I didn’t say he was bad. I said they don’t have to be amazing to look efficient.
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’.
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.
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 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.
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.
There must be some form plan in place.
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
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.
Yeah, of course.
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].
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
David Moyes and a couple of West Ham fans have Covid now.
Football won't make it to Christmas.
Really enjoying this.
A rare penalty for us.
Seems like no one but VDB is willing to take a risk or make an incisive run.