 The touch line here on Y254, fan zone, we have been making a lot of noise knowing that we are taking a lot of our time for the fan zone here today, but we have to talk about some of the matches that will be coming your way this afternoon. The early kick of being Sheffield United going against Manchester City. Remember, they have not won any match this season and these are teams that last season were way up on the top half of the table. Was it a fluke or not? Geningazia, as usual, is also saving me luck after a very long time. I have not seen him here on the touch line on Y254. Who have you been man? COVID, what do you do now? Konda, who now? No one has been. You have been containing. You have been containing. Now I'm back. You are back. The baby has brought me back. Baby, I hope your baby is a safe one. But let's go ahead with your sportswear now. Big one there. Sheffield United versus Manchester City this afternoon. It seems Sheffield lied to us last season because this season they are not performing at all. It's really taking a tail of them and then this is the reason of the corona now. Immediately after the corona, the games came up fast and quick. There was no precision for most of the teams. Now if you didn't have a very big squad, you are now in a very tough condition. That's how you can see the Sheffield team, a very small team. They do not have the biggest squad now to rotate themselves. They do not have the budget to buy players. So it's taking a tail of them. And then when you look at this season, if you cannot do a two game win or a three or a four win, there's no way you're going to survive. So that's why it's taking a tail in Sheffield. Five games on a loss, there's no way they can come back. Eric, you have played football and then Sheffield dependable main fielder John Rundstrom has refused to sign a new contract with the team. He's one of the dependable players from last season coming on to this season. What does that do to the team? It affects the morale of the team because if you have one of the people you depend on who has not come up and said that I'm here for the long haul, that in itself is a problem. And eventually the morale of the team goes down. And the morale of the team will eventually affect or impact on the results because what signing a new contract ties down that player inspires confidence in them. And they have to sit down with him and agree. And maybe he's thinking of, OK, I want to move on to bigger things. Or holding out for more money. And now, big one for Man City now, that Manchester City is coming on this side without Sergio Aguero, Fernandinho and Benjamin Mende. And also Nadanyal Ake and Gabriel Jesus are also 50-50 on to this game. We have seen the way Manchester City has been performing this season. They had a draw against Western. If Sheffield go head to head against them, can they also shock Man City this afternoon? The Manchester City team we have today is not one that I expect is going to get a surprise defeat by Sheffield in spite that they are away. You realize that one of the key players that has been missing from Manchester City is KDB Kevin De Bruyne. Given that he might pass a late fitness test to again come into the team, I expect this to be a clean sweep for Manchester City. So anybody who wants to defend on my prediction can give it a straight win for Manchester City. Let's go quickly, Eric, to another big game that will be coming later on to the night today. Liverpool, Western. Western, this season, early stages of this season have really shocked people. Had a draw against Man City last weekend with Antonio Scone, a very good goal. And David Moyes is going against Liverpool. Can it be a shock result? Difficult game for Liverpool, bearing in mind that Liverpool, they don't have a good centre-back right now with Van Dijk out. They are leaky. They are leaky and they have been playing for Benio. They have been playing for Benio there. He got a knock. Matip is also injured. So I am sure, if you look at David Moyes the way he sets up his team, he sets up his team for those long balls. I am sure David Moyes, all the balls will go there. And then they have Antonio. Antonio is a bully, a bully in form of a striker who comes in and does a lot. And David Moyes has a thing for the middle table teams. He works wonders with middle. Look at what he did for Everton before he came to Manchester United. Today it will be a tricky afternoon for Liverpool, but I am expecting, however tricky it will be, Liverpool will stay individual brilliance. I was waiting for someone to punch you because you have time. Because Michael Antonio is out injured. He got an injury when they played against Manchester City. Also you can expect that that is one player that is out of the way. And you realise West Ham without Michael Antonio. The three games he missed, they lost two. So I think that is also now going to be a problem for David Moyes. The only problem I have with Liverpool is that all their senior centre-backs are out injured. Van Dijk probably out for the season with Anandriyak, Cretia Tligament injury, Anissa Jere, Joel Matipi is also out. So they played Milchiv, Fabinho, Zasu injured. Can that be a question for him? How do you feel that you are injured? Yes, I agree. West Ham is a strong team. I think as a Gumbler, West Ham are really missing my money this season. They are playing a game, they miss my money, they miss the city game, they really miss it. So they are really strong mentally. But tactically, Liverpool will win the game. And we have played with Mascherano as a centre-back in Liverpool. And also Mascherano played in Barcelona as a centre-back. So Enderzone is going to become our new Mascherano. Yes, we are going to convert Enderzone to be our centre-back. He has played there before. What about Fabinho? Fabinho is out injured. Alcantra is always a good defensive midfielder, playing in front, attacking. But they are also not fit with the navigator. But West Ham also did not have Antonio, who has banged all the goals for... Let me ask you a question. Are you not scared that you won the league? If I am in the wrong place, correct me. You won the league, courtesy of Van Dijk being the final piece on that chessboard of the Liverpool machinery. Now, it is not there. Fabinho is not there. My tip is... You said Van Dijk, you said... No, no, we are just asking. We want to say that we will be worried once we see a different team playing a run of games, winning games. But so far, we are the same with everyone. We lose one, we win two, same with other teams. So we are not seeing any consistent team being our opponents. I would like to bust his bubble, because last season, they had a run of... By now, they were clear-cut runners-up. They had gone. This season, they are with the others. And without Van Dijk there this season, Liverpool will struggle against teams and big teams. Also the top 10 teams. Yes, they will struggle. They will struggle. And that's why it makes the Premier League to be very open, because as you said, Van Dijk was consistent. He brings calm to the Liverpool defence. And that is actually what we have already seen in the season, the few games that we have played. When they were playing Everton and Van Dijk got the nasty injury from Pickford, you realise that they could not catch up with Everton and they ended up actually conceding the equaliser. So from there on, they bring Fabinho in the centre-back away. They play Diak, I think. And during that game, Fabinho gets out injured. And the only result they could get was a youngster of the bench. I think it was Reyes Williams. Now it brings them to the reality of the Premier League, that if you are consistent with your defence, again we saw Adrian is done, who was stepping in for Alisson. Now Alisson was out injured. How many goals have you conceded with Adrian? So many. Now it is a question of, Alisson is back. I expect Alisson to start playing today. But who are you going to fill there? You have options. You could make it up. Or you have... Please tell them in the next two sentences how they are going to suffer this season. They are going to be extremely affected. They cannot get Alisson in the centre-back, given that Alisson can hardly keep himself fit. What other options do you have? You have Milner. How many games does Milner get in a season? Robotson plays as a centre-back for Scotland. You can still play Robotson then. The moment you remove Robotson from the wing-backs, the moment you touch your wing-backs, half of your asses... We are still unbeaten at home. We've never lost at home. You've never said that to this conversation. Sorry, if Manchester United is beaten by Tottenham, Arsenal is not making any consistent. Chelsea is beaten. Why are you saying you are not going to win the league now? You are not going to win the league. Who is going to win? You are not going to win the league because we are saying that... I did an option who is going to win the league. Manchester United is there. We are up. We are in there. Let's finish that conversation. Let's finish that conversation because we have got five minutes to go. Let's start with... I am actually now going to throw my running order out. Ask the question. Let's start with you, Eric. Tomorrow, what do you expect between United and Arsenal? Arsenal will lose tomorrow because United have become unpredictable. For them, I have not said this. United have become unpredictable. We don't really know what shape they will come tomorrow. I hope they come with the diamonds. In the midfield. We don't know who starts. And if I listen to the game against Sevilla, he lost last time in the semis. He looked at the bench and nobody could bring up to change the game. This time round against... He looked at the bench and he saw options. Cavani, Bruno, Rashford. So that is what he is going to make. I am still trying to look at the Arsenal team and trying to see who will be able to stop at the pace, at the forward pace of Manchester United tomorrow. Yes. In the centre-back. That's the question I have been told to ask. Yes. I put it to you. How will the Arsenal defence deal with the United forward line? More so, Marcus Rashford. They will not be able to deal with us. Look at Marcus. What did he do? Comes off the bench, gets a hard trick. By the time Marcus Rashford was announcing his name on the football pitch, which club was he playing against? Arsenal. I expect that to be the pitch tomorrow. You need a big name for a big name. Marcus Rashford MBE will turn up. I just want to say that Man United and Chelsea are the teams that are playing that did not have any philosophy. They do not know what they are doing. We do not know what Alley is playing. She is saying that we hope that he plays the diamond. Because Alley really gets that game of the Arbil Asperger. With the diamond and it worked. But what are you saying? We must have given that. What are you saying, Silvia? That's Alley has a philosophy. Attacking philosophy. The problem with the Ghana. When it comes to big games, philosophy, formations, form just flows out of the window. You cannot predict. You could look at a match tactically and say, this is a game, bang, 4-4-2. Then Arsenal does 4-3-3. Manchester United will start with 4-3-3. But then it ends up doing a 5-4-5-1. But we must agree, as a United fan, you do not know what you are going to play tomorrow. We know what you are going to play. We are going to play attacking football tomorrow. The thing we are not sure about who will start and who will be on the bench. We have a variety of players who can start and who can be obeyed, especially from the midfield upwards. Tomorrow you are likely to win. We will win. Only because Abu Mahing is not on fire, Abu Mahing is really a late down. That is a problem in English Premier giving players big contracts. Sometimes they just become a late down. So they might win because they are on form. But United are gazing, Chelsea are gazing. You see when you have very many new players, say we are coming in, the coach will have to experiment with the line-ups for him to get the right crop of players. I will take you back to Klopp. Since Klopp came in, he has signed 24 players. 24 players. You have only played well in the Champions League. Before he settled on the front three, there was some time that he had to take. He had to take some good ones. So it will take time. But a soldier, whether it is fluke or tactics, he has a way of coming up. In the big games. We have been added five minutes and we want to talk about tomorrow's games. Let me just quickly, United as soon as what will be your score? Manchester United three as in all ones. Erik? Three-nil. Three-nil for Manchester United. Because Mustafa is on defense, they win. Okay, let's go ahead and talk about it. There is one game that will be happening tomorrow and that is Newcastle versus Everton. Everton started very well, but they got a shock against Southampton. And now they are going against another trouble, mid-table team in Newcastle. Can they maintain or can they bounce back? What I am worried about Everton is that against Newcastle, they had a player sent off. Lucas Dinho was sent off. They have another player serving suspension. Against Southampton. Yeah, Rich Alson is out. Yes. For Red Card. We have another player out. Hermes Rodriguez is also out with an injury. Carlo Ancelotti said that he is not going to play against Newcastle. So what they have depended on mostly is Lucas Dinho and also Seamus Coleman is out. They have a host of injuries. Yes. So I am worried about the person who is going to supply the long balls to Calvert Leuwin to hit them in or to score their goals. So I am not sure of how they are going to come up and I am again worried about the discipline because if you have a player, each player getting a Red Card, each and every game, then it also tells you that these players need some sort of over-discipline check. So with all those injuries, Hermes has been getting assists, has been getting goals, has been getting the secondary assists. So I am not certain that Everton will get a win against Steve Bruce's men. So I am going to give that to Newcastle. Eric. Yes. I want to put you on the spot here. It's a bit of an ambiguous question but I want to put you on the spot here because this time round of today it will be March the 7th. You look at that top table it is only Liverpool with the traditional top four team there. You have Everton who has made a comeback onto that side. Then you have got teams that are really trying to make it onto the top six and can they disrupt the traditional top four because teams like Leeds United are really playing very well. Aston Villa this season has started very well. Is it a time when you might see a team like Manchester City finishing number six in the table? No. After 10, 15 games the boys will be separated from the men and the reason being they score depth because the games will come in so many. Yes. They score depth and when the games become so many the small teams have a tendency beginning to gain points in the first 10 games for them to secure relegation. They come out of the relegation. After that they start getting whipped. I am getting a scenario whereby I am seeing Aston Villa up there they will not be up there on March the 15th. I am seeing Everton maybe they may be on the top six but we will see the Manchester United the Manchester City the Liverpool coming back to their places. Chelsea, when they get it right they will compete for the top six. Maybe a surprise, maybe one team. Wolves. Wolves, maybe. Xavier, now. I will try them as such because when you see these teams they really made some good signings. Newcastle, if you see Aston Villa. Newcastle I heard they signed a break layer from Australia to be one of the second. But to talk about Everton they are really a good site. They only have an issue with their goalkeeper Bigford. I think they really need to go and look for a goalkeeper. Bigford is a joke and if England wants to win the World Cup they cannot win the World Cup. One of the best goalkeepers in the Premier League. Wilvia has a personal issue with Bigford but he is the one who sent Van Dijk out. Bigford is a joke. That is where we finish the show here on the Saturday and today. It was fun having this gentleman here and lady here in the studio today on behalf of everybody who made the touchline a success and our new cameraman. It was a chill, it was fun. Say good afternoon. Enjoy the rest of your viewing here on Y254.