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Glad you're enjoying it :ph34r:

Poor line up for us (Diame, Perez and Joselu too weak in the middle), helped only by how poor Burnley are. Rafa doesn't make half time subs so the question is whether we can make it to 60 minutes with it still 0-0 before we put central midfield right and get Gayle on.

Joselu bang out of form and doesn't look good enough for this type of game. Too slow to get in the box.

Atsu is the best player on the pitch. If anything happens for us it will be him or Shelvey.

 

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I love Rafa but tonight was 100% his fault. It is a rare occasion but tonight was one. His prep and approach were wrong.

A turgid and deliberately negative display until 5 minutes to go. A failure to make substitutions despite the obvious failings reiterates that this was the approach. Diame, who didn't track Cork for the goal, was dying on his feet and should have been off 15 minutes before Burnley scored. Dwight Gayle on for 8 minutes instead of 30. Irritating. 

Burnley are unlikely to come up against anything worse than us today and we are unlikely to come up against anyone worse than Burnley when playing away from home. To lose is really fucking annoying.

Two turgid attacking displays in a row and no sign of trying something other than Joselu and Perez.

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7 hours ago, HK85 said:

Dreadful yet again. Gana very poor to just let Gray run past him for the first, Gareth Barry completely wipes him out there and takes the booking. And the second was poor from Kenny, who was shite all game. As well as Davies. The young lads are getting threw in when we're low on everything isn't going to help them, I just hope they're strong mentally because this shit is enough to scar you for ages and ruin a career. 

It's a time when the senior players have to stand up and they're just not. Rooney isn't doing it, the three at the back aren't either. I really don't want to start getting on Baines' back every week but it's going to happen the longer he plays. Legs have gone completely. 

We can't really turn down the "survivor" managers down now. Allardyce et al. We're in trouble. 

I think Rooney tries to do far too much. So many times yesterday he was one of your deepest players. I'm not sure where he was even meant to be playing.

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Rooney needs to be the second striker in games we're on top. In fact the whole line-up yesterday was a 'Watford at home' line up. Blasted Koeman for constantly playing two DMs in home games against Burnley and Apollon Limassol but Leicester away is the time to be a bit more conservative.

Rooney is a difficult one because he isn't great to have in the side if he has to keep coming deep to get the ball, we need him getting in good positions and finishing when we're creating chances. But if you bench him and Niasse we have nobody on the pitch who's scored in the league all season.

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all kick-offs 15.00 unless stated

Saturday 4th November, 2017
Huddersfield vs West Brom
Newcastle vs Bournemouth
Southampton vs Burnley
Stoke vs Leicester, 12.30
Swansea vs Brighton
West Ham vs Liverpool, 17.30

Sunday 5th November, 2017
Chelsea vs Man Utd, 16.30
Everton vs Watford, 16.30
Man City vs Arsenal, 14.15
Tottenham vs Crystal Palace, 12.00

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No idea what to expect. We are out of form at the minute.

Bournemouth might be better going forward than anyone we've played in recent weeks.

Defoe will 100% score.

Joselu under pressure now, he needs a goal.

We are not very good going forward without Merino and he will miss this game :(

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3 hours ago, Cicero said:

Conte confirms Cahill will play. 

Can a game be over before it even started? 

just need to hope Cahill gets racially abused and flying kicks someone in the face :ph34r: 

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Gutted this is half 12. Completely steralises one of the best aways of the season.

I can't confidently say how we'll set up although Puel did say something like "our ambition is the same home and away", not sure if it's anything you can read into though.

3 wins on the bounce in all competitions for us. Very possible we make it 4. Don't rate Stoke and haven't done for a while.

We've come back from 2-0 down to draw this fixture the last two seasons.

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Arsenal will get absolutely slaughtered. He'll go there and try and fight fire with fire and their defence will be absolutely crucified. If Man City are on it they could hit a shit load.

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