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He looks strangely small in goal optically, could be down to his smaller build as he is still 6’2”. At this point in time, his handling and reflexes are better than Tek, he brings more serenity in possession as he is less frenetic with the ball at his feet and although the sample size is...

His scoring record back at Porto was decent. Took penalties and had a decent long range strike. His natural tendency to get forward and regularly provide overlapping runs lent itself more to being a full back than a CB so I can see why he hasn’t been considered for the role in the past. At...

All of these games live rent free in my head. McKennie as a trequartista against Empoli holds the crown.

I’m sure it was Danilo. Did it a few times. We have a lot of players who aren’t confident in retaining the ball and play with the fear of losing it.

Our sentiments exactly. Here we go again, could be great beating them 4 times in one season.

To be honest we wouldn’t be saying this if Barella finished his chance, Lukaku headed the ball on target or didn’t break down every attack because he has a worse touch than Susan.

I do as well. We haven’t won a European trophy for nearly 30 years and won’t be relevant in the CL for 4-5 years minimum imo.

It’s hard to criticise our luck when we’ve had the likes of Lyon, Porto, Villarreal, Freiburg, Nantes in our last 5 knock out draws? It is the two toughest teams possible of course, but that streak of easier ties on paper was bound to end at some point.

Was even more sure after he missed the last one that he’d attempt the middle today. Thought he would’ve at least tried to get a bit of height on it though.

Not only that, but he also arrived late for pre-season because we haggled. He’s one of the few players to remain fit, pretty much all season and played at the WC in the winter break.

Imagine saying something like this at the start of the season when we were about to buy him. This has panned out to be another strange season.

I thought he was a very good 1v1 defender, but the amount of times he’s been easily beaten by average players when he tries to get tight would suggest it’s not the case.

I thought he’d go middle too and the player going to the keeper may have been advising him to stay central. Then the idiotic ref drags it out by slowly telling the keeper to stay on the line, then the players to stay out of the box and then he runs to either side of the ball before blowing the...

More likely somewhere like Galatasaray. Even EPL chumps will see this lump unable to control the ball and look like he is running in quicksand.

Try to make sense of being overrun in the middle of the park whilst fielding 4 CMs in there. Zero urgency, zero desire to put real pressure on the ball. They are watching Rincon doing fancy footwork.

Unfair to compare him to Higuain who arrived here at 28, with experience at a number of clubs and systems with a developed all round game. He’s played well at one club in a specific system that suited him. He hit the ground running here and now is frustrated at how little he is involved in the...

Freiburg looked like they could be a decent side, but were overawed by the occasion and made a lot of errors which reduced their confidence. We played well in large parts, but our CF had a horror show and couldn’t seem to even do the basics and trap the ball. Also too often the final ball was...

He really is as dumb as he looks.

At least they play Jihadball and defend with 11 men properly behind the ball with the team well drilled. We play Jihadball and defend loosely with 9, whilst Di Maria floats and Susan stands around.

I can’t recall a time when we’ve fielded more South Americans than Europeans. What a time to be alive.