General Premier League Thread 2024-25

The keepers really made a big difference in this game. Reya keeps it 0-0 with a huge save and then Martinez fumbles one in to go two behind and put the game beyond Villa.

You go away to any side in this league, and you expect to have to defend and make saves, if you're good enough to do that you can then win the game.

Great away victory, Arsenal face Villa today, then Brighton, Spurs, Man City , Leicester, Southampton, Bournemouth, Liverpool, Newcastle, Chelsea, Forest, WH, Man U. Tough 3 months.

That's a massive win for Arsenal.

They were second best for large spells, and rode their luck, but still came out on top. That Aston Villa performance would beat a lot of teams.

Big physiological boost after losing their last year. Wining away at a CL club too.

Everton play a real dogs**t style of football. They’ve been playing it since Dyche arrived. It’s putrid stuff, hoof after hoof after hoof. I know the resources available are limited, but if they had more money they’d just buy players that can win more headers. If they go, they won’t be missed.

Which stats? Villa created the best chances of the game (higher xg to back it up) but Arsenal were clinical and Villa were wasteful.

It's good to see Emery finally get the credit he deserves these days, great manager, who never got the credit he deserved for what he did at Valencia.

He was a victim of his own success at Valencia. Valencia generally the 3rd best team in Spain, often the best, in the early 00s. But by 08 the money had gone, and the players being sold, in huge debt, but for most of his tenure kept them where they were, which was unbelievable.

And because of that, fans still expected Valencia to push on and overtake Barca and Madrid, not realizing the trouble the club was in, as Emery had kept them at that level, rowing against the tide.

How it ended for him there leaves a bitter taste, despite the incredible job he did, and to this day, never got the credit for it tbh

This is a very long way of saying that Arsenal had more of the ball and more shots, but that Villa created a higher quality of chance for their shots, and yet Arsenal were more clinical with their chances.

Which is basically what I said in the first place, but sure look.

How many more shots on target? How many more shots?

If I told you Villa half more shots, had three shots on target and one off the post compared to Arsenal's four on target would you call that a major difference?

Funny the way you claim Arsenal had more shots, untrue, and one more shot on target and make a big deal of it and then say the difference in xG was minimal when it was 1.35 Vs 1.13.

Yeah, he's been shipped off to Marseille

Ryan Giggs

Looks like Ipswich are signing players to bounce straight backup next season.

Yeah thats true and Everton looking terrible too. Could be between them 2 and saints for last 2 spots assuming Leicesters deduction. Although I think Leicester would have finished last anyway.

I believe 34 points is the least a team has ever stayed up with and that was in 2004. Am I way off the mark?

Fantastic first half in Wolves/Chelsea, Wolves look great breaking forward in numbers and the crowd roaring them on makes for a great atmosphere. So often the crowd is muted on TV. Great finish by Palmer for Chelsea's second but I fancy Wolves to pinch this. Hope it's more of the same second half.

Absolutely wild 1st half. Great fun to watch

Insane how injury prone Lavia looks - finally came into the starting 11 last week after missing his whole first year, was their best midfielder, and now straight back out injured again.

Bournemouth win it at the end!

EDIT: VAR'd out

how is that not a red for joelinton? effing ridiculous

Sends off the Bournemouth coaching staff and not joelington just awful few minutes for thr officials

David Coote really is a terrible official.

Regards,

P.

Jota is an absolutely brilliant player. Makes such a difference when he’s fit.

Do others think Maupay was right to complain about getting verbal abuse at the train station? He's complaining it shouldn't be considered as normal. But I wonder does he think that getting paid £50,000 a week is normal? I don't think it's ok if any of the abuse was personal or about relatives, eg. 'you're a ****'. But if the abuse was along the lines of 'you played sh1t today', then I think he has to accept that's part of the £50,000 a week package.