I'd make 2 or 3 changes, can manage minutes that way while still feeling very close to full strength

Who the hell is "proud" of meal deals?

Given some of the VAR decisions going against us recently, it probably wouldn't be given as a foul today either

Yeah, I'm really not sure who could be brought in realistically that would be doing significantly better. I'm sure some coaches would have us with an extra few points and therefore very comfortable, but plenty would have us on less than West Ham. Even if we go down, I think "awful" is harsh.

He's decided to give a soft booking to appease them for being upset he didn't send off Bijol and accidentally sent off Gudmundsson in the process. Some of the worst refereeing you'll ever see.

Really shows football fans/pundits enjoy moaning than anything else. They want VAR scrapped, yet if it was the complaining would be absolutely relentless. Some officiating can be terrible, but they can't win. You could have a perfect system with instant and correct decisions and they'd still moan

A shame Gabi's redemption featured a terrible effort instead of a goal, but he was very good absolutely. Really like him, he's been a really quality signing.

Tbf Everton had 7 wins and were in 10th after 17 games, so not necessarily Europa League form, but a hell of a lot better than what they've been so far that's for sure

xG is fine, morons not remotely understanding it however is incredibly annoying. I'm an xG defender but nothing came closer to me wanting to never look at it again than nerds on /r/soccer trying to tell me Marsch was good for us "cause look at the xG!" when my eyes told me we were fucking shit

I dreamt my 4 year old niece scored the winner yet she's not even on the bench, what is Farke even doing?

Another classic from Fletcher yesterday after Villa's winner, complaining "it's taken them that long to look at the goal!" after the ref confirmed it while replays were still going on, a check that would have been unnoticeable if he didn't bizarrely whinge about

Agreed, hopefully we can get what we need in January, that's going to be key in staying up

Need to improve massively away from home, but Elland Road performances are very encouraging. City away hopefully shows we're capable and can start picking up points

That's genuinely pathetic isn't it hahahaha, imagine spending like £400m and crying about squad depth

I think it says a lot about West Ham that Aaronson looked that good, but of course he deserves credit for that performance.

Genuinely incredible stuff from Fletcher today. "Every time we get a goal now it gets checked!" he yells, like this hasn't been the case for years. Also very upset at the goal even being checked, angry at the very idea it could be disallowed, even though it had already been cleared

There's a million valid complaints RE VAR, but I find it hard to take commentators/pundits seriously when they talk about issues when they still go "HOLD ON, IT'S BEING LOOKED AT" and complain about a goal being looked at when they literally all get checked.

Darren Fletcher confused why Forest's second goal was being checked when literally every goal has been checked for several years now really does sum up the state of commentators in this country

The implication here that they don't want to use January is incredibly concerning. Deadline day showed they were desperate for at least one other attacker, but now the squad is fine and we don't want to add in January? Make no sense. I get you don't go "we can't wait for January" but bloody hell

Absolutely need more in attack and more creativity, but tbf Everton, Arsenal, and Newcastle are tough to play against and defensively solid. I don't think we were ever going to be scoring or creating loads against them, so not writing off likes of James yet like some are. Clearly need more though!

I remember thinking the reaction after Boro was over the top and it's equally over the top now. Tuesday was absolutely shit but goodness me. We can have criticisms without thinking the manager and 90% of the players need sacking. Big few days of the window, mind you.

Kamara out for ~£8m and Tanaka in for ~£3m is probably the best business we'll do for decades, and I liked Kamara

There were over 70k when we beat them in the FA Cup, and presumably the same for the recent PL games against them, not to mention away games at the Emirates will have been over 50k as well.

As long as it's the last kick of the game, I don't want ages of panicking about Sheffield United winning

I'm only 32 and I struggle enough!

Just 5 points needed if Sheffield United draw with Burnley, 4 if they lose. I still won't relax though that's for sure!

Winning 6 games would have us on 98 points, if we don't go up with that then I'm giving up football forever

Feels like one where, if we watch it back, we'll think it was pretty convincingly deserved after a poor 25 minutes/good 25 minutes from them. They really didn't do much after their opening blitz, and we just kept coming and coming.

I almost think they disallowed the 3rd solely for punishment for being so wasteful beforehand.

It's genuinely impressive for the ref to look so bad on a night where basically nothing happened.