General Premier League Thread - 2017/2018

Liamalone

Arsenal

First time in Board's history that there is no Liverpool match thread? Definitely weird lol

murpho999

Liverpool

Rekop dog wrote: »

Pitch seems a bit damp and slow, doesn't help with slick passing.

How do you see this?

Brand new pitch with new drainage technology. There is no issue.

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Rooney on the right is a tad suicidal.

TitianGerm

Liverpool

Liamalone wrote: »

First time in Board's history that there is no Liverpool match thread? Definitely weird lol

Lol... No

Edit: there's been very few match treads for any games this year.

Berserker

Hard to see anything but a Liverpool win in this. Would be great to see Everton get something but don't think that Sam's had enough time with them. Not going to bother watching, the Manchester derby will be the one to watch.

Rekop dog

Spurs

murpho999 wrote: »

How do you see this?

Brand new pitch with new drainage technology. There is no issue.

With my eyes murpho. The ball isn't travelling smoothly like it usually would.

Rayne Wooney

Pool targeting Everton’s right side,crazy playing Rooney there

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Eh ref...yellow?

Rekop dog

Spurs

Rooney fitness looks highly suspect.

LuckyGent88

Jaysus mane.

JPA

Rekop dog wrote: »

Rooney fitness looks highly suspect.

He's got away with it his whole career.

Skylinehead

What's Mane at there, easy 2 yard pass man!

sligeach

That was both greedy and a terrible finish by Mane. Should have passed, it was a simple tap in for 2 other players. Salah and I can't remember the other, it might have been Robertson.

GreNoLi

Liverpool

What a player Salah is.

Minderbinder

Skylinehead wrote: »

What's Mane at there, easy 2 yard pass man!

Think he’s a bit miffed by Salah stealing his thunder. It seems to have negatively affected him.

Salah is having a season like Ronaldo had in his first big season, when he just kept scoring and people kinda expected it to stop but he just didn’t.

Skylinehead

sligeach wrote: »

That was both greedy and a terrible finish by Mane. Should have passed, it was a simple tap in for 2 other players. Salah and I can't remember the other, it might have been Robertson.

Oxlade-Chamberlain I think

Rekop dog

Spurs

Most undeserved equaliser of alllllll time. Hilarious

Everton

Lovren is clueless
Some ball from Rooney
Goal get in

Headshot

Klopp strikes again

Liamalone

Arsenal

Fully deserved equaliser for the Toffees :P

PhlegmyMoses

Liverpool

Absolutely ridiculous fro, Lovren. Contact was minimal, but why give the player a chance to go down?

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Never a peno but Lovren was daft.

sligeach

Liamalone wrote: »

Fully deserved equaliser for the Toffees :P

That's a joke, right? They've done literally nothing all game. Handed a penalty that never was. They deserve nothing. Liverpool should have been out of sight, wasted chances and I don't know what Klopp was doing with the team selection.

Unearthly

Everton

Attacking sub by big sam bringing on a guy who has a history scoring crackers at anfield

PhlegmyMoses

Liverpool

Dont agree that it was never a pen either. Lovren absolutely makes contact. Wouldnt argue if it was called either way.

Loafing Oaf

Brace yourselves for toxic levels of smuggery in Big Sam's post-match interview.:rolleyes:

niallo27

Arsenal

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Dont agree that it was never a pen either. Lovren absolutely makes contact. Wouldnt argue if it was called either way.

He just just got close. Everton player clearly throws himself to the ground. I can see why the ref gave it but he conned the ref.

Trigger

Liverpool

niallo27 wrote: »

He just just got close. Everton player clearly throws himself to the ground. I can see why the ref gave it but he conned the ref.

Tbh the view from the back shows the refs view and you can clearly see Lovern putting is hands onto his back and looks like he pushes him. He gave the ref an opportunity to make the decision when he didn’t need too

Rekop dog

Spurs

Sam signed up to the Jose how to play at Anfield blueprint. Although Everton did manage 1 more shot on target than they did.

Liamalone

Arsenal

Penalty all day long, a point will do. Thanks Dejan!

Delighted for Rooney too, he'll be loving scoring for Everton at the pit!

Everton

Big Sam and Stealth Rooney with the sickener
Enjoyable result

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Klopp's rotation comes unstuck.

castletownman

Lovren better stay away from social media for a while

niallo27

Arsenal

GreNoLi wrote: »

Klopp's rotation comes unstuck.

I don't agree. They totally dominated the game and only for a soft soft pen they win easy.

RobertKK

Everton

Lovren made it easy for the referee, wanting to argue with the referee was not going to change anything.
He should be looking at himself and how he made it easy for the referee. The referee did the right thing going on how it looked initially. One could argue if there was video refereeing it wouldn't be a penalty, but the referee could only deal with what he saw, and that was a penalty.

Liamalone

Arsenal

niallo27 wrote: »

I don't agree. They totally dominated the game and only for a soft soft pen they win easy.

Soft penalty? Do you lot ever take off the rose tinted glasses? lol awww dear

Berserker

niallo27 wrote: »

I don't agree. They totally dominated the game and only for a soft soft pen they win easy.

Just watched the pen. It was a ridiculous defensive decision and I can see why the referee gave it. Lovern should have stayed well clear of him, he was going away from goal. Why didn't Klopp play Countinho today? You have two gimmes coming up, so he could have rested him then.

niallo27

Arsenal

RobertKK wrote: »

Lovren made it easy for the referee, wanting to argue with the referee was not going to change anything.
He should be looking at himself and how he made it easy for the referee. The referee did the right thing going on how it looked initially. One could argue if there was video refereeing it wouldn't be a penalty, but the referee could only deal with what he saw, and that was a penalty.

Just because you make it easy for the ref doesn't mean he should give it. The best refs should not fall for it.

niallo27

Arsenal

Berserker wrote: »

Just watched the pen. It was a ridiculous defensive decision and I can see why the referee gave it. Lovern should have stayed well clear of him, he was going away from goal.

If he gives him space we give him hell for not getting close.

Berserker

niallo27 wrote: »

If he gives him space we give him hell for not getting close.

He was going nowhere near the goal. No issue with giving the attacker space in that situation. He was never, ever going to score during that phase of play.

ShamoBuc

Fierce similarities in the derbies today.
Pool totally dominant, but undone by a mistake by a centre back.
City totally dominant but undone by a mistake by a centre back.

At least city have another 45 to try and prove their dominance on the scoresheet, where it matters and they are away from home.

Question for football history buffs.

Is it the first time Man City won the league at Old Trafford?

ShamoBuc

Deleted User wrote: »

Question for football history buffs.

Is it the first time Man City won the league at Old Trafford?

PP will tell you they won it last week.

davycc

Man City

14 league wins in a row delighted for pep and his staff , should have scored 6 today too against Jose faltering bus.

Loafing Oaf

ShamoBuc wrote: »

PP will tell you they won it last week.

But every time they lose or draw a game between now and the end of the season Sky will be telling us the title race is back on...

ShamoBuc

City deserved their win.
They played much better, had most of the ball, looked to be in charge for most of the game and had a goalkeeper who made a great double save near the end.

ShamoBuc

Loafing Oaf wrote: »

But every time they lose or draw a game between now and the end of the season Sky will be telling us the title race is back on...

True, but I stopped listening to sky a long-time ago.

shamrock55

It's officially the dullest premier league title race ever,infact there isn't even a title race,how are sky gonna big this up

Iused2likebusts

Liverpool

Good weekend for spurs.

Iused2likebusts

Iused2likebusts wrote: »

Good weekend for spurs.

Americanise it.

City will win bigly...but just HOW bigly...