Opening Weekend Premiershship Fixtures

Tusky

krompkamp---hypia---agger---aurlio

Quite a different back 4 to last season!

Liverpool havent really showed up yet, fairly crap peformance in first half. I dont see why Rafa rates Zenden at all.

mike65

I think Pool have to be patient, the goal looked more like coming as the half wore on.

Mike.

MrJoeSoap

1-0 !!!! Legend !!!

mike65

Feck that!

Mike.

RE*AC*TOR

bollox

ntlbell

oh i can smell humble pie....mmmm get in there....

Cutie18Ireland

shocking defending. Might wake Liverpool up now.

RE*AC*TOR

ntlbell wrote:

oh i can smell humble pie....mmmm get in there....

long way to go yet.

Mossy Monk

nice header

terrible defending

Necronomicon

Aurellio fell asleep, free header. Good to have the Premiership back

Guy:Incognito

Dire defending from Aurellio and Agger, watching both their players wander in to the 6 yard box. Agger was terrible for Chelseas goal in the shield as well. He stood watching Carra withShevchenko and drogba(iirc) in a 2 on 1.

RE*AC*TOR

Kromkamp is waaaaaaaaaay off the pace.

I think Pennant should be the last sub.

Villain

God that was an awful goal to give away, you know Zenden is a good player but I don't think CM is his best position imo.

Expect Crouch very soon.

BTW I have updated the live stream thread, this game and Arsenal and Villa game can been seen online, good quality too with English commentary.

RE*AC*TOR

i wish they would stop falling over in the box

MrJoeSoap

Keith Gillespie!?!?!

Villain

Yep Gillespie on, nice piece of defending too. I honestly can't understand why all the Liverpool players are falling, surely they should be able to get suitable footwear really stupid.

Guy:Incognito

Would rather see pennant than crouch. get a few decent crosses in. Let him go past people and whip stuff in. Just wouldnt feel confident of a goal from crouch (not that I ever am).
For a tough tackling midfielder, Sissoko is far far too quick to take a dive.

Villain

Stekelly wrote:

Would rather see pennant than crouch. get a few decent crosses in. Let him go past people and whip stuff in. Just wouldnt feel confident of a goal from crouch (not that I ever am)

Have to disagree Liverpool are just firing high balls in and neither Fowler or Bellamy are winning anything, no point bringing in Pennant to cross balls if Fowler or Bellamy aren't going to win them.

RE*AC*TOR

nice show of gonzalez's pace there.

Guy:Incognito

irish1 wrote:

Have to disagree Liverpool are just firing high balls in and neither Fowler or Bellamy are winning anything, no point bringing in Pennant to cross balls if Fowler or Bellamy aren't going to win them.

You have seen crouchs attempts at heading a ball havnt you? He's quite possibly the worst header of a ball I've seen.

Villain

He holds it up quite well though.

Penalty

RE*AC*TOR

Peno! - i can't watch - goal!!!!!

ntlbell

mneh

Guy:Incognito

not sure bout the peo, great 1 -2 tho.


What a peno from robbie, legend.


Bellamy argueing? who'da thunk it? lol.

RE*AC*TOR

ntlbell wrote:

mneh

what do you smell now?

MrJoeSoap

No red card?

Villain

Soft Penalty, no card?? Thats weird??

ntlbell

did he touch him? can't really tell from the replay

ntlbell

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

what do you smell now?

injustice?

Guy:Incognito

irish1 wrote:

Soft Penalty, no card?? Thats weird??

hint of the Gattuso incident about it. Both were last men and should have went if a peno was given

Villain

Can someone tell me how the Ref can award a penalty but not a red card????

Bloody referee's 70 minutes into the first game and already their getting major decisions wrong.

Royale with Cheese

MrJoeSoap wrote:

No red card?

A red card is given is if you deny the opposition a clear goal scoring oppurtunity, I fail to see how a penalty isn't a clear goal scoring oppurtunity. It was a joke of penalty anyway.

RE*AC*TOR

ntlbell wrote:

injustice?

i smell premature smug-alation.

evilhomer

Can Sheffield Utd hold on here??

I love the footy.

What was I doing with my saturdays all summer???

Guy:Incognito

Robbie getting back some karma from the couple of perfectly good goals he had taken off him last season?

ntlbell

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

i smell premature smug-alation.

the result means nothing to me.....i was just having a jab at tusky for questioning my predictions...

RE*AC*TOR

well if we're gonna make a sub - now's the time - i still think pennant would have more impact.

Guy:Incognito

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

well if we're gonna make a sub - now's the time - i still think pennant would have more impact.

agreed.

Guy:Incognito

Someone show agger and aurelio how to mark and pick up players. They both seem to have an attitude of picking a player to mark and not picking anyone else up even if they are about to run through on goal.


EDIT. Pennant on the way. yay.

Villain

I don't think Kromkamp or Agger are good enough for this team tbh.

Looks like you'll get your way stekelly, Pennant is warming up.

Guy:Incognito

For fowler tho? I would have thought a defender and go for the game.

Agree on agger and kromkamp. Looks like finnan is on easy street again this season as far as keeping his place goes.

RE*AC*TOR

Benitez looks livid.

Guy:Incognito

RE*AC*TOR wrote:

Benitez looks livid.

So he should. Lots of bad points to go over after this one.

RE*AC*TOR

Dissapointing result. Poor team perfromance.

Well done to Sheff UTD though - worked very hard for it.

Guy:Incognito

BOO-bloody-URNS

Villain

Very poor start for title contenders, got desperate too soon and didn't play any really good football. Still need to strengthen at the back imo, Injury to Hypia or Carra leaves them very weak.
Kuyt should help give them some good options though.

el rabitos

embarassing. not good enough

mike65

Meh. Some games you just take what you can get. The Blades will not be an adornment to the Prem. More of a nuisance!

Mike.

Chucky the tree

A joke. Kromcrap is a disgrace. I'd prefer to have djimi in the team then him. We looked so off the pace, unreal. You'd swear it was sheffield who had the 2 competitive games instead of us.

el rabitos

mike65 wrote:

Meh. Some games you just take what you can get. The Blades will not be an adornment to the Prem. More of a nuisance!

Mike.

i agree with that too an extent, but after the fa cup a couple of years ago, rafa should have known what to expect from teams like this.

i wouldnt have started aurelio in a match like this in a million years