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Aside from his finishing he was his old self today and his best performance in a long time. Hopefully as he gets more games under his belt, and regains his match sharpness, that side of his game will also come. One of the big positives from today.

We play as we did today in our remaining games we'll win way more than we lose. Just the final ball/finish lacking at times but overall we looked really good. I'd have snapped your hand off at the start of the season to be where we are now with 14 games to go so whilst disappointed with some recent results/performances, and frustrated today that we didn't get what we deserved, the overall perspective is still positive. Top 5 is still very much in our hands.

Just looking at their league results since they beat us at OT a few weeks ago. Loss at Forest, drew with Spurs and last two they have beat Wolves and West Ham so like us two wins, a draw and defeat in the league since we last played. There is nothing for us to fear here as this isn't a great Man Utd side. We play to our best and they play to their best then I think at a rocking VP we win. I am hoping the recent defeats at VP will have been a kick up the arse and we'll look to keep it tight and the starting line up may well reflect that. If we can go into the last 30 minutes still level I really fancy us. 2-0 to us, 11 points clear of these bastards by full time and cementing ourselves in the top 5 with the primary debate over the coming weeks being where in that top 5 we'll finish.

That is a penalty. If that is an outfield player, or the keeper, and a player misses the ball with his legs and then connects with a player the way the keeper has there with his arms then that is given as a free kick every time. Just to compound the misery for Forest Newcastle have now scored.

What a massive opportunity tomorrow is for us as a win and we can almost cement a top 5 finish (and a good chance of champ league qualification) barring a final 3rd of the season total collapse. Tomorrow we can go 11 points clear of Man Utd, 14 clear of Brighton after their loss today and with West Ham up against Arsenal a very good chance to go 13 clear of them. Huge game tomorrow. Bring it on.

I knew as soon as I had the notification that you'd quoted me in this topic my chips were about to be pissed on I have just checked and also had the cancellation email.

The attendance was 40,013. From where I was in the Holte looking around the only area of really noticeable empty seats was the centre of the Trinity Road and the first 3 or 4 rows of the upper north which were netted off. As for the atmosphere I actually thought it was fine and even at 3 down the crowd were getting right behind the players which I think helped in that we did keep pushing including getting the late goal. Those that were still there at the end, which was still a decent amount, clapped the players off and Watkins, Emi, McGinn and Lenglet I remember all coming up to the Holte at the end. I think we give ourselves a hard time sometimes. Bottom line is that we were 1 down early and I remember the crowd reacting and chanting before we had even kicked off to re start the game, but then we were quickly 2 down. Then you hope for a rally kicking towards the Holte in the second half to find ourselves 3 down early in that half. What happens on the pitch obviously hugely affects crowd reaction.

I assume you are a season ticket holder? if so and you purchased on the day they were released, which by the sounds of it you did, then this game will have been uploaded to your season ticket and you get in using that as you normally would.

These feelings you are having aren't unique to you mate. Most people starting a new job would be anxious, more so if they hadn't worked for a while. If you suffer with anxiety anyway it is probably going to be exacerbated but on the flip side to that it seems your new employer is really aware of and sympathetic to mental health issues. Give it a week or two and I am sure you'll be thinking what was all my worry about. Congratulations on the new job. Go smash it.

I'm not sure mate. There are only about 750 left now and looks like pretty much single seats so if they are holding tickets back they'd be as well to release them soon.

Hopefully he won't be out for too long. Whilst him being out will be a blow that blow is at least softened a little because he has played a decent amount of games this season at right back which has allowed Carlos/Torres and Carlos/Lenglet to build up an understanding.

Less than 900 showing as available now but as OBE said they'll also be releasing the held seats.

The new contract is fantastic news and that is not a statement I thought I would be making 18 months ago. He thoroughly deserves it as he has upped his game and some since Uni arrived and is now one of the most consistent performers in his position in the premier league.

Around 1.7k left now so they are steadily selling. It should be over 40k, assuming Chelsea sell their allocation, so not far off a sell out.

Is this your son mate?

About 3k left now.

Commentator on sky is wanking himself off frantically over Arsenal. They are 3 points above us ffs. I've had to turn it off.

West Ham have been the better side here.

Sorry I didn't realise you were just picking the last 5 games (our worst five game run of the season) and then using that as the yardstick. I was using each teams worse run of the season and Spurs and Newcastle have had far worse runs than we have had so for me I'd be using us as the example of a side who dig in and weather a storm despite multiple injuries.

I think you are either being really harsh on us here or very, very, very kind to Spurs and Newcastle. Spurs went on a run in November/December of 5 premier league games without a win, losing 4 of them including 3 losses on the bounce. Newcastle went on a run in December/January of 6 defeats in 7 premier league games including 4 losses on the bounce. Our worst run this season has been in December/January where in 5 premier league games we lost 2 but never lost two games on the bounce (a stat that in fact applies to our whole season). In terms of injuries during that spell over December and January we have been without Torres, Digne, Kamara, Ramsey, Tielemans for multiple games and you could make a decent argument all five of those players are part of our best 11. We also of course have long term injuries to Mings and Buendia I'd say based on the above it is us that should be put forward as the shining example of a side who have dug in and quickly dampened any storms as both Spurs and Newcastle, who you put forward as those shining examples, have had much worse runs than us.

About 4.2k tickets left. Assuming Chelsea sell their allocation I'd imagine we're looking at 40k+.

The huge things he has in his favour is that he is still showing for the ball, not hiding and putting a shift in. He is just lacking a little confidence and a couple of goals/assists and he'll be flying. Forms temporary, class is permanent. I have no worries that he'll come again.

It was just an impact injury so I'd imagine at worse a bruise. He was only take off as precaution and I'd be confident he'll be fine for Wednesday.

We've still got it

I can't stand the above poster most of time but fair play to him he was spot on