Other notable absences are Baylee Dipepa and Romeo Akachukwu, so perhaps there are a few youngsters training with the first team this week. Hopefully the club is looking to avoid another Sam Amo situation.
Ah yeah. It's the cup so I guess that's why he's dropped down. Youth teams take the cups more seriously than the league. Wish the senior team did too.
I don't think even you believe that's going to happen Che. When did we ever put a game to bed by half-time and how many goals would be enough? I'm saying no less than four.
Oh god, didn’t realise they’d signed Jonjo Shelvey. He loves a whack against us, whilst being consistently **** against anyone else.
Scott Parker conceded the same number of goals in his last game as Bournemouth manager, as he has in 31 games with Burnley. That man was deeply scarred at Anfield that day.
Another game where Burnley failed to score tonight. And another game with a clean sheet. They won 1-0, courtesy of a defensive error and OG
The 5-0 at home Dec 2023? Only 1-0 at half time though. I had a look back to try and find a game where we would be seen as comfortable at HT. I'm not sure that 2-0 is the game put to bed where we are concerned. Even in some of the high scoring games most of the goals came later on. When we beat Newport County 8-0 in 2021 it was 3-0 at HT, that was the best I could find.
Gotcha. I meant the previous FA Cup tie where we were 2-0 up at half time. You're right, in that with us that's never enough, but that was pretty much the only game this season where I felt comfortable, because they were so, so bad.
Every now and then the conversation comes round to winning versus entertainment, and this Burnley team and manager must be the ultimate test of that.
Burnley being hard to score against, hard to beat and not scoring much themselves goes out the window for this game tbh. As others have said, they played last night and play the midweek after our game. They will be focused purely on promotion and will probably make 11 changes to their normal league line up like they did in the last round. Their 3 losses this season have all come away from home too. If this was first 11 v first 11 then we'd probably be in for a 0-0 and penalties, but with the circumstances as they are, we should be looking to win this relatively comfortably. I expect us to put out our full first team, whatever that is.
