The Premier League Thread

Foden and Grealish sitting behind Kane. Exciting.

 

Gareth Southgate in charge of picking the XI. Less exciting.

 

Also true.

 

That result, and the circumstances around Liverpool right now so closely mirroring ours, makes me feel a whole lot better tbh.

 

I am not sure that you can make too much of a comparison between Saints and Liverpool other than the injury predicament. There is also the facture that the absence of fans and the manner in which there is a seemingly high turnover of matches has made football far less predictable. However, I think the principal difference is that Saints are very much a work in progress that has been decimated by injuries whereas I just feel that Liverpool have peaked and been exposed by injuries. The squad they have assembled has had three good seasons and I think that Klopp needs to re-build in the summer. I have to say that I never expected them to retain the title and there were clues on the summer that this season would be tough. I am wondering whether VVD will come back as the same player when he returns from injury too. I am not sure even if Liverpool will be credible Champions League contenders without an overhaul.

It is amusing that Liverpool fans were expecting that last season's achievement would signal a recalibration in the football hierarchy. I am not convinced and maybe winning the championship in 19/20 was more equivalent to Leicester's earlier success - a team beating the odds to take the title. As I have said previously, Liverpool are falling behind both Man City and Man Utd and I am wondering now if Tuchel will drive Chelsea in to a more dominant position. Liverpool's success is looking more like a flash in the pan, albeit one where you had to tip your hat at the quality of the style of play. The dominance of City and Liverpool 18/19 also seems a reflection to me of how the remaining "Top Six" teams had fallen away at that point and the overall weakness of the Premier League.

The return of fans to stadia in 21/22 will ensure that things will return to normal and hopefully the failings of VAR will have been addressed. It will be interesting to see how the hierarchy re-assembles itself once the unnatural conditions currently affecting football have been removed.

 

Our keeper was our penalty take for a while at Havant. We kept missing so had a competition in training and he won. It used to piss off the opponents when he took one.

 

I’d have him in ahead of most, and then Grealish ahead of the next most.

 

Fecking Liverpool. I had them to lose 1-3. They can’t even get that right for me.

 

It would pot surprise me in the least if Liverpool were to win the CL. In his mind, Klopp knows the PL title is gone! Liverpool have vast experience in this competition and have won it with a team that was far from being the best European team in 2005 and got the final in 2007, again with a team that was not a standout one.

 

I’d be very surprised if they won anything without Virgil. He was the missing ingredient they needed to win both the CL and PL. They are a pale imitation of last year’s team without him.

 

Personally, I hope Manchester City win the quadruple!

 

Yeah, it is priceless to watch, isnt it

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I really wish Amazon were doing a docu on them right now. Id most definitely watch that.

 

Maddison has to play too surely?

 

Any news on Salah after he was shot for the penalty? Haven’t seen an update anywhere.

 

Sure, but if you play the Liverpool style system, Foden and Grealish can make a front three with Kane, then Maddison and Henderson (I suspect) central.

 

Mike Dean has received death threats over the weekend, and has asked not to be involved in any Premier League games this weekend.

 

The Soucek red card has also been rescinded, like Bednarek's was. However those two decisions do not warrant death threats.

Apparently the threats were sent to his family.

 

I don’t like the man, but no one deserves any threat like that to himself or his family.
Hope the authorities track down who made the threat and deal with accordingly.

 

That's awful and quite clearly too far. Hope they catch those responsible.

In football terms, 2 consecutive wrong reds which he watched again surely should mean a demotion?

He watched the one at the weekend 24 times!