VillaAlex

Scored too early, hope I'm wrong.

Just noticed Lille don't play in between their games with us and therefore can concentrate their preparation on the second leg in France. We have Arsenal away in between.

Going to be a tough schedule, which again highlights need to get points on board today. 

5 minutes ago, DCJonah said:

We've had some must win/don't lose games and we've failed when it comes to it. 

We need to get something today, a draw wouldn't be great though. 

If England get the extra place do we have to play a qualifying game if we finish 5th or are we straight in?

 

Everyone is in the same league. 

I think they'll sell Gibbs White myself. English premium and would fit in most sides. 

Klopp being a prick yet again. Good riddance come May. 

Yep agreed, I think although we want to win every game. Given the suspensions, injuries and schedule that was a solid point. 

I could only catch the game 60 mins onwards and thought he really helped drive us forward. How was he before that? 

Muniz has been brilliant since getting a start for them.

Fulham look really good. 

Watkins is the better all round player at this point. But Benteke definitely had the X Factor to win games out of nothing which I don't think Ollie totally possesses all the time. 

For this team I'd 100% have Ollie but for a team without Emery structure I'd have prime Benteke.

I think Arsenal will knock out Bayern and Leverkusen will knock out West Ham..

Hopefully avoid the greek sides and Fener. The away legs I fear we'd crumble like against Legia. 

Van Der Ven looks a phenomenal defender I have to say. Saying that, with their high line like us he's going to keep getting hamstring injuries. 

I think it's a sensible team tbh. Don't trust Diaby/Rogers enough to do the defensive work. 

6 hours ago, CVByrne said:

Shocking night for our chances of that 5th CL spot

It went pretty much as expected.

7 minutes ago, Jas10 said:

 

Such a class act. 

I think obviously Unai would have wanted a win today but I think it played out pretty much how he'd have liked it to. 

Apart from one small mistake in the second half, I thought he was our best player today. 

Lenglet has made a lot of important interceptions. 

3 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

Can't watch it right now, what were some good take aways from it?

Poor positioning of players holding line in some of clips, not staying inline with Pau. Been discussed a lot I think but it's always the responsibility of other defenders to stay in line with player closest to the ball. 

High line higher than he'd like at times.

Likes Moreno to be a winger almost to stretch teams. 

Posted in Emery thread but also here, very insightful especially how he mentioned Emery has made him study Manu Trigueros of Villarreal inside out, in particular how he attempts through balls.

Great insight this especially of what isn't going to plan in some of the clips. 

I might be wrong here but if Man City get to the FA Cup semis, their game with Spurs will be postponed and moved to midweek, and Spurs potentially face the gruelling Man City, Arsenal matches in 4 days like we did back in December. 

If anyone was to do anything it was Eze. A rocket.

Can't see Palace doing us any favours today. They look toothless going forward. Just hoping Spurs carry on the same but they tend to come out better in the second half. Hope I'm wrong.