HarvSFC

There’s the David Luiz mistake, couldn’t take advantage. Armstrong’s looking on another level tonight.

Doesn't seem like a natural conversation to have on the bench. 🤷‍♂️

If Barcelona, Juventus and Inter cannot afford him, then we definitely can't. Does seem like your typical West Ham signing though.

But, Lem's Life has only just welcomed everyone to London!

Yeah, when N’Lundulu and Valery came on against Liverpool, we looked more comfortable and obviously saw out the match. Need the same now.

Why did Arsenal sign Cedric?

Strong team, they’re resting a load for midweek.

Struggling to think of a more overrated/overhyped player than Thiago. When he signed he was made out to be the midfield equivalent of Alisson/Van Dijk, but Diallo took him out of the game against us and in every other match he has not done anything, bar a few stepovers in midfield.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/soccertalents/beraterfirma/berater/3381 Would appear that he's the only one who would get this agency any decent money.

Suits the role given to him better at Aston Villa. Seems to have been told to keep it safe and simple, cover Grealish and provide him with more attacking freedom. Grealish isn't going to track back, so Targett needs to stay back and offers next to nothing going forward. Whereas, Ralph wants his full-backs to attack, carry the ball from deep and offer an attacking threat out wide with pace. Still has some defensive frailties, as we found out when we beat them and we seemed to, excuse the pun, target their life hand side of the pitch.

Is there a better free-kick taker in world football than JWP at the moment?

West Ham got £20m for Haller and he scored just 10 goals in two years.

Stephens is better than Yoshida and Gardos, who he has now replaced in the team as the third choice centre-back. Initially, he was brought into the team to replace Van Dijk/Fonte, which has hampered him in the eyes of many for a number of years now, as he's never going to be on their level. However, he has been doing a job when coming into the team for well over a year now and I for one am glad that we have him in the squad. Very few Premier League teams outside of the big six would have kept three consecutive clean sheets, including against the champions with a second choice keeper in goal after losing a first choice centre-back.

Good first half, outdone by a poor decision from the officials. Really poor second half, making it a comfortable win for Leicester. They did bring £75m worth of players off their bench tonight, which helps makes a difference. 10 days until the next league game, hopefully gives the opportunity for some to return.

Diallo does the same... Gets a yellow.

Offside, which won’t be checked due to phases of play, linos don’t put their flag up anymore until the ball goes out of play, so...

Yeah, Shrewsbury could have played their Under-18s. Now, Leeds are likely to have their current injured players back to fitness when we face them.

On that note, I always thought Andrew Surman would have had a better career than he had. Yeah, he had a career, which saw many appearances/seasons in the Premier League. But, he was never the main man again, after departing us. Maybe it's just my memory of him being more favourable and him also being a part of what was a very average to poor Southampton team.

Premier League winner, Nathan Dyer.

Ben White at Brighton seems to be forging a good career now after being released by us and a few loans in the lower leagues. Although, he doesn’t seem to have cemented a position as of yet.

These fixtures seem to suit us better, because as already mentioned, they will attack us. Which, is why I am looking forward to the Leeds fixture that follows too. It is a comparable fixture to the Everton and Aston Villa matches, who were the form teams when we faced them and we made easy work of both, despite a brief stoppage time scare against Villa after going 4-0 up.

Appears we've found another gem from overseas. Unfortunately, with the new rules it looks like he will be the last, unless we can manipulate them with a feeder club abroad.

1-1, Puel masterclass.

Yeah, will hopefully be a bye to the next round, rather than a rearranged fixture like they were doing in the early rounds of the League Cup.

Yep! Lets take emotion out of the game, we need more players and managers to act like robots in post-match interviews, can never get enough of their generic responses. Players and managers should stop celebrating victories, cringey and "noddy club" behaviour. Bring back the Claude Puel days.