What annoyed me more was the soft free kick that lead to the goal. I thought Man Utd got quite a few of these soft decisions and Newcastle seemed not to get any at all.
I agree. I think finishing outside of European places might not be be the worst thing either. Can we attract top players playing in the Europa league or conference league?
Should be a fun one, depends on the hangover from the cup final though, no europe no party imho. If we fall to pieces now and fail to make the top 7 and europe in the process it'll be that much harder to get the quality in we need. At least 5 first team players needed, CB, LB, CM, RW, CF you can't win a cup with a half fit Willock, Ritchie, Murphy and Anderson (who has 361 mins of first team football under his belt) coming off the bench.
The scousers will be in Europe in some capacity. If you are talking about top 4 then I would rather spurs get it than them ****s tbh.
I'd still see top 8 as a big step fwd and I think top 6 might. I personally don't think expectations should change based on form or half a season because when we look at the season before a ball is kicked we're deciding what our expectations are shd what we'd be happy with for that full season.
I'm not that bothered tbh I rather land the in the europa and deliberately avoid it.. we don't have the squad for it and I hate Thursday Sundays matches..
What I haven't heard anything about was the big shout for a pen 15mins or so from the end anyone can enlighten me as we didn't get any replay or VAR notice
We signed Guimareas in 19th... we got lucky because the other clubs didn't fancy him for some reason. If they can fool a few more stupid clubs this summer that could be a game changer.
We have a bright future mate. Imagine telling all of us, eighteen months ago, that we would be threatening the top four and in a final of a cup competition! We have had an electric 19 games whereby everything we touched turned to gold. our lack of squad depth was always going to catch us up (hence why most of us hoped for top eight!) If we blag a top six, the world will be our oyster. We attracted Guimaraes, Botman, Isak and Trippier when we had very little to offer. We now offer proper progression, the beginnings of a realised project and European competition. Just need to sort the commercial aspects out. Fat Mike did a number on us there and we need to build up the coffers before we can splurge like a mad thing from mad land!
Just heard Staveleys interview post match yesterday She very boldly said we would win the league cup, the fa Cup, the Premier league and the champions league.
Love the ambition. PSG and City are yet to win the CL despite their vast accounts so we shall see on that. The other trophies are definitely attainable if we go about this correctly. It will take time though. I just want to enjoy the journey right now
I'm still sticking with top 9 and a cup QF is a good season for us As you've all said we've managed to get Tripps, Bruno, Botman and Isak in 6 months on and the signs are there we are going to compete for trophies in the future so it doesn't all depend on Europe but it'll be a big help to accelerate the process.
If the other one wasn’t interfering with play when he was about 2 to 3 yards away from Casimero then he shouldn’t have been on the pitch.. Current rules would say onside but current rules are a mess.
I agree. It was too close to call it for me. And as a result for me the goal should stand. OFC it would have been disallowed for us mind. The second we kept on backing off. We need another class midfielder to free up Bruno. A destroyer.
It was a very soft freekick. But it was a good goal. Something we should be doing. We never score from set pieces. It’s a massive problem.
