There are suggestions today that Koch may line out for the U23’s this week, either today or Friday. That would be excellent news. Some game time could see him in the squad for the West Ham game.

Scroll back to the 1972 FA Cup final, the Centenary final, and Leeds players kicked balls into the crowd as they emerged from the Wembley tunnel, a way to make friends and influence people. Now they do it by keeping the ball and re-cycling it relentlessly. This is Marcelo Bielsa, the global generat...

Such a lucky second goal for Liverpool. SU left Firmino walk through and that deflection was the piece of luck a team going down never gets.

McBurnie - what a miss on a free header!

Chilli D wrote: ↑Sun Feb 28, 2021 4:53 pm Blood tests are a bit drastic.....

On the outside chance that actually did misread it Chilli, it was about blooding new players, or testing their capabilities - pick, choose or select!

No, I understand. Agree with you, not sure why people are gloomy. Frustrating result but lets take it in our stride. I think the poor nature of yesterday’s game disappointed the fan base. Anytime we’ve thrown a shape during a game but lost, people have accepted that we will be beaten by better team...

Fridge wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 8:02 pm

Very impressive. Feel he’ll be a star for us if he can stay healthy!

The rolling around I hated and as I said earlier he almost got caught 2/3 times in possession. Watkins got the assist btw I though he had a decent game. The pocket thing more down to Vila shutting up shop after they scored.. Nearly caught in possession is an entirely different thing to being caught...

Llorente
Cooper
Dallas
Ayling
Raphinha
Pablo

Positive - Llorente

Negative - delay in changing what clearly wasn’t working

Llorente was ok today, I was disgusted with that bit of play acting and he almost got caught in possession several times plus Villa posed almost zero threat after the goal. Nowhere near MOTM for me. Cooper however was a lot better on the ball and bringing it out of defence Really can’t imagine how ...

Ugly Championship throwback game. Nothing fell for us tonight. Spot on mothbanquet, about it reminding me of our occasional very poor performance there, but it was more we looked clueless that nothing falling for us. With us more or less safe, I am assuming that Bielsa is testing the squad now as h...

1 - absolutely atrocious! How did Targett stay on the pitch. Not a single Villa player punished for diving - just a joke!

Nice article in today’s Irish Times on the great man;

https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer ... 1?mode=amp

3-1 Bamford, Llorente, Raphinha (Boo)

Wolves please John

West Brom 1 - 2 Brighton
Newcastle 0 - 3 Wolves
Palace 1 - 2 Fulham
Leicester 2 - 1 Arsenal
Chelsea 2 - 2 Man Utd
Sheff Utd 1 - 1 Liverpool

Dallas
Raphinha
Llorente
Roberts
Bamford
Costa

Positive - all the lesser used players playing well

Negative - shockingly poor pitch - we will suffer injuries because of it.

Lumiukko wrote: ↑Tue Feb 23, 2021 8:30 pm I wish we'd managed to bury a few more of those chances before we made our last sub so we could have given Gelhardt a run out.

As we are more or less safe now I really think we will see more of some of the U23’s late in “safe” games from here on. Pablo should get more time too.