I was only teasing, TCM. After all, it's not often you see the Champions League finalists concede 7 goals at home (still funny)! To be honest, Bayern aside, you are a comfortably better team than Olympiakos and Red Star. I'd wager that you'll progress through to the qualifying rounds still, but you need an extremely positive response against Brighton to put the doubters on hold. Any other outcome than a convincing win will ramp up the scrutiny and pressure on you.
Alternatively, we just let Man Utd keep dropping points to see how long before the pundits can keep up the pretence that their beloved club's in the ****
Takumi Minamino looks like the player Marcus Edwards was supposed to become. Enthralling game of football. The CL continues to entertain.
Ziyech's opener! Parejo's penalty! Need to go back to Ajax in the January window. Probably not for their defenders, though...
Ziyech is another one who made a "Come and get me plea" to Arsenal this Summer, but we reportedly didn't pursue it as he didn't stylistically fit in with Emery's profile of player. He apparently doesn't track back enough for his liking, either. Would rather have spent half the money we would have needed to get him than the £72m for Pepe, if I'm honest.
"What do we do now?" The question posed by every Utd player in possession of the ball in the final third. Dreadful again. 5 wins in 22 games with an average of less than a goal per game. Dreadful.
Lukaku is a pretty blunt instrument, but he did score goals. When you can't score them, you realise that it doesn't matter how you get them.
