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10 days rest VS 3 days after extra time on a warm afternoon. And still - somehow - they'll have more energy and intensity than us come Tuesday. I'm not saying there's something dodgy going on at Liverpool, but their ability to press for nigh on 90 minutes every game for 60+ games per season is certainly in stark contrast to every other team in Europe. We can barely keep it going for 30 minutes.

Talented kid, but poor injury record.

Not unready as in not experienced enough. Unready as in not prepared to bury the hatchet with the Ghanaian FA over a long running dispute carried over from his youth days - or so the internet gossip goes.

In that scenario, they will have lost to Chelsea so their goal difference to us will be at least minus 16 if not worse. They have won by more than one goal twice in 2022. 3-1 against Burnley and 3-0 against Norwich (at the time positioned 19th and 20th). And they're finishing the season against solid, in form Brighton (h) and Brentford (a).

It would leave Leeds six points behind us with two games left - and a worse goal difference by more than fifteen. We'd be safe all bar the shouting.

I warned you, Leeds. Should've listened.

The owners, with their Brentford links, can't fail to notice the increasingly stark difference between the state of the club they left and their new toy. The youth set up seems to be in decent health right now. It's the first team that's going nowhere but down if they don't change something.

That's a massive if.

Time to start watching Burnley, Everton and Leeds' results. Need a few favours - we aren't picking up any more points this season.

At least he kept them up.

Ferry's spent the season on loan at Crawley in League Two. Seems to play every week in some capacity, but for an offensive player, a return of 1 goal and 3 assists doesn't suggest he's going to come back here and make an impact any time soon.

FWIW I think Hasenhuttl's football is shite most of the time. If the press doesn't work, or we're too knackered to play with the required intensity, there's fuck all else to us. Just slow sideways and backwards passing with little in the way of creativity. Set pieces are our only real hope. It's crap and predictable. I think he's done his time. We're not progressing. We look stale. Handshakes, thanks for the memories, and move on.

It's a very realistic possibility that we won't get another point and finish on 40. And Everton can get 47 if they win their remaining games (which they won't). Burnley can get 46 (which they won't). But Leeds are the ones to watch. Appalling goal difference. They'll need 7 points to overtake us. From 4 games (Arsenal, Chelsea, Brighton, Brentford), with no fit strikers and injuries all over the squad. They're in deep shit.

Terrible goalkeeping. We've been increasingly poor. Palace playing to win. Fuck knows what we're doing.

Bit fortuitous to be 1-0 at half time, IMO. Palace the better team. Real lack of quality going forward. Tella's not at this level, Long works hard but is a shadow of the (not particularly good) player he used to be, Adams is no threat, Redmond has had a few nice touches but nothing of substance. Midfield looks leggy. Prowse got outpaced by Joel Ward, who's about a hundred years old and never had any pace even when he was young. A lot to do to close this game out in the second half.

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He was at the start of the season.

By the looks of things he was holding Burnley back all this time...

That was as shit as it gets. Disorganised. Unmotivated. No quality whatsoever. I guess we'll find out about our new owners' mettle in the coming weeks - surely they can't continue to tolerate the abysmal standard of performances over the past couple of months. None of them good enough to wear the shirt tonight.

This is the kind of performance that ends up with a manager leaving "by mutual consent" at the end of the season. We'd be six down if it weren't for Forster. Against fucking Burnley! What a disgrace.

Gambling on the new manager bounce, I guess. Two wins could be all they need - Everton aren't picking up many more points.

Good lad. It'd be great if he could make a match squad or two before the end of the season.

He filled his non-scuffed quota for the season against Villa back in November. It's just shanks, shinners, and air shots from this point.

Are you doing our team talks?

Imagine losing to three crap teams in a row- all below us in the league. Really is feast or famine under Hasenhuttl.