EPL 2019-20

[yoladu 4172]

5 hours ago, mdmost said:

@yoladu is having himself a great Boxing Day. 

Indeed. I feel a lot better now than I did 6 weeks ago. 4 wins in 6 matches will do that to ya. 
 

14th place on 21 points at the halfway point. I will take it. 

[Schulz2.0 29069]

6 hours ago, mdmost said:

What a strange December for Chelsea. Beat Villa and Tottenham. Lose to 3 bottom half teams. Yet still in 4th and have disappointing Arsenal on Sunday. 

Mourinho rolled out a Dier/Sissoko midfield pairing against Chelsea that couldn't pass their way out of a paper bag. Chelsea rightfully pressed high and kicked our ass. Spurs looked poor against Brighton today until they took out Winks for Eriksen.

Edited December 26, 2019 by Schulz2.0

[IPoopOnWhoop 104]

3 hours ago, Captain Ron said:

13 clear with a game in hand. That will go down to 11 with a City game tomorrow, but damn what a domination.

Unreal what they are doing this year.  As a fan of sports it’s awesome to see a team perform at this level.

[JimmyHoffa 1188]

14 hours ago, IPoopOnWhoop said:

Unreal what they are doing this year.  As a fan of sports it’s awesome to see a team perform at this level.

 

It really is so fun to watch. And you are correct when all the players are bought in and know their roll there is nothing better than watching a team run their system to perfection or as close to it as you can get.   

[Hagbard Celine 11020]

harsh realm

[Firemans4Horn 18344]

This encroachment rule is fucking abysmal. If both teams have 3 guys each early in the box how do you punish the defending team?

[Jive Turkey 12789]

just ridiculous. 

[hobbes2702 13171]

Don’t wanna hear anything about LFC getting calls again.

[maninblack 7975]

Look at Silva. Horshit by Atkinson and this crew.

[maninblack 7975]

Pep parking the bus

[Firemans4Horn 18344]

Saved penalties should just be a goal kick with these rules. Eliminates anyone running into the box. 

[Hagbard Celine 11020]

the thing is it doesn't matter how early you cheat in to the box if there is no rebound.  no fucking common sense at all.

this has been a wild game.  wolves are just as much a threat to grab 4th as city are to catch pool.  both need 3 every match for months.

[maninblack 7975]

Wtf Atkinson

[hobbes2702 13171]

9 minutes ago, maninblack said:

Wtf Atkinson

What now?

[Jive Turkey 12789]

 

[maninblack 7975]

Wolves!!!!

[Jive Turkey 12789]

hell yes!

[Firemans4Horn 18344]

Traore has been world class tonight. 

[Jive Turkey 12789]

Just now, Firemans4Horn said:

Traore has been world class tonight. 

i'd love to see him beat the shit out of alleged tough guy Kyle Walker.

[Jive Turkey 12789]

Wow!!! Is that the dagger?

[maninblack 7975]

[Jive Turkey 12789]

Sterling hits the woodwork.

[Hagbard Celine 11020]

4th is wide fucking open.  total freeforall.

[Buzzrock 15032]

How did the rest of your morning go?

Predictably.

No way Liverpool doesn’t win it all now. Impossible for them to screw it up with this lead.

[maninblack 7975]

 

[Firemans4Horn 18344]

 

[Firemans4Horn 18344]

That was a great goal by Mooy. I see Bournemouth going down. They have no attacking firepower and a ton of injuries. 

[Bone3421 716]

We'll see how the other games play out but after the horrible start my everton top 6 prediction might work out...5 pts back but wolves, Sheffield and manu still have to play the 20th game

 

Make that 4pts if spurs dont equalize/win now

 

 

[LonghornJudas 1113]

Norwich robbed by VAR. That's a garbage decision.

[Firemans4Horn 18344]

This is how the implement VAR in other leagues

 

 

[LonghornJudas 1113]

Atkinson would never do this. It'd take about 20 mins to discuss all the shit calls he makes during a match.

[mdmost 43332]

Wow. What a weird series ending with an own goal by Aurier. 

[Firemans4Horn 18344]

Burnley are garbage. I don’t like united but can’t stand for the type of football Burnley play. 

[LonghornJudas 1113]

Agreed. Boring AF.

Norwich sucks, but I can at least be entertained by their matches.

[Firemans4Horn 18344]

Cool defense

[TexArcher 38449]

Arsenal get away with a blatant penalty.  Why do we have VAR again?

[Hagbard Celine 11020]

chelsea smash and grab.

arsensal in freefall.

[LonghornJudas 1113]

wooooomp wooooooomp

[WBT 20776]

that escalated quickly

[Goo Punch 4275]

1 hour ago, TexArcher said:

Arsenal get away with a blatant penalty.  Why do we have VAR again?

meanwhile Jorginho absolutely should have been sent off and instead he scores the equalizer. this referee has been fucking terrible. 

[mdmost 43332]

That Abraham look like he has a future in this league. 

[Buzzrock 15032]

[Buzzrock 15032]

[mdmost 43332]

First VAR check made sense. Disallowing the Wolves goal was ridiculous. This is like the out of bounds reviews in college basketball and the NBA. 

[hobbes2702 13171]

1 minute ago, mdmost said:

First VAR check made sense. Disallowing the Wolves goal was ridiculous. This is like the out of bounds reviews in college basketball and the NBA. 

That’s exactly how I feel about it. It’s just too much.

[mdmost 43332]

It's one thing when it's just blatantly a bad call or someone is obviously offsides and the linesman misses it. But fractions of a body being off is ridiculous. I agree with Robbie, the rule needs to be changed to a foot offside and not this fraction of an inch of skin. The EPL has to fix this with VAR. It's ridiculous that a brilliant series by the Wolves is disallowed on a minor technicality. 

Edited December 29, 2019 by mdmost

[Buzzrock 15032]

[Buzzrock 15032]

The aspect of VAR that I never see discussed is how do you determine when the ball contact is measured? There’s a window of time (however small) when the foot is in contact with the ball and then the ball leaves the foot. There’s some wiggle room there that could be the difference between off side or not.

[Hagbard Celine 11020]

taylor twellman has as much of a right to an opinion on anything prem as the entire sec has a right to an opinion on anything in college football.

[Buzzrock 15032]

Doesn’t make him wrong