An early goal off of Soucek's fat old noggin and we're in business.

We looked utterly lost without Bowen today. He's such a great outlet.

He’s been “gone” for a while now, in my opinion. Whether you value their contribution or not, to let Benni and Fornals go without being replaced is inexplicable and a bloke as experienced as Moyes won’t have wanted that outcome. And that just tells me that history is repeating, same as Bilic, same a...

Lovely possession stats though. That’ll please a few people I’m sure.

Whilst it's unlikely, just imagine if we managed to turn this around.

A Brentford-like blitz right at the start to catch them cold and that bowl is going to be bouncing.

Gutting. A brilliant effort.

Early goal mandatory in the return leg but that second goal feels like a killer.

I could honestly throttle Paqueta.

Outside of that, a terrific effort so far.

Antonio, as is ridiculously still the case, is still our most important player for a game like this where we're likely to be on the back foot. If it's a game where it sticks with him and he can get us up the pitch, then we're in business as Paqueta and Kudus can then start to play. If it's a game wh...

my hope is that they are not quite as focused on this as we are. Of course, they want to win the tournament, and the players are not going to be conciously having less focus, but their league campaign is goign to have been such an emotional focus, (and still is) that it is natural they may just be ...

Why no extra time or penalties, thought it was a cup final?

A testament to terrible squad building that we basically have 11-14 players that are trusted.

Instinctively I feel sorry for him. But as it stands right now it feels like us taking him on loan until the end of the season and getting him minutes is charity for the sake of it. And so much is stacking up in his "loss" column that it's going to make more than a few competent performanc...

There’s no greater physical, symbolic embodiment of how modern football is than Anthony Gordon. Instigating contact, VAR check nonsense, he’s a weapons-grade throbber and the ref, and commentary team(s) have bought it too. As for our lot, you can talk about Moyes all day long but that was a lack of ...

Shocking. Absolutely shocking.

Gordon has got such a smackable face.

Refereeing notwithstanding it'll be shocking if we don't win this game given that half of them can barely walk.

Clear and obvious. Obviously.

Shame to be talking about officials after a really good, open half.

There's no corruption here, just incompetence all over the place. And, at times, the players aren't helping either.

My heart bleeds.

We're not going to get anything remotely near 50-50 from this ref.