Other EPL week 5 games 20 - 21 Sep

[the count]

Feels like there is a winner coming

 

[Modo]

Please head it in Gvardiol

 

[binomial]

City should've been 2 up, that big lumpy goalhanging robot fucked up again.

Overall a game with little quality where neither side deserved to win.

 

[KopRed]

A defender is coming on for? Arteta's weird.

 

[dee]

1 Liverpool 5 15 +6
2 Arsenal 5 10 +8
3 Spurs 5 10 +7
4 Bournemouth 5 10 +1
….
9 City 5 7 +4
..
11 United 5 7 -2

Too say I’m a happy bunny is more than a little of an understatement

 

[the count]

Great result

 

[aquaman4]

2nd ,3rd,4th and 5th all drew and sixth lost while we won so great week for us.

 

[Modo]

Potential banana skin for us next in the league. Battle of the unbeaten.

 

[zoboroboz]

Saka looks unfit to me. Didn't look like he was keen to make any bursts forward. He was drifting inwards more and more as the game got on.

Citeh's 5-3-2 was really just 5-3-2 in name... with a zero striker lineup, it was more 5-5-0 in form. Strange that Haaland was taken off, totally lost any attacking potential after that.

Any result bar an Arsenal win was good for us today, so I'll gladly take this.

 

[Buddha]

Arsenal away to Newcastle next week…

 

[Shadey]

Potential banana skin for us next in the league. Battle of the unbeaten.

Slots bogey team.

 

[Modo]

Slots bogey team.

I wouldn't go that far. 1W, 1D, 1L and the loss was in the Charity shield, with us missing Gravy.

 

[tombrown]

I wouldn't go that far. 1W, 1D, 1L and the loss was in the Charity shield, with us missing Gravy.

We didn't lose in the shield

 

[peterhague]

We didn't lose in the shield

And the draw in the PL was a dead rubber when we'd been on holiday for about a month.

 

[Modo]

We didn't lose in the shield

I seem to remember Palace lifting the shield, but I could be wrong.

 

[the count]

6 Premier League teams played CL football midweek.

Only Liverpool took all 3 points.

 

[mike2903]

The first one was on Collins I think, for letting the ball bounce

Collins played a part in all 3 and the disallowed goal. First time I've really noticed him playing and couldn't believe how bad he was considering he was getting linked with the top 4 for most of the summer.

 

[mike2903]

There were rumours this week that Utd backed out due to fee / agents / wages totalling about 130m…

Rumours of £450k a week which is nuts for a goalkeeper

 

[Markeh]

450k a week to not watch onana play doesn’t seem unreasonable, depends how you frame it

 

[Squiggles]

We've been a bit shit for periods and we're on track to win the league by 38 points.

Meanwhile


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[the count]

 

[peterhague]

That's misleading because Leicester had a game in hand in 15/16 which they won to reduce City's lead to 4 points.

So it's only really happened once before, which is when we ran away with it under Klopp.

 

[Dreambeliever]

1 Liverpool 5 15 +6
2 Arsenal 5 10 +8
3 Spurs 5 10 +7
4 Bournemouth 5 10 +1
….
9 City 5 7 +4
..
11 United 5 7 -2

Too say I’m a happy bunny is more than a little of an understatement

We need to get on top of goal difference. This winning every game business will backfire!

 

[Frogfish]

We need to get on top of goal difference. This winning every game business will backfire!

When was the last time the PL was won on GD?

 

[Frogfish]

Interesting comments from Walcott & Given on Arsenal - "played like they didn't know each other", "despite the stats didn't dominate", "look at the lack of shots, 12 (3)", "they got lucky today".

Also Neville saying the Arsenal goal was offside and VAR a disgrace for not checking? True?

 

[KopRed]

Interesting comments from Walcott & Given on Arsenal - "played like they didn't know each other", "despite the stats didn't dominate", "look at the lack of shots, 12 (3)", "they got lucky today".

Also Neville saying the Arsenal goal was offside and VAR a disgrace for not checking? True?

Not sure about that.

Arsenal played the typical left to right, right to left passing with no penetration and hope Saka does something special but he didn't. City was fairly comfortable until the 92nd mins where they pushed so high up the pitch for no reason and got punished for it.

Martinelli was comfortably onside based on the replays.

 

[Frogfish]

Not sure about that.

Arsenal played the typical left to right, right to left passing with no penetration and hope Saka does something special but he didn't. City was fairly comfortable until the 92nd mins where they pushed so high up the pitch for no reason and got punished for it.

Martinelli was comfortably onside based on the replays.

So you're agreeing with them then.

Thanks for clearing up the offside.