3 weeks break now. A pundit on the telly was saying that there is a good chance that Olise could be available on our return from international break. Does anybody know if this is true? If so that’s a massive boost.

That said, this Eason I think doucoure has been a bigger miss. The barrier he provides in front of the back line has been really missed.

Seen a few people on here moaning about Mitchell’s performance today. I actually thought he played well and looked better today than he has recently? If anyone is to blame for the goal it’s ahamada who lost the ball whilst we were attacking. Certainly wasn’t a foul, just bad control. I’m yet to be impressed with him whenever he comes on. Still don’t understand why Wharton went off as he didn’t look tired to me and nor did he last week at Spurs. Our midfield was so much weaker when Wharton and Ayew went off today and until we get better players on the bench results like today and last week when we were one up will continue to happen. Thank goodness they didn’t equalise in the 80th minute otherwise we would be looking at a defeat. With all that said we should stay up, especially if Everton and Forrest lose additional points. I am optimistic that our new manager will make us a much better team and next season we will win games that we are presently losing because our squad is so weak presently. Let’s hope we stay up as exciting times could just be ahead :-)

OG in his post match interview commented on the lack of pressure on the ball for their goal so I suspect he will point that out to Eze when they review the game. It’s not acceptable to say he’s excused defensive duties because he does great things with the ball. If he’s seriously on Pep’s wish list he won’t get into the team until or unless he works his socks off and I suspect Glasner has a similar attitude.

Edited by Palacesince64 (09 Mar 2024 9.00pm)

I think the attacks on Mitchell are harsh , Luton were double teaming on him in the second half and he had no support a lot of the time leaving him exposed. I thought we were very entertaining today which was a change from the last few seasons ,we were pushing for a second even in injury time. Our main crime was not finishing the game off with a second. What i also cant understand is our lack of not being able to score scrappy goals or tap ins from a yard, even todays goal was a bit of a worldy from JP with a back heel , then you had the 40 yarder from Eze , yet when the balls are put into the danger areas for a tap in there is not a forward in sight

what got us today was a lack of clinical finishing. We had a ton of chances.....and failed to convert them.

Luton scoring at the end would have been merely academic had we been better in attack. Our attacking performances are not good enough for the Premier League.

do not crucify our Defenders, they did well for 95 minutes. Our attackers....not so much.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

I've noticed this with him when he has returned form injury in the past. He takes a few games to get up to speed. Perhaps he is anxious he is going to have a relapse. In fact when he came back from that long absence through injury in his first season with us he was below par for quite a long time.