Premier League Games 24/25 August 2024

[SkyBlueFlux]

The fawning whenever Alexander-Arnold plays the kind of basic pass other players do ten times per game with zero fanfare makes me irrationally angry.

Perfect example there, Jensen whips in a lovely cross. Not even a mention. If "Trent" did that, they'd still be chatting about it ten minutes later.

 

[I'm Blue]

You can’t polish a turd.
Sky are giving it a good go though.

 

[dubblue]

Why not play it on ref??ffs

 

[malg]

About one-in-five direct free kicks in the final third are taken as shots. About 5% of them are scored - generally between 15-30 per season or one every one to two weeks - though last season was an all-time low of about 3.88%.

The low success rate has led to a trend of fewer shots being taken by teams unless the positioning is more optimal:

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Nice one, thanks. I wonder if that 1 in 5 is different when it's in front of goal. I'm guessing in the final third would include the ones out wide where it's obviously a cross into the box. However, the success rate is poor and I wonder how many of them are ballooned over

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

‘‘Twas only going to be a matter of time.

 

[TinFoilHat]

 

[DTKOAG]

Atwell is shite

 

[paulchapo]

Brentford probably should be level.

If only they had a proven goalscoring center forward.....

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Thank fuck that didn’t go in. They’d still be replaying it next summer.

 

[paulchapo]

Atwell is shite

He's always been shite. I'm sure he was fast tracked a few years ago by pigmol as their shining star. He was shite then, is shite now but they of course won't admit they got it wrong.