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The 2020-2021 Football Thread
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Hammers have really stepped it up since the goal...should be at least even by now.
All hope gone now! As the song says, “then like my dreams they fade and die! Fortunes always hiding, I’ve looked everywhere. I’m forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air!”
Barcelona are in a “complicated situation” admits boss Ronald Koeman
Barcelona are in a “complicated situation” admits boss Ronald Koeman
Read this news on OneFootball.onefootball.com
Never something a Barca fan would want to read...I bet the Madrid fans are loving this!
"The Catalan giants have already dropped 18 points through their opening 13 rounds of matches and sit in fifth in the standings – eight points from the top of the standings in La Liga."
Almost unprecedented in modern times! Much like the current state of the Premier League, one must say.
I admired the way Barca have played over the last decade and change, but to be honest it's impossible to feel sorry for either Barca or Real when anything unpleasant happens to them. They'll probably always be rich and tend to win everything, so do either of them really ever deserve any sympathy whatsoever?
That's actually a good point - it's easy to feel sorry for a club like Eibar or Celta Vigo, but Real and Barca are really the money clubs that take all the good talent and make it nigh on impossible to compete.
I am a Barca fan, but only in as much as I am not a Madrid fan.
In the time of General Franco, perhaps, when football and versions of political identity were impossibly and inextricably intertwined, but, not now, agreed.
I see the Carabao Cup is throwing up its usual excitement...and Arsenal are already 1-0 down to Man City!
Thank goodness Saints bowed out of this competition early. Gave us a chance to concentrate on the league.
Thank goodness Saints bowed out of this competition early. Gave us a chance to concentrate on the league.
Arsenal are one down (to Manchester City) after two minutes played, before they had even had the merest touch of - the merest sniff of - the ball.
That ended badly...if you're an Arsenal fan.
But like us, it gives them a chance to concentrate on the league.
I do wonder if this may be the final nail in Mr Arteta's coffin though.
But like us, it gives them a chance to concentrate on the league.
I do wonder if this may be the final nail in Mr Arteta's coffin though.
It is too easy - too facie - to blame Mr Arteta; some of these problems have long predated him, and - as with Mr Emery, and late era of Mr Wenger, at the end of the day, the players aren't performing for him.
Frankly, some of those players are just not Premiership standard, and some of those who are Premiership standard, are just not perfuming.
An awful result. Dreadful. Dire.
However, Arsenal are so dismally terminally dreadful - so dire - at the moment, that I almost welcome defeats in cup competitions, so that the team can concentrate on stuff such as basic competence in the League.
As am I.I'm all-in on Brentford for the League Cup.
I'd love to see the Bees win the cup final.
Do you mean concentrate on staying in the league!
I'm all-in on Brentford for the League Cup.
Likewise.
Would love to see them do well.
Spurs fans will be 'stoked' to see both Bale and Kane score against the Potters....
I was quietly supporting the Potters. I do miss Pulis-ball.
I think we might be in a situation where we have no choice but to describe Man Utd as "on fire."
Depends on whether they have a good day or a bad day....
Depends on whether they have a good day or a bad day....
I do agree that my team is on fire, the win today was nice, Cavani is playing well. If they do well on Boxing Day against
Leicester, it will be an added Christmas present.
Check out my beloved WEDNESDAY ... You won't be waxing so nostalgic for too long...
Pretty good game at Goodison Park yesterday. Very good focus and intensity from United, but the finishing was typically wasteful until Cavani stepped up and stroked home a peach of a goal late. I've been pleased to see the overall application from the team straight from the opening kickoff in the past two matches; they'll need to keep it up to avoid another frustrating step backwards.
Meanwhile in Paris, Thomas Tuchel was sacked by PSG and will apparently be replaced by Pochettino. Tuchel is probably even more toxic than Mourinho.
Right now Man Utd remind me a little of Brendan Rogers' Liverpool, not necessarily in style but in their overall strengths and weaknesses. They don't defend particularly well, and make goofy mistakes, but have a variety of attacking players that can penetrate defenses and finish difficult chances. They can hurt you, but also constantly have their fingers on a big red self-destruct button.
Tuchel was once seen as new Klopp of sorts, but they are very different personalities. Not sure if he is Mourinho-levels of toxic or just very sarcastic and uncompromising, but he does not seem a good fit at clubs with lots of politics. Naturally he's already been linked to Arsenal and Man Utd. Since Ole In! seems headed to win the league now, Tuchel does seem a possibility at Arsenal, though my gut instinct is not favorable to that. Is he a better manger than Arteta? Yes. Is he the right person to step in now? Not so sure.
As for Poch, your average glory-hunter fan underrates him because he's won nothing as yet, but that is clearly a silly view IMO. He was close to winning the league and Champions League at Spurs and that was not a fluke. There is no doubt in my mind, for instance, that he is a superior talent to OGS, Frank Lampard, and Mikel Arteta. With PSG he'll scoop up all the domestic trophies in France and *might* get it done in Europe. Especially if Neymar continues his (agonizingly slow) process of becoming an actual grownup and contributing team player.