Annoyman

McGinn and Watkins look borderline impossible to legally dispossess at the moment, they're unphaseable

Excellent decision making all round in that move

Ollie's lethality and Emi's nervelessness in terrifying one one ones carried us over the line there. It was a frustrating goal to concede, but Lenglet did have a couple of good clearances otherwise and I'll gratefully take any win we can get with a makeshift defence and horrible luck with injuries tbh. I thought the mentality to grind it out was good after the immense frustration of last week

Good clean tackle by Tim to dispossess Adama in midfield near the end and all

Ref was not super consistent or in control of the game from a disciplinary POV as it went on, and I think both teams had reason to feel aggrieved, but the non-penalty and the tight offside against Moreno were the most significant of them AFAIC

Fulham will perhaps consider themselves unlucky to have not got a point, but it's ultimately karmic justice for their owner's despicable refusal to give a sustained singles push to Powerhouse Hobbs

That was a really good game for a 0-0, Chelsea were pretty strong tbf. Replay not ideal, but glad to still be in it and glad we imposed ourselves on the game in the last 30

Godspeed Donk! May the Italians remember that your surname has a C in it better than we ever did

If the goal line technology had worked we'd have been in the champo screaming blue murder about Kevin Friend disallowing Lansbury's legitimate equaliser against Palace due to a non-existent dive off a tackle that was an obvious penalty anyway; as it is things happily evened out and it's the usual suspects stuck in the void screaming, desperately awaiting the day they can take physical form and harass the living again

I guess with the kind of people whose piss it still boils its probably funnier that they think the Hawkeye mess-up is some enormous cosmic injustice tbh

Hell of a hit from Bamford. Why does he look like that now though, has he been in witness protection or something?

Short cameo but he looked good on the right with those diagonals going out to him

I mean they'd obviously rather have him available  than not, but he's made 8 league appearances for them, not much of a sample size in terms of saying he's integral

He has a very enigmatic smile imo

Voted Bailey for basically pulling up trees like a madman, but feel a bit bad not voting for Pau - it's an entertainment business and I principally want to watch him glide out of defense doing galaxy brain line-breaking passes and weird chest height diagonal through balls that magically dip onto the instep of the receiver

Hoping that Diaby will also be in this conversation at the end of the season!

I think with Doug holding his nerve and the crossbar being kind, we just scraped beating the record for our most ever home wins in a calendar year there? I nearly died.

We were running on fumes a bit, but we also had enough chances fall to Diaby that it could have been one of the early-season home massacres on a different day. Looks like Carlos and Lenglet can play a part but not run the show, and above all else we really need to not have our best central defender deputising at right back. There are obviously things to work on but the points are on the board.

Hopefully the recoveries go well for all the missing players and Digne's issue doesn't drag out.

Strong 90 from Bailey, and two very good assists for Watkins.Diaby scored the trickiest one on his weak foot and then methodically missed every other chance he got trying to curl it in on his left. Would almost have been better for his confidence if the misses had come first but...there's a player in there?

Was the pen soft? Would either of the Sheff Utd ones have been soft if they were given? Idk I don't even care any more

Oh god that was unbearable

Doug I love you. Stared Trafford into submission for half an hour after the whistle went

There's enough attacking output there to hurt them, but that's the thinnest our bench has been for a while in terms of changing it up. Hopefully we can do some damage before half time or it'll get nervy.

Carlos was having a good game but that's suicidal

was he even onside?

Ugh losing a player to an offside

I was very clear in the pre-match thread that Leander Dendoncker would put us 2-0 up with a backheel flick

2 minutes ago, CosmicVillan said:

Non binary supporter

Schrodinger's ****

Tbf would you want to square it into the general region of Nicolas Jackson rn

Brave header, happy for him. He's maybe got a claim to a start soon, and have Diaby or Bailey come on as an impact sub as those two seemed to get in each other's way a bit as the match wore on.

Still seems like a bit of a disciplinary liability tho?

51 minutes ago, Keyblade said:

McGinn got through that without getting booked. We may have [drawn] the battle, but we'll win the war at Mold Trafford.

As long as nobody buys a pie

When Grealish draws fouls by doing that he brings the ball with him, Maupay was just like forget the ball I'mma just back into this guy who's chasing me

32 minutes ago, switters said:

Surprised he's only got 3 yellows, thought he'd got a few for timewasting already. Just needs to be sensible in next match to make it impossible to reach 5 by game 19, could definitely do without him being suspended.

Konsa took a couple of his time-wasting yellows off him by pretending he was going to take a free kick and dithering over it