The Premier League Thread

This is such a rubbish game.

 

I switched over to Forest

 

Six minutes? Is that it, after all this delay?

It's been an awful game, so I'm happy with just six, but clearly it should have been way longer.

 

13 minutes in the Forest game and both keepers making crazy saves!

 

Well, that was enough to make you hate football. I really like him as a player, but Morgan Rogers was awful today.

 

The goalkeeping in this Chelsea V Forest game was incredible. Absolute worldies all over the place!

 

This game is better already, after three minutes played.

 

It'll be interesting if today has any impact on Villa's team selections going forward. I doubt they'd have been so poor today if they hadn't played in Europe in midweek, so maybe today could be considered a wake-up call for their need to rotate players. It's not even like they've had to do a load of travelling, because both games were at home.

A bigger side might be more willing to disregard the league cup, but for a side like Villa I would have thought they should be targeting a trophy. Home to Palace next round is very winnable if they go strong, but less so if they go weak. They don't have the squad depth of a City or a Chelsea.

Howe refused to rotate his squad last season when fighting on multiple counts, and it hurt Newcastle. And that only involved six European matches. Villa will have at least eight, and more likely 10+.

 

Obviously it's never a red card for Veltman, but I would love to see red cards given for that sort of pathetic play acting. It would very quickly eradicate it.

 

Weak goalkeeping for 2-0. Both these teams lightyears ahead of us though.

 

I said the other day that Brighton games are shaping up to be the best games to watch as a neutral this season, at both ends of the pitch

 

Wow this game is nuts!

 

Said it before. Ange is the Aussie Ralph.

From sublime to dogshit with barely any in-between. Often in one game.

 

I love watching football like this though. This is brave and fun. All power to them both. Brighton’s child-manager doing well.

 

Football played quickly will always be a better spectacle than football played slowly.

 

Have you tried starting watching at Half Time but watching from the start…. Put it in double speed . You’ll love it!

 

Tottenham are the first side in Premier League history to lose 10 games after leading by 2+ goals. The biggest surprise with this stat is that it’s not us.

 

You have to score 2 goals to lead by 2 goals.

 

Paddy, you may have hit on something here, on double speed Saints may look slightly more dynamic and the tedium of watching defenders playing negatively around their own penalty area would be halved......genius.

 

Forest fined 750k for comments made by their social media team about officiating back in April. FA wanted the fine to be over a million.