To be fair, it’s the media and fans who hyped us up all week more than ever before. I think Emery was desperate for it to be treated as a normal game. Even so, I don’t think the result would have been different, Wilder knew his game plan and they executed it well.
They said on tv that they didn’t count the new phase of play as the ball had only “barely” left the penalty area. Since when did “barely” not count?? Terrible decision.
Also even our own fans were giving Duran stick for his incident which I felt was really harsh because he was being dragged all over the place by two players and struggling free. VAR seemed to acknowledge this but still then gave a yellow.
Was genuinely dumbstruck re the handball and Ollie’s penalty.
I actually feel like officials tonight felt like that we’d had the rub of the green too much recently and wanted to make amends.
So we’re missing Pau, Tielemans and Kamara?
Lineup maybe- Martinez, Cash/Konsa, Carlos, Lenglet, Digne/Moreno, McGinn, Luiz, Dendonker, Ramsey, Bailey, Watkins.
Seems we should still be able to put out a decent enough side but bench options will be weaker.
What do you think is up? Surely the simplest explanation is the easiest one. Purslow really wanted this and pushed for it. Heck comes in and looks at the practicalities and the problems that have not been overcome (transport) and decided against it.
Do you know what, I’m coming round to the idea of keeping the capacity as it is (for now) as long as they face lift what they have eg improve concourses, toilets, replace the faded claret seating spelling out The Holte End. Just some investment on the existing stuff would be a start.
I presume we’ll be seeing a lot of that next year. On what I don’t know, memorabilia maybe, or around the ground, general marketing stuff. As long as it’s not the new badge, it’s ok (but Chris, if you’re reading, the font isn’t particularly clear and at first glance it looks like a dodgy Chinese symbols tattoo).
So the title race…I see people Saying they’re supporting United over Liverpool tomorrow. As nice as it is to be up there amongst it, I can’t help feel it would be better for us in the long run if United stay well behind us.
I think the point he’s making is that Mings and Buendia got injured whilst the summer transfer window was still open and we signed Lenglet and Zaniolo on loan to deal with those injuries. We’d obviously rather Mings and Buendia but we do have a contingency plan.