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Helps set up the goal!? What the f*** are you on about? He was trying to shoot and completely mis-kicked it. Then he hit the post once again when it was easier to score.

Leicester have got one back at Spurs as well.

Get in Long!

It's not just corners. I would love to see some stats but I reckon our crossing accuracy must be about the worst in the PL.

Let off!

Holy crap. How did we survive that!?

We seem to be giving Willian far too much room down the right this half.

They're piling on the pressure now. We're going to regret not taking one of those chances in the first half.

Such a good opening. Needed a better shot from Mane.

We're the better team at the moment. Need to score another to make it count.

Decent effort from Long. we are stretching them on that left hand side.

I know. There are many qualities a player needs to be a good penalty taker, and so far Tadic has displayed none of them.

Agreed. Surely Mane would be the best option. Even Clyne has a much better shot on him.

Mourinho won't be happy. Surely it must be a conspiracy

That's f***ing Lee Dixon's fault. It was only 2 minutes ago he was saying how we have only conceded one headed goal all season!

At the time of the rumours in 2007 I was one of the mods on this forum's predecessor, and as such I was party to certain information which, at the time, I was duty bound not to pass on. Seeing as so much time has now passed, I guess it doesn't matter if I share what I know, although I won't name names. One of my fellow mods at the time had a private meeting with a very well respected director of the club at the time, and was told by this person in no uncertain terms that the board had indeed met with people representing, or at least claiming to represent Paul Allen, and that there was a genuine, serious interest there. Make of that what you will.

Interesting that no sooner do we take Pelle off, we manage to score. He would never have made that run into the box that Mane did to gamble on the keeper spilling the shot and getting on to the rebound. Hopefully now Koeman will realise just how damaging it is playing a statuesque lump as a lone striker.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand....... breathe!

There we have it. That's what we have been lacking of late - a bit of luck with a parry or a deflection into the path of a player gambling on being in the right place at the right time. It doesn't happen with Pelle as our main front man. Our first league goal at SMS since New Years Day.

According to BBC Stats... 19 shots - 1 on target. Utter, utter crap.

It's hard to see how that record is going to be maintained after tonight.

Possibly because he was being pushed in the back as he went for it?

That moment just then, when Schneiderlin had the ball in an attacking position, we had four players in the box - all stood completely static. That right there is our problem.

Yes, you're right. The answer to all our attacking problems was to not sell a backup DM who specialised in sideways passing.

This is actually painful to watch.