DELBY

If you have a goalkeeper that continually makes mistakes that lead to goals being conceded then your team will have no confidence. If you have a striker that squanders numerous great opportunities then your team will have no confidence and we will not score despite chances being created for him. We will therefore struggle to win matches. It really isn’t rocket science. Sanchez should never have been put in place as the number 1. We all knew this. Jackson was never going to be the striker that would turn us into title contenders. Having spent so much money but not addressed these issues is criminal. Until we at least get a decent goalkeeper and a decent striker we will always be average. We also have players lacking in football intelligence. Noni today not looking at the line across and playing them onside and then compounds that by not watching his man and tracking back for their first goal. Colwill needs to be smarter for City’s third by just stopping Haaland by any means and taking one for the team. The transfer window is still open but the club, as usual, are looking at all the wrong options which probably shows they are more interested in profit rather than success on the pitch.

Difficult to know where to start or end after watching that. Mind blowing that we couldn’t win that. Liverpool were there for the taking and we will never get a better opportunity to beat them in a final. In fact when Liverpool brought the academy boys on they were still much better than the majority of our players. Klopp was obviously confident enough to play their academy and still get one over on us! We have a serial loser coaching our team so that is hardly going to inspire you. We have owners who have dismantled a club that was a winning machine when they took over and spent a billion pounds making us into an average mid-table side at best with poor big money transfers on players like Jackson, Caicedo, Enzo and Mudryk. I cannot see us improving any time soon and can’t trust the club with their transfer policy. The owners need to take a good hard look at themselves and take full responsibility for what they have done to our club. It’s just totally frustrating having spent so much money to make us so much worse!

Can’t access either. Any reason why it’s not working anymore?

Truly shocking performance. Couldn’t play even the most simple pass. We did not look threatening in the slightest and Bournemouth showed more hunger and more desire. That performance was totally unacceptable. From everything looking rosy early in the season we have now really hit our usual mid-winter slump. We need to get out of this fast.

Absolutely appallingly from Zouma there.

We are getting into great positions but the final ball and the inability to make the decision to get a shot in is frustrating. We really need a commanding centre half. Christensen seemed to be more worried about getting hurt than attacking that ball that came in for the goal. Kovacic has been great again and our best player in that first half.

I think we dominated the game overall. For a young team playing away in a Champions League game that was impressive. With being such a young team we are going to make mistakes. Tomori made two almost very costly ones at the end there. Kepa done brilliantly on both occasions. This was a great result and a great learning curve for all the young players. Frank is giving them first team opportunities at the highest level and this experience will be invaluable. We just need to sort out this zonal marking!

STOP ZONAL MARKING!!!

Would love to celebrate when the ball actually goes in the net. ...with VAR I’ve learnt not to do that. Playing very well so far.

The defending yet again has let us down. For that first goal I don’t know know why Kepa steps across to his right side when the ball is passed in the opposite direction. Kepa just needs to protect that half side of the goal. The marking absolutely shocking for the second and we can see why we have conceded the amount we have this season. Would love to see JT here as our defensive coach. Having said all that I think we have been decent. Tammy should have scored on the 1v1 and I’ve already learnt not to celebrate any goal we score until about 5 mins later! I’ve no idea why we are getting so many injuries.

Looking forward to this one. Frank will get a fantastic reception and the atmosphere will be electric. We really need a win here. Bit worried about where the goals will come from so I hope Frank plays both Mount and Pulisic who are goal threats. I think Tammy will get the nod up front for confidence. Hope he can get a goal so he can be up and running.

Great performance overall against the team all the media raves about. We were better than them first half and although we faded a bit in the second, we showed enough skill and composure to create chances. I think everyone played well particularly Kante who was outstanding. Emerson was also fantastic and must surely be the first choice at left back. Thought Mount and Pusilic were also excellent and they will get better and better with experience and games like this.

Thoroughly deserved. By far the best team so far.

I was very impressed with him in pre-season and was impressed with him again yesterday. I think he has real talent and will become an important member of the squad.

We really got away with that. So many individual bad performances. Pedro was dreadful when he came on. Running around like a headless chicken and losing the ball constantly. Our strikers were woeful. Huguain even worse than Giroud. Hazard’s mind was on his new team for next season. Dave had one of his worst games for us. That said,we somehow got there in the end. Credit to Kepa and the players that stepped up for the pens. Need to step up massively against Arsenal. We simply cannot lose that game.