General Premier League Thread - 2016/2017

niallo27

Tottenham

Turtwig wrote: »

Yaya Toure got kneeed in the stomach there. How that was not a penalty is beyond me.

He ran into to him was never a pen. They scored anyway from it.

Turtwig

niallo27 wrote: »

He ran into to him was never a pen. They scored anyway from it.

Need to see the replay again but it looked like he ran into a raised knee.

Could have been the player went to kick it then realised he couldn't and tried to pull out of it but his knee still remained high.

niallo27

Tottenham

Turtwig wrote: »

Need to see the replay again but it looked like he ran into a raised knee.

Could have been the player went to kick it then realised he couldn't and tried to pull out of it but his knee still remained high.

Would have been harsh. Unfortunately they scored from the same play anyway.

Andersonisgod

Manchester United

Stat from Twitter: City have won 6 of their 7 away games. Last season they won 7 altogether. Pep effect.

gosplan

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Stat from Twitter: City have won 6 of their 7 away games. Last season they won 7 altogether. Pep effect.

My fab stat recently in football weekly was that until today no team had won a game in Manchester since the start of Oct.

batistuta9

https://twitter.com/OptaJoe/status/801528478499819520

Burial.

Two injury time goals for Llorente to win it for Swansea against Palace 5-4. Nuts

KERSPLAT!

Manchester United

Checking scores on Live Score... wtf is happening in the Swansea v Palace match!?

Dirty Dingus McGee

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Stat from Twitter: City have won 6 of their 7 away games. Last season they won 7 altogether. Pep effect.

Or the Pelligrini did a bad job last year effect.

dfx-

Manchester United

Turtwig wrote: »

Need to see the replay again but it looked like he ran into a raised knee.

Could have been the player went to kick it then realised he couldn't and tried to pull out of it but his knee still remained high.

Absolutely stonewall penalty, but was it allowed to play on with City still having the ball in the box maybe...

jamescd

Chelsea 2 - 1 up and Alonso just missed a sitter to make it 3.

sabat

Mauricio's Invincibles finally vanquished after an astonishing 12 game run spanning August to November 2016; their names will live forever in the annals of Tottenham Hotspur FC.

GavRedKing

Chelsea

sabat wrote: »

Mauricio's Invincibles finally vanquished after an astonishing 12 game run spanning August to November 2016; their names will live forever in the annals of Tottenham Hotspur FC.

There'll be a dvd on sale soon I heard. :pac:

Arghus

Some world class abysmal defending for the ages in that Swansea-Crystal Palace goalfest.

Wrongway1985

Arghus wrote: »

Some world class abysmal defending for the ages in that Swansea-Crystal Palace goalfest.

For all the bad defending I feel Palace would have gotten something out of that game and other games if it wasn't for one man Wayne Hennessy (back in since Mandanda injured) he's just not reliable between the posts at all.

KERSPLAT!

Chelsea

KERSPLAT! wrote: »

Checking scores on Live Score... wtf is happening in the Swansea v Palace match!?

What a game!

TitianGerm

United gain a point on Spurs.

batistuta9

emmetkenny wrote: »

United gain a point on Spurs.

Everton & Watford losing as well, good weekend for them

Osmosis Jones

The poll at the top of this page gets better and better by the week.

If you tap on the numbers, you can identify the 61 who voted for Manchester United...;)

rob316

entertaining yes but that Swansea game yesterday was hilariously bad and void of any sort of quality. Two teams who will narrowly escape relegation, that is about the best both will do. Pardew continues to get away with, how he hasn't been sacked before is beyond me.

Chancer3001

Pardew has actually built a very nice starting 11

Could do with sacrificing his 10 for a 6 though

Harry Palmr

Title chances and likely finishing position extrapolated after one third of the season

https://medium.com/@t_loridan/simulating-the-english-premier-league-season-3bdc393662ad#.ltxco9apm

KERSPLAT!

Manchester United

Arsenal 4th...

Turtwig

Man Utd's and Everton's % are alarmingly high for this early in the season. :eek:

8-10

Turtwig wrote: »

Man Utd's and Everton's % are alarmingly high for this early in the season. :eek:

Not sure that makes much sense. United is nearly 50%, basically a coin flip whether they'll finish 6th or not....does that seem right?

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Come on chelsea, liking what Conte has done to that side.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

No Matic, big miss, Fabregas needs to step up to the plate.

ricero

Manchester United

El cashico followed by el classico

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Sore one for Hazard.

Unearthly

Chelsea

I forgot my pet hate about this fixture with both wearing blue

Trigger

Chelsea

Well that could have gone either way.. Silva would have been thru if his arm didn't drag that out

Edit: Stones wtf :pac:

niallo27

Tottenham

astradave wrote: »

Well that could have going either way.. Silva would have been thru if his arm didn't drag that out

Edit: Stones wtf :pac:

Ya I would agree with you. His arm stopped a great chance for city. Doesn't matter if it was intentional or not.

Jayop

Chelsea

niallo27 wrote: »

Ya I would agree with you. His arm stopped a great chance for city. Doesn't matter if it was intentional or not.

Absolutely does matter and never a pen in a million years.

Lucas Hood

Ref is letting a lot of go here.

niallo27

Tottenham

Jayop wrote: »

Absolutely does matter and never a pen in a million years.

So if a player did stop a goal for example using his hand but it was not intentional. Is that a pen

Trigger

Chelsea

Jayop wrote: »

Absolutely does matter and never a pen in a million years.

Disagree with you tbh, its very much a grey area, he prevented a clear opportunity and on a different day with a different ref that would have been a penalty. It would have been a free on any other part of the pitch IMO.

Decuc500

Two English players on the pitch? Sad statement on the premier league.

Jayop

Chelsea

niallo27 wrote: »

So if a player did stop a goal for example using his hand but it was not intentional. Is that a pen

Depends on where the hand is. He was sliding on the ground and didn't know where the ball was.

Jayop

Chelsea

astradave wrote: »

Disagree with you tbh, its very much a grey area, he prevented a clear opportunity and on a different day with a different ref that would have been a penalty. It would have been a free on any other part of the pitch IMO.

Dave, you cannot take nialls side against me here. Very disappointing.

Jayop

Chelsea

That was a bit naughty by Aguero. Oops I stumbled and clipped your heel. Loads of top strikers do that, him, Costa, Van persie always did.

Jayop

Chelsea

Surely a red card.

Trigger

Chelsea

Jayop wrote: »

Surely a red card.

Good call on seeing the replay

Jayop

Chelsea

Hmm. Looked less in it on the replay. Still think it was a free and a red.

GreNoLi

Manchester United

Luiz you sly dog.

AdamD

It's a foul but such a flop from Aguero

Jayop

Chelsea

astradave wrote: »

Good call on seeing the replay

He stepped across him and obstructed his run. Certainly didn't look as bad in the replay but still a foul imo.

Trigger

Chelsea

It looked like the ref was running up to give Aguero a yellow for diving but then played advantage as chelsea broke quickly

Trigger

Chelsea

Jayop wrote: »

He stepped across him and obstructed his run. Certainly didn't look as bad in the replay but still a foul imo.

will have to see another replay, really thought it was shoulder to shoulder in the replay

Jayop

Chelsea

Great game so far.