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Isak is difficult to manage as a defender. Huge, gangly, pace and with good close control. He's getting into great positions looking to score and supply.

Willock has been tremendous so far. He's outplayed Bruno

Big Al!

No one has got hold of it in midfield yet. Burn getting higher up than he has of late. Maxi making passes where I would probably want to see him try and beat his man

Hope we can get a win today, need to gain ground where others around us have lost out.

Maxi Isak Murphy up top. Eddie has been reading some of the comments from last week from us on the OG shithouse. Still think he's a bench option rather than a starter. Hope he proves me wrong..

Absolutely should have for that.

Hopefully Rashfords purple patch has ended and the goals will dry up for them. It's going to be quite a test from them to forget about this kind of result for the next few games.

Thats just it, we are moaning about Wilson being off form but no one else is chipping in with goals. We've got to have more output across the team. We know the others are capable of it in streaks but it needs to be consistent.

Not sure if id give Murphy a start like, think he's better as legs when the other side is tiring. If he had any end product in the final third, he would be in the starting 11. Eddie needs to drop Callum, this is getting daft as he's not showing any change in fortune or fitness. 3 goals scored in the league in 2023 is a horrendous stat and we need to sort that out ASAP.

Isak and Willock definitely showed plenty of energy and attacking threat up until they sucker punched us. Willock to start in Joelintons slot next game. Would probably chance Maxi with Targett as Maxi also looked keen to threaten.

Can tell the form has dipped as all the inbreds have appeared when their season is just about over.

I've turned the commentary off yet again, insufferable much like the last few games on Sky. When will these channels have unbiased commentary?

Do you have to have inter-relations with your close family or be able to look in 2 completely different directions at once to be able to interpret Scouse, Mackem or indeed Scouse Mackem?

Hopefully your mam is going to want to use the telephone soon.

Need to get a grip of this in midfield. They're relentless when in counter, and relentless in the press. Both of our full backs getting pulled everywhere.

Far too pedestrian

Needs to r-amp up his performances if he wants to get back in the side. Glad Eddie's switched him out.

Man Utd get another fixture in the book. Was hoping they'd get taken to ET.

Couldn't agree more about that last paragraph. A mate of mine is a red and he is one of the worst for entitled arrogance. Ever since they started picking up results with ETH, I've had to endure his "Utd are still the greatest club in the world" shite. I'm still praying they are going through a purple patch before reverting to previous form. Anyway back on about us, I've calmed down since last night and can see that these players gave it everything out there and that's all we can ask. We didn't have the quality to break them down much like the game at Liverpool where we dominated but didn't have the killer instinct. Wilson's lack of form is punishing us now, hopefully Isak can get some games in his place but I'm not sure whether Eddie seems him as a striker or not. Isak with 2 of Gordon/Maxi/Willock/Almiron playing off him keeps the intensity up and maybe they can find their scoring boots again. Targett coming back might give BDB a rest and a chance to rotate a couple in defence. 15 games to enjoy now. Let's hope it's a Euro spot at the end of it.

I don't get all this idea of us being at the start and there's more to come so it doesn't matter, if we have that mentality then we will continue to lose finals. We could have said that 20 years ago and look where it got us. Man Utd were dogshit at the start of the season, they've got 2 players who make them tick at present and both scored today. They did little for much of the game as their plan was to sit in and stop us playing in the final third with the early lead. Rashford is running purple at the minute and unfortunately all our hot streaks have dried up. Whether that's fatigue, nerves, over thinking stuff I don't know but we need to find what got us free scoring and feeling invincible again. We were there on merit and we shouldn't just have this plucky loser mentality.

Need to give this league thing a good crack now. No distractions, no excuses.

I don't think Karius put a foot wrong. No chance against the free kick and no chance agains the OG. He made some good saves when they were clearly told to test him from distance.

Don't think you can paint it any other way than they took their chances and we didn't take ours. Every miss or save today sums up our success at scoring at Wembley.

Im absolutely gutted.