My Wolves-supporting colleague came over for a natter about the game (which, to keep life moving, I pretended I had watched based on the above review) and his view was that it was a thrilling game and Brighton played 'scarily good' football. I don't know who to believe now.
I'll agree with Niko on this one. Brighton can pass the ball but Wolves' gameplan was pretty perfect in terms of thwarting them. They could have easily nicked it on the break once or twice as well if they weren't fairly useless in that regard.
Yeah I watched the last 25 mins and it felt like a friendly match. Absolutely horrendous
Wolves had the better game plan and the better chances, only thwarted by Cunha going full Richarlison. Brighton play good stuff but teams are getting wise to their quick flick offloads in midfield and are anticipating them. Those offloads are also only of any use if you do something with the space rather than pause, turn around and recycle possession through the back 4 again. I know they have a lot of players out but the lack of directness or any sort of cutting or creative edge is maddening. Ferguson also looks completely hopeless now, so hopefully the big bucks move to Boehly Bridge is still on.
Wolves are a great watch, pure ballers all over the park. O'Neill is a very good manager too for making it work, most gammons would have fallen out with the likes of Cunha/Lemina/Bellegarde for failing to keep it simple and offload the ball quickly and called them black cunts behind their backs.
Chilwell at left back and Colwill at centre back. No conor Gallagher. Oh my days.
I can't tell where Twitter is at. Conor Gallagher was shit and 'Enzo' was the best midfielder in the world like 3 weeks ago.
Originally Posted by Don
Golden Taz this is.
If we don't go through against this lot we need to fold and be merged into QPR.
Fuck. Why does it have to be tonight he finally figures it out?
You're not wrong.
I knew it was too good to be true. He’s playing Fernandez far too fucking high. Play him deep alongside Caicedo ffs
Your complaint two weeks ago was that he was too deep. Do you ever consider that you're just a reactionary shit for brains?
That's quite a mental statement considering the volume of exciting games we've had this season in the Premier league, and other leagues for that matter.
Well that’s just a fucking lie.
Chillwell was in the middle there. Fucking Pochetino doesn't have a clue.
Chilwell has that Alonso knack of timing runs perfectly. He’d have scored about 5 against spurs in that mad game
The first sentence, possibly. The second, afraid not.
Was kind of hoping we might balls this up as a Liverpool final will be depressing.
If Liverpool win this, will 8th get you into yoo-rop?
Think so.
Mudryk is certainly having a performance here and not of the good kind
Disasi looks absolutely rapid tonight. On that Liverpool juice
I find Disasi quite likeable but have absolutely no idea what he's like as a player, despite having watched him 20 odd times. He's either been filling in for our dead right backs or in a ridiculously incompatible central partnership.
We could easily get ten or twelve here if we're arsed. Tromso vibes.
Leo Casteldine 30+ mins in the second half I hope
This is half what I expected in the first leg. We fuck around too much at the back despite not having the players to do so.
Awww.
Six years ago today.
That Fulham team is asking a lot of Palhinha.
I find this story both fascinating and extremely perplexing.
Far be it from me to pick holes in their obviously good process, but it you look at City from the 14/15 season to the 23/24 season on Transfermarkt, which I assume entails the player trading period in question, they have 'turned a profit of 7m' in 1 season, the rest are player trading loss seasons, and the total balance is negative 1 billion.
I don't even see how the non-academy aspect of it, which is stupid in and of itself, accounts for that discrepancy. If you haven't sold them [yet] do they just not count?Manchester City - losses of 59m euros (£51m) and Bayern Munich - losses of 61m euros (£52m) - "have the best balances among the most competitive teams" the report said.
Have they paid off whoever CIES is as well?
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Aren't a lot of the City charges actually relating to them not actually paying people what they have reported they are? Secret bank accounts and such for players/staff in other countries so as to top them up outside of the figures they have to report.
As for the game tonight, I know he wants to be loyal to Kelleher but for fucks sake another game of praying the other team dont have a shot on target.
Yeah, there was a lot of cash in hand bollocks going on to try and prevent players and staff from leaving. Or, as it was called in the olden days, bribery.
Poppadom wrists from Leno there. For fuck sake.
A goal and a hearty rendition of fuck the Tories before 15 minutes are up. What an evening.
Darwin is a post hitting machine.
Palhinha can’t pass the ball for the life of him. Not sure he’d have been a great signing for Bayern at all. More suited to less possession
Gravenberch has lovely balance and ability to go past a player. If he can get some consistency he could be a very good player.
He looks a bit like Elliott though that he looks better off the bench at the minute.
Gravenberch to me has the same issue Sexy Szobo had in that he comes from a less hectic league schedule. Another who started well but we get to late November and here comes the muscle injury.
A years worth of 'asthma treatment' and he'll be wonderful.
Joe Gomez launching thunderbolts from range is so gloriously not modern football. Fuck the analysts.
That yellow card for Cairney is utterly mental
Looked worse in real time.
If you’re blind.
Probably just lucky VAR wasn't around to find some sort of freeze frame where he was out of control and endangering an opponent.
Just free your mind, Waff. I've wargamed the penalty shootout already and feel better for it. Misha Mudryk barely catches his and it dribbles into the keeper's arms. Petrovic saves from a reanimated Salah. Gallagher misses wide of the left post and Alexander-Arnold postage stamps the winner for 4-3.
Be real, you're going to lose to a Joe Gomez 40 yarder.
Nunez is definitely scoring a hat trick on the break. Only 5 weeks to be able to come to terms.
I'll be stunned if Fulham don't score a second.
Joy of joys. Chelsea in a cup final again. Maybe a whole 1 goal in this one?
What's the record for number of games drawn in succession between two teams? Another shot next week, what is it, about 8 now, mostly goalless?
7 in a row if you include the cup finals.
Carling Cup final never been as important
7 on the bounce drawn, only 3 of those had goals in them. March 2021 for the 1-0 away win at Anfield in that period where everyone won 1-0 at Anfield for a bit.
The cup final where Mount missed two absolute sitters and Chelsea had 3 goals chopped off was sickening. I think that was the one Kepa and Kelleher were shitting it up in the shoot out before the former blasted it over.
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