Rousseau

It's maybe because I don't drink!

I think I need to be on my own for a while...

Martin would've been a better replacement for Bates -- was he injured?

Yes, Bates may have been turned for their 3rd, but no way he gets out-muscled or out-run for their 2nd. Stupid aimless ball over the top!

Every time my thoughts drift back to the game I'm like...

I agree there's still a gap; I didn't claim there wasn't. I only said that the gap is closing; which it clearly is. We've still got a way to go.

No it wasn't. It was infuriating.

Second place was always the target this season. I'm much more confident of achieving that now than I was a few months ago.

Of course it's not good enough. He needs to learn -- I'm not sure how dropping him, or releasing him improves the situation; he's still our top goalscorer.

I didn't mean in terms of points, but in terms of quality. Going from being humiliated regularly to being absolutely enraged at a narrow defeat is most certainly progress.

Cardoso is poor one-on-one -- Bates or McCrorie would'nt have let Edward (?) onto his right-foot -- but we didn't have any other options. Something for the Coaches and DoF to think about for the summer.

I'd certainly have taken the money, but I'm also pleased to still have him. He's only 21; he's still got a lot of development to go. If he's £11M now, what value would he be when he stops missing these sitters? He'll be fine. He takes a tantrum at missing an impossible chance, only to get on with it and score the next again week; he'll be fine.

I agree, but it's understandable: we want to, and should have, beat these f*ckers; It's hard to get past that. We've closed the gap.

Still nope. He's ours, and the League's, top scorer. So he misses a few chances; what striker doesn't? How else is he supposed to learn and develop? We expect players to magically improve. He'll learn and move on. That doesn't mean I'm not fuming at that miss -- it was a f*cking joke. Outside of the foot rather than side-footing it into an empty net. So frustrating.

17 goals suggest otherwise. Only rangers fans would suggest dropping both our top scorer and the leagues top scorer because he misses a few chances. Jeez.

The quality into the box was poor, no doubt about it, but I can't help but feel that tactic was not the way to go since they basically sat back and soaked it up. We needed something different.

I've got mixed feelings. On the one hand I am absolutely fuming and pissed off that we couldn't find a way to score again; dominated the ball, but the quality in the final third and decision-making was so frustrating. On the other hand, we competed quite easily; they're not ahead of us from what I can see. It's been a long time coming to get to a stage where I don't feel like we'll roll over against them. We're getting there. I don't blame Murty per se -- the quality wasn't there from the team -- but I can't help feel a more experienced manager would've (a) made changes earlier, and (b) made better ones; it just seemed like more of the same. Tremendous credit to Murty for getting us this far, though. Morelos is frustrating, but he's still a youngster really; he'll develop and learn to be more clinical. (Is Windass still a dud? )

Arguably our strongest squad, but wowee the nervs are kicking in now!

Battle fever has well and truly set in! This sums up my mood this morning...

I agree. However, to be fair, I don't think Miller is really a starting option any more under Murty -- which pleases me. He may be a good experienced head to bring on, off the bench.

I was watching it. The Liverpool 'dominance' was limited to a spell at the end of the second half -- interestingly, Mourinho made changes very early to combat it -- and although they may have had the majority of possession throughout, Liverpool were second best. Typical Mourinho performance: solid to break down, and lethal on the break. There was some power on Rashford's first goal. Moreover, Liverpool's goal was an OG, out of nothing!

Excellent news!

Superb read! I'm ready! (Apologies in advance: this gif will be rolled out a lot over the next few days...)

What a man.