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melodyogonna:
I think he meant hardly injured

Unless that.

elampiro:
I do not understand this question. If you mean why he played 200 games, I can tell you he was our most consistent forward player for about three years.

Most consistent forward player? Abeg which year?

elampiro:
Can you tell any English player the press have favoured in competition for a starting place? Lingard and Pereira have been fighting for a place. Pereira has been playing ahead of Lingard. English press, if anything, mostly fight English players. Or they favour one English player over another in competition for call up to national team

How did Lingard play up to 200 games here? Hype...

pazienza:
Doucoure is still good. Remember that Wjinaldum of Liverpool was once a part of a relegated Newcastle team.

That's why I said I don't know if it's down to the collected poor form of the team or Dacoure himself. I have watched a couple of their games recently and he's been a shadow of himself.

CapitalCee:
Yeah, why i said grealish is that Villa might get relegated and he might come cheap, he can do few jobs when some of our players are out injured. For me a midfield trio of Mctomminay, Fred and Bruno is not bad. For me our main transfer target must be Sancho. A front 3 of Sancho, Rashford and Martial will be great.


Send Gomez and Chong on loan, even if its in the championship. Our GK Henderson should be prepared as the heir to DDG

The English press will murder Ole is he benches Grealish. Trust me, you don't want them coming for Bruno in a bid to get Ole start Grealish...They'll highlight every bad pass and wrong touch Bruno makes.

CapitalCee:
I like this your formation. If Pogba goes in the summer, we can use his money to buy Sancho, then get Grealish, which will be more easier if villa get relagated, we can add Abdulouye Dacoure from watford. Jones, Lingard and Perrera to go unfailingly.

DDG, Bailly, Maguire, AWB, Shaw; Mctoms, Fred, Bruno, Sancho, Rashford, Martial.

Subs: Grealish, Dacoure, Willaims, Matic, Greewood, Dalot, Tuanzebe, James, Romero, Lindelof, etc.

I don't like Grealish, he drifts towards the left wing too much for a CAM.

Dacoure has regressed this season, I really don't know if it's down to the poor form of the club as a whole.

Sancho will be a good buy if he settles for that RW position and not become another player that'll prefer to play from the left.

We played very well today (2nd half)

We need to win or draw against Manchester City to keep the momentum.

As much as the Pogba situation is annoying, I just hope he gets back into the team, with Bruno, Pogba, McTominay and Fred, our midfield will rival just about anything in the league. Williams and Wan-Bissaka can bomb forward if Ole plays a diamond midfield with Fred and McTominay covering for them similar to what Arteta is doing with Saka and Xhaka at Arsenal.

Martial is getting better, I'd love to see him and Ighalo together with Ighalo ruffling the defenders and Martial profiting from the play.

Great win today, not the best performance though but I'd take the 3pts.

ChristineC:
Matic becomes really slow when he's had consecutive games under his belt. the only reason he'd play well is if Watford sits deep as I suspect.

I put him there because I don't see Bruno starting and I don't even want to consider the idea of Bruno playing a 2 man midfield.

DeadPresidents:
McTominay over Matic for me. Give that man some rest for fecks sake

I won't complain if Matic starts though seeing as McTominay will definitely be rusty after being out for a while.

McTominay won't start that's why I opted for Matic.

I will like Ole to start a front 3 of Martial, Ighalo and Greenwood. We will be more dangerous with those three ahead of Bruno.

Fred and Matic combo to screen the back 4.

In CB, Bailly or Lindelof? I'd pick Bailly because Lindelof will struggle to cope with the physicality of Deeney.

I hope we win...

Is that goalkeeper catches Messi, no be small beating Messi go collect.

Braithwaite had a great cameo appearance.

He'll bring something different to that Barcelona attack, aggression...

72Morale:
In how many appearances?

Those EPl boiz are flops compared to what their peers are doing in other leagues.

Who's this one again?

afrodoc2:
Yeah. It would be interesting to find out if the Wolves’ midfielders stats are average because of the team’s style OR the team plays that way because of the type of midfielders it has.

Well, for me it's down to the fact that they play for Wolves wherein they're setup to play on the break. I reckon he'll do well playing for a team like ours, sitting in the base of our midfield and dictating the play. He is stronger on the ball than Fred and is better at passing than McTominay.

At United, he'll seldom face teams who will come all out to attack us thus he'd have more freedom to play.

sod09:
Long passes
Set piece
I think he's a suspect defensively

Well, he isn't bad defensively.

afrodoc2:
Not a bad player, however apart from his occasional wonder goals just how good is he?

He is adept at coordinating the play from deep and can pass, long and short passes...

He can also tackle. With him, you are getting something like a hybrid of a natural 4 and 10.

Ruben Neves is a baller...

I wouldn't mind if we get him.

Greatihex:
are you saying that if they lose the tie, that they will become less a great team?



For me, No.

They are a great team, but their position in the league is helped by the weakness of the league.

No...

Greatihex:
are you saying that if they lose the tie, that they will become less a great team?



For me, No.

They are a great team, but their position in the league is helped by the weakness of the league.

You can comfortably point to the EPL because La Liga doesn't command the same viewership as the EPL. I watch Barcelona vs Getafe and I was shocked that Nyom wasn't shown a red card after elbowing Umtiti on purpose even after the referee watched the video replay but but let's rather talk EPL.

How can floks be so comfortable talking absolute rubbish?

eph12:
We just have to agree that the EPL hasn't been competitive enough this season and can do better. MUFC and CFC are struggling with new management, and recruitment. MCFC is having an off season. Probably a one off

When last has Manchester United, Arsenal and Chelsea been at the top of their game? If this excuse must hold ground, we can as well say Pep had it easy.

nihilistjnr:
We may need to dispatch a search party to find the meaning or relevance of this comment.

All of them reason alike, turning logic on its head...

randomperson:
Even if Liverpool end up qualifying, it doesn't change the fact that over 90 minutes they were bested by the first la liga team they met...

All the other epl teams had the same opportunity to do the same but fell short

No words bro. I have no words to respond to your line of thought.

randomperson:
Out of 32 teams, 16 teams qualified for the round of 16... Qualifying for the round of 16 is not a big deal at all...

k

Melvyn11:
People are always going to crash out from the champions group stage. Is that a shocker to you or what?

k

Melvyn11:
You should take a break. You are not making sense any longer.

No be you again...

Why 5 years and not 15 years?

raumdeuter:
Give the specific season so we can verify your claim so we wont have another lying airmark who told us Barcelona lost 1 game in 78

I am referring to their La Liga campaign some seasons back. That they almost went unbeaten, did it in any way mean the league was rubbish?

Melvyn11:
Spurs were trashed by Bayern. Chelsea qualified on the last matchday. Even city struggled in their group. So Yes epl teams this season have struggled as well in Europe and in the league. Liverpool are only unbeaten at this stage of the season because of the farmers they play on a regular basis.

Inter, Ajax and the likes crashed out but no, let's rather berate those that qualified...

Folks, before now, the premise upon which Raumdeuter used to rate a league as the best was the performance of their representatives in Europe but now the EPL is doing well, the goal post has been shifted.

The UCL and UEL was contested by EPL teams last season and now, all the EPL representatives have make it to the round of 16 in the UCL just as Manchester United, Wolves and Arsenal are doing great in the Europa league but no, the EPL must be garbage because of what is happening in their local league...Europe is no longer the standard...What a time to be alive...Amala has suffered.

raumdeuter:
Most other top teams lose in both competition unless you play a weak league

When Barcelona all did the unbeaten only to lose on the last match day no thanks to that senseless friendly in South Africa that meant Messi had to be rested, was La Liga a useless league?

raumdeuter:
So you want me to compare this Man utd to the 2007/08 that won the league? Compare Arsenal to unbeaten? COmpare this chelsea to Cuntay season and compare CIty to the 100points season

Wont that make it even worse?

It will show you how far they have fallen when your lord and savior Pep won the league back to back...