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I am seeing so many bitter and disgruntled posts from Liverpool fans because we dared to win our match on Saturday. It’s almost as if it’s only they who have the divine right to challenge City.

Their salt in particular is unmatched.

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The way I see it, they’ve won the big trophies under Klopp, but especially now that City won a treble, that Liverpool team is a clear step behind Pep’s City. And if they couldn’t measure up to those teams, they don’t want anyone else to either.

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Lee Gunner is a twat.

That is all.

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some men have a really toxic relationship with football where they thrive on criticising their team, like that becomes the whole essence of following football to them. Him and his loser fans are like this.

He called Saka and ESR ‘Fail End’ after a bad performance once. Not a real Arsenal fan.

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I would say he is half right so far. If speaking objectively.

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He said it in late 2021. It was moronic. Calling *teenage* players failures will always be short-sighted, and to do it about your own club’s players is wild

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Maybe he started as a fan but now he’s just about clicks/views.

Paying any attention to this nobody is the mistake.

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I miss Matt Turner

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Damn what did you do to this sub to get -13 on a harmless comment like this lmao

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Everyone saw who posted it and downvoted

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Yeah tbf this guy has some of the consistently worst takes

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Martinelli and Ødegaard’s attacking data this year is a sight for sore eyes. The captain 0.13 xA per 90….There are average players in dead teams putting up better numbers. Saka’s has reduced too but his creative numbers are towards the top. Trossard needs to be starting every game, he is the best performing attacker after Bukayo.

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Martinelli has to work on his crossing, that’s the main difference between him and Saka right now. He can get past his defender with ease but his crosses are always too wild whereas Saka has at least 3-4 perfect dinks per game.

IDK what happened with Odegaard he looks a shell of himself

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While I agree with what you said about Martinelli needing to work on his crossing,part of the blame has to go our CFs as well.For example,in our last UCL game Martinelli was rinsing that RB and putting in crosses; while some of them weren’t that great they were made to look even worse from by the lack of movement in the box.Even in our last match,I remember Martinelli looking up and then putting in a cross and no one in the box made any particular movement at all,which made the cross look really bad while it was a pretty good one.I even remember Martinelli giving a perplexed," the fuck you guys doing" kind of look after that.I’m not sure about the timing of this but think it was in the first half.

None of our attackers aren’t that tall except Havertz,but there has to be better movement imo.I saw Kai saying in his post match interview how Ode and Saka are always looking for him with their crosses from the right( don’t remember the exact words,but it was something along these lines).While Saka is better at crossing than Martinelli is,he has the added advantage that his natural arc/area of crossing generally has someone like Kai on the receiving end,who has natural height advantage,and at the same time has much better movement as compared to Jesus/Eddie.If Martinelli is going to keep spamming crosses from the left,we need better movement from from our forwards to make the most of them.Kai given his position cannot possibly get on the end of Martinelli"s crosses,but maybe White can make some late runs/get into those areas a bit more to create more threats.

TLDR: Martinelli has to improve his crossing,but his crossing is made to look even worse by the lack of good movement from the forwards.

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I agree, Jesus and Nketiah leave a lot to be desired but I will say that Martinelli also just doesn’t look up. It’s his one fatal flaw, he’s doing all this great stuff with his head down and then gets pushed to the corner because the pass never comes at the right time.

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Been dreaming of a Douglas Luiz signing in January since the links returned in the last few weeks. Perfect profile for a midfield addition. Probably not gonna happen the way Villa are going, though

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Honestly it would be a shame for this Villa team to lose Luiz midseason, I think they’ll be competing with Newcastle for that 4th CL spot if they keep him. I can’t imagine they’d sell such an important piece unless we drastically overpay.

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