srilankanblue: I totally agree concerning Rice. It’s a penalty. We scored directly from the resulting corner, but IMO it’s a clear penalty. Arsenal played home though, that may be a factor too that the ref did not give penalty. Home advantage.
Santos, a decent player, but not a world beater. And yes, we need Latvia, he is mile better than Santos or even than Caicedo with his form at the moment. Hato, I don’t rate him. I did not like Cucurella but probably he is the best left back in the world at the moment, a beast. Our defense sucks big time. How many times have we conceded from set pieces? Against Leeds, against Burnley, against Arsenal yesterday and in the Cup. The list keeps continuing …. So no to our defense (Chalobah, Fofana, Hato, Sarr, all poor IMO). Sanchez was poor too but we know that he is not world class and will be replaced by Penders next season.
Man Utd keep winning although always small wins. Liverpool I think there’s no question they’ll finish in the top 4 or even top 3. The question is now on Aston Villa. They started to stutter. They are tired. Their squad isn’t that deep. I hope that Chelsea will beat Villa midweek. No guarantee at all that we can finish above them as their fixtures are clearly much easier than ours. But if we want to finish in the top 5, we have to start winning against the fellow top 5 contenders. We did not until now. We just lost against Arsenal. We’d lost against Man Utd and Villa before too while only drew against City.
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