Charles Ryder

Sack the lot of em. My bold prediction about United not having a hope of catching us has whittled away over the course of about three weeks.

Tear it all up and get Nuno in to shout at them.

Played better against this lot early in the season when we didn't even try to defend.

Hope Bellerin's not seriously hurt, for his sake.

Useless lino, mile off and not flagged.

Sub prediction: Barkley > Kovacic Giroud > Willian

Good on their day though, tore Spurs apart. But this will feel like a major opportunity missed barring a comeback. With United's momentum I think our only hope could be Sarri taking the Europa League seriously.

Pedro: skied it. Should have perhaps taken a touch and tried to control it first.

Still holding on to the delusional hope that we can claw back a point somehow and put a bit of space between us and United in the table.

Great job by Alonso to cut the shooting angle off there. Oh, wait, wrong box.

Where's our Declan Rice moment going to come from... get Giroud on.

Our 2019/20 Europa League campaign starts today.

+ Anelka, or going further back JFH.

Shouldn't read too much into his form over the last little while at Milan imo, could credibly be read as a player in a bit of a mental flux (hello, Alvaro) upset about Milan cooling on him and being distracted by the potential reunification with Sarri. Or I'm just being overly optimistic. Which is the only way to be, really, given that he's the striker we're getting so it's time to park doubts aside and give the bloke a chance.

If David and Giroud goofing around with a basketball sounds like your kind of thing... https://www.chelseafc.com/en/videos/v/2019/01/16/chelsea-v-knicks-12M2wyaDE6bOSermiG_KiIgaY7I52LjC You're in luck.