About time we had one of them. I'll take it.
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About time we had one of them. I'll take it.
I think that's a goal FWIW. Thought the same of Watkins' at West Ham.
The handball was worse as at least the logic of the lines holds with the offside rule as it is, even though it's total shit.
Literally just clicked the Libertadores final on as that went in.
Nah, I don't think it was a pen. Hits his thigh first. Think LBW.
Not that I give a fuck :rave:
There won't be another South American World Cup winner for the next 50 years, they are lightyears behind.
It's irrelevant if it hits his thigh first as he's going to block it with both his thigh and his arm, which is what he did, and it hardly deflects (if it even does) in an unusual way. It's not not handball just because you use your leg first, only if the deflection is weird and knocks the ball wildly into a flailing arm (a la Sissoko in the Champions League final). Oh wait.
I dunno. The heat of Qatar might do something. And Covid.
Third reply in that twitter thread throwing some serious shade on Penaldo.
This. Those crowd scenes got me nostalgic. Open the clubs.Quote:
Originally Posted by niko_cee
Pretty sure that t-shirt costs like £800Quote:
Originally Posted by Bob Sacamano
PSA: the weather in Qatar in Dec/Jan is really quite nice (20-25, and dry, rather than humid) and not at all what some people are talking about /richardkeys
I see PGMOL are doubling down on that handball yesterday. Someone will have to explain to me how that isn't handball, when the Firmino one midweek, which deflects off an opponent's hand/arm, quite significantly, whilst he's being fouled, and is miles away from the final incident somehow is. Is the logic of that tiny legal touch that you could be diving to clear the ball off the line, graze it with your head and and then punch it away with your hand as long as you do it all in one motion? They're just making it up at this stage and I don't particularly blame them as football's rules really don't stand up to this level of forensic scrutiny. I'd be fascinated to know if the VAR would have overturned that handball had the ref given it on the pitch. Villa probably deserved it to after getting stiffed by the (subsequently changed) offside interpretation last week. The whole thing needs to go in the bin or maybe be replaced with some sort of challenge system (ugh) if Pandora won't go back in her box.
Conversation on a Villa forum I use where the old boys are basically in unison saying Grealish is the best player they've ever seen down the Villa. Considering they've watched us win the European Cup, that's a big claim, but he's now definitely the best I've seen. He's surpassed McGrath and Yorke this season. And the former won Player of the Year as a centre half playing for Aston Villa.
Grealish is the sort of player that makes neutral fans tune in to Villa games. I really hope you hold onto him, the league needs marquee players like that at teams that aren't Man U.
Why is Marcos Alonso starting Premier League games again and Reece James is not (apparently)
Since Barkley came back into the side and Grealish moved back to the left for me he's been the best player in the league.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mellberg
I thought he was quiet yesterday compared to some of his recent performance and he still popped up with the most important part of the match.
Seems like the sort of player who raises his game when surrounded by other top players.
Alonso, Rudiger, Azpilicueta, Jorginho and Kovacic in a starting XI together is relegation standard :sick:Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
Grealish makes everything look easy. There's a swagger about him that you don't see often in players. He was comfortably the best player on the pitch when we played Villa.
It's early days but these Tuchel team selections are concerning to say the least.
I think he's the best player in the league. It's at the stage now where he's so expensive he probably won't go. 100m isn't enough, but if Real Madrid or someone decide they like him then we'll have to see.
But yeah, the kid's a menace and can embarass the best players in the world. Absolute privilege having him in a Villa team at the min.
If I was in his boots I'd just want to be adored at the Villa, but then these are all people who choose to go on holiday to Dubai so they probably don't think like me.
You’d think after one game he’d know his best XI.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
It's the same with Kane at Spurs. He'll probably end up regretting never leaving even if he ends up a legend/breaks Greaves' goal record.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Some odd decisions but he's presumably choosing based on training / players who are responding best to his instructions. Saying that, Reece James and Pulisic not starting in either game this week isn't ideal.
Mount starting though so game's in the bag.
TBF the only time he's had his head turned we were entering our third season in the Champ and on the brink of insolvency.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Also, considering that was 2.5 years ago and this is somehow still a thing, I'm gonna post it one last time:
https://www.whoscored.com/Statistics
Pulisic has been a bit shit, to be fair. If Werner looks semi competent today, give Tuchel a knighthoodQuote:
Originally Posted by AyDee
It's more that his first instinct seems to be safety first, which when you are 9th or whatever we are is not going to help turn things around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Baz
Christ I've just gone to look at the Chelsea line-up after reading this chatter. Absolutely rancid.
He's clearly throwing this game to put an end to the Mount-Tammy axis of dogshit.
The Alonso for Chilwell one is the concerning one for me - Alonso has been total dogshit for two years, and Chilwell has been up there with our best players all year. It's a very strange one that reeks of dressing room politics.
That Werner lad doesn’t look like he has it in him at all.
Nah, Chilwell hasn’t played well for weeks so he was due a dropping. Issue is Alonso reverting back in but then he’s probably the most natural wing back in football. He’ll probably score.
Tammy Abraham trying to start something with Tarkowski :D sit your fucking giraffe limbs down you donkey.
Just taken out his own teammate now :D
Mason Mount and end product don’t go
But he's been so active!
Chelsea obviously need a season for bedding in. They'll be decent next year.
That Azpi goal looked dangerously like it came as a direct result of training ground coaching and instructions rather than bantering Jody Morris about his height.
The one criticism I will make of Mount is that I'm not sure that Mr Tumnus beard does a lot for him.
No Ndidi. No Vardy. Leeds might be a decent bet here.
Hudson Odoi is so good. Best passer at Chelsea by a fair bit
If only he played against Erik Pieters every week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Waffdon
They drink it in the congo :drool:
Best player on the pitch against Wolves also. If only Mason Mount plays Fulham or West Brom every week, ehQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
That isn't a FB finish.
He was always scoring. He must average a goal every 3/4 games when played as a wing back
Selection VINDICATED.
Ben Mee just standing and watching is an interesting approach to defending.