General Premier League Thread - 2017/2018

Lukker-

M!Ck^ wrote: »

It will be Miki Ryan not Mane
And it will be Jose, maximum points. 10 goals scored and none conceeded.
It doesn't have to be some elaborate decision.
Utd to clean up and rightfully so.

It's all relative, United beat relegation fodder and Leicester. Wagner is managing a team that has never been in the modern top flight and won 2 and drew 1. I wouldn't complain if it went to Jose, but you can make a convincing argument for both.

TitianGerm

Liverpool

M!Ck^ wrote: »

It will be Miki Ryan not Mane
And it will be Jose, maximum points. 10 goals scored and none conceeded.
It doesn't have to be some elaborate decision.
Utd to clean up and rightfully so.

Jose will probably get it but Wagner has never managed in the top flight and has a much weaker team than United but managed to get 7 points.

Iused2likebusts

Liverpool

M!Ck^ wrote: »

It will be Miki Ryan not Mane
And it will be Jose, maximum points. 10 goals scored and none conceeded.
It doesn't have to be some elaborate decision.
Utd to clean up and rightfully so.

It should be Jose but mane has been the standout player so far.

Agent Coulson

Liverpool

Might deserve his own thread but Motty is retiring at the end of the season he has been the voice of football throughout my life and will be missed.

John Motson to end his 50 year career with @BBCSport. Listened to Motty as a child, as a player, as a colleague. A legend of his profession.

https://twitter.com/GaryLineker/status/905339939495309312

Jayop

Everton

Thank God. He was awful to listen to and should have retired years ago. Good luck to him and good health obviously but compared to some of the other famous BBC voices now gone he's not near the standard.

J. Marston

Premier League and a football problem in general...

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/sep/06/ban-betting-firms-football-shirts-labour-gambling

Something needs to be done about it. It's an infestation at this point.

I'm waiting for in game ads like this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_4pXusde8s

...in the near future with "Bet" instead of "Smoke".

Harry Palmr

Brendan Flowers wrote: »

Premier League Player of the Month nominations:

Romelu Lukaku, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Phil Jones (Man United)
Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane (Liverpool)
Alvaro Morata (Chelsea)
Jonas Lossl (Huddersfield)

Premier League Manager of the Month nominations:

Jose Mourinho (Man United)
Jurgen Klopp (Liverpool)
Pep Guardiola (Man City)
David Wagner (Huddersfield)
Tony Pulis (West Brom)

Winners are Sadio Mane and David Wagner, quite right too (practically a Liverpool double ).

Utopia Parkway

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Winners are Sadio Mane and David Wagner, quite right too (practically a Liverpool double ).

The correct choices.

TitianGerm

Liverpool

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Winners are Sadio Mane and David Wagner, quite right too (practically a Liverpool double ).

Wagner has done a great job. Well deserved.

Everton

Epic fail IMO
Ah well, lemons and salt it is

irishman86

Everton

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Winners are Sadio Mane and David Wagner, quite right too (practically a Liverpool double ).

Would have given it to Salah myself but hard to argue with

Jayop

Everton

No awful big complaint. Wagner has been brilliant so far. I feel Mane may have edged it on the back of the performance in the CL qualifiers. But both have been excellent so yeah....

TitianGerm

Liverpool

Jayop wrote: »

No awful big complaint. Wagner has been brilliant so far. I feel Mane may have edged it on the back of the performance in the CL qualifiers. But both have been excellent so yeah....

CL doesn't come into it though, it's for PL isn't it?

Jayop

Everton

emmetkenny wrote: »

CL doesn't come into it though, it's for PL isn't it?

It should be only pl but it's hard to separate.

TitianGerm

Liverpool

Jayop wrote: »

It should be only pl but it's hard to separate.

Is it all the players vote for the POTM and the managers who vote for MOTM?

GreNoLi

Liverpool

I fancy a bit of everton and spurs, score draw.

Lucas Hood

Everton are so slow in attack.

Iused2likebusts

Liverpool

Lucas Hood wrote: »

Everton are so slow in attack.

I think a lot of people are massively overestimating how well they will do this season. They have had a tough start but lukaku is a huge loss for them and while they have signed some decent players. I dont think any of their attacking players would get a regular game at a top 6 team. They will be hard to beat but I just dont see them scoring many goals. As you say serious lack of pace going forward.

Collie D

Everton

Nice strike by Kane. Either that or a brutal cross

JPA

Eriksen is a phenomenal player. But that's hardly news.

If he had a bit more pace there wouldn't be many better in his role.

ricero

Arsenal

Everton may struggle this season. severe lack of pace in this side

Rekop dog

Spurs

Chelsea look every bit the champions elect this season again. Hard to find a weakness in their team unlike all other contenders.

Everton

Go on Leicester
Game on

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Finally found a functioning stream, surprised spurs are leading so handsomely.

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Lloris...

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Looks like being a good result for Chris Hughton.

Rekop dog

Spurs

That will take some beating for most blatant penalty not given all season from Maguire.

The Talking Bread

Everton

Seriously....................

Harry Palmr

Gotta be a photo-edit

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Gotta be a photo-edit

What is?

The Talking Bread

Everton

Harry Palmr wrote: »

Gotta be a photo-edit

no, tweeted live during the match. Seems a bit strange that an Arsenal fan would go to the effort to do that!


You wouldn't know though..........idle minds!

dr.kenneth noisewater

Liverpool

The Talking Bread wrote:

no, tweeted live during the match. Seems a bit strange that an Arsenal fan would go to the effort to do that!

The Talking Bread wrote:

You wouldn't know though..........idle minds!

Probably some lost bet or stag id say!

Jayop

Everton

emmetkenny wrote: »

Is it all the players vote for the POTM and the managers who vote for MOTM?

Dunno tbh buddy.

rwbug

xG
https://understat.com/league/EPL

Paully D

rwbug wrote: »

xG
https://understat.com/league/EPL

Brighton. :eek:

Turtwig

What does the green line and blue bar sliding along it mean?

Corholio

I thought Match of the Day's highlights of the Man City-Liverpool match sold Liverpool a bit short. The very first highlight they showed was Aguero's goal, and nothing of the really good Liverpool play before that. They also highlighted Mendy as playing great and not mentioning at all that he was completely lost for the first 30 minutes when Salah had the run of that side of the pitch. I know City won 5-0 but you would have thought City were completely on top even before the sending off from the highlights.

Paully D

Burnley vs Palace should be interesting. Palace have made it pretty clear that a loss will signal the end of De Boer, whilst all the talk in the press seems to be that the players have already given up on him.

If Burnley take the lead it could get ugly.

Cue a Palace win now!

thelad95

Palace were blessed to stay up last season, it's very rare that the bottom two are as uncompetitive as Boro and Sunderland were last season. Hull also snatched relegation from the jaws of survival.

I know it's ridiculously early to say this but I have a feeling that the bottom three now may well be the bottom three at the end of the season although Brighton have looked rather off the pace as well.

Palace need a point at least to get off the bottom.

Shanotheslayer

Liverpool

If you attempted an overhead kick and miss the ball but kick a player in the face, is it a straight red?


Is that considering endangering and wreckless?

PhilipsR

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

If you attempted an overhead kick and miss the ball but kick a player in the face, is it a straight red?


Is that considering endangering and wreckless?

Yes. Simple.

Corholio

PhilipsR wrote: »

Yes. Simple.

It may 'sound' simple but I don't recall many reds like that at all, I can't even think of one to be honest. A lot of the time just a free is given and other times a yellow.

irishman86

Everton

Vokes and Wood is a strike force you could really like. Hard working and can get enough goals. Think Burnley will do really well from them

Berserker

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

If you attempted an overhead kick and miss the ball but kick a player in the face, is it a straight red?

Is that considering endangering and wreckless?

Are you comparing an missed overhead kick to Mane's challenge yesterday?

ArmaniJeanss

Corholio wrote: »

It may 'sound' simple but I don't recall many reds like that at all, I can't even think of one to be honest. A lot of the time just a free is given and other times a yellow.

A MUFC player got a red for exactly that in the CL some years ago.
edit Actually thinking about it wasn't 'exactly' that. Nani kicked someone in stomach when he missed the ball, twas harsh anyway.

Rekop dog

Spurs

Looking forward to seeing the summers most exciting newcomer Renato Sanchez for Swansea, they'll likely never have a better player down there again.

Shanotheslayer

Liverpool

Berserker wrote: »

Are you comparing an missed overhead kick to Mane's challenge yesterday?

I didn't mention that at all. Just asked a question.

davycc

Man City

Hon Burnley great start for us Irish "neutrals"

Paully D

Think Burnley could do with taking Vokes off, putting Brady in behind and going 4-5-1. Pressure from Palace is starting to build now.

Berserker

Shanotheslayer wrote: »

I didn't mention that at all. Just asked a question.

Ok, I see. Anyway, messing up an overhead kick, leading to accidental contact with another player, would not be a red, in my opinion.