Rival watch
- Thread starter Spurlock
- Start date
-
Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
-
What the f*** is all that about? Sorry this VAR nonsense needs to be rolled back now. Nonsense.
By the rules of the game, it’s the correct decision but common sense should prevail but it doesn’t.
Arsenal still have to play City away.
Spurs could do City a big favour too.
Long way to go yet
Spurs could do City a big favour too.
Long way to go yet
No one who loves football wants to see VAR get involved in that City goal at the end. It's killing football yes we used to be able to debate a few dodgy offsides, but we still do that even with VAR, get it in the bin and think about the fans...Watching live football without it is a much better experience for sure.
I had Cherki and Haaland in my FPL team. Those ****ing dorks in VAR owe me about 10 points.
VAR had the option to just let it go, make a conscious decision not to get involved and take the hit if the powers that be got upset.
That tends to be what Liverpool managers do when they lose a match and have a player sent off based on recent history
But the rules state he had to pull it back and send off the player.
Common sense would have been to do that but officials have to follow the rules at all times.
Relegation battle
You must log in or register to see images
We are a complete mess and have bean counters running the football operation rather than football people. We are in relegation form, we could easily be going down.
Our main issue is we seem completely at odds with the current meta
Top level football isn't about strikers who can bag 25+ goals a season at the moment, it's about having somebody play in the CF who can help the players around them notch up those 25+ goals among them while chipping in with a fair share on their own, which is why we're seeing an increasing number of AMs playing in the No9 spot
And this is realistically our biggest problem, as not only are we still set up for our wide players to feed the CF even though that meta is outdated at the top end of football, but it also has to be said that I'm not entirely sure we have a supporting cast capable of getting 25+ goals between them at the moment, based on their best goal returns in the PL and taking into account their current injuries and/or missing something due to past injury layoffs...and the fact you can't have them all starting at once
Kudus: 8 for West Ham
Kulusevski: 8
Maddison: 12 for Leicester, 9 for us
Xavi: (pending)
Gallagher: 5 for Chelsea
Bentancur: 5...right before being Matty Cash'd, his best since then is 2
Palhinha: 4 for Fulham
Sarr: 3
Odobert: 3 for Burnley, 1 for us
Tel: 2
Bergvall: 1
Top level football isn't about strikers who can bag 25+ goals a season at the moment, it's about having somebody play in the CF who can help the players around them notch up those 25+ goals among them while chipping in with a fair share on their own, which is why we're seeing an increasing number of AMs playing in the No9 spot
And this is realistically our biggest problem, as not only are we still set up for our wide players to feed the CF even though that meta is outdated at the top end of football, but it also has to be said that I'm not entirely sure we have a supporting cast capable of getting 25+ goals between them at the moment, based on their best goal returns in the PL and taking into account their current injuries and/or missing something due to past injury layoffs...and the fact you can't have them all starting at once
Kudus: 8 for West Ham
Kulusevski: 8
Maddison: 12 for Leicester, 9 for us
Xavi: (pending)
Gallagher: 5 for Chelsea
Bentancur: 5...right before being Matty Cash'd, his best since then is 2
Palhinha: 4 for Fulham
Sarr: 3
Odobert: 3 for Burnley, 1 for us
Tel: 2
Bergvall: 1
You're right but this only tells part of the story.
It is demonstrable that we don't create enough good chances per game in the first place to expect a higher ROI in goals. In fact I think we're one of just two teams whose xG is lower than their GS, which suggests that we're actually quite lucky when it comes to the onion bag...which is quite scary.
And then at the other end of the pitch what remains strange is that individually and on paper, our back 4 are each up there with the best in the league, but put them on a pitch together as a unit and they seem to think that conceding 2 goals per game is sustainable at this level.
I get that, but as they make mistakes which break the rules then breaking one deliberately in the best interests of the game would seem to be the sensible thing to do!
How is it in the interests of the game for a player who should have been sent off for cheating to be free to play in the next game?I get that, but as they make mistakes which break the rules then breaking one deliberately in the best interests of the game would seem to be the sensible thing to do!