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[Churchlawtonblue]

think grealish would know 1 booking and miss villa game

Are you implying he did it deliberately. Or hat he should have known?

 

[jacko74]

Picking up avoidable bookings through stupidity meaning players will miss important tough away games is also poor imo.

Stupid bookings that players of certain other teams never seem to receive.

 

[ancoats]

Every club goes through a bad patch in the season at times, But it's damage limitation like getting the draw rather than losing that keeps you going, if you look at the table you still fancy us kicking on when it counts, 3 points off the top is nothing and it could be the midweek games that we can go back top of the league,

I will say one thing, when we click and play like we can somebody soon is going to get a thumping

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Got a feeling haaland will be made an example of as well

You can bet your bottom dollar it will be highlighted in the media until charges are brought.

 

[ayrshire_blue]

Wow great minds and all that!! I was just coming on to ask what on earth they were wearing and what colour it was supposed to be!! It was horrendous you are quite correct, in fact I’d go so far as to say it should be banned and the match either awarded to us or declared null and void!! ;-)





I’ve only just watched MOTD2 so only just seen it.

Never open your curtains and it's one of those grey, miserable, depressing overcast days and just think to yourself "Wow, wouldn't a football kit the colour of outside be just lovely"?

 

[Stockton Heath Blue]

Stupid bookings that players of certain other teams never seem to receive.

There was a worse example of kicking the ball away from a Spurs player (RW in 2nd half but can't remember who it was, possible Lo Celso).

 

[Pontypool Blue]

Never open your curtains and it's one of those grey, miserable, depressing overcast days and just think to yourself "Wow, wouldn't a football kit the colour of outside be just lovely"?

On Me old Black and white telly, I could hardly tell WTF (haaland©) was going on!

 

[lazerblue]

F365 to our rescue :) :) (as many times when media is shitting all over us). It still doesn't make feel better after three draw.

Manchester City: The crisis
Manchester City drawing three straight games is getting some people very giddy about a possible title race, as if absolutely nothing has been learned.

City have not lost any of those games but Oliver Brown in the Telegraph is enjoying the notion that they might:


That’s absolute bollocks. They’re closer to Arsenal than they were at the same stage last season, two years ago they were a point behind Chelsea at this juncture and it’s literally only three years since they were eighth after 14 games.

The last time they were top of the Premier League table after 14 games was 2018. They have won four titles in the intervening five years.


Because comparing 18 games to four games is a rock-solid statistical model.


And 17 of those chances came v Chelsea.

And as for Tottenham, the xG for that game was 2.6 to 0.5 in Manchester City’s favour; they did ‘barely give Tottenham a look-in’. If you’re going to talk about ‘statistical merit’, maybe look at some statistics, fella.


And last week v Liverpool, he dribbled past 12 players. His dribbling ‘rate of return’ is the highest in the Premier League by some margin. He had one quite poor game that Brown happened to watch.

Brown then writes about the lack of control being exhibited by Manchester City this season, whose crisis takes them all the way down to third after a run of games against Big Six sides that they will not face again until mid-February, and fails to mention one quite significant fact: They are missing literally the best midfielder in the Premier League.

It seems relevant

F365 to our rescue :) :) (as many times when media is shitting all over us). It still doesn't make feel better after three draw.

Manchester City: The crisis
Manchester City drawing three straight games is getting some people very giddy about a possible title race, as if absolutely nothing has been learned.

City have not lost any of those games but Oliver Brown in the Telegraph is enjoying the notion that they might:


That’s absolute bollocks. They’re closer to Arsenal than they were at the same stage last season, two years ago they were a point behind Chelsea at this juncture and it’s literally only three years since they were eighth after 14 games.

The last time they were top of the Premier League table after 14 games was 2018. They have won four titles in the intervening five years.


Because comparing 18 games to four games is a rock-solid statistical model.


And 17 of those chances came v Chelsea.

And as for Tottenham, the xG for that game was 2.6 to 0.5 in Manchester City’s favour; they did ‘barely give Tottenham a look-in’. If you’re going to talk about ‘statistical merit’, maybe look at some statistics, fella.


And last week v Liverpool, he dribbled past 12 players. His dribbling ‘rate of return’ is the highest in the Premier League by some margin. He had one quite poor game that Brown happened to watch.

Brown then writes about the lack of control being exhibited by Manchester City this season, whose crisis takes them all the way down to third after a run of games against Big Six sides that they will not face again until mid-February, and fails to mention one quite significant fact: They are missing literally the best midfielder in the Premier League.

It seems relevant.

he's obviously not heard that mansour is trying to buy the telegraph, P45 incoming

 

[murcian blue]

Not sure why he even should be last man. They are a countering team, we are susceptible on the counter, but we persistently have 9-10 players in the final third for set pieces

When we have a corner Walker should stay back to cover any fast break

 

[feedmpenzaandhewillscore]

We have, contrary to popular belief, a small squad.

We are currently missing KDB and John Stones, both of whom are key players.

We have other injuries too. And recruits who are (hopefully) adjusting to Pep's system and demands.

Despite all this, inexplicably, we are not in mid-table.

We also have the likes of Kovacic, Nunes, Gomez and Phillips who are not deemed good enough to start making our squad even smaller on options to change a game or rotate. It’s putting pressure on the other core 14-15 players who don’t get rotated and results in more knocks and injuries.