Tuchel should learn tonight that Abraham is a player he can rely on to fight for him both at ends of the pitch. He should be given time to play up front with Timo, Tammy and Timo made for each other, just needs time to develop, do it Tuchey !

That one was a tough watch. Arguably one of the worse games ive seen us win. 1 shot in target, multiple players with terrible games, first touch, and passing abysmal. Ziyech and Pulisic looked like non league players. 

At least we are through, and at least it is iver and didnt go to extra time. 

Job done, best thing to say about that right.

I'd love to know what was going through Rudigers mind as he was facing Kepa coming towards him in the last few seconds then ha ha...

Just now, dkw said:

Are you saying young players shouldn't be given any leeway at all? They should be held to the same standards as a 29 year old international ?

No of course not, but at the end of the day, results wise, that sort of stuff doesn't matter, if a player puts in a 6/10, he puts in a 6/10, regardless if he's 17, 24 or 34. 

2 minutes ago, sonic90 said:

Somewhere in the world a match is 1-1, so.. there

Just a quick look, I think not....we'll have to expand to the multi verse 

We do struggle against teams that play thuggish... pundits could not stop talking about rugby and no wonder, horrible pitch and a strong physical team.

Shocking performance. Abraham and to a lesser extent CHO/Kepa played well. Other than that everyone else was poor or average. I don’t think we’ll be seeing much change from the teams that played against Spurs and Sheffield. 
 

Another win though is the main thing and a favourable draw in the quarter finals.

1 minute ago, Slojo said:

He has a point though, it's youngster bias. If Jorginho played the same way Gilmour did he would be getting slated on here. 

I just think what is an real eye opener here is can you remember the last time Jorginho created a goal scoring opportunity?

Gilmour’s last game was the last game under Frank and there was the Billy CHO Tammy combination.

Tonight it was Billy James Tammy. Can you see Jorginho doing anything like that?

That’s my frustration with Jorginho. Billy is so much better offensively and he even shows more steel, despite being really small.

Poor but we're through, and in a knockout cup that really is all that matters.

This was a very poor performance, the manager set the tone by the selection and the players couldn't be arsed to turn up

The FA Cup on a cold night , poor pitch and a team up for a challenge is a great leveller

The itches didnt show tonight, Pulisic and Ziyech were poor throughout and Kovacic made up the treble

Tammy and Kepa are the only ones who really came out with any glory

Onto the Quarter finals, Tommy had better learn and take the match seriously , even Sheffield will be a different proposition with a trip to Wembley on the horizon

A number of players have been put on the display to show their worth and they just blew it.  I trust TT to clear the squad of dead wood this summer.

Wow. just wow.  I need to quickly forget this game. I don't think we were the better team at any point of time in this game.  A game to forget the sooner the better.

1 minute ago, Slojo said:

No of course not, but at the end of the day, results wise, that sort of stuff doesn't matter, if a player puts in a 6/10, he puts in a 6/10, regardless if he's 17, 24 or 34. 

Yes but your rating him 6 

2 minutes ago, dkw said:

Are you saying young players shouldn't be given any leeway at all? They should be held to the same standards as a 29 year old international ?

So saying nothing is your leeway then.

Idk why this blows up so much it was just a comment about Gilmour only want to praise him or what? 

 

Just now, coco said:

Yes but your rating him 6 

I'M GIVING AN EXAMPLE!! SHEESHHH!!

2 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Job done, best thing to say about that right.

Agreed, good goal by Abrahams and a very good headed clearance off the line not long after.

Easy, what’s the problem ?

2 minutes ago, dansubrosa said:

I just think what is an real eye opener here is can you remember the last time Jorginho created a goal scoring opportunity?

Gilmour’s last game was the last game under Frank and there was the Billy CHO Tammy combination.

Tonight it was Billy James Tammy. Can you see Jorginho doing anything like that?

That’s my frustration with Jorginho. Billy is so much better offensively and he even shows more steel, despite being really small.

Ah come on Dan dont turns this in to another Jorginho criticism thread mate...lol

1 minute ago, Nevamind said:

So saying nothing is your leeway then.

Idk why this blows up so much it was just a comment about Gilmour only want to praise him or what? 

 

Here's an idea then, don't compare him to how Jorginho is treat.

4 minutes ago, dkw said:

I'd love to know what was going through Rudigers mind as he was facing Kepa coming towards him in the last few seconds then ha ha...

He looked like he has considering passing it back, but changes his ind last minute...thank god!

Just now, andy said:

Easy, what’s the problem ?

You've been watching porn, after that 1 minute was up you had a bath for 89 minutes ??

1 minute ago, dansubrosa said:

I just think what is an real eye opener here is can you remember the last time Jorginho created a goal scoring opportunity?

Gilmour’s last game was the last game under Frank and there was the Billy CHO Tammy combination.

Tonight it was Billy James Tammy. Can you see Jorginho doing anything like that?

That’s my frustration with Jorginho. Billy is so much better offensively and he even shows more steel, despite being really small.

I agree, he's getting the ball forward more, missed some opportunities though to play the ball forward like Shearer pointed out at HT which was a good analysis. 

Basically what I'm saying here is, is that youngsters have different standards. We'll obviously give Gilmour more credit and less criticism because he's 19, for his standards that was a good performance. But if you take those standards out of the equation, it really isn't anything better than what Jorginho provides if I'm being blunt. 

But that's not to say, I don't see the perks in playing Gilmour over Jorginho, given he has development/potential on his side. 

10 minutes ago, WeatherMan said:

The replay of that corner was an eye opener. He was probably the shortest person in the entire view.

Oh man sadly thats nearly true. 

I hope Tuchel is the type to see the character or lack of, of some players.

Great to win but one shot on target ? Maybe 3 efforts ? Appalling carry on.