2020/21 Premier League & General Football Discussion

[MUSC4EVER]

So the end of the season is upon us, its the final day this coming Sunday.

Before that there is a full League fixture list on Tuesday and Wednesday this week and more importantly fans are back!

Here are this weeks games.

Tuesday.
Man United v Fulham (6pm Sky)
Southampton v Leeds (6pm Sky)
Brighton v Man City (7pm BT)
Chelsea v Leicester (8.15 Sky)

Wednesday.
Everton v Wolves (6pm Sky)
Newcastle v Sheffield United (6pm Sky)
Tottenham v Aston Villa (6pm Sky)
Crystal Palace v Arsenal (7pm BT)
Burnley v Liverpool (8.15 Sky)
West Brom v West Ham (8.15 Sky)

Sky Sports are reporting that Harry Kane has told Spurs he wants to leave in the Summer.

 

[Jimlaad43]

Roy Hodgson to leave Palace at the end of the season, and seemingly retire from management.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/57155593

 

[andrea]

Cavani being lazy

Spoiler

Offside. VAR pls

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Man United 1-1 Fulham
Southampton 0-2 Leeds
Brighton 3-2 Man City
Chelsea 2-1 Leicester

Brighton had a famous comeback win over the champions, Gundogan gave City the lead early on but then had Cancelo sent off, Foden scored a brilliant solo effort before Trossard, Webster and Burn gave Brighton a big win.

Chelsea just beat Leicester in a big win for for them, Rudiger and a Jorginho penalty gave Chelsea the lead before Iheanacho pulled one back, top four is pretty much done for Chelsea whereas if Liverpool beat Burnley tomorrow then Liverpool overtake Leicester into fourth.

Cavani scored a worldie for united but were poor in the second half, Joe Bryan with Fulham's equaliser but second place is now guaranteed for United with Leicester's loss, Bamford and Tyler Roberts got Leeds goals who move up to eighth and are guaranteed a top half finish.

 

[andrea]

So far we have

Shearer
Henry
Cantona
Keane
Lampard
Bergkamp

Two slots left. If Lampard is there, I’m sure Gerrard will be one of the remaining two.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Spurs 1-2 Villa
Newcastle 1-0 Sheff Utd
Everton 1-0 Wolves
Palace 1-3 Arsenal
Burnley 0-3 Liverpool
West Brom 1-3 West Ham

Spurs terrible at the back against Villa, Reguilon with a pretty great own goal and a Watkins strike gives Villa the win, Kane looked like he was saying goodbye afterwards, Willock and Richarlison got the goals for Newcastle and Everton. Roy Hodgson got a guard of honour before his last home game in charge of Palace, Pepe got two for Arsenal and Martinelli with the other and Benteke got Palace's goal.

Liverpool looked pretty comfortable but Burnley had some good chances, Firmino, Philips and Ox-Chamberlain with the goals there. Pereira gave WBA the lead before Soucek, Ogbonna and Antonio gave West Ham the win.

Fantastic to have fans back in the stadiums. 👍

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Steven Gerrard and David Beckham are latest Premier League Hall Of Fame inductees.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Nuno Espirito Santo will leave Wolves at the end of the season.

Done a brilliant job there, probably taken them as far as he can.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Tomorrow is the Premier League final day, Man City have been crowned champions and will have their trophy presentation tomorrow and Fulham, West Brom and Sheffield United have been relegated, so its the top four and European places to play for.

Every game is televised at the same time so it will be a busy few hours tomorrow afternoon.

Here are the games.

Arsenal v Brighton (Sky Sports Arena)
Aston Villa v Chelsea (Sky Sports Action)
Fulham v Newcastle (Sky Sports Mix)
Leeds v West Brom (BT Sport 2)
Leicester v Tottenham (Sky Sports Football)
Liverpool v Crystal Palace (Sky Sports Main Event)
Man City v Everton (Sky Sports Premier League)
Sheffield United v Burnley (BT Sport 3)
West Ham v Southampton (Sky One)
Wolves v Man United (BT Sport 1)

All games kick-off at 4pm.

3rd Chelsea 67 +23
4th Liverpool 66 +24
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5th Leicester 66 +20
6th West Ham 62 +12
7th Tottenham 59 +21
8th Everton 59 +4
9th Arsenal 58 +14

There is Champions League, Europa League and the new UEFA Conference League places to play for, and Leicester play Tottenham.

 

[Touring Mars]

Hats off to Villarreal... holding Atletico Madrid to 1-1 is impressive, but beating Real Madrid at the same time is bloody impressive!

 

[Jezza819]

I imagine Alisson will get a huge reception from that limited crowd at Anfield.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Atletico have won La Liga.

 

[Hasnain282]

Robert Lewandowski set a new Bundesliga goalscoring record picking up his 41st league goal of the season

 

[NAXEHT]

Robert Lewandowski set a new Bundesliga goalscoring record picking up his 41st league goal of the season

Ridiculously good. In only 29 matches.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Arsenal 2-0 Brighton
Fulham 0-2 Newcastle
West Ham 3-0 Southampton
Leeds 3-1 West Brom
Man City 5-0 Everton
Sheffield Utd 1-0 Burnley
Liverpool 2-0 Palace
Leicester 2-4 Spurs
Villa 2-1 Chelsea
Wolves 1-2 Man United

3rd Liverpool 69 +24
4th Chelsea 67 +22
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5th Leicester 66 +18
6th West Ham 65 +15
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7th Spurs 62 +23
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8th Arsenal 61 +16

Leicester blew it big time today, they were 1-0 and 2-1 up v Spurs and had a Champions League spot but they threw it away, two penalties for Vardy and Spurs goals came from Kane, an OG from Schmiechel and two goal from Bale.

Arsenal were finishing ahead of Spurs for quite a while and getting the only Conference League place but Spurs nick it in the end and Arsenal miss out on Europe altogether.

Chelsea had an off day and had Mendy off injured at half time but results else where meant it didn't matter, Liverpool were comfortable v Palace thanks to two Mane goals.

Elsewhere, Aguero scored twice on his last City appearance and youngster Anthony Elanga got his first Man United goal.

So just to wrap up, Liverpool and Chelsea in the Champions League, Leicester and West Ham in the Europa League and Spurs in the new UEFA Conference League.

 

[Dave A]

Some good performances from the younger players in the United v Wolves match, we had United on one screen and Liverpool on another (the wife is a Liverpool fan ). Van de Beek was fantastic today, Amad and Tuanzebe also both played great and Mejbri looked good when he came on. Some of the others playd well too, and if this does end up being Mata's final game for the club, I'm pleased he capped it off with a goal .

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Harry Kane won Golden Boot for a third time with 23 goals scored this season, he also won the playmaker award for most assists with 14, Ederson won Golden glove award for most clean sheets with 19.

Lille have won French Ligue Un.

Rio Ferdinand was subject to a racist gesture from a Wolves fan whilst he was working for BT Sport at Molineux, the person was ejected from the stadium and then arrested.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Roberto Martinez in talks with Spurs about the managerial position, Martinez is leaving his Belgium job after the Euros.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Antonio Conte has left Inter Milan after winning Serie A with them, Inter are in pretty deep trouble financially and Conte was told to cut the wage bill by 20% and sell big name players, he wasn't given assurances that he could replace those players once they are sold, he leaves by mutual consent.

Curiously Lille manager Christoph Galtier is set to leave after winning Ligue Un to join Nice who finished in 8th.

Europa League final between Villareal and Man United tonight!

 

[Touring Mars]

My mate's Dad used to be a football coach in Avila, Spain and one of the kids he used to coach is on the bench for Villareal tonight in the Europa League Final... would be great if Rubén Peña gets to play!

 

[Famine]

Lol. 20 scored penalties and it goes to the keepers...

... and of course De Gea screws it up

 

[redhed17]

When it got to the penalties they mentioned de Gea hadn't saved a penalty since I think 2016, and in that time Henderson had saved 6. Most of the penalties were excellent. When it got to the keepers, the Villarreal keeper looked terrified, but scored a great penalty. Then it was down to de Gea, and with the way his career has gone over the last year or two, it was not a surprise the way it ended.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Devastated...

It was a poor game overall with only 3 shots on target in the 120 mins (!!!) and we just weren't good enough again, a bit better in the second half but not that much better and Ole picked the strongest eleven he had available to him and I don't know if he got it wrong tactically or it was a game to far at the end of a very long season, only Cavani and McTominay played well, and McTominay was the best player on the pitch IMO.

That shootout was extraordinary, almost every penalty was near perfect with even defenders either coolly finishing in the corner or blasting it in the top of the net, De Gea was getting nowhere near some or them and I guess it was almost fate that he had his saved!

Rashford and Fernandes were in tears but Rashford spoke really well afterwards, I don't know where we go from here, questions are being raised about Ole again about his tactical nous and his reluctance to use subs. Massive Summer ahead!

Congrats to Villareal and Emery who got it spot on tonight, what is it with Emery and the Europa League huh?!

 

[88GTA]

Even after finishing 2nd in Serie A on Sunday and securing Champions League football for the first time in 7 years, Dollarumma will officially leave AC Milan when his contract ends next month. I wish him all the best if he leaves Italy, hopefully Man U or Barcelona. If he goes to Juventus...

Props to Maldini and company for not being held ransom again. They are rumored to have signed "Magic" Mike Maignan from Lille as a replacement. Maignan had the most clean sheets in all of Europe's top 5 leagues and allowed only 22 goals over the teams entire 38 games.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Allegri set to rejoin Juventus to replace Pirlo who will be sacked.

Real Madrid confirmed today that Zindine Zidane has left as manager again, Conte the early favorite for that job

Pochettino is reportedly in talks with Spurs about returning there, doesn't make much sense for him to go back though.

Sheffield United have appointed Slavisa Jokanovic as their new manager, he previously won promotion to the PL with Watford and Fulham.

Busy day of managerial news!

 

[andrea]

The way he says it. Gets me every time.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Domestic season ends with the Football League play-offs this weekend starting with the Championship play-off between Brentford and Swansea later today.

I of course would love to see a Swansea win and for them to get back in the Premier League, I unfortunately cant watch the game however.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

Brentford have been promoted to the Premier League, they beat Swansea 2-0 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley today.

A Toney penalty and a Marcondes strike against a disappointing Swansea side who had no shots on target all game and had Fulton sent off for a bad challenge.

First time that Brentford have made to the Premier League and the first time they have been in the top flight since 1946! they also have won promotion via the play offs at the 10th attempt.

 

[Famine]

Brentford have been promoted to the Premier League, they beat Swansea 2-0 in the Championship play-off final at Wembley today.

A Toney penalty and a Marcondes strike against a disappointing Swansea side who had no shots on target all game and had Fulton sent off for a bad challenge.

First time that Brentford have made to the Premier League and the first time they have been in the top flight since 1946! they also have won promotion via the play offs at the 10th attempt.

It's also the first time ever that a team which has a home strip of red and white striped shirts with black shorts has won a playoff final...

... in SEVENTEEN attempts.

 

[MUSC4EVER]

I don't know where Swansea and Steve Cooper go from here. Cooper has done a great job on a shoe-string budget and taken the club to consecutive play-offs. He has been linked with the Palace and West Brom jobs.