- I like Steffen, I think he's about as good a backup as you can get who won't want to go elsewhere to start, but without Ederson it changes our entire game. The obvious fuckups notwithstanding, against Liverpool we need both the cool heads and extra pass to get out of their press, and without it it puts the rest of the team under pressure.
- Ake, and maybe Mahrez, was the only player to come out of that with an improved reputation.
- Every caveat accepted, that first half is as poor as I've seen us in I don't know how long. It wasn't our typical poor game either, our legs were gone but even more confusingly our shape was all over the place.
- Strikers sometimes miss sitters, but fuck me what I'd have given for Jesus to bury that big chance where he had time and the whole goal to aim for.
- Showed some fight in the second half at least. We played a weakened team against their best eleven, denied them a proper statement win, at least didn't let them to rest or coast through the game, I don't think that performance will fill them with confidence. Let's hope Chelsea turn up at the final with a point to prove.
- Brighton is now a big game, and let's hope Ronaldo the sex offender has one last big game in him.
- Can we lay off, just for a bit, all the "Pep cost us that game, he's a disgrace" stuff?
