Danny

Tbh Arsenal still have a lot of big games to play. Villa at home who are fighting for top 4, Chelsea at home who will look to throw a spanner in the works, Spurs away which could easily be dropped points and United away too which could also be dropped points. Not to mention they've got a double header against Bayern to fit in and the chance to go even deeper into the Champions League. I guess what I'm trying to say is, City are going to win the league.

His injury record for you is pretty terrible isn't it? The one forward at that level and he can't keep fit

Not sure that's going to happen tbh. Diaz has never been overly prolific and Nunez is just an anomaly of a player. Certainly both good to have around the place, as seen by Diaz' goal today, but yeah they haven't replaced Mane at all yet.

United have done this against Villa, Luton, us and Liverpool twice now. They look helpless in games but have a knack for doing enough defending at the last ditch to stay in them

Liverpool threw that away, should have been 2-3 up at the end of half time. Positive is that they're on level points with Arsenal rather than behind.

Other than Salah who is there to be clinical? A lot of players in your attack who are good but not quite good enough to keep starting

This is why United are where they are. For however terrible they can be, there is a lot of really good individual talent there and if they get a bit of momentum behind them they all come alive together.

The curve on that....that lad is not a #6. Get him forward

What's the craic with Robertson these days? I know he's had some injuries but he doesn't strike me as the same player as a couple years ago

I think talk of bottling is ridiculous seeing as nobody really had you down as top 4 this season. Bit like Arsenal last season, no one had them down as title challengers, barely in the top 4 for most and then suddenly they were bottle jobs lol. I think you need to secure Europa League as a minimum, imo that is good progress.

Great work from Bradley there. the numbers Liverpool put forward and the angles they get out of it, really good play even if they are wasting chances

Nunez got that Bendtner gene

Liverpool's heads have gone. The midfield, Bradley there too, holding onto the ball for too long, playing the wrong pass, United finally pressing and the benefactors of that.

Kambwala having a good game here

See how he reacts now, you'd think United would put everything towards him to chuck him under pressure

What a goal from the rat, such a composed strike

Yep. Biggest game of the season for both in terms of teams they could play...should be venom on the pitch, not knocking it out cos someone's playacting

The one thing United manage to do well, and in fairness they do so many things badly you'd expect at least one thing. But their defence when on the back foot manages to stay quite compact, block the route to goal for a shot, get in the way of a cross. They want you to snatch at shots as it gives them a better chance of defending as the attack becomes quite basic. Liverpool just need to stay composed and hold out for that extra pass instead of shooting straight away all the time, find a way to stretch or move that backline around, and then they'll score.

No idea why Casemiro put that out of play, Diaz clearly feigning the level of pain he was in. Just get on with it, if the opposition want to play a man down then let them do that.

I haven't been overly impressed with Villa when I've seen them this season but I also suppose this is the nature of chasing top 4 to finish in a Champions League spot rather than chasing a title and finishing in a Champions League spot, there is going to be more inconsistency. There's a lot of quality in this Villa team and I think you could argue they have a more balanced line up than Spurs do, but Spurs as a collective just seem a lot more dangerous, their style isn't as a mature as Villa but I think it is more aggressive in both the way they attack and defend.

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2024/feb/14/brentford-announce-30m-signing-of-club-brugge-striker-igor-thiago I don’t think a topic was ever made for this, but this is our Ivan Toney replacement that we ended up signing from Brugge as the Nusa deal went sour. I’ve only seen highlights and physically he looks like a Toney replacement, but the thing that strikes me is that he has more pace to run in behind than Toney does which makes me think he will suit our 4-3-3 more so than our 3-5-2, though imagine he could do both.

I mean our injury crisis has very little to do with Toney’s value but I’ll take £60m yeah

Didn't see it but assume it's nothing

A well deserved point. Villa went 2-0 up in a game where it barely looked like they'd score 1 goal, we managed to come back and put ourselves into the lead. Poor defending from crossing again saw Villa back into it at 3-3. The remainder of the game was up and down but very few chances were actually created. As poor as the defending was today, to go away to Villa Park, without our entire back 4, without our defensive midfielder and club captain, with Toney on the bench for most of it due to injury, with no Schade....and to grab a point is exceptional. 3 points from 3 games in 8 days that being honest very few people would have predicted anything other than 3 losses, great stuff. Now we have a week off, Toney and Mbeumo can push back to full fitness, hopefully Schade will be available again against Sheffield United and who knows, we might even get a first choice defender return. But two massive games to come against Sheffield United at home and Luton away, a must win and a do not lose.

Haha Reguillon, always said he was world class