General Premier League Thread - 2017/2018

Andersonisgod

Liverpool

Good goal. Now what? What team goes for it? Which settles for a point?

KERSPLAT!

Liverpool

Cracking finish.

That_Guy

rob316 wrote: »

Sterling is absolute rubbish

Awks.

Arghus

Great technique from Sterling.

irishman86

Everton

Random question? What is everyone basing City winning the league on, for me the team isnt that strong. It has a lot of potential when they get Peps ideas but i really dont see this year being the year

Arghus

I don't think Everton can hold out.

irishman86

Everton

Andersonisgod wrote: »

Good goal. Now what? What team goes for it? Which settles for a point?

I honestly dont remember Pep going for a point
It has to have happened i just cant think when it happened

irelandrover

Everton

Moist Bread wrote: »

The ref has been excellent. The difference with Calvert-Lewin was there was no malicious intent.

Taking a player out in the air is far more dangerous than what Walker did. The ref has been far from excellent

Morrison J

Rooney been abusing ref's his whole Man Utd career without getting booked. Does it once for Everton...automatic booking. Ref's don't favour the big teams apparently.

user2011

Pickford's kicking ability is pretty poor.

KERSPLAT!

Liverpool

irishman86 wrote: »

Random question? What is everyone basing City winning the league on, for me the team isnt that strong. It has a lot of potential when they get Peps ideas but i really dont see this year being the year

The sheer quality of the side I'd imagine and the idea that Pep will have implemented his style on them.

On paper they're the best team in the league, will that turn out to be the case? Who knows. Long way to go.

Moist Bread

irelandrover wrote: »

Taking a player out in the air is far more dangerous than what Walker did. The ref has been far from excellent

The difference is more about the intent. One was a calculated attack on a defenceless player, the other just an accident.

GreNoLi

Liverpool

Good tackle ffs.

Agent Coulson

Liverpool

Ref having a mare.

M!Ck^

Everton

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Augero with the dive

And again

Dives to get Morgan sent off

Dreadful decision

Arghus

That was a perfectly legit tackle.

irelandrover

Everton

That´s another poor decision. He won the ball cleanly.

Rayne Wooney

Ref will be in league 1 by the end of the week

LightningBlue

Liverpool

Madley is blind. Not even a foul ffs.

That_Guy

Can understand why the ref sends him off there. Thought it looked like bad in real time. Obviously in hindsight it looks bad on Aguero.

Liamalone

Arsenal

user2011 wrote: »

Pickford's kicking ability is pretty poor.

Don't think you've seen him play much then, not been great tonight right enough.

alchemist33

He clipped Aguero with his studs on the leading foot, then got him with the trailing leg too. Looked yellow to me

irelandrover

Everton

Moist Bread wrote: »

The difference is more about the intent. One was a calculated attack on a defenceless player, the other just an accident.

Just no, otherwise a late tackle where you try to get teh ball would never be a yellow.

That_Guy

Surely Aguero gets a retrospective ban for diving under these new rules that came in?

Mr.Crinklewood

M!Ck^ wrote: »

And again

Dives to get Morgan sent off

Dreadful decision

Might be the first opportunity for the diving panel to have a look things.

KERSPLAT!

Liverpool

That_Guy wrote: »

Surely Aguero gets a retrospective ban for diving under these new rules that came in?

He did clip him, even slightly. Can't see him being done

alchemist33

Just realised Klaassen is not Steven Naismith (I've had a long day)

Gbear

Liverpool

Sterling is still 22 years old.

His return for a player of his age, and often in hugely important games, is unmatched by all but a tiny handful of players. Probably a dozen anywhere in the past 10 years.

The criticism he gets is daft.

He'll probably peak early given the kind of player he is but even so, you're probably talking another 3 years until he reaches his prime.

Unearthly

Everton

That will do

That_Guy

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Might be the first opportunity for the diving panel to have a look things.

Headed up by Tom Daley?

Moist Bread

irelandrover wrote: »

Just no, otherwise a late tackle where you try to get teh ball would never be a yellow.

It would depend on the tackle, but a late tackle could of course be a yellow card, I never said anything to the contrary.

Everton

Result pleases me all the same

irishman86

Everton

Pep tapping up Rooney no doubt in my mind :pac:

ERG89

Fair result City were disappointing in many ways & Everton incredibly negative with a man advantage.

That_Guy

Gbear wrote: »

Sterling is still 22 years old.

His return for a player of his age, and often in hugely important games, is unmatched by all but a tiny handful of players. Probably a dozen anywhere in the past 10 years.

The criticism he gets is daft.

He'll probably peak early given the kind of player he is but even so, you're probably talking another 3 years until he reaches his prime.

Agreed. I think he's come on leaps and bounds under Pep. He is an excellent addition to the team imo and has justified his price tag.

SlickRic

Bobby Madley is quite comfortably the worst referee I've ever witnessed at this level.

Liamalone

Arsenal

ERG89 wrote: »

Fair result City were disappointing in many ways & Everton incredibly negative with a man advantage.

Haha in taking off a defender? Reel it in lol

Andersonisgod

Liverpool

irishman86 wrote: »

Random question? What is everyone basing City winning the league on, for me the team isnt that strong. It has a lot of potential when they get Peps ideas but i really dont see this year being the year

The potential of what could be combined with a league with no particulatly standout contender, they all have big weaknesses.

Anyway poor officiating marred an otherwise really intetesting game. City at points in the 2nd half looked better with a man less than when it was level. Still not at all convinced by the 2 striker system but his in-game management is fun for all football fans to watch. Decent result in the end but that sending off probably cost them 3 points.

rob316

Everton sat way too deep with man advantage.

Too many cooks spoil the broth is the case with city, too many am and forwards with no balance in the midfield. No one has a clue what there doing.

ERG89

Liamalone wrote:

Haha in taking off a defender? Reel it in lol

Yeah I mentioned that earlier.
They sat too deep the whole game & were lucky City were so off form.
The back 3 City had left a ton of space in behind that they could have done more with besides pump it up to Calvert Lewin.

Jayop

Everton

Great result from a United POV. Would have preferred an Everton win but ho hum.

All of our main top4/title rivals have already dropped points and mostly it's been against pretty poor teams. Only Spurs have dropped points that would be somewhat acceptable.

irishman86

Everton

Andersonisgod wrote: »

The potential of what could be combined with a league with no particulatly standout contender, they all have big weaknesses.

I agree with that but it doesnt really answer the question
Right now its fine, Kompany is still fit, but if he goes down i cant see city winning

Moist Bread

Andersonisgod wrote: »

The potential of what could be combined with a league with no particulatly standout contender, they all have big weaknesses.

Anyway poor officiating marred an otherwise really intetesting game. City at points in the 2nd half looked better with a man less than when it was level. Still not at all convinced by the 2 striker system but his in-game management is fun for all football fans to watch. Decent result in the end but that sending off probably cost them 3 points.

The ref had a wonderful game. He made some really tough decisions under pressure from the home fans.

City did look a lot better second half,it coincided with Silva having a bigger influence on the game. I think a point each was the right result.

Morzadec

Guardiola embarrassing himself at the end there, running to shake hands with the ref, clearly sarcastically

Jayop

Everton

Just looking at the goal records, only 4 current players have more than two hundred PL goals. Just shows you the massive amount of rebuilding that' been done at all the top clubs the last few seasons.

Rooney joins Shearer as the only 2 with more than 200. After that you have Defoe on 158, Aguero on 123 and Couch on 103.

Moist Bread

Jayop wrote: »

Just looking at the goal records, only 4 current players have more than a hundred PL goals. Just shows you the massive amount of rebuilding that' been done at all the top clubs the last few seasons.

Rooney joins Shearer as the only 2 with more than 200. After that you have Defoe on 158, Aguero on 123 and Couch on 103.

I never knew he was sitting pretty on over 100 PL goals.

dfx-

Everton

M!Ck^ wrote: »

And again

Dives to get Morgan sent off

Dreadful decision

both were clearly yellows, rash tackles on both occasions.

Morzadec

Everton

Morzadec wrote: »

Guardiola embarrassing himself at the end there, running to shake hands with the ref, clearly sarcastically

He was roaring abuse at the 4th official
Gets away with an awful lot

dfx-

Everton

dfx- wrote: »

both were clearly yellows, rash tackles on both occasions.

He dived

Morgan got the ball only

*Edit* embarrassing theatrics to boot. Hope this is the first case for the diving panel.
Source got deleted on twitter. Il update when another appears.

SlickRic

M!Ck^ wrote: »

He was roaring abuse at the 4th official
Gets away with an awful lot

To be fair, all managers get away with that to a ridiculous degree.