Match Day Thread Premier League, Cups & Euro Watch

space for Saint Harry.

I cannot wait to see who badly this goes.

 

I have to say, that was an absolutely terrible utd team on show yesterday and holding the score to 2-1

the crap de gea
the crock varane
the coward lindeloff
the rotund casemiro
the whinge fernandes
the given up sancho

honestly that team is miles and miles off.

 

and yet came above us .

 

Shows how bad we were.
If we were remotely near our usual standard we'd have eclipsed their 75 points.

 

Our own fault entirely, and honestly down to results against the bottom half such as Bournemouth, Leeds, forest and sinfully drawing with lampards everton.

 

Been on our usual form we'd have eclipsed Man City's 89pts

 

Man U were frankly appalling, if it hadn't been for a contentious penalty they offer no threat to Citeh until Garnacho came on.

Fact is most of the Citeh team didn't play very well, but it never looked as if they needed too, Gundogan and Stones were the only ones that stood out.

De Gea was at fault for both goals. Yes you can say the 1st was a good hit, but De Gea was just stood in the middle of his goal while the ball went in a straight line and he never moved to be in a good starting position. The 2nd was exactly the same, just not hit as well, De Gea glued to the middle of his goal instead of moving to anticipate the ball might not go straight at him.
They might benefit from him going this summer as he's not a great GK overall.

Varnane is an Alfa Romeo of a player, looks the part, has the name and the history. But once it gets driven you see there is no difference to any other car and will probably break down after about a mile.

And of course Rashford isn't a form player, despite only scoring 4 in his last 15 games


Of course we'll have out 'residents' telling us our opinions are nonsense, but hey ho.

 

city didn't bother play after 30 seconds until the var intervened over a hao
lf hour later. just passing to death.

then grealish got the hump, started retaliating and mouthing at ref who indulged him and he then dived over wan biscuit and got the lad booked.

horrible game tbh


utd were not capable whereas city just won the ball then passed it sideways

 

If we’d been our usual form city would have been on more than 89.

 

I would suggest that after a full season of the same then that is your "usual" form.

 

Depends how long you are looking at for ‘form’
If saying over past season you would be right
But that would seem a daft timeframe given the context of the chat
So possibly over past 3-4 seasons would suit our comment
5-6 May alter it again lmao

 

On a serious note, you have to take into account the performance of older players, did they drop off and can you really expect it to come back?
Then look at any new players in the team/squad, all you have to go on is the one season so until proved different that has to be taken as their form.

We all have the same hopes and worries with new players, sometimes they click and come good, sometimes it turns out what you saw was what you bought.

 

The old team that played so well for a few years is broken up now. We should have maintained a smooth transition, but we didn't - so it depends on how we re-build.
Klopp built that team, so there's every reason to believe he can do it again, but you never know.
It's the same old situation on here, you're either positive and get behind your team and are accused of being deluded, or you fear the worst and are accused of being a miserable twat.

In the end it's wait and see, but that's what makes it fascinating. Or at least it used to, now with City winning every year it ruins the competition and interest wanes.
Anyone who wants to mount a serious challenge will have to be near perfect, the old days of winning the league with a mid 80's points haul are gone for the foreseeable future.
One of us (more if possible) will have to get off to a flying start like Arsenal did, and have the resilience to keep it going, like Arsenal didn't.

 

Yeah they could have done better in the last couple of games but it was over by then. Before that they won 12(?) in a row but they were trailing Arsenal going into that run. They couldn't have caught them if Arsenal hadn't got cold feet.
If we'd had our "usual form" and had that lead they couldn't do much better than they did in the final third of the season.

 

if we had a 19/20 season or 21/22 or 18/19 then city would never have caught us after their start. arsenal virtually did.

what arsenal did was encourage city by losing at home to them in a title deciding game very early in the run and then city just flew. they then compounded it by losing away to them as well. thsts in effect a 12 point swing between the sides (6 off arsenal, six added to city)

if we were in that position imo we would have got that job done. (not this season form but as I said pick a season)

yes city got the job done well and got their system together to fly and win a Treble BUT arsenal absolutely handed them that momentum in the games that counted.

 

the Italian tabloids are selling a line to roma fans about Anthony Taylor.

as a zero loss story for them they are saying uefa are looking at his dodgy performance and may well suspend the guy from uefa duty as a result.

clearly its utter rot but it just goes to show, I wouldn't be taking my holidays in Italy if I were him. I'd also be very careful showing my face anywhere the Italian football fan may be found

 

Chelsea are about to be caught in a serious scandal.

The French press have broken a story that boehley has attempted to offer to buy a stake in sporting Lisbon and inducement ad part of the transfer fee for ugarte.

psg are apparently after offering 10million a year after tax to the player to get him over Chelsea and after revealing this dodgy deal uefa are going to have to investigate what is going on

 

Postecoglou has agreed to become Spurs's new manager.

Clearly not in the top tier of managers and below what was floated as targets previously.

Could he be a Dr Zerbi or more likely a Christian Gross? Turning Spurs around is a massive task.

 

terrible defence

soon to lose kane

managing director who thinks he knows better than you.

what could possibly go wrong

 

In some ways it's a bit of a free hit for him. If it goes well for him he looks good. If it doesn't, he can point out that it's Spurs.