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The two draws in our last two aren't disastrous by any means but it does feel like a must win this one. Spurs obviously dangerous at their best but there will be plenty of chances for us you'd imagine unless there's a drastic change in their approach.

Yeah you can probably go back to that game at Old Trafford last season when he made the mistake for their equaliser (I think) that has shot his confidence.

So comfortable until they got one back and then they made a game of it. Good to get through while resting a lot of the big hitters

O'Neill sacked

Watched the highlights of our game on MOTD. The Diop challenge is a shocker, it's knee height. Surprised you didn't think that was a red @Dr. Gonzo. Robertson shouldn't have been sent off either having seen it back.

I think you're making that judgement far too early but we'll see.

He fouled Wilson when he was last man. Too early to write him off yet. He's had a bit of a bad time with injuries and missed a lot of pre season if i recall. Players in this team have been written off before and come back just as strong.

I've not seen the two possible red card challenges as I missed the first 5 minutes or so, the still images don't look great. The refs overall performance was just really poor though. It's the little shitty decisions that disrupt our play. The more I see the one on Gomez the more I think it's a penalty.

That time added on was a joke. Iwobi was down for two minutes a couple of minutes into added time. The ref plays less than thirty seconds over the minimum. Anyway, got to take the positives out of that with being down to ten men for so long and we were playing against twelve for much of it

Jota 2-2. Come on Redmen

Tete lucky to get away without conceding a penalty for that foul on Gomez

Gakpo! Brilliant ball from Salah

Jota potentially back in the squad tomorrow

My point was that you could win less than half your games in the old groups and still go through. Depending on the group, teams could win two and draw one or two and still go through. I agree I think the last set of fixtures will be more as you'll have teams changing positions throughout the night

That's no different to the old format

I think we only see players get new deals early if they've come in on a comparatively low wage, done really well and have shown they're worth more than they're on. With Trent, he's already on a very good wage so there wasn't really any need to start talks when he still had two years left. It's an unfortunate set of circumstances that have led to him being down to the final 6/7 months without a new deal in place but I don't think it's one we can be overly critical of the club for.

I do think he'll be replaced in the summer. Last season I thought his all round game improved but he's gone backwards this season and I don't think he's ever going to suit a Slot team

18 months ago he still had two years left on his deal so I think that's a bit unfair. Around one year ago or the summer at the latest is when you'd have expected their talks to start. Unfortunately circumstances with the change of manager and sporting director have made that more difficult. They couldn't have tied TAA down this time last year without being disingenuous. They already knew Klopp was going but it hadn't been announced yet. The players have every right to see how things are going to go under the new manager too. Hopefully having experienced the start under Slot he'll want to make sure he's tied down here.

Yeah that goes without saying. I meant if one of them was to leave

Alisson back in goal for us tonight

Would you take that? I've no idea what will happen, still hoping all three stay but obviously if that happens RB is the position we already have someone there to step in even if Bradley is a different player to TAA.

I agree about Chelsea and City. Not sure this current Arsenal are capable of that sort of run either though.

Chelsea dropping points here would be the perfect weekend for us.

No idea how reliable John Richardson of the Mirror is but he's reporting Salah is close to agreeing a two year deal.