Premier League Games | 20/21 Sept '25

Dippers aren’t the best are they? Every time I watch them, the other team dominate them on the ball and play through their press of headless chickens in the middle and up top.

They’re just absolutely clinical.
This is what I keep saying. Everybody is drooling over them because they have scraped a few results together. In that second half they didn't have a shot for Pickford to save as far as I can remember, and it's been exactly the same in the other two matches I've watched them. They are nothing special at all, a better team than Everton would have beaten them today.

Possession 57-43 (Bet Everton had more in the 2nd half)

Shots on target: 3 - 2

Shot Attempts: 11- 9

Corners: 5 - 4

Saves 1 - 1

That's bang average at home to a bang average Everton side.
 
When they've needed a goal this season they've had 6, 9 11 minutes extra to find one.
When they're protecting a lead this drops to 3 minutes hmmm
Yes, and a corner, throw in and numerous free kicks not given against them. And that was just the 2nd half.

And since when was taking a free kick too quickly a bookable offence?
 
Yes, and a corner, throw in and numerous free kicks not given against them. And that was just the 2nd half.

And since when was taking a free kick too quickly a bookable offence?
KDB at Newcastle a few years ago, he scored and it would have been 2-0 but he got booked instead and we lost to a late penalty…..did spare us on to a mega run to win the league again.
 
I’m not getting overexcited about the dippers wining as I think we are in a season of transition. Tomorrow will be a big test and see where we are from there. Arse, dips, rags, all piss in the same pot so doesn’t matter to me which one wins, though Arsenal would be slightly more palatable than the horrible rag/dip combo.
 
There is.

They are afforded a level of treatment from officials that would make Fergie and his rags blush!
And it's been like this in recent times since that CL game in 2018. It ramped up hugely in the 18/19 season and has continued since, apart from a minor drop off during 20/21 covid season, but there were some shenanigans against Villa towards end of that season that got them the points to qualify for CL.
 

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