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The 2022-2023 Football Thread

Apple fanboy said:
Schmichael and Seamen come to mind.
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Among others.

Some modern managers seem to want goalies to be able to play almost as an extra defender, - hence ball skills with your feet - but also to have mastered all of the necessary skills to continue to be an excellent goal-keeper.

That is a tall enough order, not least because a good goalie has to be able to direct the defence.
 
Mourinho and PSG sounds like a match made in hell.

The Championship playoff spots are all set, and there's something to feel good about for all four teams competing for the last promotional spot. Michael Carrick could lead Boro to the top flight, Amad Diallo could do the same for Sunderland. Luton and Coventry haven't been in the top flight for a while, either.
 
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Silencio said:
Mourinho and PSG sounds like a match made in hell.

The Championship playoff spots are all set, and there's something to feel good about for all four teams competing for the last promotional spot. Michael Carrick could lead Boro to the top flight, Amad Diallo could do the same for Sunderland. Luton and Coventry haven't been in the top flight for a while, either.
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Agreed, but the article is well worth reading.
 
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I am dumbfounded...
 
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Patrick Bamford is one of the reasons Leeds are where they are. 6 goals only this season. 48 goals in 140 appearances.

Just not prolific enough for a no.9
 
daneoni said:
Patrick Bamford is one of the reasons Leeds are where they are. 6 goals only this season. 48 goals in 140 appearances.

Just not prolific enough for a no.9
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Wasn't he badly injured relatively recently? Last season, if memory serves? The sort of serious injury that leaves you unable to play for months?

Unfortunately, all too frequently, a player finds it very difficult to come back from an injury of that sort, and rarely regains full fitness with the form they may have had prior to their injury.
 
Scepticalscribe said:
Wasn't he badly injured relatively recently? Last season, if memory serves? The sort of serious injury that leaves you unable to play for months?

Unfortunately, all too frequently, a player finds it very difficult to come back from an injury of that sort, and rarely regains full fitness with the form they may have had prior to their injury.
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He was, and i take your point.

But i've also noticed (this and prior seasons) whenever i've watched Leeds, and he's been on the pitch, his conversion rate hasn't been stellar.
 
daneoni said:
He was, and i take your point.

But i've also noticed (this and prior seasons) whenever i've watched Leeds, and he's been on the pitch, his conversion rate hasn't been stellar.
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He missed a penalty today; whereas, when Leeds promoted a few years ago, he was superb, and an enormous (and positive) influence on how Leeds performed.

My sense is that he has been a shadow of his former self since his return from injury.

However, Leeds - despite having been reduced to ten men (courtesy of a well deserved red card) - held Newcastle to a two all draw.

That is not a bad result at all.
 
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As it stands Southampton will be relegated today. Although in truth it’s been a forgone conclusion for a while.
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Yes, nothing less than a victory, a win, would have given them the most slender chance of salvation, the slightest hope of survival.

But, they didn't win, and have instead lost (to Fulham) by two goals to nil.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
I’d be more concerned about your own game. You still trail to a goal behind Brighton.
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I am concerned.

Half time at nil all sent shivers down my spine.

We are in one of those huffing and puffing moods, much energy expended to little effect.

Thus, I suspect that we may not score - at all - for all of our ferocity in attack.

I also suspect that - mentally, psychologically - the team may have somehow internalised the idea that we will not win the Premier League.
 
Arsenal played like a team that knows they won't win the title but also won't finish outside the top 4.
 
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Well, there goes the title, I'm afraid.

Not that it hadn't been lost to us in recent week, but today serves to confirm it, in my mind.

We have not looked like scoring, not once, not seriously.

daneoni said:
Arsenal played like a team that knows they won't win the title but also won't finish outside the top 4.
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There is an unwelcome, unpalatable, truth to what you have written, alas.
 
Unfortunately, the third goal (for Brighton, in the 96th minute) comes as no surprise.

We were broken - and had given up, collapsed completely, surrendered - after the second goal.

Pity that this should have happened at home, after what has been a very impressive season.

Farewell to the title, although, in truth, we had ceded that a few weeks ago.
 
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