Leo91

Getting the early goal is crucial to open them up. If they sit back and settle it, it could become tough.

Midfield 3 of Jorgi-Mount-Barkley then. Front 3 of CHO - Tammy - Willian. Not the end of the world.

They need to expand the Euro nations league so we get rid of international friendlies.

Why is he even being risked for France.

With how the squad is atm we should only be looking at exceptional players to strengthen the first XI.

Huh!? It would be embarrassing to lose to this Utd side twice. Hope the players have an extra yard of graft in them for revenge from opening day. Silverware is important and we should be taking each game as it comes, we have a good sized squad and no reason to not put 100% into everything. I would love to make it out of the CL group. Last 16 would be a great achievement. Being in the running for top 4 is all I could ask for before the season started and I don't see that changing.

If we had a cup final and everyone fit, I'd feel more assured seeing a partnership of Rudiger & Christensen than any other combination. Zouma has his positives, but every time I see his name on the team sheet I feel like there's going to be one moment of lack of concentration where we'll concede.

Interesting stuff. Just struck me that it's probably important to have people like Lampard and Cech around who know what its like having someone such as Roman in charge of the club. How to deal with pressure of winning football matches.

Past two times I've watched Juve play and he's scored. Don't know how he does it. Wouldn't go as far to say he looks like a different player but the dynamics between English and Italian football is definitely at play here. I guess Juve create more chances for him and he has more space and time. But the way he just carries himself is different. Goes to show mentality can be so huge, there's no comparison between Abraham and Higuain in terms of experience (you can throw Morata in there as well) but only one of them was up for the fight in a blue shirt.

Chuffed. Well in boys. Will catch the highlights tonight.

Only silver lining is that its October so we can prepare for it now rather than them snatching it late on in the season.

Weird saying this but 1 more goal to make sure would be nice

At work. Keeping up to date on live score, can't help but conjure images of a frantic end to end game where we look like scoring and conceding every alternating attack.

I don't even think it's about elite teams. If we're up against a physical side he's going to struggle.

Tammy there geeing up the team post whistle! What a geezer.