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53 minutes ago, El Segundo said:

McGinn was bang on it today, barely put a foot wrong.  The Irn Bru works for him.  Nice grundies too. 

Tielemans, Cash and Digne were all also very good.  Thought Doug and Kamara were a little quiet today by their standards.  

I'm probably in a minority but just not impressed with Diaby.  Poor final balls, especially crosses, and seem peripheral for a lot of the games.  Maybe I'm missing something.

Just checking, have you missed his three goals, three assists and two occasions when he has pressed a defender into scoring an own goal?

Listened to this on Radio 5 Live Extra and the main topic was John McGinn’s backside, which was discussed in some detail by the commentators. He gets MOTM just for that.

Tielemans has earned his start. Let’s hope he delivers

We’ve played a handful of games at home and a handful away so far this season. It is perhaps a bit early to be talking about “form” at either locations, certainly not enough to back up some of the long dissertations we have here about what is “going wrong” away from home.

Let’s see how things pan out over the full span of this very exciting season. It doesn’t seem too bad so far. 

Quite an uncomfortable match, we controlled play a lot but didn’t really have a cutting edge in front of goal.Watkins was weirdly out of it much of the game. Superb goal when it mattered though.

I had to watch the first half with no sound so I never heard an explanation of why Lenglet’s goal was disallowed. I watched it being replayed over and over but still couldn’t see what VAR did. Mystifying, and it would probably have made it a much easier match if it had stood.

Thought Digne, Tielemans, Carlos, Kamara and Lenglet had good games but, as I say, while the Conference starting XI play nice football, the route to goal tonight seemed unclear. The real difference was made by Douglas Luiz so he gets my MOTM. Excellent subs by Emery late in the game.

We know what we need to do against Legia on 30 Nov. Onwards and upwards!

LOL the BBC spurts app is so excited they’ve just told me 3 times we are 2-1 up.

Just need to keep control now & play the game out.

Still don’t see that we have any real sense of how we can win this.

We have only twice this season been able to get anything out of a game where we went 0-1 down, so this is a big test.

@smg@deeps

Maybe you are not so contemptuous of my half time comment now?

We are lucky not to be going in 0-1 or 0-2.

Don’t know what’s suddenly happened to us, Faffing around in front of goal and outpaced in defence.

Sorry to say I am now switching off. This inept display is too painful to watch.

Poor pass from Watkins there.

3 minutes ago, rjw63 said:

Zaniolo is never gonna score

Needed one touch too many.

Seem to have left our shooting boots at home.

I wonder in our game plan who was actually supposed to be covering the vast acres of space we left for Aina?

9 hours ago, Pongo Waring said:

Wrong. Every game is a "must win"

Man City who are currently top lost two league games in a row. Any team can lose a game from time to time. It’s how you recover and consistency over the season that secures a top 5 slot, not regarding everything game as “must win”

1 hour ago, Pongo Waring said:

This is now a must win

C’mon. No game is a “must win” when we are 10 games into the season.

BTW if anyone wants to enlighten us on “fingerpostfriday”, I would be fascinated to know….

47 minutes ago, duke313 said:

I look at Emery with us the same as when Spurs had Poch.  He transformed Spurs into a club that could compete at the top, we are on a similar trajectory.  He was constantly linked with United during that time, but Spurs had the money and ambition to keep him, so do we with Emery.

Interesting comparisons. Reading through this thread, it seems many posters are thinking of Unai’s residency with Villa  in terms of Poch’s Southampton gig rather than his time at Spurs.

It suggests many don’t believe out improvement is really happening in a sustainable way. Understandable given the trauma of the past 20 years.

If Emery leaves for Man U, presumably we can just hire Poch when Chelsea sack him. 

RIP Charlie.

My favourite Villan of all time, without filter.

6 hours ago, Adam2003 said:

I think he meant Diaby’s role in the own goal for us…

Oh, OK.

17 hours ago, PaulC said:

Was giving him motm until Diabys goal and his role in the own goal. Imperious display 

Love this thread. Of course, Torres was responsible for the own goal. 

And then people get snippy when accused of making him a scapegoat.

1 hour ago, spiezels said:

Expand please 

That’s what the hot looking women say to you, I think.