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donjazet:
I sincerely don't know if Lukaku would be energetic enough to press relentlessly.
Mancity obsess over being with the ball. [b]We need our frontmen to never stop pressing.[/b]To force them into errors. Lukaku usually doesn't have the sustained stamina to press without the ball, this is where Werner has an advantage over him, also Werner's pace will be advantageous to hitting them on the counter.

This is why I feel Mount will start.

By the way, is Havertz injured?

Who starts in midfield on Saturday?

Jorginho looks to have overcome his niggling fitness problems and is in very good form, Kovacic seems to have regained his sharpness while Kante - perhaps lacking match fitness the most - looked good and sharp enough in his cameo yesterday and we know how invaluable he is in games like these.

Attack nko? Werner looked good yesterday and his pace will be vital. Wouldn't mind dropping Mount tbh, he's been too hot and cold of recent. But I feel he will start anyways.

So Rudiger now wants to stay...some more good news.

Meanwhile Southampton want to sign Broja permanently lol...thankfully Chelsea have first team plans for the Albanian prince.

popizaino:
Congratulations fellow Nigerians .


You can now tweet without VPN

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One defeat in our past 24 games; unbeaten in the last 11.

Its just those draws that made us lose so much ground. But recent performances have given me hope that our recent horrible spell is now behind us.

The acid test is on Saturday anyways.

Silva is a class act...stayed behind for a good five minutes to applaud the fans as the sang and chanted. Will go down as one of our most loved signings in recent times.

Meanwhile, we've now reached at least one cup final in a calendar year fifteen times since 2005.

Small transfer update: It looks like Juve are interested in RLC.

BikeMan:
He told you this?

Naim dey vex me for oga Raumdeuter mata

That's how he said Pep allowed his boy Tuchel to win his first UCL

OJURONGBE1:
He did well but tone down the hype.
We should applaud all the players and the coach most especially, it wasn't easy.

We're going to Wembley again

No much hype there. This was yet another impressive performance from Sarr.

He deserves plaudits, considering his shaky start.

By the way, Malang Sarr has finally come to the party. He's put together a string of consistent performances for a while now. I'm impressed.

Glad Silva and Kante looked sharp off the bench. Both are definitely going to start on Saturday.

Very well deserved. I was especially impressed with our pressing for large parts of the game.

Lucky not to concede, but we too should've scored more. Overall it was never in doubt.

On to the big one.

And yes, I've not been impressed by Mount irrespective of his assist. He needs to step up.

Been impressed with Werner today. His best performance in a while IMO. Touches haven't been loose as usual. Him and Lukaku have causes problems.

Our play has been sexy at times, but we began to give ourselves problems towards the end with loose passes. Fair play to Spurs, their pressing played a part in that.

Closed play assist

Vinicius Jr

Nigga has really worked on himself.

Still on the officiating disaster that occurred in Tunisia/Mali; I heard that the official apparently has a history of officiating blunders, and was even suspended back in 2018 on corruption grounds. So CAF no see another referee bring come AFCON? This is the type of ref they selected for Africa's biggest football showcase?

Baba ended the match in the 85th minute, and then again in the 89th minute! How's that even possible?

They sha later wanted to play the final minutes, but Tunisia declined.

Disgrace of the highest order.

Skimpledawg:
Hearing he's leaving on loan as well.

Woulda hoped to see him on that LWB

Recall him to loan him out again while we're having a LWB crisis? It better not be true and if it is, they better have something else lined up. Na ment?

Back 4?

I won't be surprised if it's a back three though...note how the names are usually written with respect to the formation; back three first, then wingback, midfield duo, second wingback and then the front three.

That would mean Sarr, Chris and Rudi make up the back three, with Azpi and CHO playing as wingbacks - don't know who will play where, but TT has tried both on both flanks before so it could be either of them. Jovacic double pivot, then the front three sets itself.

This does make sense. But let's wait and see.

Adiwana:
The penalty was rightly given. Djenpo stretched out his hands instead of tucking it in his body, so not much complaints about that. Then he blew full time whistle at 85 mins, gave a straight red afterwards for a foul of yellow then blew full time at 89 mins.

I’ve never seen this kind of thing in my entire life of watching football

Full time whistle at 89mins

No wonder dem rush the guy

Who's watching AFCON? See officiating drama late in the game between Tunisia and Mali.

First, a penalty was awarded to Tunisia which caused controversy. Then a Malian player was shown a straight red; debatedly harsh. Finally, it seems the ref blew the final whistle even while there was still little time left.

I wasn't even watching closely so I can't say anything for sure.

Aston Villa no wan hear word oh

These Grizzlies sha

hensben:
Hazard’s career at real was affected by injury.

Remember what you said about Neymar some time ago?

I love Hazard but what is good for Greece is good for Uganda.

• Meanwhile, we play Spurs today. Holding a 2-0 lead from the first leg.

• No fresh injury worries; in fact there's some good news - N'golo Bandit and El Monstro are out of isolation, and are back in training. Spurs game may be too soon for them, but they should be in shape for the blockbuster at the Etihad this Saturday.

• Trevoh Chalobah may be set to miss 2-3 weeks.

• Meanwhile I hear Son may miss today's game. Added bonus for us.

Fantastic game yesterday, though it would've been nice if we had scored more goals based on the chances we had. Fantastic goal from Kelz, but he should've added to his tally in the second period.

Moses Simon was an absolute menace down the left yesterday, just that he kept doing the sane thing in the first half and his end product left much to be desired. But he was immense yesterday.

Chukwueze wasn't as lively but I felt he was ok, I especially liked how he and Aina - who was fantastic by the way - combined down the right, especially in the early parts of the second half.

Kudos to Maduka Okoye for that one save. Very important.

And Ejuke needs to keep his head up more. He was too selfish.

We should be topping this group easy.

Lastly, kudos the the gaffer. Best Super Eagles game I've seen in a while.

Make Eguavoen talk to Simon except...the runs to the byline have become too much. Except na tactical instruction.

Fantastic finish, it was.

Senior Man Kelz on the beat.

Aribo with the assist.

Kelzzzzz!!!

PDPGuy:
Moses Simon sha

Doing the same thing again and again.

Troost-Ekong doing well with those diagonals to Simon.

But the Nantes man needs to start cutting in on his stronger foot, instead of driving to the byline all the time.

Eish!!

Good chance; angle against Simon but he should've gone first time.

Good run though, and nice pass from Aribo.

What's wrong with the balls na