Polarboy

Fuck, if you're Gordon right now your heads likely mush. Taken off at half time after fluffing one very decent chance and a borderline sitter for someone of his supposed value. So aye, hopefully Howe has a good preseason with Gordon.

Oh, I nearly forgot. Isak is fucking obscene 😂 Point me towards a player in the league with better close control. That was literally prime Hazard what he did tonight. To see Willock's assist against Spuds and now this tonight off Isak, we're being spoiled rotten.

I'm going to get so spoiled by us being class that next season I'll be writing letters after wins like this to Howe, complaining about him ruining my clean sheets in Fantasy Football. It was easy to think, for me at least, that players like Joelinton and Willock were merely great athletes working hard for the team, but they've both proven that they're quality and are in no way one dimensional. It's going to be tough for Howe to bring in players that will outperform them when he starts looking over his transfer list for the summer. I say that because surely the idea is to bring players in who will improve the first 11. Nice to see Ashworth looking very smug in the crowd, when were four up I think it was.

T-Rex's distribution is class in fairness to him.

Poacher supreme from Wilson. Amazing work from big Joe as well.

Sloppy passing, and it's not entirely down to Everton's impressive, if finite, extreme pressing.

I gave your ma's fanny a compliment and this is how you repay me?

Yer Ma's fanny.

What's Schofield like? He seems like a twat. 😉

Annoying for my fantasy football given I have Isak 😂 But I think I'll survive as long as we win, and Wilson is in great form with something to prove. And the kind of form Isak's in he's pretty likely to come on and score in any case. It will be interesting to see how Targett performs having not started for so long. Hopefully he can link up with Willock and Big Joe on that left side to good effect.

I read a Liverpool echo thing and apparently they're both doubts but Coleman is more of a doubt than Onana on the basis of how Dyche has been talking about both recently. Given their league position I wouldn't be surprised to see both start even if they're not fully fit, although Paterson is a pretty able substitute for Coleman, so he might start on the bench. In any case it might be to our advantage if said players end up having to go off injured should they start.

Are Coleman and Onana confirmed out for the game? I thought they were just doubts.

Yeah, that's basically Lascelles' biggest strength, winning duels and heading clear high balls and crosses into the box.

Saying that they are fully capable may have been overstating it, but if you look at their fixtures they have four home games out of six, have only lost one home game all season, are unbeaten in five having won three on the trot, and their remaining fixtures in general are very decent. You could perhaps say that the Southampton and Leicester games could be tricky given they're fighting to stay up. Plus they have players like Jota and Diaz back from injury, and Klopp seems to have figured out a tactical set up to get the best out of TAA's attacking quality without being as much of a liability in defence. I say Klopp, but he appears to copying Pep's inverted full backs thing.

I'm nervous about Lascelles playing, but he might be a good match up for DCL, and as people have said he was decent against Citeh. I'm not quite in the pampers party, but we do have to be mindful that Liverpool are fully capable of winning every game until the end of the season. A win tonight and a win against Southampton and I'll be a lot more tranquil.

Who gives a flying fuck about the Bundesliga though. I doubt Germans even care about it that much anymore given it may as well be renamed the Bayern cup. You could perhaps argue we're getting to the same stage with Man City, but at least it's still somewhat competitive, and when Pep leaves there'll likely be a changing of the guard, hopefully to us.

I see Howay is famous in the blue mackems circles 😂

There was supposedly 30 odd scouts at the game watching him. Not sure I could name 30 teams with a realistic chance of paying the likely 20 + million for him, but that's what the paper said.

As much as you can tell from a youtube video he looks decent. He could do with filling out obviously but he is only 18. That's one of the risks you take with signing teenagers though, given you can't always foresee how a player will develop physically. Having said all that he seemed fairly strong in the tackle and possession regardless.

According to Nixon in the sun, Ashworth was seen scouting Adam Wharton an 18 year old who plays in midfield for Blackburn. By the description attached to him he sounds like a complete midfielder able to score, assist and tackle. Seems like there's going to be a big fight for him at the end of the season, but we shouldn't underestimate how attractive a proposition we'll be should we, as is looking likely, qualify for the Champions League. I'm actually more excited about Ashworth finding a Mitoma, Mac Allister etc for relatively little money than I am about some player for 80, 100m. Mind you given how expensive young English players are I wouldn't be surprised if Wharton's price is well above the 12m that Brighton paid for Mac Allister for example.

That was probably the best result for us. Both teams having to play extra time, and then Brighton losing a gut wrenching shoot out. That game on Wednesday against Forest away isn't looking all that easy for Brighton all of a sudden. And obviously the most likely result in the final is for Man City to spank Man U.

I still want us to win this half. I Would like it to be 7-1 at least. I wouldn't exactly say fair play to Spurs for putting up a bit of a fight, but there deserve a tiny bit of respect for at least trying compared to their first half performance.