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And Tadic getting hacked down in the box against Spurs. Video technology can't come soon enough.

http://www.fullmatchesandshows.com/2017/04/05/southampton-vs-crystal-palace-highlights-3/

Yes. If Leicester finish 8th and win the CL.

Boring Puel. Sideways football.

Sakho. Sign him up.

Yep.

And that Ladies and Gents is why we need a clinical striker.

A 1000 times this.

JUSTICE

VIDEO ****ING TECHNOLOGY.

He's pulled his strop apparently. Hopefully not too serious, but with our staff who knows.

Just our weekly new injury I suppose. We're not regularly at the top of that table for nothing.

Indeed, he was out for over a year with a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament.

Straw man argument there. We just want him to have a squad without gaping holes (the huge holes being a clinical striker, a solid CB pairing, and a decent back up GK).

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39502877 Same should've been handed out for that weasel Vardy.

I agree, it's disgraceful Puel insists on playing Long without Mane. Not to mention stubbornly refusing to play our one goal-scoring striker (Gabbi) until more than half the season has passed. And on top of that, he's dropped him again, and hasn't picked our best CB since we beat Leicester. Oh, and it's unfathomable he hasn't picked Austin for months, and seemingly dropped Fonte permanently. The man doesn't have a clue.

He doesn't actually have to score, his constant threat terrifies the opposition and opens it up for our other players, and having a goal-scorer lifts the whole team. For example, he only scored one of the 4 goals against Watford.

We go for quality and quantity when it comes to injuries.

Les doesn't lie. He just gives alternative facts.

Good post. A mention about Long, who is the Puel-out mob's poster child of a player who has gone backwards. He thrived last year because he was playing a lot next to Mane. The two of them formed a great partnership (who wouldn't thrive next to Mane?) This season he is Laurel without Hardy (maybe not the best comparison, but you get my point). And as I keep trying to say to the Puel-out mob, the whole team suffers without a goal-scorer on the pitch. It drags the whole team down knowing that they probably need to keep a clean sheet to have a chance of any result. Hence a lot of tentative sideways passing. And when we finally got Gabbi in, look at how the whole team dramatically improved. Playing Utd off the park at Wembley as one example. Two consecutive away games scoring 4 goals. If Puel had Gabbi and VVD available we'd be ripping a lot of teams a new one.

Please read my posts again.

Puel doesn't play a formation that suits Long, because he doesn't have Mane. His formation does works fine for a quality striker that can finish (Gabbi). If he (Gabbi) had been signed when we needed him (at the beginning of the season) I bet we'd be challenging Everton for a European spot. And made it past the group stages in the EL.