I’m more concerned about the injuries we might receive.
The long term ones !
I get where your coming from mate, but Rafa won’t send his players out to deliberately hurt our players, that Kunt Pickford’s assault on Virgil was meant, no one will convince me otherwise, borne out of frustration from the goal he conceded from Origi previous game, Richarleson on Thiago similar, now I’m not sure both were directions from manager or staff but I wouldn’t put it past them, at that time, it’s not how Rafa works and I’m guessing he’d be pretty pissed off if he felt his players stooped so low.
Thought we did enough yesterday to win relatively easily, didn’t venture much past 4th gear, a few sloppy passes and wtf moments but overall we won at a canter, should really have been 5/6 but 4 was more than good enough,
Looks like Robbo hates been sat on that bench, his performance was exceptional, Kostas must be thinking, fookin hell, gotta work even harder now, motm for me Robbo, Ali did what Ali does best and kept us in it at times where Saints had a sniff but felt had they scored we would have clicked up a gear,
Top three not at their best but they didn’t need to be tbh, Jota’s double further evidence that he is approaching top form, just when we will need it most, Virgil popping up with his first of the season is another good sign and Thiago’s was quite simply a piece of art,
Solid team performance that, another clean sheet and correct me if I’m wrong but that’s 39 goals in 13 games, giving us a average of 3 goals per game, if that’s not title winning form right there then F**k knows what is, and yet, we are still not at our best, that’s better than our average in 19/20, can’t be arsed looking it up but I know it was under 3x per game,
So onto the Bitters Wednesday, I know we all say form goes out of the window blah blah blah, but c’mon, the gulf in class is vast, yes we will probably need to go up a couple of gears and be more wary defensively, however, there’s only one outcome for me, I think the biggest cheer they’ll get is when our fans welcomes Rafa from the tunnel, love us to do another 0-5 but I’d equally settle for a scrappy 0-1.
Great win yesterday, hopefully we’ll see some points dropped today from the other two horses, but we are looking very good and in a very good position.
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