Tuchel picking some of these over Maguire is nuts:
John Stones: Started five league games since 2025
Chalobah: Currently in 8th, mid level season.
Dan Burn: Currently in 11th, mid level season.
Colwill: Quality but missed the whole season through an ACL
Maguire has arguably been playing better than Konsa/ Guehi the last three months.
Konsa, Guehi, Colwill & Maguire would be my four picks.
Criminal if Tuchel picks one of Stones, Chalobah or Burn over Maguire.
Form wise, ability wise and experience wise Maguire deserves to be there and is good enough to be starting.
Maguire's experience, leadership, ability from set pieces cannot be matched by anyone else.
Michael Carrick goes in on the first goal & the red card decisions: “Leny Yoro gets a forearm smashed in the back of his head. It's worth looking at again if you haven't seen that.
Which I don't know if you're getting a sending off for what we are getting a sending off for, I don't know how that doesn't get overturned as a goal it's a clear forearm smashed to the side of his head, that first goal shouldn't stand.
.. If he sees [the Martinez incident], we've seen it before he goes to the screen & says 'well actually it's not [a red card], the arm in the face of Lisandro to start with is an arm in the face so he's kind of off balance & off grappling.
He almost goes to touch him to grab the back of his shirt & grabs the back of his hair.. you get a red card? It's not aggressive, there's no tug, there's no sudden movement, he kind of touches it & glances through it.
We've got to be careful with where the game is going if we're giving red cards for that, but you can do two arms to the face for the red card & the first goal & that's deemed alright. That's a shocking decision, an absolutely shocking decision.”
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Bruno Fernandes is asking the right question if you didn’t give a penalty on Amad Diallo, then why give one for Bournemouth?
Just watch both incidents and tell me how one is given and the other isn’t.
Referee is from Liverpool 😳🤷♂️
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