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Sterling for me. He never let's us down. Borna checked out months ago IMO.

Unless Yilmaz is injured or suspended, I wouldn't have Barasic anywhere near my starting XI for the rest of the season. He just doesn't have the stomach for the fight IMO.

Even more context. They are currently above Porto in the league who looked decent V Arsenal the other night.

The players and fans gave everything so there's no shame in losing to a decent side. Not one player got above a 6 tonight IMO and to beat a team like Benfica you need at least two or three 9 out of 10's. It just wasn't our night.

IMO, Lennon is relatively balanced. Stewart is biased beyond belief.

I wish our travelling fans would change the record. OK we get it. A guy called Bobby Sands died. You probably wrent even born when that happened. This is why I don't go to away games.

Apologies. I'm sure Joshua Barrie mentioned that Clement has never played the same XI in the two games running on a recent podcast? Probably misheard it.

Is this the first time Clement has played the same starting XI in two consecutive games? Strong XI. Go win the game and then give certain players a much needed rest.

Dessers not amazing tonight but IMO that was a hard shift. Already seeing criticism of him online. Give the guy a break FFS. We know he's ultimately not good enough but he's one of our options until the end of yhe season. That won't change so just get behind the guy.

Clement has made this team into a team of warriors IMO. Ridvan is a wee battler and Sterling and Diamonde are getting better and better.

Random observation but I thought Butlands distribution was poor tonight. Both throwing and kicking.

Agree 100%.

I think the lack of options could potentially work in our favour as he will rotate less. My big concern is Lawrence. He evidently can't play 3 games in a week so the sooner Cantwell gets back the better to bolster the no 10 options.

Our away record against Portuguese teams is quite remarkable. That's 2 draws against Porto and Benfica as well as victories v Braga and Sporting over the last 2 decades.

Hopefully but we will not see Cortes again IMO and Danilo will be nowhere near fit to make a significant contribution.

I saw that. I'm sure it was just precautionary as they wouldn't want him walking around the pitch with a bad injury.

Thought Lunny was very Jekyll and Hyde tonight. Good in the first half but poor in thr second.

Apart from the OG, I thought Souttar and Goldson played well considering their showing at the weekend. The team that started is the team we need to play to win silverware IMO. Maybe Roofe and Dessers can rotate but that looks like our strongest team at the moment.

IMO this is the strongest line up we can play at the moment and one I expect to see over the next few weeks until players come back. No more experiments Phil. No more playing players to get up to speed. Just go and try to win every game. Barassie, Raskin, Roofe cang get minutes when the games are won.

Sounds beautiful

Let's all calm down a wee bit. OK we lost and we are running out of options in attacking areas but whether we are 1 point behind them today or 2 pts ahead, everything will come down to the OF at Ibrox. It was always going to be the case IMO. Let's move onto to Thursday, which for me is a free hit and a welcome distraction. Just go out there and let out a bit of pent up frustration! PS. All that being said, my one big fear at the moment is that we have a large generation of fans who haven't experienced a tight title race and whose references points are constant daily updates and need for immediate stories/reaction/satisfaction. I hope this doesn't backfire and translate into verbals from the terracing. I work as a teacher and I'm genuinely staggered by the opinions of the older kids regarding any type of football. And most these kids base opinions on social media reactions as opposed to what's actually happening on the pitch.

Let's be fair, the signs were there on Wednesday as we got bullied for most of that game to. Out with a flurry in the 2nd half we were very poor interms of our application and grit.

It would seem logical regarding losing points on the road but while not being spectacular, we've been better on the road this season. ie. Have dropped less points and conceded less goals.

I genuinely think if we had got to that game unbeaten and then beat them we would be Champions.

I'm somewhat confused as to why we've reverted back to out swinging corners. They are pointless IMO. I thought our in swinging corners were starting to cause problems.