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We have Sheffield at home at some point. Arsenal have fixtures against City,Spurs,Chelsea,Mancs to come [Brighton/Wolves as well, and you never know how they'll play]. This isn't going to continue for the rest of the season

Arsenal start games, the same way Abu Dhabi did a few years ago, scoring within the first 10/15 minutes.

Famously started talking to Goetze, leading up to the CL final [Dortmund v bayern]

I reckon its nonsense. Leverkusen wouldn't allow it, not in the middle of a title race, and I doubt that Alonso would be that unprofessional whilst trying to win the title in direct competition with them.

Yup its a running trend

Ill take it

We've had 4 games in 11 days, the players have rhythm, the injured players back [that's only Szobo,Endo and Darwin] you could play for a period in the 2nd half. The rest need protecting, more so because the turnaround is s*** for the game against City.

Our last game before the break is the 31st, so 4 weeks from now, effectively 5 weeks from his injury. High ankle sprains can take 4-6 weeks, so it just depends how he's progressing

Possible before international break but this week would be too early

Hope they get relegated

Bar Salah, no.

I'd give them some minutes in the 2nd half, but everyone else wrapped in all the cotton wool in the world. We can't afford to have anyone missing from the current crop against that lot as it is.

I want the City game more than this. We can still beat Sparta with a rotated side, where as against City, even at our best, it can go either way. We have a chance to take points off them directly.

Rest all the key players for City.

I agree regarding Fabinho, as a 6 purely. What Macca is, in my opinion, is a world class swiss army knife in any position in midfield.

yes of course, just for me in terms of playing the game, technical ability, his vision, and the fact that he's played in a number positions in midfield, he's been impressive. I'd say the greatest strength of our successful midfield under Jurgen has been how they collectively meshed and complimented each other rather than them being individually world class midfielders in multiple positions in midfield.

Whatever journalist asks the question, should mention that Forest, and their time wasting antics are the reason there was 8 minutes of injury time, when their keeper laid down for 10 minutes and the rat looking c*** in midfield, pretended he couldn't walk off the pitch, had to be carried by the medical staff, and as soon as he got off, walked normally to the bench.

I may have lost the plot but he seems to be more comfortable on the ball than Ali.

Im tired Robbie

Even more impressive.

Most impressive midfielder since Alonso. Had Thiago been more fit in his time here, I would have mentioned him, but Macca has been something else this season.

I think the minutes hes put in as of late, has been a problem for him, he isn't sharp at the moment, decision making wise.

Considering that was our 4th game in about 15 days, with our injury situation, it's impressive we even showed up and fought let alone won the game. There were a lot of tired legs out there, Gakpo really was subpar, but he's also played a lot of minutes and he's making poor decisions I think in part because of the amount of minutes he's put it in, mentally it's been a challenging time for all of the players. It reminded me of the 1-0 win over Sheffield in our title winning season, when Gini scored, and it bounced off the keeper and rolled in. Kelleher has stepped up tremendously, he's been sensational

Both players, Salah, especially were putting up numbers that made sense for us to sign them. They elevated once they got here further, but prior to that, they were already performing at a good enough level. Right now, I don't see any players, that are available, that would follow that same path.

Konate was superb as well Gomez was being grabbed by his shirt first before he started to do the same