birdman

Should be exposing this press not helping them out.

Emi didn't deserve that. Had the ball at his feet in play most of the time?

When will the penny drop that when Lille are pressing hard you have to move the ball quicker.

Stop this slow passing ffs

That's awful from cash again. He's on a different planet.

Just need to get hold of the ball and keep it for a bit. Get some confidence and flow going. Been one way traffic so far.

Rogers on. Could change the game  

Can't afford a sending off. Might be good that Zaniolo has picked up a knock...

What a save emi...paid for it though.

Keep the faith. Hopefully we'll wake up  

Emi will feed off those boos  

How can you keep on staring at the ball and not pay attention to players behind you? Beggars belief.

Ball watching ffs. WHY.

1 hour ago, sharkyvilla said:

Silva's penalty wasn't that bad, just a cracking gamble by the keeper not to dive.

I still can't believe he took Haaland off, all he needs is a half chance and you can vary your attacks a bit more when he is there.  City did nothing in extra time.  Plus he'd have taken a penalty.

Yep. Take the one guy off who literally exists to score goals and does absolutely nothing else of value

Haha cheerio cheats  

Come on Real!

Come on Real!

Obviously would have been nice for Arsenal to go through but honestly couldn't care less. If anything it was a joy to watch serial cheat Saka fake limp off

Just now, Tom13 said:

I did think we got him very cheap tbh. Some on here were saying we should move on when they wanted 15m

We weren't trying to sign because he's average, he was clearly viewed as having huge potential which we're getting glimpses of already.

Got in there very early. Imagine if we signed this summer would have been twice the price I think.

5 hours ago, Pinebro said:

Boro fans feel robbed https://www.oneboro.co.uk/forum/topic/3804-non-boro-football/page/2303/#comments

Tbf as one of their fans said they made 14m in 6 months for him which is damn good. For us it was steal. Who knows how good he'll be but could be worth upwards of 50m next season.

Wait until he gets a pre season with Unai. Man is gonna cook next season  

16 hours ago, Mantis said:

That very late suspension could end up being a huge blessing in disguise now.

I was literally thinking about this today. Having won yesterday, Dougies forced rest could absolutely be a blessing in disguise as he was looking somewhat jaded of late. Now he should come back feeling pretty revived a raring to go. After the win yesterday we need at least a point from Bournemouth to make it count.

12 minutes ago, numbersix said:

 

yeah fair enough, but if his confidence is high, the game/ challenge is won and we can facilitate the guy achieving records it would be another great achievement

Yes when the job at hand is achieved or we've done as much as we can have no problem handing Ollie extra goal opportunities but for the time being Dougie is the man for pens. He's ice cold.

The win yesterday epitomises why we are currently holding 4th spot in the table. In hindsight you have to laugh at the lack of respect for us by certain fans and media who were fully expecting us to fade out of the CL race. I don't think many of us were confident in getting anything out of the game yesterday but looking at the scalps we've taken this season was it really a huge surprise? Less a surprise than Arsenal bottling it I would say. Arsenal didn't lose the game, we took it to them and won it which is what we've been doing for most of the season. The reality check the media crave has not yet materialised and it won't because it doesn't exist. We are what we are and Unai is what he is. An absolute genius.