Bruno has explained that the reason Ait Nouri was on the bench yesterday is that he has been sick with a virus and missed two days of training this week

That’s the thing, we can comment and speculate but we don't know what is going on inside the camp and who looks good and who has niggles and do on

I think it's time to put this play without raul talk to bed

Hope Bruno is watching this game. Watford just put the ball in Arsenal's net after 17 seconds! Ruled offside though. Odegaard has put the Gunners ahead now after 4 minutes.

15 minutes and it's 1-1. Watford are not going to be a pushover on Thursday.

If we don’t play better than yesterday we wouldn’t be beating any Premier League team on Thursday

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Our goals in home games this season. Not pretty is it.

£54 a home goal for the season ticket holders in the South Bank

Wow, man that is a bit of a kick in the balls.

Nah they'd miss 😂😂

Podence looked like a little boy running around yesterday. He is a strange player, when on form he looks a world beater but yesterday he would not have been out of place on the local park.
Need to up our game for the rest of the season.

Did not help him being played centre forward, he is usually lively and can thread through dangerous passes we certainly need him on form

I thought Podence was the only one that looked to be positive and try to create something yesterday, no one else seemed to be in his wavelength though.

That was really bizarre wasn't it. Surely Hwang was the obvious option in the middle?

Playing without a ‘proper’ centre forward just didn’t work for us yesterday. Bit of an enigma is Podence. Inconsistent not just from one match to the next but from one minute to the next. Can be very good and I would certainly put him ahead of Hwang and Trincao in the pecking order at the moment. But he does give the ball away a lot

I don't really know why people single that out with Podence, he is literally the only player in the side that tries to make something happen with forward passes.

He could do the same as the others and make a safe pass every time and see where that gets us.

Playing without centre forwards works ok for Man City, our problem is Hwang, Podence & Neto ain't De Bruyne, Mahrez and Grealish.... quite.

Safe passes is an interesting topic, I've got a feeling that some of our guys are more concerned with their pass completion percentages than looking for the higher risk killer pass that's going to unlock a defence.

The comment I made about Podence giving the ball away did not relate to adventurous attacking through balls. His 5 yard ‘safe’ passes regularly go to the opposition. He is good at running with the ball but the accuracy of his passing is very poor

How isn’t Romero interfering?