his locker previously. Finally his tenacity and workrate, which he always had, directly resulted in an emphatic finish. Granted, faes is a liability of a defender (massive downgrade from Fofana which is saying something) who will often give you these openings whenever he is not busy scoring owngoals, but Nic was sharp enough to exploit it. Neat finish on top of this. When you look at Drogbas first two seasons in PL there were quite a few bizarre misses but also so many situations where his mere presence, technique and physicality created chaos in the opposition defence. Previously, I saw more of kalou in Jackson with his lanky awkwardness but the type of goals he has scored this season mark a clear upward trajectory into the lead-the-line CF role. Sure, Nkunku is the better finisher and technician but unless he becomes the juggernaut of his peak Leipzig season again, I don’t see him replacing Jackson as cornerstone of our offensive play.

Not exactly heartbroken. Good servant of the club but meh goalie and clearly whatever he is teaching is not helping Sanchez. Same as with hilario, Sanchez weaknesses are his distribution and decision making. Things that are K believe at least something you can improve on at any age. The question is however how will lollichons legacy be passed on.

While KDH is not exactly a world class player, he has his qualities, it is just he has been misused. His position does not really exist in our system which makes Maresca wanting him even more baffling. Still, if that was his one make a wish player we got off the hook cheap here.

Given how poor he is with his feet and decision making, Snachez has to have his shot stopping game spot on. This is not the first time he should have kept out a goal that made life really difficult for us. Otherwise he was ok but we can’t have a gk who is at fault for a goal roughly every other game on average. This will make top 4 way tougher than necessary plus throws our cup title challenges in serious doubt (for Jorgensen is not any better)

True but their players Are so Tiny; disasi and Tosin pushed them aside easily. Cant do that in PL

Tbf the ref made a few harsh calls on us earlier

That Reminds me of that time penandes stomped Onto a defender and got a pen for it.

How is that a pen

How did. we Not Score here 3 times woodwork too

Finally gets it. difficult finish btw tryique george is still not ready, he was Abysmal once more 7-0 is already highest win in uecl

Nkunku is in a Bit of a mini crisis. Has Missed Like 6 clean Chances in a row Last few games

Nice finish muddy No keeper in the World stops that but no other defense doesnt close him down like this

We have the Chance Here to set an eternal record for this competition of we keep being clinical. They are so physically and technically inferior. the ref is so easy on them the. We would have 5 More from their turnovers w a prem ref

Whats that formation ? 2 strikers , no Dm? Or is veiga dm and we play with back 3 and muddy/george as wingbacks ?

What is crazy is how Frankfurt always gets their strikers scoring for fun such that they can sell them for big money only a year or two later. This pattern has been going on for ages now. Jovic, rebic, haller , Antonio Silva, kolo muani, now marmoush. Maybe we should loan them one like PSG did. The club is obviously well run despite its high coach and staff turnover, the fanbase is the best in Germany, the stadium the most atmospheric but there also appears to be some kind of identity transcending whatever coach or squad they have atm

This was always the most probable result our chance to win went when Sanchez gifted them that goal we will always underperform our potential as long as we have this weak link.

Neto been great. Not much of a scorer but so combative and stronger Than he looks

How is ugarte still on the pitch. 4 fouls After his yellow