General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

How did Enzo not get a foot on either of those two balls and turn them towards goal. The first one especially.

Looks like the spotlight that’s been shone on City’s 115 charges since the Everton points decision is eating in on Guardiola & the team. Good.

I don't know what to make of Enzo, I was expecting this all action box to box beast, he doesn't look related to a footballer half the time. He surely can't be that bad?

Caicedo, I know he can play, but they were just strolling past him tonight. Somethings not right there. If things went differently during the summer, I'd be expecting him to be bossing it in Liverpools midfield right now, so I think he can get back to that level.

That Chelsea performance is up there with one of the worst I've witnessed, from a so called to tier side in a long long time.

Arsenal have Villa, Brighton and Liverpool up next. If they get 5 points out of that, I think they'll be proper contenders.

league wide open now - between 3 - hopefully end City monopoly

I said 3

City will be targetting 4 wins from 4 in their best run of games - Luton, Palace, Sheffield United & Everton.

Arsenal play Villa and Liverpool in the mean time.

Never write them off as they are still the team most equipped to go on a run of 10+ wins in a row.

I'd love them to do it, but cant see them keeping it up, hope Im wrong

Suppose it depends on who you ask?

And still 5th, with a huge difference in GD.

And as the old saying goes,

Spurs be spurs and will spurs it up.

Absolutely.

The busy Christmas period will be fantastic excitement.

Ah now I see.

Good man.

Not even half way yet. Bit early to be making bold claims. Personally I still think City win the league. I suspect Liverpool and Arsenal push them pretty close but don't topple them

Why is midweek MOTD always at such a ridiculous hour? You'd think there'd be an even greater call for it to at a reasonable time than the weekend ones...

Sheffield were hanging out of Liverpool players anytime a corner went in, Van Dijks goal is absolutely fine in that sense. I assume you are alluding to Nunez winning the ball before he crosses it to Szbo for his goal it was a great tackle and won the ball.

If Salah and Diaz didn't stink the place out Liverpool would have hammered Sheffield, who themselves I think had 1 or 2 shots on target

City will go on there usual run 10 game winning run after Christmas and walk the league as per usual.

Same thing literally happens every year. Would loge to be proved wrong but can't see anything else especially with De Bruyne returning.

Him and Rodri are their best players so even they can struggle a bit with them missing as the squad doesn't seem to be as good as last season. Kovacic and Nunes haven't really settled in yet but Gundogan is a huge loss so far.

I didn’t watch the game only the highlights.

They literally said all of what I said on MOTD, bar they reckoned VVDs goal was probably ok, however Sheffield should have had a peno and Nunez scissor tackle from behind should’ve been a free kick ruling out pools second goal. This is what the pundits said not just me.

11/10 Man City

11/4 Arsenal

15/4 Liverpool

33/1 Aston Villa

50/1 Tottenham, Newcastle

100/1 Man Utd

1000/1 and bigger, the rest. If you had told me in August that Chelsea would be 1000/1 as December starts!

Because Pep is so particular about how he needs his teams to play. You'll find there are little kooks in the way they play that we don't see, and until Pep irons them out, he won't trust them.

It's also why losing Gundogan, as well as the KDB and Stones injuries, has made them look very, very different.