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Prime time Sunday night for those of us in the Great Southern Land

Put a star on top and it's your namesake.

Closer each day.... Home and Away

That question was pure headline bait from the reporter but Arteta was thick enough to fall for it so it's fair that he will be ridiculed.

Apparently based on appearances his full transfer to Juve is already confirmed. Their European qualification would bump the fee from €14m to €20m.

As much as you may feel younger you definitely aren't, so don't go embarrassing yourself with your xG of 0.0.

This will be an Eddie Howe 'special' tactics event with a tweak to the formation / roles / marking to facilitate closing down Palmer and restricting delivery to their wide men. Whether it's Sandro given that defensive assignment or someone else remains to be seen. Could even see Botman come into the team with Schär marking Palmer. Offensively I'm expecting Isak to play a little deeper with Gordon and Barnes primed to counter down the flanks.

Their full name is Toss Offs

This is my position as well. I'd console myself by affirming that at the start of the season I'd have snapped your hand off for winning a major trophy and qualifying for Europa, but there no denying that qualifying for the CL is the only way we can truly resume our team building momentum and enable the hot Mitch summer.

Barnes, Gordon, Isak, Tonali (and Schär) can all hit a shot from distance which seems to be a recurring weakness of his. I'd be giving them all a license to shoot at will.

I don't care but here's my 5000 word dissertation on the matter.

It would be good for the development of our younger players like Miley, Osula and that kid with the terrible haircut.

Precisely

That's such a predictable response.

This is our second cup final.

At home we will be back to our best. Tonali and Bruno won't have stinkers. Howe may try to accommodate both Barnes and Gordon in the starting side by moving Barnes to the right. Harsh on Murphy who has had a fine season. I still think he will persist with Willock, but hope he doesn't. Joelinton gives a lot more defensive cover than Willock and Chelsea have been played somewhat back into form by a half arsed B grade Liverpool so it's important that our midfield shape is good. Miley has never really let down Howe whereas Willock has on multiple occasions. There's a point where you accept that getting far up the pitch with the ball without scoring or creating chances is a pointless endeavour. Willock has played in 30 PL games this season (averaging 33 mins per game) and has no goals and 2 assists. In the cups he scored 3 in 9 games. Miley has 1 goal in 12 premier league appearance, but that's averaging only 20 mins a game. In the FA Cup he started three games and scored once.

I thought Barnes was pretty good overall, Trippier defensively was good, Burn and Schär were ok as well.

Someone let Mrs Wyki know that another lass is making a move on her man Callum.

Extremely forgettable game that. Bruno and Tonali both off their game today as were Murphy and Isak.

Thanks, suspected it wasn't right when I posted it!

I mean even points it's important. If Liverpool beat Chelsea that will leave Chelsea 3 point behind us, so even if they beat us (they won't) we'd be equal on points and we'd quite likely have better GD.

That was terrible defending. A very good ball in lucky he has a 10p head.

Wrong. A come from behind draw has a much better feeling than a loss, important in maintaining positivity in the run home.