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Yes

That's mental.

January. Don't ask what year though...

Does anyone have a screenshot? He didn't look miles behind the line, barely level AT BEST - you think they'd have brought out the various lines...

The guy who went practically all of last season without a goal at home in the league?

2016/2017: 21 in 47 2017/2018: 18 in 53 2018/2019: 20 in 48 2019/2020: 18 in 41 Wha? He's clearly switched it up a gear this season but that's a very decent goal return for a guy who isn't the main striker at the club (and has often played wing, second/split striker, midfield etc).

Same - was great to see his celebration. Really hope he kicks on from here. We need him.

Level headed? He's a cocky f***er and I LOVE it. (On the pitch I mean).

Stevie's Rangers doing well here.

Can we sue them for reducing the value of our player?

That's breaking up 2 partnerships. Get Mane central, Jota on the left. Keep Salah-TAA as it is. Mane is like a Suarez-lite anyway - perfect for playing that CF role.

For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, the full thing is on YouTube

What's the history/rivarly behind us playing Burnley (replace with about 20-30 other teams)? Most of the clubs we have a rivarly any semblance of a rivarly against, save for Everton, Leeds, Villa and Forest, would be in the competition anyway.

Most are in friendlies, though, apparently. Think when Messi scored the other week for Argentina they did a statistic on goals not scored in friendlies - something like 70% of Neymar's were in friendlies, while for the actual Ronaldo who's goals Neymar has surpassed for Brazil, it was the other way around.

That last Ajax attack when he went to punch the cross...heart in mouth stuff. Imagine a Gudjohnsen moment, but Adrian in goal.

Was a s/crappy game overall but we badly needed the win so onward and upward.

It was as wrong then as it is now. The goalkeeping equivalent of a Hodgson is better than Rafa shout. Funnily enough, if I remember, he was shocking the season BEFORE that and was actually coming good again around that period before we decided to replace him with pan-faced plant pot. It's also up there with "Xabi only had one good season for us and was average the rest". Bad timelines. Xabi had one injury hit season (07-08) where he was good but had a few injuries here and there. He did have one average season (06-07 but was picking up again as we made the final), two excellent seasons (debut and following, 05-06) and one world class season (the obvious one).* *I may be mixing up 06-07 and 07-08 but he was arguably average in one of them, and the second one he had a few injuries and was starting to come REAL good again towards the end. He certainly didn't have "just one good season and 4 average ones". I've seen this happen for Torres too..."he was poor the last couple of seasons" which suggests he had 2 poor seasons. He scored 18 in 22 in the season before he went to s***, which we sold him halfway through that one...(where he was scoring 1 in 3 under Hodgson). That sounds about exactly what we got...

Yea Mane's a bit of a Suarez in that regard, would be interesting to see him central.

Minamino has shown nothing to be given a start in an important game yet. Jota has - let's give him a go.

Should get a run for Firimino - I guess only issue is that would mean having to move the Mane/Robertson partnership as Mane goes central but worth testing it out for a game.

Hilarious when commentators say "[X player] was far from happy when substituted" which is usually preceded with same player looking quizzally at the sub board. Which player is happy to come off? Even Lovren with his mare at the 4-0 Tottenham game was probably like "Me, boss? Why am I being taken off?"

Ant's got to be on the wind up surely? That's what you'd expect from a teenage, pimply-faced Ant which was what a good 10-12 or so years ago now.

Seeing as he was let go by West Ham or whatever, arguably this IS him being better... Regardless of whether or not Reina would be any good here, again, his shot stopping can't be worse than Adrian's - it will be just as bad at worst. But going from having a guy who can pass at will at the back to a plonker who can't find his teammate 10 yards away in crucial games of the season is a huge issue - our whole style of play changes. It's worse than having an Origi-like backup for Firmino. At least the former is useful and scores and contributes even if we have to change our style slightly.

He'd be playing in front of a better defence here, and his shot stopping can't be worse than Adrian's. But at least his passing will be better.

I'm way more annoyed about this game than the Villa game. The Villa game was an absolute freakshow. Yesterday, I could even grudgingly accept the poor offside calls as "one of those" - but what the heck was the verdict on the Pickford tackle on VVD? Basically they're saying: A) If it's offside, it's fair game and you can get away with doing anything to an opponent, because it's offside therefore it doesn't count, or; B) I think the Athletic released an article where they said they got clarification from the PL that VAR did indeed look at the tackle and not deem it a red card offence (what?) I'm not sure which of the above two is worse, but they're both absolutely ridiculous.