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Am more worried about VVD and Grav. Hard to tell if Gakpo is still injured or just rusty having been out for a month or more. If he's just rusty, then getting game time for Holland might actually help.

Yeah, I had same thought with Chiesa. He's either absolutely terrible in training, or Slot is making a point of not picking him because he didn't want him in the first place. Given how out of form our forwards are (or in Gakpo's case, clearly not fit yet), it's frankly bizarre how little he's been used. - But you're right even without scoring he looked a better option than Jota, Nunez (or not yet fit Gakpo) .

I think had Gakpo not been injured, we would have seen more of Diaz up front (and Gakpo on left). And not like Diaz has been great there either, but both Jota and Nunez have been utterly, useless. Would be better off playing 2 false 10s like we did against City.

Newcastle looked more likely to score a 3rd than we did a second, but the lack of time added on was also annoying given how (inexplicably) long the VAR check took, and the fact that Newcastle spent most of that additional time wasting more time. Also amazing that only 2 Newcastle players were booked all game, and those were both in injury time for time wasting. Trippier particularly seemed to have a 'foul as much as you want for free' card. Grrrr.

I'm so annoyed that we are the team that finally allowed Newcastle to have their first trophy since forever. Looked like we were playing the day after PSG. Just such a s***ty week. Glad we have a bit of a break, but how we are running out of steam just like we did a year ago is concerning. We'd have bitten the hand off it offered the league at the start of this season, but now all that remains is making sure we don't do the biggest bottle job in football history. So many poor players out there. Our front 3 and Gravenberch just have nothing left. And the competition between who can be more useless out of Jota and Nunez is not one I want to see again.

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Yeah. I wouldn't have wanted wholesale changes against Soton, but would have had no problem with Endo playing and having Gravenberch more rested against PSG. Gravenberch has looked shot since the turn of the year. He's had a great season, but it's probably the first time since he was at Ajax where he's played regularly, and with the intensity of the league here, and 2 games a week for what felt like months, he particularly could have done with a rest.

Yeah - this is what I mean. I don't mean writing it into the laws of the game, but there was no intent, no advantage, was just a freak thing, so I'd love to think common sense could prevail... or to put it another way, I think there would be far less controversy if they'd let it go and then (maybe?) seen afterwards that it was technically a double hit. Particularly since Real were destined to win anyway due to their deal with satan. Is it in the laws of the game for VAR to review penalties that aren't saved? I thought all they did was check that the keeper was on his line for any save. Made me think of a Mankad dismissal in cricket. Technically correct, but still horrible and not in the spirit of the game.

Even if he did double touch - and there's so far no video evidence of that, you'd think someone might have some common sense and just let things go. There's no advantage there, nobody is going to try to get a double touch, cos you're more likely to just f*** it up...

Their deal with Satan is even stronger than the Mancs under Ferguson .

Yep, that's fair enough. There's also the confirmation bias where we pick up on the players that do make it, and forget about/ignore/never hear about those that fail. But those teams definitely seem to have something in their player selection that we could do with. And I think there can be a balance - like it doesn't have to be the Chelsea level of madness (buying 30 youngsters and loaning them all out) but I wouldn't mind us taking a bit more of a wide approach, since Chelsea at least have found a few good players, and also made money with that approach.

And been said before, but we should just sign the Brighton recruitment team to save money. We were all making jokes a year ago when they bought Baleba that we might as well just outbid them...

Pretty damning that I think he's been the least awful of the 3 (him Nunez and Jota) since Jota came back from injury. I think really it will be about who is fit enough to play, and since Gakpo still looks miles from fitness/ shouldn't be starting, Diaz will probably play on the left again.

Yeah, I think I saw 3 and 8, which didn't look right either. Its like they're not counting the shots that were blocked on the line as on target maybe? But in terms of good chances, I think we dominated even more than they did last week.

Inexplicably decided to watch the highlights. They had 2 goal line clearances (both from Salah, the first in the first few mins he really should have scored, but it was a goal saving block), and also a fantastically blocked shot from Sobozlai in the second half that looked to be going in the bottom corner. The save from the Diaz header in the second half was also really good. I think we were really unlucky. PSG were good, but we didn't take our chances, and didn't have that bit of luck. Ball bouncing differently for Konate's sliding intervention that led to their tap in goal, vs bouncing in rather than out off the post from the Quansah header... Such small margins.

Yeah, their subs changed the game for the better, just as ours changed things for the worse. I'm glad we didn't rest players vs Southampton, but PSG did rest 9 or more of their team in their last game, so that's why they appeared fitter and fresher. And they've already played 4 fewer league games than us this season, in a much easier league... I actually think our chances tonight were better than those that PSG had at their place, so I don't agree that we didn't deserve to go through. I'm excited to see what players Slot brings in as he really starts to mould the team into what he wants. It's clear Chiesa either wasn't his signing or is just completely done physically (to the extent that a rusty as f*** Gakpo was seen as a better option).

We've had such a phenominal season, obviously beyond most of our wildest hopes, so it almost feels greedy to be so disappointed, but it's still just horrible to lose a big game and I did feel we had a good chance of winning this again. Need that win on Sunday now, because a loss (and giving Newcastle their first trophy in forever) would be gutting. Also, Kvaratskhelia looks like Adam Lallana on steroids.

Hindsight is 2020, but would make much more sense for the team who finished top to play the lowest placed remaining team. It's a nonsense that we finished 1st, Villa finished 8th, and we play PSG, while they get Mignolet and Bruge.

Think Darwin's performance answers that. They were both crap.

Thought we were as unlucky as PSG were in the first leg, maybe more so in terms of hitting the inside of the post, having one cleared off the line etc. But the subs killed us. I don't blame Slot - would have been worse if our players had got injured, but we never looked like doing anything in extra time. Gakpo wasn't even half fit, and didn't take a pen. Chiesa must be terrible or just not at all of Slot's choosing not to get on ahead of him.

That's pretty nuts. Not a single foul conceded in 45 mins, despite them pressing as much as us.

probably the most intense game of our season. Much more like a Klopp chaos game. We should have scored... their goal was a bit lucky, but they've been unlucky not to have scored since. Robbo hasn't put in a good cross in a long time... would be nice for that to change. And while it would have been a super soft pen, the ref has given them absolutely everything and us nothing all half.

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Agree with some of this, particularly Nunez. The Virgil mess up was kinda similar to Arsenal last season... like him and Alisson both so good, they pay too much respect to each other and neither takes control. Nice that it happened in a game we ended up winning, so it didn't cost us. I thought Diaz was ok. Sure he clatters into players too much, but he never stopped running, did really well to set up Nunez, and then his non stop running helped win us our second pen. Thought Mac Allister was the main difference second half. He was calm but very incisive in his passing and it helped hugely.

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