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In response to the absence of actual live footy, I've been filling some of the imposed home-dwelling with full re-runs of: Istanbul v Barca semi last year v West Ham FA Cup final v Alaves UEFA Cup final I would recommend this to everyone. Next up, I'm going to start re-watching all our games from this season...

"He won't say it but I will: he's the best Brazilian player in the world. Neymar's not fit to lace his boots"

Sadly no, all it takes is a country to take a politicised/incompetent approach to containing it. China went full-on autocracy from very early (i.e. as soon as they admitted there was an outbreak - thanks to a whistleblower doctor). All kinds of measures we'd find extreme - mandatory distance between people inside buildings, total quarantine on regions at risk, travel bans - means that the spread of the disease was slowed. Compare this to the US and UK where personals freedoms are politicised and prioritised over the public good, and you likely have a much higher daily infection rate. This leads to an overwhelming of the health care system - purely in terms of the rate at which people are presenting for treatment - which in turn leads to a higher mortality rate than China (hence why Italy's is currently close to 5%, while China's is under 1%). I would go on, but this should be in the thread in the Genny. Best info: https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-act-today-or-people-will-die-f4d3d9cd99ca

The Loris Karius Memorial Cannon?

F**king yes!!!!

Argh

Yeah but tonight we're a bit worried about Oblak I think - Mo hitting shots much harder than he usually does... and I think Oblak's got a bigger rep than Ali did 2 years ago.

Cos when we shoot, we've got Oblak in our heads, like other teams' strikers usually have Alisson.

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Tottenham: mentality midgets.

In a fantasy world, we get Havertz in some sort of swap deal for Keita. Havertz looks other-worldly in terms of being big, fast, technical, a good passer and finisher. Hopefully he's also not secretly a shrinking violet on contact with English soil

Main reason he unsettles the defence is that he plays like an old school man-marker, rather than part of a positionally disciplined defence. Which means, as others have said, the whole of the rest of the defence is slightly out of position, unsure what's happening next, unable to play a tight offside trap (as they don't know where Lovren's going to be), and always waiting to see how the Lovren-vs-his-man battle goes before they react. That's not how we defend when he's not in the team.

Ah right - misunderstood & thought that was Prem games. So yeah, mitigating certainly. But yeah, this.

That is a massively damning stat, however much anyone wants to defend him.

Saw a spider in the dressing room and now won't come out of the toilets. Was a really big spider, mind.

Never forget the cross to Gini in the Barca game. Huge contribution right there. Biggest regret with him is that other than that moment, I don't think he's ever played left wing and just put in good crosses that bend away from goal - always thought he'd be better suited for that than trying to be Robben-lite from the right wing.

More incredible is that it should be 27, including one for his GBH on Mo.

Not a chance in hell this happens. I expect them to get precisely 0 decisions in their favour in their remaining CL matches.

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Yeah not at the moment, but if we're replacing Lallana, can see why we'd want it to be a UK national. Obviously if we're replacing Shaq or Gini (!) then all options are open. In any case great that we have Jones, Williams and Elliott coming through looking like they might be good enough for the 1st team in time...Brexit notwithstanding.

If we're in for someone from Norwich, wouldn't be shocked if it was Buendia rather than Cantwell - more of a Gini clone, in that he covers loads of the midfield, while still being pretty skillful, and can see a good pass. Course, he doesn't have the homegrown player thing, so could see why we might favour Todd.

Reckon that's right. We were one or two more bad seasons away from being Leeds ffs.