Rival watch

Don't forget Bournemouth haven't been able to play their best team through injury today. Now of course this can happen to any team, but it doesn't help does it. Lucky Liverpool (again).

 

I think that's true - they wouldn't even be in the top 4, let alone "on the next level" (as a Spurs supporter unbelievably described them on the radio yesterday) if the refs had done their job. I can't wait for this Liverpool bias to be discussed by the pundits. Oh, wait a minute.... Actually, the closest the pundits get to this is trotting out cliches like "it all evens out over the season"!

 

Nikola Kalinic scores with his head...

 

Offside Liverpool goal

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Another Bournemouth penalty denied and a kick from Salah unpunished.

 

To be fair to Salah he deserves credit for staying on his feet and getting the shot away to score, plenty of players would have just taken the foul.

 

Well said, was a nasty attempt to challenge from cook

 

Tomorrow and later this scoreline will be presented as if the first goal didn't matter.

 

Every match I watch there are two or three dubious decisions that affect a goal.
It shouldn't matter on average but definitely causes a scatter in outcomes. That is bad enough but if there is bias it is even worse.

 

Amazing how many bad decisions go for Liverpool when it matters the most, usually it`s a defining moment like the first goal of a game or failing to award a penalty against them in a tight game etc etc etc.

On the extremely rare occasion a decision is perceived to have gone against the Mousers, it`s usually in a game that they have already sewn up, like the recent token late sending off of Henderson for example, had the game been close he would have stayed on the pitch.

I thinks it`s called `being given the benefit of doubt`.

 

If all decisions even themselves out like the parrots and pundited for years, I await the season where Man Utd and Liverpool get relegated because no ref will give them a goal no matter how onside they are while the opposition receive penalties for standing within 10ft of the opposing penalty area

 

I was embarrassed for Bournemouth and I didn't fancy Fulham's chances so I watched Schalke v Dortmund.Glad I did. Good game....but why Schalke brought on a left back for their center forward was quite weird. I don't think he'd played football before! Schalke 1 Dortmund 2.
Schalke had an ex Spurs player in Bena….or what ever it is!!!!

 

Place your bets, how does the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final not take place tomorrow?

 

Colchester best Macclesfield 1-0 earlier.

Two games, two losses... The Sol effect.

 

The Chavs better concede three goals in the last ten minutes...

 

Chelsea fan caught on camera calling Raheem Sterling a ****ing black ****.

Last week the Spurs fan throwing a banana at Aubameyang.

Are we back in the 1980s?

 

****'s sake, Chelsea, consider your actions before inflicting a week-long Saltypudlian love in on everyone else...

 

Wasn't expecting Chelsea to beat City. FFS.

Have to give credit to Sarri though. He's had a pretty bad week, but ended it very well. In that second half especially, his tactics made City look very mediocre. A lot of sideways and backwards passing with no real cutting edge throughout. City looked very shaky in possession whenever Chelsea pressed them. It was like watching Arsenal in Wenger's latter years. Sterling tried to take people on, but he was the only one willing to take players on. Everyone else wanted the ball to feet and didn't get into any good positions to test that Chelsea defence. Bernado Silva and Sane were hardly in the game at all, and Jesus was terrible when he came on. You can see the difference Aguero makes to that team.

Sarri's shown that his team aren't just a possession-based, pressing team. They can be dogged, resolute and counter attack effectively, too.

I still believe City and Liverpool will take up the top 2 spots (in what order, who knows?), but the race for the remaining top 4 spots is going to be ultra competitive this year.

 

Fraudiola conducting himself with dignity at full time

Note sarcasm...

 

There was no 'top 4' back then though. You either won the league & was in the European Cup or won the FA Cup & was in the Cup Winners Cup. Nothing for 2nd, 3rd or 4th. I agree with you that we did try to win everything. Apart from 3 FA Cups in the 60's there were 3 Charity Shields too. Were there subs in those days? If so it was only about 1 I think. Players seemed tougher, more grit then. Didn't roll around just got up & got on with it. The team hardly ever seemed to change, do you agree or is my aging memory playing tricks?