jamesbuchanan

I doubt it, neither player is in the the squad for Europe named a couple of weeks ago.

You can watch the whole match on iPlayer. If you watch from minute 63 onwards you can see one definite wave of the arm from McGinn in the direction of Duran because he wasn't pressing. There are then 3-4 more instances of Duran not pressing up to when he is taken off. McGinn isn't on screen for all that time, but when he is on screen I don't see him gesticulating to the bench. I guess he could have spoken to the bench before 63 minutes - someone else can check the second half up to minute 63

Does anyone have a link to the compilation they showed of his saves? Included some Villa apparently.

Sorry I just pop up once or twice a season to correct someone and disappear again. You were the unlucky one this time.

I think the predictions factor the likely performance of teams in this years' European competitions into the calculations, and England are predicted to finish in the top 2 spots.

Won't work like that next season. Each team plays one home and one away match against a team from each of the four pots. So 8 games in total in the league phase.

Excellent defensively today.

Suspect Ollie starts against Andorra, with Kane starting against Hungary. I don't think Kane plays both games, and the only other option in a central role up front is Sterling, and I don't think Southgate would play him there (unlike Pep).

Minor point: the 2022 World Cup isn't in the summer, it's in 18 months' time.

If we'd held on to beat 10 man Arsenal, we'd be above Arsenal!

I have a feeling we will get one good result at home against one of the top 6 this season, and I think everything is set up for it to be this game because absolutely nobody is expecting it. We have no strikers, we're conceding goals, they're in good form, and many people have written this off as a dead rubber. Here's what will happen. They will have all of the ball in the first half. We will have the odd good moment, inevitably involving Jack, but overall the possession/shot stats will massively favour City. Then we sneak a goal just before HT from a set-piece (foul on Jack, then a Mings header). The second half goes even more in City's favour. We retreat and retreat. All of the game is played in our last third. Nyland is a wall. Jota comes on for Trezeguet and is similarly ineffective. There's a heart in your mouth VAR call that goes in our favour. Smith subs Lansbury on for Luiz for no good reason on 80 minutes, then Lansbury touches the ball once in the remainder of the game. Far too much time is added on. City have a final attack. We head it clear. Jack takes it to the halfway line by himself to relieve the danger. The final whistle blows. Everyone breathes for the first time in seven and a half minutes. Or maybe not. It's Friday afternoon and I'm killing time until the weekend starts. But you've got to have a little hope, right?

Table since Dean Smith took over: https://www.transfermarkt.com/championship/formtabelle/wettbewerb/GB2?saison_id=2018&min=13&max=45 Promotion form, basically.

Lansbury won't be playing, his partner gave birth today.

RDL is suspended.

For what it's worth, I just re-ran the simulation (including Fulham's win), and we're now down to a 0.8% chance (about 1 in 131).