Said this earlier in the thread. I really hope he doesn't start but I'm quite certain he will.The only player of theirs that concerns me is Pogba, three times a season he’s goes into full world cup winning mode and can be unplayable like he did for 45 mins in 2017/18 home game.
It’s been a traumatic week, what with Ukraine and everything. Couldn’t you have broken this news more gently?Ronaldo is apparently out due to a minor injury and severe emotional distress.
The injury is a grey hair that he discovered and the poor old boy is inconsolable.
That's a blowLooks like Ronaldo is definitely out for them. Not sure that's a good thing from our perspective though.
Agreed. There's a bit of a confirmation bias to it as well. We concede so few goals, and have so much possession against every team, that by default goals that we do concede will usually be counterattack. But I don't think we are weaker against them per se because most of them we just pass to death and win comfortably.As nearly all teams play on the counter against us, we’re much more likely to get caught out by counter attacking teams, but we generally do very well against them as our trophy cabinet will attest.
IMO it’s the few teams that take us on that concern me most.
Just don't know who will rise up and be our vocal leader today.I agree. Although Ruben has not been at his best in the last few games. We will miss his desire to win and his organisation qualities.