CL draw going on rn. PSG in the same group as Utd, what up BrooklynWHAT/PROMO

our squad still lacks in too many spots to be any real challenge.

that said, it's not like PSG hasn't been know to blow it.

they might be joint-favorites tbh

they got 4 days to fix it but they've already had 8 weeks.

not that what i said up there is all that rosy.

Shittt. Easy my ass.

Rennes is killing right now, best in the league. And Sevilla beat MU and Inter to win Europa back in August, and the they recently played Bayern tough as shit in the Super Cup.

Based on current form, we could get our asses handed to us

I would rather be in group C or group F ...Man City’s defense is worst than ours. And we do know how to score.

Lansbury's run his course here. Need to get Hourihane and/or Watkins on if we want to go any farther.

holy shit this kid is special.
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https://twitter.com/CRO_Scout/status/1311734704740225025/video/1

definitely the funniest

This run of games has literally been unprecedented, but we’re playing strong football even as we rotate the side. We should be on 6 points, and we advanced in both competitions. The transfers have showed up the defense, and playing NDombele has diversified the offense.

https://streamja.com/zNMkN

So hopefully Mount’s days have been numbered as a winger.

I want a victory tomorrow, with limited mistakes. Everything should
play in their natural positions.

Hazard injured again. I feel for this man, but he has already conquered so much, so
If his career is waning, he is still one of the greatest to ever play. However,
He was really starting to take off especially against PSG, but Thomas Munier broke his ankle intentionally....and he just hasn’t been the same sense.

>He was really starting to take off especially against PSG, but
>Thomas Munier broke his ankle intentionally....and he just
>hasn’t been the same sense.

you do know they're teammates, right. Not defending him on the play, but not everything has to be a dumb conspiracy

That’s why people were like why did Thomas go at hazard like that?

Unless he was instructed to foul hazard hard, like most players are , to slow him down. That foul was CLEARLY intentional. Look at the video.

I saw it everyday In the EPL. Hazard was the most tackled player in the EPL and probably the second most tackled in the world behind Neymar.

:/

I wish them a very slow recovery.

>I wish them a very slow recovery.

Frank, finally, put a solid line up on the pitch. My only gripe is that
he played Werner as a winger again. Other than that, the lineup was spot on,
and it should be the main starting 11.

Chilly Willy was man of the match. He really held down the flank, and attacked
with pace and quality. He scored the first goal, which was built up by Odoi and Abraham.

Zouma scored. Abraham and Havertz both drew penalties, which were scored by Jorginho.

The pivot of Jorginho and Kante really controlled the match. Seeing Kante boss the midfield like his days under Conte was good to see. . He broke up passes, and got the ball up the pitch. And Jorginho was the maestro, stringing passes along and providing service.

The backline of Azp-Silva-Zouma-chilly Willy was excellent. They kept CP’s attackers under control. I don’t think CP had a shot on goal for the entire match.

Mendy with the clean sheet.

Odoi came alive in the second half, and started beating his man to get balls into the box
Abraham was active for the entire match, but was unlucky with a header set up by Odoi.


Havertz and Werner were not good. Havertz did draw a penalty, and started the first few mins well, but after that he disappeared. He was in his natural CAM role, but he still appears to have problems with the physicality and speed of the league.

Werner is not playing in his right position and that’s on frank. He couldn’t get into the game, and was never on the ball.

Moving forward, Werner needs to be the top striker, and sub Tammy in. We will be even more dynamic with that set up.

Pulisic came in later, but the game was way out of reach , and Chelsea didnt need to attack anymore. His movement appeared to be healthy, so that’s a plus.

Great way to go into the international break. 4-0, Chelsea

And Mount and James didn’t see one minute! Good!

This should have been our lineup last week, so ,hopefully, frank is done
with starting Mount and Reece. ...and if he has to play Mount , play him in the CAM role.

has Everton rolling. They are off to their best start in club history.
7 straight wins and 4-0 in the EPL.

That Liverpool/Everton derby is going to be serious.
Chelsea has no room for error this season. So many teams have improved.

And Zissou needs to seriously get a mental examination for his treatment of
James. That boy has been great for every team he has been on ...he has killed in every league: Portugal league, Ligue 1, Bundesliga, La liga and now the EPL.

that dude Rodrigo is gonna thrive with Leeds this year

and it's my team, thus, i hate myself for even caring.

can't believe i stayed home to watch this fucking bullshit.

Bring on Poch i guess - but shit, Ole ain't out there doing all that stupid shit.

all of our defenders are bums minus AWB.

Maguire is AIGHT but obviously he's having a SHIT game today and I think he's been a bust of a signing considering what we paid and what he's supposed to be doing.

I'll always take extra offensive help, but this defense is straight ass sauce and until it changes we are FUCKED.

alas its over before it even started

Either both get a red or neither

That lamela one would never be red, we wouldn’t even discuss it really If Martial didn’t react

for me neither are reds, but Lamela sells the "slap" and game over. Sure Martial shouldn't react but he's not a robot and I hate the moralizing we get from pundits every time this situation happens (with ex-players being the worst)

but one thing he continues to get wrong IMO is putting Matic out there over McTominay, if for just how fucking slow Matic is if nothing else.

but, I also think our defense improves a ton with McTominay because McTominay will actually go and challenge folks. Matic, because he's so slow, can't usually even take the risk of making challenges because if he fails he's so slow he'll never be able to get back into any kind of decent defensive position and he knows that so he doesn't even try.

FUCK!

smart fans know but it needs to be openly said.

Spurs have on a good run of form lately. Jose has them playing defense.

That said, today we were good enough to take advantage of team’s implosion. I don’t take too much from it for Spurs.

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Dest looks lively and about to be thrown into the fire.

a lot of passes with too little on them, likely a fatigue issue. Koeman's gonna need to start rotating players a little more. also, that was a game built for puig when he put pjanic in. Not that pjanic looked bad--and fdj was making legit runs into the box--but puig's ability against the press woulda been helpful.

griezzy missed another really good opportunity and his side was barely used (in part to protect araujo, who looked like he did not need any protection). worrying.
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partly to live-text with my Liverpool fan buddy through his journey to ridiculousness

Thiago and Mane are out with Covid.

That’s got to be a throw away game, where you just take the L and keep it moving.

Liverpool got lucky last year. They overperformed their xG significantly. That transformed them from “merely” the best team in the league to a historical monster. Their luck was bound to regress, so they’re going to lose a few this year. They’ll still win the league.

This year, only had to add a few key parts.

I hate the shit out of Liverpool almost as much as I hate the lakers.

But luck is not in that historical run whatsoever.

That squad could have won back to back EPL titles and back to back champion league titles. Sergio Ramos intentionally injuring Salah was what kept them from beating RM in the final, and they slightly missed out on MC for the league title.

It wasn’t like they rose up out of nowhere last year and dominated. They were dominant
the year before. It was a monstrous build up year after year. They were kicking everybody’s ass in different leagues across the board.

That squad just has the right recipe of scoring, speed, defense, creativity and power.

And yesterday was their first loss of the EPL season, with 2 main players out. I don’t think it means anything, other than they lost.

It’s too small of a sample size.

Now if they get a repeat of that, where they are enduring lopsided losses, then it can be calculated that they are losing stem.

I would take them over the entire field, actually. What we’re talking about is the difference between 100 points and 90 points. I am quite certain they’ll be closer to 90 this year, but that will still be more than enough.

As for last year, they outperformed their xG by 25 points. Some of that is down to class—a low percentage chance taken by Mane or Salah somewhat ceases to become a low percentage chance. But some regression was always coming.

https://external-preview.redd.it/rvj5u_mYPvBu5K1o4z95BpZyZCF51xvLndeIbe3Y6S8.png?auto=webp&s=cfda4391a1e45d5a5183f62a2b579e69a6b80544

https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1313233771659964417?s=20

This definitely doesn't solve every problem in the midfield, but it's a good start.

Hopefully this a) allows more 4 in the back; and b) is the end of Xhaka being a regular starter.

There's still an obvious need for creativity, but hopefully Arteta in the meantime can continue the strides towards a 4th place trophy

Loving what I’ve seen from Gabriel so far *nojinx*

Thomas will really help.

I’m looking forward to seeing more Saka /Auba/ Pepe front 3 like we saw in the second half. Laca and Eddie are cool, but neither is part of our best attacking 11

What the fock is the world coming to?
I knew Bertrand Traoe was going to come into his own....

And I had Watkins because a) I knew he’d flourish with Deano and b) he only cost 6 at the beginning of the season.

On principal, I’ve avoided the Flashy promo driven stuff for larger teams: juve, city, the Jose one with his new team.

But I’ve been somewhat late to the party with the redemption of fallen “Giants“ joints, and have absolutely loved them:

- I binged the two seasons of Sunderland till I die over a couple weeks during the early days of Covid, and I loved it. The personalities, the sadness of it all. Incredibly gripping, I was hoping for more. Had a “last chance U” feel. Wish they were doing more. But would be happy to see it redone in a similar setting but different league 1 or championship team. But with no fans in stadiums, it’s just Not the same

- Leeds on Amazon: just within the last tweet weeks did I finally break into this one. Enjoyed season 1. Not as much as Sunderland, possible because I knew where the story was headed, eventually to a happy ending. That said, season 2 was well done. Just two episodes, very compressed. Episode 1 is everything before Covid shutdown, is ok but skippable, episode 2 is Covid and after and is great. Did a great job of capturing the release and euphoria of making it back to EPL.

that seems dumb to me even without Carvajal being injured

Madrid wanted to keep him.

He knew he wasn’t going to get a lot of time right now , because Zissou feels Dani, Mendy, Nacho and Marcelo are interchangeable. Those are a lot of players to compete against. And Zissou prefers to give veterans more minutes.

He would have been the guy in the future because of his talent ...but it wasn’t going to be immediate. He didn’t want to wait.

And Odriozola is out on loan in the wings.

Also Madrid has a buy back clause....after he has matured over at inter, he could be back at Madrid when he enter his prime.

So it’s not a big deal.

But James Rodriguez? Zissou should be shot for that. He just refused to play him.

they got enough validated signatures to vote him out early.

Font's already said that if Koeman's doing a good job, he'd ask him to stay (and Xavi said so too). please lord!

unrelated, rumors are a depay move was nixed by la liga for FFP reasons, but that depay is expected to come in Jan on a free (same with Garcia, what was Man city doing?). Dembele nixed Man U moves because he's been talking with Juventus, supposedly.

and puig got his first team number. good.
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everything up i bet. lot of clubs about to deal w/ outbreaks after this.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/07/ukraine-include-45-year-old-retired-goalkeeper-in-squad-amid-covid-crisis

>everything up i bet. lot of clubs about to deal w/ outbreaks
>after this.

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yesterday's goal for those who felt watching a France-Ukraine friendly played in an empty stadium wasn't a worthy use of time

https://streamja.com/kWkMy

HATE that the rumors are he's headed to real madrid

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How old is, 17? At 24, he is going to be something entirely unlike anyone we've seen.


He has like three more years of being nice to people and then he is going to terrorize Europe.

What a move, box to box mid who fits into Arteta's system so well; will unlock so much for the rest of the mids and front 3.

Would have loved to see the Aouar move but looks like that was derailed by some shadiness from intermediaries (his brother for one, who wanted an exorbitant commission). Hopefully we can move for him in January (personal terms were already agreed) because the majors (Real, PSG, Juve) will have their sights on him next summer.

Then he could have been one of the WengerBoys.

. . .

the PL

Assist and MOTM performance from Grealish, but you’ve really got to talk about the performance Mason Mount put in sitting on the bench.

Mason Mount just put in a class performance against Wales.

And I don’t even like Mason Mount. But let’s not make stuff up.

Hell, when they asked Southgate about Grealish’s performance, he went
straight to talking about Mason Mount. Clearly, Southgate doesn’t even want Grealish
on the team, but had to pick him because of public push back.

I don’t care either way. I’m not big on English players. They
are too arrogant for no reason at all. They haven’t won shit.

*Every* time Gareth is asked about Grealish he pivots to how good Mount played. And Grealish was man of the match.

And this dude loses his mind.

Don’t care to.

And Mount scored the game winner today.


Not a good look for you and your star ride. So please
Stop talking to me about grealish or Mount. I don’t care about either one.

So enjoy Grealish and act as if you have been here before

Good for Mount. It only took him how many chances to contribute to England?

you are chirping about. Just take whatever mason mount vs grealish agenda you have elsewhere.

No one gives a care about that but you. You want to talk real football,
I’m all ears. If not, keep it moving.

did not know that Liverpool got Jota

and Everton has James Rodriguez. I was wondering how the hell Everton was running up these goal tallies...now it makes sense.

Excited to see these two sides play.

what English drama am I missing here?

He started the other game, while Mount was on the pine.
Harry and Sancho are also on the pine being rested.

they keep outplaying us and coming out with 0 points, I guess we're their Germany or something

They fully dominated us in the second half, until this sumptuous Pogba>Digne>KyKy move

https://streamja.com/oP91N

that is beyond shambolic

Lmfaooooo

Someone explain this to me:

https://twitter.com/Kloppholic/status/1317457337767034883?s=20

fuck Michael Oliver. We lost our best player on a dangerous play and Oliver just didn't feel like getting the card out of his pocket I guess? And where do both everton goals come from? vvd's spot. Odd, that.

fuck dumbass Richarlison for even pretending to be mad about his obvious red card yet still wasting tons of time.

and of course, fuck VAR with maybe the worst review call I've ever seen. (after NOT reviewing Pickford's obvious red because... reasons?)

I try to kind of ignore what VAR is doing to english soccer but jesus fucking christ they make it hard.

Anyway, Thiago Alcantara is next level shit.

I hope all of liverpool's injured players come back and they wreck the league, again.

https://twitter.com/Kloppholic/status/1317459818630778880?s=20

is not even getting getting a red card out of it, let alone a penalty.

Just an unbelievable decision by the VAR ref.

Even by VAR standards.

I'm hoping the ACL thing is just a rumor right now because I don't think you can get ACL diagnosis this quickly.

I hope.

this is just epic.

https://twitter.com/_Cambo/status/1317511638946353155?s=20

https://twitter.com/migueldelaney/status/1317875325968273408?s=21

https://youtu.be/InYIdx6Qb7k

as usual

literally kicked VVD's leg out from under him.

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but I'm still not sure why LFC pulled out of a deal to get him.

But you couldn’t help yourself, and again, you are playing Mount
on the wing, and you’re playing him and Havertz at the same time.

Werner is Sergio Aguero 2.0. There are no question marks about his game.

Jorginho again playing wonderfully with the passes. His defense is still
Terrible, but offensively dude is a genius.

Chilly Willy having another brilliant game.


Havertz with the terrible turnover that led to the Southampton goal. The speed of the league still has him baffled...but at least he is in his right position.


When Kepa plays there will be zero clean sheets!! And Zouma just Focked up...the stupid pass, and defenders just standing around...

When you have a lead the goal is to contract some, cant just continue to play
wide open for the whole god damn game.

This is south Hampton...they shouldn’t have 2 goals against us in the first 50 god minutes. Anybody can score against us.

All our attacking players just know offense and going forward....don’t know how to track back or mark players.

He just does not know how to control games. We have a team full of hazards....all they want to do is go forward. No one can do dirty work. Not one gritty player on this team.

Pulisic, Werner, Havertz, zyiech, Jorginho, Mount ....are all defensively weak. And we have defenders who just flat out suck, and a GK who is scared of the ball. Even Ben Chilwell, who looks great going forward, looks kind of shaky on defense.

Bottom and middle table teams look like champions when they play us.


This is the team Lampard wanted and built.

You didn’t want to keep Moses, or Pedro, and you we’re favoring
Other players over Willian... You sent Barkley out on loan, and don’t play
Kovacic.

Lots of positive dribbling and take-ons

Weird game, especially 2nd half. I can’t believe they let Luiz take that free kick, when everyone in the entire world knew what would happen

A lot of players are out of their prime:

Marcelo
Kroos ( 30 years old...not old, but warn down)
Modric
Ramos
Benzema

Isco isn’t creative enough. The only creative player on Madrid is out injured, hazard.

It was a bad time for Hazard to go to Madrid. The team is on a down swing as far as age goes, and hazard is going to be 30 soon himself.

Madrid really needs a CAM and some new strikers ....the midfield is straight, and the backline is decent with talent in the wings. It’s not like Madrid is giving up tons of goals. The defense is what is good.

But offensively? Shit is stale, zero creativity

Getafe is always a tough matchup but I'm liking what I'm seeing so far.

the lack of a striker is frustrating. also, how did nyom avoid a yellow until 72 and not get a red? wild.

griezz has the yips. dembele rusty and selfish AF. de jong has regressed this season so far. dest was not up to it.

pedri should become a star.

wow. messi hit the wood and then just missed a great chance wide. ARRGH ANOTHER POST.

at least real and sevilla lost also
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I only tuned it at the half so I missed Pedri's performance that the commentators kept mentioning. But... dammit we just don't look like we have any structure plus the lack of quality. Griezmann is offering nothing. De Jong is being asked to do so much in the midfield. Trincao hasn't shown me anything, Fati needs to get better at cutting inside. Players crowd each other, but then aren't there in support. I was glad Puig came on, but with only 5 minutes, he couldn't do much of anything.

At least the vote of no confidence has been moving forward.

Thanks for the loan, Stah. Sorry about your weekend. Hey, at least Bayern won, so ONE of your richboys walked away with 3 points.

Your team hasn’t won a first division title since 1980, so I actually hope you guys win it, so you can act like you’ve been here before, because clearly you and
y’all haven’t.

And when that new EPL reform proposal gets signed, as the Americans ( MU and Liverpool owners) look to take over English football, bye bye Aston Villa...middle table for Life.

So enjoy it while you can.

I am going to be loud and ignorant.

If we win the damn league? I’m posting this picture in here EVERY DAY till the season starts: https://www-hitc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/ii/w1200/s/www.hitc.com/static/uploads/hitcn/1460/dean_smith_the_head_coach_1229429.jpg

I think this Tottenham team is special, but they won’t be if the bullshit continues. Rubbish handball against Newcastle, whatever the fuck today was.

>after consultation with match officials, the FA concluded that the
>incident had been seen.

but

>(the replay official) apparently examined the incident involving Pickford and
>Van Dijk without evaluating the possibility that the goalkeeper’s
>challenge constituted serious foul play.

so it was or wasn't seen? can't be both.

and then

>(the replay official) is thought to have (declined a red card review)
>because (the onfield official) felt the challenge was not a red-card
>incident.

So then what's the point of a review official on dangerous play?

He can or can't review those situations? Again: can't be both.

Obviously I'm just mad we lost by far our most important player on a dirty and reckless play from a repeat offender that not only went uncalled, it went unpunished.

Once again the PL honestly makes the NFL review system look like the fucking Code of Hammurabi.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/19/jordan-pickford-avoids-disciplinary-action-for-virgil-van-dijk-challenge

Because you can’t just charge into people like Billy Bremner anymore, but Pickford this year and Ben Mee on Wesley last year getting off scot free is proof that’s just not true.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Those dudes are average, average and more average. But a deep run in Russia hid a lot of their flaws.

taking a player off after 20' for a tactical adjustment, gotta love it

I know a ton's been written about Leeds in the last year and Villa aren't exactly newcomers, but still I'd put this game so far up against any games from any of the so-called Top 6

That was a brilliant sub by Bielsa. His man could have been sent off.

That was a really nice goal.

2020 really the most bizzaroest of years

.

From 2012-2017, it went from drogba to costa. Nothing but loans for the purpose of loaning.

I thought the EPL was easy, bro?

Somethings in life are just guaranteed. Death. Taxes. And Aston Villa getting a middle table spot.

Back to reality. That should keep you silent for the remainder of the season.
They should do a mid table premier league... yall would win every year.

😅

Alioski and Harrison were everywhere. Well done them. Frank’s going to have his hands full when they come to the Bridge in 6 weeks. If he’s even still there.


But Villa got 12 points from the first 15 and still sit second. That’s a good first month.

Both goals weren’t too shabby either

Stats were pretty much dead-even until the 80’, and then when Barca made all these changes to try to tie up the game things became just too front-heavy. Coupled with great high pressing from Madrid leading to that cool Modric goal

Also Dembele needs to stop constantly shifting back to the center when he makes a breakaway run. Spoiled a couple potential opportunities that way

-Dest should be the regular RB
-Araujo should be starting, at least semi-regularly
-Pjanic >>> busi for this system/right today
-koeman fucked up his subs (too late, just no midfield left)
-puig deserves some damn minutes

gonna be a weird year. the future is bright, but i don't think koeman survives with a new board after this year, unless messi says he'd stay for him, but considering the other option is xavi, i expect xavi is the best hope for messi to stay

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Except the xavi part ...

>-Dest should be the regular RB
>-Araujo should be starting, at least semi-regularly
>-Pjanic >>> busi for this system/right today
>-koeman fucked up his subs (too late, just no midfield left)
>-puig deserves some damn minutes
>
>gonna be a weird year. the future is bright, but i don't think
>koeman survives with a new board after this year, unless messi
>says he'd stay for him, but considering the other option is
>xavi, i expect xavi is the best hope for messi to stay
>
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That says a lot. I’ll take the win....both teams just aren’t good.
Old Modric looking like a whipper snapper out there.

Caught the second half...really sad to watch...both teams holding on to
Old glory.

The refereeing is insanely bad. And biased. Weather unconscious bias or blatantly intentional, the leeway the give to English players is insane. And don’t let it be an England international: Pickford last week, that stranglehold from McGuire not even VAR’d; yet less than a minute later they review the most phantom touch of rashford.

It’s systemic, the last gasp of the xenophobia that’s been part and parcel for a few decades. If they’re not careful, they’ll really speed up this super league that will end them.

mainly the american owned teams, because they want all the revenue and want to control the sport, so their teams don’t miss out on top competitions.

They want an exclusive EPL and an exclusive CL...all with playoffs.

The Americans are coming hard.

big teams have wanted to secure their position and TV money for a minute, and it’s definitely not just an EPL-led movement

My point is that those top EPL teams aren’t going anywhere and are going to be the major forces behind these new super leagues. In la liga, all there is is Madrid and Barcelona. Serie A is weak, Ligue 1 is weak, etc. So MU, Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham, Man City, and Arsenal carry more power collectively than any other league. And the owners of MU and Liverpool are really pushing that vision harder than the other clubs.

Focking Billy Beane, the man responsible for bringing Sabermetrics ( not the creator of it) into baseball and was the VP of baseball operations for the Oakland A’s ,sold his company to John Henry( owner of Liverpool) . He will now work for John Henry as a special soccer stat and business analyst with a focus on European Soccer.....a freaking baseball guy with no history or experience in soccer!

They have an EPL proposal deal on the table now , basically telling small market teams to sign or go bankrupt. Right now, so many small market teams are bleeding money due to the pandemic, and the deal would give them financial relief and save their clubs. But they would have to give up all power and veto rights to the top six teams, and the top six teams would get more of the revenue from TV deals, ticket sales, etc.....also, they went to add playoffs, cap relegation, and eliminate the league cup.

The entire proposal was drawn up by Liverpool owners.

Yanks are coming hard.

But top premier teams would have rights to sell up 8 or 9 games directly to fans on their own streaming platforms.

Here is the total proposal. Shit is wild.

https://cartilagefreecaptain.sbnation.com/2020/10/11/21511409/premier-league-leaked-documents-football-reform-manchester-united-liverpool-efl-bailout

That’s a fucking GK!!’ Our best defensive effort of the season. Finally.
Team showed grit, but still lost points.

Offensively? Not good. Pulisic hurt again. Silva was pretty good as far leading the line. This is proof that this team must have veteran leadership at all times.

Negative...another lineup and formation used. We seemed pretty good in a 3-4-3, taking defensive pressure off chilwell and James, letting them play as WBs .....so what will be our main formation? We are in year 2 and frank still doesn’t have one.

Our best signings of the season so far seem to be Silva and Mendy. ..we haven’t given up a goal with them on the pitch.

>Negative...another lineup and formation used. We seemed pretty
>good in a 3-4-3, taking defensive pressure off chilwell and
>James, letting them play as WBs .....so what will be our main
>formation? We are in year 2 and frank still doesn’t have
>one.

Reece Zouma Silva Chilwell
Kante (DM) Mount (as the box to box 8, finally)
Kai
Ziyech CP
Timo/Tammy/Giroud

Maybe it's time to give Timo and/or Kai a rest though. Seems like Kai in particular may need the treatment Frank gave CP last year. Frank had the "he's only 21 we need to ease him in" on repeat for Christian when he was benched. Kai may need that same tough love.

The only problem appears to be that Reece is too defensively weak to play
as a FB. He excels in the WB position like Alonso.

The back three with Azp/Silva/Zouma was solid as hell, similar to conte’s back three
Of Azp/Luiz/Cahill. The formation gives us defensive protection, allowing our
best defenders to control everything. Chilwell and Reese are studs going forward, but ,defensively, there are a lot of issues.

I know a 3-4-3 is not as open as a 4-3-3, and probably pisses frank off that he can’t let his offensive players loose, but it might be for our own good. It gives protection to the back three, allowing them to just sweep and block, and not have to face a lot of one on one attacks.

But yeah Kai as a second striker/CAM behind one of the strikers would create some good linkups....just don’t know if our defense can handle it

or possibly mount.

with Jorginho and Kante in there we have no one to link play with the offense. those Jorginho long balls over the top are nice and all but it's far from a consistent threat. we need someone in the midfield to break the lines and make a decisive forward pass because kante and jorgi on their own really don't do that (like at all).

that can link up with the midfield or send balls to attackers.

Conte’s 3-4-3 was so brilliant because he had Luiz who is wonderful playing out of the back, and then there was fabregas as the CM next to Kante....we destroyed the epl that year. Also Courtois was a great distributer. The build up was vicious from front to back.

Mendy’s ball distribution sucks major ass...you see those passes? Shit was terrible. And he is bad with the ball at his feet. Fock it. As long as he stops goals, can’t be picky.

fans would’ve booed into actually trying to win instead of playing like it’s a damn friendly

yet again making something out of clearly nothing

https://twitter.com/Kloppholic/status/1320082228588826624?s=20

and now I'm one of those people who constantly complains about the refs but come the fuck on

like i never thought maguire was crazy good because he's slow af

but i didnt think he was capable of being this bad for so long

maaaaaaan lol

terrible L for arsenal

what year is this again???

Trying that dumb karate kick shit defending a corner, lol. He’s too old to be that stupid

As an aside I wonder how many months Koeman has left before he gets sacked.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/barcelona/story/4219004/barcelona-president-bartomeu-and-executive-board-resign-sources

Did I just miss it in the article?

Guess the articles came out later

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/news/barcelona-agree-to-join-european-super-league-as-president-bartomeu-resigns/ar-BB1arWyd?MSCC=1603117559

(until idiot socios pick Laporta again)

I wish Messi would just say something like "I'll re-sign if you pick Font" and end the election.

there's going to be so many financial debacles uncovered during this temporary presidency.

but finally, housecleaning can actually begin
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>
>I wish Messi would just say something like "I'll re-sign if
>you pick Font" and end the election.
>
>there's going to be so many financial debacles uncovered
>during this temporary presidency.
>

I assume NES prefers the flexibility that Podence provides on the flank, but Traore is such a dynamic presence (and so much more than his physicality) that I prefer to watch him evolve with the game rather than try to force things when he only gets 20mins to shine.

Man...Wherever he goes he creates problems on the pitch because of his
dribbling and change of direction on a dime. Real hasn’t scored like this in awhile.

He just opens up the game.

The true GOD!

Nothing else to type. Everyone was great.
4th straight clean sheet. Mofos ain’t scoring with
Mendy and Silva playing.

Ziyech could possibly be a true hazard replacement. Dude makes it look easy.
Havertz, still don’t know about this dude. Werner has zero doubt when going for goal ...zero.

Pulisic injured himself during warmup ...I’m done with him. I told you guys how injury prone he was....He can’t stay on the pitch. And his injury history at the age of 21 is just too much. For 70 million? No.

just one.

VAR caught a little flat footed on that one.

might be a while tho

https://twitter.com/TheAnfieldWrap/status/1323279671493038083?s=20

I don’t see any Chelsea players. CURIOUS.

Past decade:

PL record: 220-80
Chelsea: 11 major titles
More titles than any other English team, making them the most successful
3 European titles in a decade.


PL record: 206-81
Liverpool: 2 major titles


Aston Villa: lolololoolol.




https://talksport.com/football/634807/england-most-successful-clubs-decade-manchester-city-manchester-united-city-leicester-arsenal-chelsea-liverpool/amp/

All I wanted to know was how does Salah practice his diving, but hey, I’ll be happy to talk about winning

And who was the best player of the last decade in the EPL. The argument is either Silva, Kun, or Hazard. Not the Egyptian diver.

But then you’ve got Real Madrid to fall back on so it really doesn’t matter.

He couldn’t hang with the gods ( hazard, mata,Oscar).

Salah has one CL title and 1 EPL title.....

Liverpool took a throw away beat and made a platinum album. Good for them.

Think about it , KDB, Salah ...man we had so much greatness at our club, we gave away world class players.

It ain’t to late to switch, dog....I’ll even buy your first Chelsea kit, sox to match

> we gave away world class players.
>

MC needed and needs KDB ...same thing with Salah at Liverpool.

We get trophies, fam ..,no matter who is in blue...

MU? Fergie bounced and MC is running Manchester. Y’all used to be the man, homie.

just permanently put this dude in a supersub role

Busquets is, at best, the third best midfielder on barca's squad and should be treated as such. Honestly, might even be behind alena (and Koeman's just not gonna play Puig)

Dembele gives the ball away too much and dribbles too much. Like Neymar-lite when neymar played, but not nearly good enough and neymar at least tried to win the ball back.

pedri is a fucking star.

and barca's going banckrupt on thursday if there aren't wage reductions. bartomeu left an absolute shitshow.

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not a bad goal by Adams, he's really hitting his stride

Our defense is so much better..... With Silva and Mendy and Kante playing in his natural
Role.

And there is consistency with the formation and lineup.

That’s all we screamed for, Frank. Thank you.

And it seems like Chilwell and Reece are elite Premiere League full backs. And Zouma is just gonna get better with the stability around him.

And the attack is only gonna get better.

Scary stuff.

at one point. Hopefully, it continues. I still hate his slow flank pace though.

But Ziyech??? Man, he makes that shit looks easy. He is good.
He is my kind of soccer player.

griezz finally gets off the schneid. missed 4 good chances, tho

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Surgery tomorrow apparently.. At least it's not an ACL. Tough timing for the youngster but he's got a bright future.

Griezzy stays missing sitters. Messi had to feed him a dummy for him to get that goal. How lethargic was his PK?

Pedri!

MaTS!

And that Demebele goal was a beaut.

I miss Bartra.

but his moments of brilliance are so good.

guess we'll see what he is over these next few months.



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put one of the two most important matches of the season on streaming-only?

Why the fuck should anyone subscribe to a live service then? Just kill NBCSN already.

And I think it’s actually cheaper? Net net I’m no worse off.

Maybe more premier games, but that’s the state of play these days. Compared to what uk fans are getting charged, I’ll take it

and IIRC they never had premier matchups on gold, it was always secondary matches.

But they're clearly doing this on purpose now b/c they want to force subscribers.

It’s truly an illogical move on NBC’s part. It really makes no sense, because it will only push viewers away, because a lot of people don’t have cable, and the ones that do don’t necessarily have Comcast. They would have to pay for Peacock streaming to see the match.

NBC got to this level because soccer fans religiously tune into their weekly EPL games, which is great coverage. They really do an outstanding job with every aspect of their soccer programming, so their coverage makes for must see TV. However, again, it is the fans and viewers that generate the ratings, and is the reason why the EPL on NBC is where it is now. So for NBC to put some of its top matches behind a pay wall is just a huge disservice to viewers, and could really hurt NBC in the long haul.

Xfinity subscribers get Peacock for free, literally the only time I’ve been happy to be have Comcast internet

I'm just pissed I have to have streaming AND live tv access.

it's bullshit. needs to be one or the other

Not that they were much of an attacking force last year, but damn

Jota hurts, but their attacking issues go beyond that

Not at relegation risk or anything, but definitely bottom half

I really liked them last year

this is not football smdh

Gonna have to make some changes at halftime I would think

Arsenal complete 🗑

The more we play like that, the more wins we’ll get. Martinez was good when he was needed, Grealish is trying to bust down the damn door to the England XI, and Watkins on his day is a forward’s forward.

Grealish is so far ahead of anyone on our team in attacking midfield.

Crazy.

https://streamable.com/ax4nxl

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