OTF

This is our second cup final.

At home we will be back to our best. Tonali and Bruno won't have stinkers. Howe may try to accommodate both Barnes and Gordon in the starting side by moving Barnes to the right. Harsh on Murphy who has had a fine season. I still think he will persist with Willock, but hope he doesn't. Joelinton gives a lot more defensive cover than Willock and Chelsea have been played somewhat back into form by a half arsed B grade Liverpool so it's important that our midfield shape is good. Miley has never really let down Howe whereas Willock has on multiple occasions. There's a point where you accept that getting far up the pitch with the ball without scoring or creating chances is a pointless endeavour. Willock has played in 30 PL games this season (averaging 33 mins per game) and has no goals and 2 assists. In the cups he scored 3 in 9 games. Miley has 1 goal in 12 premier league appearance, but that's averaging only 20 mins a game. In the FA Cup he started three games and scored once.

I thought Barnes was pretty good overall, Trippier defensively was good, Burn and Schär were ok as well.

Someone let Mrs Wyki know that another lass is making a move on her man Callum.

Extremely forgettable game that. Bruno and Tonali both off their game today as were Murphy and Isak.

Thanks, suspected it wasn't right when I posted it!

I mean even points it's important. If Liverpool beat Chelsea that will leave Chelsea 3 point behind us, so even if they beat us (they won't) we'd be equal on points and we'd quite likely have better GD.

That was terrible defending. A very good ball in lucky he has a 10p head.

Wrong. A come from behind draw has a much better feeling than a loss, important in maintaining positivity in the run home.

Great penalty, I was confident it would be saved haha. But how is there no card shown for that blatant attempt to cheat?

What are they looking at? This is the most obvious handball.

That has to be a red card surely?

No way we were worse than against Villa.

But it could have if you look from behind and squint a bit.

Haha it's true though. However Willock should have owned up to it after the fact when there was no contact.

Feels like we're more likely to concede another than equalise with this team out.

Wilson is the sort of player who will be in the right place in the box when we get behind them (which we have multiple times).

Also I don't think it's a yellow, he's anticipating contact and going to ground both reduces the chance of injury and draws attention to the challenge.

Van hecke is very lucky because he had no control of his challenge and was nowhere near the ball, but didn't hit Willock.

Yeah, this is not a penalty.

Barnes is doing very well on the right.

That's not true, they've also committed a bunch of fouls.

This is Tonali's worst game for us in a long time (possibly ever).

No excuse for not giving a yellow for that, just incompetence.

Was there a yellow given there?