aimaad22

Time to bump the proper thread up

Like De Zerbi, the greatest coach on the planet according to the media before he suddenly disappeared into nothignness.

Interesting to see if he starts Osula, or Barnes upfront (Willock on the left?). Will tell us a lot about how far Osula has come in training.

I'd missed this having leapt out of my chair to do a round around the house :

Just listening to the way Gordon and Isak speak, the lads have good heads on them to go with the ability. And with Howe you know there will be no letting up in the second leg.

Give the man a RW, a CF and CB. Even if it's across the next 3 windows. He will win things, there's no doubt. I mean we're on the brink of a second final with the existing squad.

Botman and Burn dealt with absolutely everything thrown at them too. Mind you Arsenal played the one way they would have asked them to play, lump balls into the box. Genius from Arteta

Incredible stuff Effort, tactics, ability. All present. Credit to Howe as well took the mickey out of them in the end with those changes and he got it absolutely spot on again on how to setup tonight. Isak, Hall and Tino fantastic again tonight but my word how good is Tonali. He was up against a pretty decent midfield today and without Bruno to partner, absolutely everywhere and with the technical ability to boot. As I've been saying, these aren't freak results, the run will end at some point of course but we've got some freaking mint players and they know what it means to play for this club.

How Isak managed to get that sort of shot away from that position only he knows. Class

Bloody brilliant

Aye I think we need to try and have the confidence to score another goal, because they also have one or two in them. Thank feck there's strength on the bench now or like last season we'd really struggle after 60 minutes.

Going to be a tough second half to watch, we need to find a way to hang on and hit them on the counter because they will try to push for the goal, they have to.

Brilliant, I know they had chances but so did we and it's just bloody fantastic being this competitive in these games. Isak is unreal, makes the likes of Van Dijk and Saliba look like school boys at times. Priceless.

I had to get all the S's in you twat!

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It's squeaky bum time, stop with the small talk and start pissing your pants so we might actually have a chance.

Fingers crossed Botman and Isak come through this unscathed. I was sure we'd see Kelly start. No injuries and a draw or a competitive result we can take to SJP would do me. Then play the bench on Saturday.

He's going for a balanced side, makes sense to me. Tonali and Joe will put in the defensive shift. You need a bit of creativity in the middle in the absence of Bruno if we want to get something from the game.

Ah yes, the Saudi evil masterplan has finally come to fruition after years of devious scheming. What dreams in Riyadh are made of

The Edwards' school of journalism.

I see Sky's buildup to the game involves peddling Isak for sale again on their website. Honestly hope if and when the time comes we only sell him abroad so these pricks can continue to enjoy Havertz and Nunez for their darling clubs.

So basically he has no idea what's going just like the rest of us

Nonsense. We've made all that effort to withdraw 70M from the bank and it would clearly be a waste to send it back. We must absolutely spend it before it gets nicked from Tindall's cash register.