8pm on a Saturday is a piss take… Anyway, XI feels about right, with Marmoush the only major question mark

Captain

Back in our hands... 🍾

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The Trafford reaction is a bit overblown imo. His interview isn’t particularly explosive, and his feelings are understandable. He’s saying he’s hurt, not betrayed or let down. He’s good enough to be number 1 and he’s disappointed his career is stalling. Fair enough. I don’t get the outrage 🤷‍♂️

Edin Dzeko’s start for Schalke: four games, three goals, two assists. He’s averaging a goal involvement just under every 49 minutes. And he turns 40 next month.

Well, at least the result was good 😴

🎶We’re Man City and we’re half asleep again🎶

Seriously, just start taking shots from the edge of the box or something…

United fans obviously didn’t fancy the away end after last season’s 8-0 Thin, quiet crowd all round the Etihad Good luck selling out that new stand with no new season tickets!

Roses are red Violets are blue That half was a snooze-fest The next could be too

Feels surprisingly quiet at the ground today - everyone late?

Not exactly the most physical of midfields, but hopefully enough to do the job

Most people run away from their countries for the problems that are in their country, not because they want to leave. The more we embrace other cultures, truly embrace it, then we will have a better society - I do not have any doubts about that.

Everyone wants to have a better life, everyone wants to have a better future for themselves and their families. Sometimes the opportunities are where you are born and sometimes it is in the place where you go. The colour of your skin or the place where you were born don't make a difference.

Pep Guardiola hits back at Jim Ratcliffe: "We treat immigrants or people that come from other countries like they are the ones causing problems for our country. It's a big problem because the fact I am Catalan and you are British? What influence did we have on where we were born?

Subject line didn’t end quite like I hoped it would

Arsenal undone by a long throw? Poetry.

Did look a bit concerned after his goal

Well, good result, but still have to wonder what’s going on at half time. Game state doesn’t seem to matter. We’re just worse after 45 pretty much every match. Good to rest some of the main guys. On to Salford.

Fun half. Bernardo’s great. Can we avoid going to sleep at half time, please?

Glad, for his sake, Khusanov isn’t starting, but still concerning he’s even made the bench. Otherwise, can’t complain too much about that. Good chance for a refreshed Phil to kick on, hopefully!

Football aside, some pretty horrific stuff from Brexit Jim in the media this evening 🚮

We've been saying!

With this plus the Reijnders incident the other day, it's still very hard to trust the Premier League's treatment of head injury/concussion.

This captured exactly how 99% of homes reacted

Guy's beaten them four times already this season – no wonder he's surprised

Man City’s first win at Anfield in front of fans since 2003. First double over Liverpool since the 1936-37 season

Szoboszlai's done Pool no favours at all getting sent off and banned for the sake of one less hit to the goal difference

Big hope is that that result turns around the second-half woes going forward, and maybe even Erling will get firing in open play again

Deserved win? Probably Bonkers match? Definitely

Ruling this out is fittingly ridiculous… because surely now it’s a red card?

Wild that they even sent him up for so long so early

What a mad game

Huge save… Christ

RAN should have put it to bed…

Right, shithouse it, everyone back

LIMBS

Had to be him!

2 man wall there, mistake

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It’s just not ever going to be easy when the one guy at the back and the one guy at the front are suboptimal for the kind of game you want to play.

Would have done Erling off for Cherki instead, I think. We’re better all round without him on current form.

Game’s opening up, Liverpool using long balls from the keeper, and we’re about to lose our quick defender!

It’s turned into the game we feared.

Missing Doku, one of the smallest guys in the squad, for his physicality, which says a lot about the rest of them (not) getting stuck in for the ball