I didn’t say he was bad. I said they don’t have to be amazing to look efficient.
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I didn’t say he was bad. I said they don’t have to be amazing to look efficient.
Lamps blaming Kepa and saying without that and the penalty, they're walking away with a draw. The xG superiority was about the same number of months he's got remaining in his job.
And does Havertz do anything?
I’ve just seen a journo say ‘the big 10’. At what point does a brand become diminished when it’s just ‘everyone I don’t think will get relegated’.
It would help if Lampard played him in the right position.Quote:
Originally Posted by Don
As it is, I hope "Lamps" continues to ruin him this season and we buy him for £40m next season.
The xG stats for the Spurs and Leicester games are pretty lol.
Havertz will come into the season as it goes on. He's probably trying to do the same thing with him that we did with Pulisic last year.
I think these high-scoring games are a bit ominous. Everyone will be in bits by Christmas, and the season is going to be shit to the point of people just stopping watching it before crowds are allowed back.
MOTD doing a "how did Southampton turn it around/what led to Leicester's downturn in form?" piece in 4...3...2...Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
As the Chelsea game was about to start yesterday Tyler said something about 31 goals in 6 matches proving the league had returned in amazing form as if 5 goals a game doesn't just mean no fucker can defend.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Real Madrid bringing on a former Tranmere youth player to change their fortunes is a turn up for the books.
Gundogan has the 'Rona.
Scott Parker's post-match interviews :D geezer, you're not Al Pacino and you're not getting the England job, settle down.
That's the worst part of VAR. If you're going to stop the game and fart about then at least don't make a ridiculous decision.
That penalty save looked amazing in real time
A load of Orient players have come down with Covid and nobody seems to know what it means for their cuptie tomorrow. Theories ranging from forfeit the game, play the youth team and suspend the fixture.
Does anyone know what is actually meant to happen? Their must be procedures in place for this.
Well postponement would seem the fair and logical choice, so good luck to Orient's kids as they take on Spurs.
It would, but with non-Covid illness the games still go ahead. Lasagna-gate springs to mind.
Wolves XI: Patrício, Saïss, Coady, Boly, Marçal, Neves, Moutinho, Traoré, Neto, Jiménez, Podence.
Man City XI: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Ake, Mendy, Rodri, De Bruyne, Fernandinho, Foden, Jesus, Sterling.
We once had a game abandoned at the Riverside for snow that wasn't even there. I do wonder if Orient could take the nuclear option and just forfeit? Is there TV money due for the tie because it's not like there's gate receipts coming in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
You're not wrong. I thought there would be a precedent for postponement due to illness but all I can find is women's football and Scottish football, so nothing of relevance.
You're right in saying it's not fair though and this is different to your normal illness in that it writes the whole team off for 7 - 14 days, it could take players a long time to recover and at somepoint it's probably going to happen to every club going.Quote:
Originally Posted by mo
There must be some form plan in place.
I believe there are rules for league fixtures but not cup ties as the schedule is already too overloaded for postponements. I remember something about 7 players missing or something but that might have been Germany.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spikey M
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc...urope-54193770
A team in Germany had members of the team come in contact with someone who tested positive and were allowed to play. The other team took 7, kicked off and then socially distanced from the team.
Should just play heads and volleys in one goal
VAR gave no fucks in that penalty decision.
Stones cannot mark Podence at all.
You've got an unnecessary word in there.
Wolves should have scored 8 goals here
Fabio Silva to don City senseless from here.
Lol at Podence ending the yet to emerge Thiago-KDB debate whilst ending the albino cunt's career.
Traore at RWB and that Portuguese Kooks singer :sick:
It's obviously a stonewaller but I do wish there was some way that the type of penalty City got yesterday could be ironed out of the game - the type where the attacker just pokes the ball (out of play in the case) and runs into/waits for the defender to hit him, but then, that probably ends up with a wholesale change to or removal of the penalty rule itself (it is a bit of a stupid rule when you think about it) which is going to be too big of an alteration for most to stomach.
The penalty rule should stay, but you should have to take the kick from wherever the foul took place (or on a backwards line no nearer the goal, as in rugby).
Awful idea.
Oh and to make it even better, automatic yellow card for any foul which leads to a penalty.
Scrap penalties altogether and replace them with indirect free-kicks inside the box.
Extra-time-multi-ball
Those MLS half-way line penalties for entertainment purposes but also because you're well on the way to destroying penalties with this keeper on the line obsession.
Why?Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Don't fly into tackles is the obvious way to avoid it.
Yeah, of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kikó
But surely the idea of a 'foul' in essence is the fouled player being denied fair play of the ball, which isn't really strictly the case in the poke-and-fall type penalties. They never have any intention of doing anything with the ball other than getting to it and falling over. Of course, defenders should know not to do that sort of thing, and Saiss's effort was particularly egregious yesterday, but it's just something that annoys me when it is so obviously played for, in an entirely meaningless area of the penalty area [to the extent that that isn't a self-defeating phrase].
Take the L.
Lovely goal that from Tel Aviv.
This Utd team is rancid
EDIT: Change Lingard and Mata for competent players and it suddenly looks like a decent team. Amazing how two players can make the entire line-up :sick:
David Moyes and a couple of West Ham fans have Covid now.
Football won't make it to Christmas.
And yet it still seems needlessly strong because Ole Gunnar Binman can't/won't rotate.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
Based on the Palace game some of the first teamers are in need of a pre-season.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lewis
Really enjoying this.
It's like being sounded with a soldering ironQuote:
Originally Posted by Ian
Harry Maguire has been knackered since the return. I know the other defenders are crap, but it's getting a bit comfort blanket with him.Quote:
Originally Posted by randomlegend
A rare penalty for us.
Seems like no one but VDB is willing to take a risk or make an incisive run.