Let's deflate Pep's Balls! (A Match Thread)

Like Zelensky, someone has to step up to the plate even under overwhelming pressure. Ingo seems to have gone silent and I will soon be locked out of this board again as I try as I have to reconfigure all my authenticators so after this week it might be his baby.

Speaking of Babies. Pep and his rant over footballs shows he is still under pressure and sure, Haaland suddenly seems okay to play against us but fuck them.

We have to show some balls though because we totally laid down and got a dicking in Manchester. This time we need our mad Serbinator to rally the troops and go at Citeh. They are excellent on the ball but seem to have forgotten how to hard press which is nice.

I think we need a bit of Ryan Yates to irritate the living shit out of the opposition and I think he is the man to do it.

The rest of the first team picks itself. I think we have a chance to finish this hard run with a good result. 2-0 or 1-1. Not sure.

Fight or die boys. Fight or die.

Chicago: Going down Fighting.

I worry about whether you actually watch games at times. We played really quite well. 3-0 flattered them immensely.

Talking of shape I'd expect a repeat of what we did (or tried to do) v Arsenal. Apart from Calafiori sending Dominguez to the shops and hitting the post we kept them at arms length, so I'd expect a repeat and a Yates 15 minute cameo (if it's still level by then, sooner if not).

Of all the things Chicago leaves us to worry about, you go with whether he watches games?

I watch all the games religiously. You Shady, don't even pay attention or bother reading half the posts on here and come to startingly ridiculous conclusions based on half sentences So it's hard to take you seriously at the best of times.

I thought Citeh destroyed us in that game as soon as they scored and Chris Wood missed. Doku ran riot as Milkenkovic got isolated against him. We seemed to lay down in that game. I thought it was poorer than Bournmouth to be honest. The Muff ran riot in that game. In the Citeh game we looked passive when the petro dopers started to get their confidence. I think we need to be more aggressive against Pep's teams. Especially as he is starting to show that he really is a mardy cnut.

Yates should play the whole game as far as I am concerned. Citeh are vunerable in the middle at the moment and we need to take advantage.

Chicago: Currently eating an Okinawan Sweet Potato bar.

Just yours mate.

From what I recall we were very passive v City last time and died a slow lingering death as soon as we went 1 down.
Not sure if this one is a game for Yates or not but it absolutely isn’t a game for Danny Lowe so I’m crossing fingers that he isn’t back in.
Could see us winning, could see us getting thrashed so I’ll go for 1-1.

Well that statement is pretty funny considering most of our opinions on football usually align. Nutjob.

Chicago: Cogent.

Which pretty much explains everything.

Chicago: Vindicated.

I see nothing other than a 1-3 defeat.
There are some teams we are afeared of. They're our school bullies. Would probably get uncomfortably aroused with a draw.
I'm not EBP, honest.

Where has he gone? I assume he's had his internet privileges withdrawn again.

In some ways I like an early KO, lots of time for drinking afterwards, but in other ways it's a pain - can't do parkrun and can't take Miss Shady to her drama class (which annoys Mrs Shady).

Early KOs are generally ass as it means I have to get up early on a Saturday for a 7:30 kick off but this week it actually suits me well.

630am for me but essentially I have been at work for at least 30. minutes to an hour anyway.

Unfortunately I have 18 clients Saturday which means I have to block numerous people from texting me as I won't be able to watch the game until the late afternoon.

Chicago: Too popular.