V Southampton fa cup

[gavin]

Trafford, Nunes, Stones (C), Ake, Ait-Nouri, Nico, Kovacic, Reijnders, Cherki, Foden, Marmoush.

Subs: Donnarumma, Haaland, Doku, Guéhi, Bernardo, Savinho, O'Reilly, Khusanov, Lewis

Pep has gone for it with the wholesale changes

[KunDB]

Still a very good team, but will they be connected and in rhythm.

[Stephen Paul]

Looking decent enough so far

[gavin]

An insipid first half. Not surprising really given the number of changes. But some of these players should be trying to make an impression to get more game time. Otherwise, we will have to see what the subs can do after 15 minutes of the second half.

[gavin]

We got there in the end but boy we made hard work of scoring. They were living on luck a bit with all of the blocking of shots in the box. I don't think that they can complain much that it was a deflection from which we equalised. But what a winner from Gonzalez. It was like a rocket. Their goal was a great hit but Gonzalez goal was special.

Four finals on the trot! We don't want to lose three on the trot though!

[KunDB]

What a goal from Nico