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❓Liverpool loss - beginning of the end?
🫣Can Unai Emery resist negative pragmatism?
🪵Timber close!
🥶Relook at Bayern hot takes

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🤝Trusting Emery
8⃣Left 8 issues
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🇪🇺GLORIOUS, GLORIOUS, EUROPA FÚTBOL

What last night means for Arsenal!

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Few observations on Villa:

❓Unai took players off early to give subs minutes - was he thinking about giving squad players game time before Arsenal?
❓Lille pulling a goal back means it's a game at their place - if Lille get a goal, it goes to extra time. A real possibility…

Emotion FC hammered at home. Running out of juice at the wrong time?

LILLE BACK IN THE VILLA GAME!

Rest FC this weekend I hope.

West Ham absolutely battered by Leverkusen. Quality of Alonso and his team cannot be underestimated.

Liverpool fans walking out on 86 minutes in possibly the last European game Klopp manages in England.

Outrageous.

Honestly, just seen Salah have a goal disallowed and I'm watching the Liverpool first-team struggle to get back into a game they thought they'd breeze.

Europa is way more fun when you're not in it.

P.S. Atalanta scored a third while I was writing this. Incredible drama.

Liverpool going to have to go away to Atalanta to get a result... then come back to Fulham away.

Lovely.

Far from perfect, but it's clear he's our best left back, and he is always the bravest player on the pitch.

Gets a bad rap from fans who have taken to a decadent life of criticism now we're good.

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💸🇪🇺 Can Unai Emery afford to go big against Arsenal?

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Jesus and Bossard Save the Tie - what we learned from Bayern Munich game.

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Worth contextualising how hard the UCL is.

Below is the record of Manchester City, one of the most expensively assembled sides in history... and it's rough reading.

Breezing CL in the first season with one of the youngest squads in the comp was always fantasy chat

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JESUS AND TROSSARD YES!