2020/21 Premier League & General Football Discussion

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Spurs 0-1 Chelsea.

A Jorginho first half penalty for Chelsea after Dier brought down Werner, Spurs were dreadful in the first half and didn't really do anything but they were better in the second half, Chelsea had a lot more passes and shots and should've scored more but its three clean sheets from Tuchel's first three games in charge, Mourinho has lost two back-to-back home league games for the first time in his managerial career and he has been managing for twenty years!

Southampton appealed the Bednarek red card from Tuesday night and it was successfully overturned meaning he is available for the weekend. Arsenal however lost their appeal to overturn Luiz's red card and I'm staggered by that, the club are fuming and rightly so.

 

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Here the games for this weekend.

Saturday.
Aston Villa v Arsenal (12.30 BT)
Burnley v Brighton (3pm Sky)
Newcastle v Southampton (3pm BT)
Fulham v West Ham (5.30 Sky)
Man United v Everton (8pm Sky)

Sunday.
Tottenham v West Brom (12pm BT)
Wolves v Leicester (2pm Sky)
Liverpool v Man City (4.30 Sky)
Sheffield United v Chelsea (7.15 Sky)

Monday.
Leeds v Crystal Palace (8pm Sky)

 

[andrea]

Wow, Tottenham has **** the proverbial bed. I shouldn’t be surprised though.

 

[Touring Mars]

Rather amusing that West Ham are currently the highest placed London side in the EPL, and well into the second half of the season too.

Spurs are obviously too reliant on Harry Kane... what happened to Gareth Bale though?

 

[FuriousDemon]

Arsenal...you keep on disappointing. Finally looked like things were turning around and now two losses. Just a mediocre team now just floating in the middle of the table. **** me...

 

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Villa 1-0 Arsenal
Newcastle 3-2 Southampton
Burnely 1-1 Brighton
Fulham 0-0 West Ham
Man United 3-3 Everton

Newcastle were 3-1 and cruising at half time thanks to two goals from Almiron and a debut goal for Joe Willock, Minamino on his Saints debut and another fantastic free kick from Ward Prowse with Southampton's goals, Newcastle played the final 17 minutes with nine men after Hendrick got sent and Schar was stretchered off when they had made all three subs.

Soucek was controversially sent off for West Ham against Fulham for an apparent elbow, another bad day for Arsenal and two defeats in a row for them now. United-Everton just finished and United were 2-0 up at half time thanks to a great header from Cavani (and an even better cross in from Rashford!) and a sublime finish from Fernandes, Everton drew level right after half time in three minutes thanks to Doucoure and James but McTominay got the eventual winner, United were largely dominant. But then Calvert Lewin got the equaliser with the final kick of the game!

 

[Jezza819]

That's a tough one for United.

The Newcastle/Southampton game was very entertaining. Had a little bit of everything.

 

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Spurs 2-0 West Brom.
Wolves 0-0 Leicester
Liverpool 1-4 Man City

Alisson had a shocker and gifted City two goals, it was 0-0 at half time but Gundogan missed a penalty in the first half and then scored twice, Foden with a great strike and Sterling with the other City goals, Alisson had two poor kick outs straight to City players both times that led to goals and the second one has horrific, Salah converted a penalty for Liverpool's goal and they looked poor and drained, City now five points clear with a games in hand, the title is theirs for the taking now.

Kane and Son with Spurs goals v WBA, Wolves-Leicester seemed rubbish but I didn't see it as I was watching the Rugby.

Sheff Utd v Chelsea to come tonight.

 

[andrea]

 

[Liquid]

Advantage: Manchester City

Jürgen Klopp needs to change his approach; save before each game and reload FM if he loses.

 

[Dave A]

Some interesting results this weekend, gutted with the United v Everton game. I thought we played really wel for about 90% of the match, but then silly errors at key moment let us down massively. On a positive note, that was one of Mason Greenwoods best performance in a game in which he didn't score a goal. I've been a little critical that unless he's scoring he's often not very involved in matches, but against Everton he was getting all over the pitch, tracking back and really makig an impact. It was great to see that.

We really, really, need another CB, that final goal was so avoidable. And although De Gea has got a lot of stick for it and could have done better, when Calvert-Lewin is one on one like that it's for him to mess up really. The defenders should have dealt with that, but no one reacted. Very poor all round on that, which is a same because otherwise it was a solid performance from the team.

 

[Liquid]

We really, really, need another CB, that final goal was so avoidable. And although De Gea has got a lot of stick for it

Harry Maguire played everyone two yards onside from a dead ball situation. His positioning is terrible.

 

[Dave A]

Harry Maguire played everyone two yards onside. From a dead ball situation, His positioning is terrible.

Indeed, it irritates me that De Gea get's so much flack in the press but Maguire seems to go unnoticed. Maguire plays best with a fast CB alongside him, but even that wouldn't have stopped him doing that on Saturday. He's a good CB, but nowhere near worth what we paid for him. I do think that out of hm and Lindelof he is the better defender, but neither of them dominate set pieces and neither of them are particularly fast so they don't compliment each other at all.

 

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So its Leeds v Palace in the league tonight before FA Cup fifth round this week.

Here are the FA Cup games.

Tuesday.
Burnley v Bournemouth (5.30 BT)
Man United v West Ham (7.30 BBC One)

Wednesday.
Swansea v Man City (5.30 BT)
Sheffield United v Bristol City (7.30 BBC Red Button/iplayer)
Leicester v Brighton (7.30 BT)
Everton v Tottenham (8.15 BT)

Thursday.
Wolves v Southampton (5.30 BT)
Barnsley v Chelsea (8pm BBC One)


Referee Mike Dean and his family received death threats following Mike showing Soucek a red card during the Fulham-West Ham game at the weekend for an accidental elbow, the red card has been overturned today.

Mike will officiate a cup game this week but has requested to be withdrawn from the weekends league games, understandably so....I mean sending a referee death threats, how pathetic is that?!

 

[Jimlaad43]

I really think the Referees need to be allowed to do post-match interviews. It's a tough job and they're just always the villain in every match, so it must be horrible to be that person who's always being abused by every set of fans as you only ever remember the bad decisions, or the ones that go against your teams, rather than any good decisions. A good decision is just thought of as part of the job so of course it's never praised. There are so many dodgy decisions, even with VAR, these days that giving the referees 2 minutes after the match to explain their decision making would be beneficial in two ways. 1: Obviously it lets them say why they did something, which can clear up a lot of decisions before the pundits begin guessing wrongly. 2: After a while, it'll start to impress back on the referees more responsibility to have good reasons for a tenuous decision - meaning it could eradicate the doubt in the referees mind too.
I feel like it would be good to hear what they have to say after a match, seeing as having the ref mic'ed up to the broadcast doesn't seem to be something that's happening soon due to players swearing...........

 

[redhed17]

Harry Maguire played everyone two yards onside from a dead ball situation. His positioning is terrible.

I think you'll find you are wrong there, the most expensive Defender ever shouldn't be terrible at anything to do with defending.

Referee Mike Dean and his family received death threats following Mike showing Soucek a red card during the Fulham-West Ham game at the weekend for an accidental elbow, the red card has been overturned today.

Until there is very public consequences to stuff like this, and people being held responsible for the things they post, preferably legal consequences, the feeling of anonymity and being free to write whatever vile thing comes into one's head, it will continue. Sadly.

It seems to be getting worse because of the lack of accountability.

 

[Dave A]

Referee Mike Dean and his family received death threats following Mike showing Soucek a red card during the Fulham-West Ham game at the weekend for an accidental elbow, the red card has been overturned today.

Mike will officiate a cup game this week but has requested to be withdrawn from the weekends league games, understandably so....I mean sending a referee death threats, how pathetic is that?!

As passionate as people do get over football it should never lead to stuff like that. Whether you like a player or not, a manager, owners or a referee there are ways to express your displeasure without restoritng to this nonsence. There's been loads of abuse online this year, a lot of it racial too and it really needs to be dealt with as seriousely as though you'd said it in person. That they're hiding behind a keyboard is no reason to let it slide.

 

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Burnley 0-2 Bournemouth.
Man United 1-0 West Ham (after extra time)

Bournemouth through to the FA Cup quarter finals for only the second time in their history, Sam Surridge and a Stanislas penalty for the goals, game wasn't a great watch.

United-West Ham was also a snooze-fest, it was attack v defense all game long with United struggling to break an organised West Ham down, West Ham offered little up front with no out-on-out striker (they didn't sign a striker in the January window, which is baffling) United had lots of chances and possession but were not clinical, Scott McTominay with the goal in extra time after some nice build up play, new United youngster Amad Diallo was on the bench but didn't come on for his debut.

 

[Liquid]

It's official. Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney are officially the owners of Wrexham AFC.

 

[Dave A]

United-West Ham was also a snooze-fest, it was attack v defense all game long with United struggling to break an organised West Ham down, West Ham offered little up front with no out-on-out striker (they didn't sign a striker in the January window, which is baffling) United had lots of chances and possession but were not clinical, Scott McTominay with the goal in extra time after some nice build up play, new United youngster Amad Diallo was on the bench but didn't come on for his debut.

You could have started to watch the United v West Hame game in extra time and you wouldn't have missed anything. Didn't Henderson have 1 shot on target to save? It was right at him, and if I recall, even that would have been ruled offside if it had gone in. Not a particularly entertaining game. We did change tactics in extra time, I noticed we pushed higher up the pitch, before extra time there was a big gap between our midfield and our attackers for large periods, but then Fred and McTominay started making more runs forward and that led to the goal.

It was a great run by McTominay. I've never been a particular fan of McTominay in defensive roles, but when he plays in a more box to box role he's great.

It's a shame we didn't get to see Diallo come on, I'm not sure if he didn't come on beucase Ole didn't want to risk it in extra time or becuase he didn't know he could make an extra sub due to the concussion rules. But either way, the important thing is we won the match and we're through to the quarter finals.

 

[Dennisch]

Good to see that the UEFA has no shame what so ever. Spain and Germany aren't allowing English teams to play their European matches there, so instead they will go and infect Hungary and Romania.

 

[Famine]

Good to see that the UEFA has no shame what so ever. Spain and Germany aren't allowing English teams to play their European matches there, so instead they will go and infect Hungary and Romania.

I already have no idea* why football is a thing in lockdown, with groups of 30+ players and support staff moving from city to city twice a week (and at least 20% of all Premier League playing staff have tested positive at some point)...

... but continental and international football is at least a billion times dumber.


Well, not no idea. Money.

 

[Liquid]

UEFA also insisting on having the Euros in 12 different countries. Strongarming through one of the dumbest ideas they've ever had.

Go 🤬 yourself.

 

[Dennisch]

I'm glad I've given up on watching football completely. The only news I still get about it is if it's on the frontpage of my news site. Local businesses are going out of business left and right, and those ****ers are allowed to keep on traveling.

 

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Swansea 1-3 Man City
Leicester 1-0 Brighton
Sheff Utd 1-0 Bristol City
Everton 5-4 Tottenham (after extra time)

The Everton game was one crazy game, Spurs took the lead early and then Everton scored three in six minutes before it was 3-2 at half time, then it was 3-3, 4-3, 4-4 and finally 5-4 with Bernard scoring the winner in extra time, Sigurdsson scored twice and so did Davinson Sanchez.

I haven't talked about Swansea too much this season but we have been doing well in the league as we are in the top three in the Championship, we did pretty well against City but obviously they would have too much for us, goals from Walker, Jesus and Gundogan, new signing Morgan Whittaker got a consolation with a nice finish.

Leicester went through thanks to a 94th minute winner from Iheanacho and a Billy Sharp penalty saw Sheff Utd through after Alfie Mawson was sent off.

Two games tomorrow and the sixth round/quarter final draw.

 

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Wolves 0-2 Southampton
Barnsley 0-1 Chelsea.

Danny Ings goal was eventually given after a long VAR offside check in the only goal off the game, Wolves didn't really do a lot and Southampton deserve the win, Chelsea had a bit of an off night but did enough to win thanks to Abraham's second half strike. Barnsley did well.

FA Cup Sixth Round draw.

Everton v Man City
Bournemouth v Southampton
Leicester v Man United
Chelsea v Sheffield United

Ties will take place on March 20th-21st.

Edit, it was actually 0-2 to Southampton, completely forgot about Armstrong's late goal.

 

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Games for this weekend.

Saturday.
Leicester v Liverpool (12.30 BT)
Crystal Palace v Burnley (3pm Sky)
Man City v Tottenham (5.30 Sky)
Brighton v Aston Villa (8pm Sky)

Sunday.
Southampton v Wolves (12pm Amazon)
West Brom v Man United (2pm Sky)
Arsenal v Leeds (4.30 Sky)
Everton v Fulham (7pm BT)

Monday.
West Ham v Sheffield United (6pm BT)
Chelsea v Newcastle (8pm Sky)

Two league games taking place on Wednesday next week as some teams play their games in hand.

 

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Leicester 3-1 Liverpool
Palace 0-3 Burnley
Man City 3-0 Spurs

Leicester Liverpool was quite even in the first half, Salah gave Liverpool the lead on 67 mins....but then Liverpool collapsed, Leicester scored three in the last 15 minutes from Maddison Vardy and Barnes and Alisson had a shocker for Vardy's goal when he came rushing out of his goal and collided with Kabak leaving Vardy with an open goal to score. Klopp conceded the title race in a press conference afterwards.

Burnley continued their good form, Gudmundsson and Rodriguez scored in the first 10 minutes and Lowton scored a banger early in the second half, City have just cruised past Spurs with Gundogan again stepping up, two goals from him and the other a Rodri penalty, Gundogan's second was a great assist from Ederson and a nice bit of skill to put Sanchez flat on his face, Spurs didn't really do a lot.

Brighton v Villa to come tonight.

 

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Southampton 1-2 Wolves
West Brom 1-1 Man Utd
Arsenal 4-2 Leeds

Didn't watch much of the first game as I was busy but Ings gave Saints the lead and it was 1-0 in at HT and then a Neves penalty and a lovely strike by Neto gave Wolves the win.

Disappointing from United in the second game, Diagne gave WBA the lead after just 78 seconds andt he equaliser came from a great strike from Fernandes right before half time, both teams had good chances and united should've had a penalty after Maguire was brought down but it wasn't given after the ref went to look at it, We didn't really have much going forward and its probably our title challenge over now, a point doesn't do a lot for WBA either as they are still 12 from safety.

Aubameyang is back in form with a hat-trick (a first hat-trick in the PL for him) and a Bellerin strike puts Arsenal 4-0 up before Struijk and Helder Costa made the score a bit more respectable for Leeds, good performance by Arsenal.

Everton v Fulham to come tonight.

 

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Another busy week ahead, Champions League and Europa League return with the knockout rounds. There are a couple of league games on Wednesday which are games-in-hand games, Burnley v Fulham and Everton v Man City and the Burnley game is on Sky at 6pm and Everton-City is on Amazon. There is also Championship, League's One and Two and National League games in mid-week as well.