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Was good to see him up against the much lauded bissouma. Night and day. Kamara is the future. £100m player

Olsen has been excellent first half. Distribution has been really, really good. Fair play to him for stepping up. The pressure must be huge on him given recent performances and a world cup winner on the bench. Buendia is so frustrating. Rarely starts a game well. Is a super sub for me. Olsen played one pass out to Buendia in midfield. Great, difficult pass, but emi does what emi does and tries to draw a foul against very strong midfielders. He's never getting a foul there and he has done it loads of times in the past. It's lazy and dumb. Should've cost us a goal. Thankfully no more direct passes to him and he's mostly losing the ball in their half, but I'm predicting he costs us a goal in this game.

I was praying for Emery when they appointed the scouse fraud. Too good to be true... but I do hope it's true!

He's no star player, but he's much better than this manager has gotten out of him. Looks great for Scotland. Hope he turns it around for us.

Great performance today. Kept us in it. Distribution was good. He badly needed a game like that. Hopefully back to the Emi of old.

Hard to choose MOTM. Kamara, Luiz, Young, Bailey, Watkins, JJ, Mings, Martinez, Digne - all great today. Young's experience and cool head was massive. Went with Luiz for ball retention, passing, aggression. Sign a new deal please. SG said before the game that Luiz situation has been ongoing since summer - might explain dropping him - as only a blind man would miss his quality. Manager... I've given him loads of abuse, but deserves great feedback today. That said - it's the toothless performances against the teams around us and below that have led him to being in trouble. We always show heart against the big guns.

Got it right today. Great job. UTV.

Good start. Watching 2nd half through my fingers from behind the couch. UTV

Dougie for ESR or get stuffed.

We ain't getting anyone experienced who's not failed anywhere. Poch ain't happening. Potter ain't happening. Need to be realistic. Rodgers is a possibility (failed at liverpool, failing a bit now) Emery has villareal going well in la liga. 5th at mo, 7th last yr. Won europa league in 21, semis of CL last year. All with a classically midtable club. Gettable experienced manager who works well overachieving for midtable sides.

Emery was willing to go to Newcastle but they wouldn't give him more than a 1yr contract. He's the man for us. Managing Villareal at the moment so he's halfway here already.

We could be going down without several new signings. Big man up front. Left winger. CM. CB. Recall our young RB. Cash needs a challenge. 4 signings needed I reckon. Hope we have many irons in the fire. (And a new manager obv....)

Can understand that. I think he has been very poor, except the goals... so maybe I should've said he looked better today - not absolute gash...

Like his passion... would be a great midfield general at Norwich.

Love the goals from the corner, but it does have a bit of a Matty Cash long throw about it. Desperation!