Danny

Arsenal could hit double figures if they wanted to

It’s a funny thing to happen but I think the issue is Tuchel. Vastly overrated and has never really proven he should be mentioned amongst elite managers

I thinking anything they’ve turned Girona into a club they can easily sell that another owner with deep pockets may see some value in buying. Could be a generic ownership, could be related to something like the Saudi’s (not necessarily them).

Good defending from Upemecano but thats the second time Adli has fluffed an easy chance on goal

1-0 Norgaard from a corner. Dominated the game so far, well deserved

Realistically we should be 1-0 up so far. We’ve played well, need to keep the pressure up

Personally I really like their style. Obviously they were slow today and the game was a bit shit, but Pep's football is arguably the best to watch for me. Always has been, just on a different level to everything else.

Everton have defended well but have been poor going forward. If you want something from City you have to score against them, you're not keeping a clean-sheet. Calvert-Lewin looks like he's never played with these players before, just been so slow off the ball or mis-placing passes when he has it. Also, Beto's understanding of the offside rule is non-existent

Can't see Nunes seeing the game out at this point, made a good run earlier to get in behind but he's given the ball away a lot. Doku and Foden running the show otherwise, Doku has been really good but I do think his end product could be a little bit better. Couple moments where I think Grealish either finds the net or finds the assist. Bernardo Silva, Grealish and De Bruyne all on the bench. Fucking hell.

See Maupay's video of him having to rank footballers as they appear? It's a top 10 but you don't get to choose when a player will get picked so you have to guess where you might put them, he had the top 10 mostly done, Aubemeyang popped up and he asked if he could put him 11th

Tbh my overuse of the word mental really amped up how much I actually cared about him saying it It's a funny thing to say, more school yard stuff when the Year 6's don't like the Year 5's

Thought that was just a fake quote its that mental lol, to claim celebrating like that is “your thing” when its been done so many times on the continent is mental. Is Arteta running down the touchline also Liverpool’s thing? Or Odegaard taking a picture of the photographer? Baffling

Seems like Nico is off in the Summer with a low release clause? His goal against (Barce?) was brilliant

That's why Sunderland are known as the dickheads

I've drunk tap water all my life and I only got cancer once

So your feeder club are a Belgian team based in the Wearside of Belgium?? All starting to unravel now...

Just stay consistent with the current rules for dissent and the culture will change, but there are things happening now that players would have seen a yellow for at the start. I think I was in favour of a sinbin approach before, but like @Spike said, it'll just slow the game down and cause teams to unnecessarily park the bus.

Josh Dasilva has suffered another long-term injury that will likely keep him out for the season. Massive setback for us but also for Josh, these injuries just keep coming for him.

Every year I try to give it a go and every year I turn it off about 20 minutes in. Just feels like a dull sport

It is our luck that the players we’ve sent to AFCON and the Asia Cup have all reached the semi-finals lol. But Wissa, Onyeka and Ghoddos should be back soon yeah. Mbeumo was due to go to AFCON but suffered an injury just before that will keep him out until the end of March, or at least that’s the timeline given. Kevin Schade recently suffered a knock-back that will put his injury return back until the end of March also. Aaron Hickey should be back sometimes between February and March. Josh Dasilva has only recently returned from injury but was absent yesterday thanks to you guessed it, another fucking injury. Our season has been completely derailed by injuries and I think at this point in the season, I’m not sure there is another team who’ve had it worse. Spurs, United and Newcastle are all seeing their players return now. But for us, as players return we either see new players injured or players expected to return get injured again. What I will say is, we could have come away from the Spurs and City games with 2 points had we been extremely clinical, the Spurs game was the first time we had a lot of players back fit and ready to go. Toney, Dasilva, Damsgaard, Lewis-Potter, Jensen, Collins, Mee. We haven’t been that good since the season started pre-injuries, last night we were again phenomenal for large parts but City will break you down. I don’t think we’re in a relegation battle even if we are down there. These are two top performances we’ve put in against top sides, we will lick points up soon against some of the big teams in February (a very difficult run) and once thats done the fixtures get easier. We could suffer some more injuries in which case yeah, we could be down in a battle come April, but as long as we keep players fit I think we’ll be fine as we are playing well.

Well that went about as well as I thought it would. We had a great first half, grabbed a goal and defended pretty soundly and kept City to mostly speculative long-range efforts. But of course you make one mistake and City take advantage. Second half City turned up the heat and whilst we can pick holes in our defence for his second goal, Foden was pure class. A deserved win for them. We almost turned the game on its head with Norgaard’s chance, just had to hit it to the left, but Dias blocked well and then City scored their third. Game of fine margins, but City manage to stretch those margins so wide and tbh they could have stepped up about 2 or 3 gears. When they were struggling for results earlier in the season it was clear Foden was their main man, no De Bruyne, Gundo just gone, he deserves credit for tonight but reality is hes been at it all season. So so good.

Honestly the protection keepers get is baffling, it couldn’t have been more of a foul if Ederson tried lol

Fuck me how has the ref not called that? Mental

Good sub from Pep there, Doku to cover our left hand side where the bulk of our attacks have come from on the counter. How do you outrun him and Walker?

Shooting down breaches one goal at a time