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Nunes has been a breath of fresh air the last few games and needs to stay involved while his confidence is up. I'm not sure where that is though. Id like to see McAtee given a go where Gundogan plays, as he's neater in possession than Nunes and has the energy and pressing ability that Gundogan...

No other wingers face the number of teams fielding packed defences that we do. They often have space to run into, or know that if they beat a man they're clean through - our guys rarely get that kind of opportunity. It's only partial mitigation though, granted.

Everton replicating the approach of their mens team by being a fixture in the top flight forever without doing anything worthwhile...

While I'm tempted to say welcome to modern football, but I would also say that teams need to be flexible to the game situation. If level or one up in time added on, don't take unnecessary risks. At that point in a match, I'd agree, get it down field - especially if it's a team who arent as...

Doesn't sound all that good, though hopefully it's just minor rather than anything too big. Can see why Arsenal were maybe unsure about keeping her though.

Missed these latest updates and didn't even realise she'd been injured. I thought we were just managing her minutes carefully. Bad news. There's not a lot of detail, do we know if it's the same knee as last time?

They'd take that if they could relegate ourselves and Newcastle...

We're more sensible about it than a lot of clubs. You can see after international tournament summers, we give everyone an extended break and don't rush them back. It's no coincidence that while we usually start a little slowly because of this, when everyone is fit and ready we're strong during...

I'm sure he'll get some minutes, but it'll be telling if they are only from the bench. The few healthy players we have will need resting even if just as a precaution, so he's bound to get some time.

He did yeah, I forgot about that, it was good to see. Doesn't change what I put about his threat playing for us though. Might just be as simple as in the u21s he didn't come up against a team playing a back 8 like most do against us.

I've said a few times in the past I don't quite see it with James, he just doesn't seem to influence the game enough when he plays. I'm not writing him off though, age helps and he is stronger now. The other thing that seems missing from when he was in the youth teams is goal threat. He doesn't...

Disagree with any suggestions to end it, or reduce teams playing in it, purely because it lessens our history. We've won this a ton of times, scrap the competition and people will forget that. We can just take it as serious as we want, like we do now. It's good experience for the younger...

Injuries obviously the biggest worry from last night, but second on the list is they way we conceded the first goal. Basically the same as at Wolves - they work the ball to our left flank and put in a low cross behind our defence to their left winger who is pretty much free. Maybe it's just a...

Fair enough, maybe not long term then certainly. I was kind of thinking of the games where Walker is used just to predominantly lock down a fast winger. Would he have the pace for that kind of job?

Agreed, much worse than usual from him tbh. Feel for him, in that the Carabao was obviously going to be one of his chances for games and it's over.

Might be a long shot, and I'm thinking more about our current injuries etc and the immediate future rather than a transfer, but could Simpson-Pusey play there? I'm guessing he plays in the centre more regularly, and for us it would be more of a traditional right-back role than we often employ...

You should probably say that about every kid coming through our academy, because they have to be ridiculously good to make it in our team. However, I still feel it's a harsh comment and too early to say for most of these. I thought they all did pretty well against a top half PL side. After a...

Based on this... Ederson Lewis Stones Dias Gvardiol Kovacic Gundogan Foden Nunes Bernardo Haaland Subs Ortega Ake McAtee O'Reilly Wright Simpson-Pusey Alfa-Ruprecht Carson. It's a pain and it limits our options, but let's face it, 75% of the Prem would absolutely love to have that line up.

I think he hurt himself getting up after the blocked cross - Spurs (like united) have a stupid big slope down around the pitch and I expect his weight wasn't quite balanced right to counter it. Have always thought those slopes were dangerous - united have an excuse in that their whole stadium...

Something about "Jingle bells, jingle bells, Vinicius ran away".....