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That’s exactly my point too Mikus. City’s system is so much more interchangeable with any of their attacking players, whereas Liverpool’s isn’t as much.
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I really think City’s squad depth will pay off over April and Liverpool’s lack of (up front in particular) could cost them.
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ridiculous VAR decision again there. Never a red
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Arsenal won’t stand a chance against Liverpool. All season they have battled and competed well with teams outside the top 4 but are seriously lacking when playing the top teams.
I don’t think Pep has improved Grealish, but he certainly hasn’t gone backwards. Grealish is just learning that it’s not all about him, which when he was at Villa their entire tactics were to “give it to Grealish”. Now he just needs to learn that he’s no longer the big fish in the small pond.
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Not saying it would have turned out, but IMO opinion they persisted with the wrong manager. They gave Ole waaaay too long to prove he was useless. Jose and LVG on the otherhand didn’t get that luxury. Those are managers who have prestigious backgrounds with records to match. Yes, they may have played dour football and not had the changeroom on their side but my answer to that is well SAF was shit for his first 4 seasons, when he had players who were working against him, he turfed them out. It is clearly not the managers who have been the problem at Man U, it can’t be the players. We were all saying on here at the start of the season that they had finally assembled a squad to challenge City. That leaves the backroom and the people who make the decisions, there must be something toxic not working right there.
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It’s not often that I agree with Roy Keane as I think he just wants to be an arsehole for the sake of being an arsehole most of the time, but in this case, he is spot on. This Man U side is full of soft c0cks! No fight in them whatsoever. If it ain’t easy, they ain’t interested. It was the same under Ole.
The pallying up to the City players at the end was not a good look. This is a derby! If you compare it to the Merseyside Derby this is woeful. Man U are Everton right now. They are not at the races and can only dream to be in the same league as City, but you know what when it comes to the derby, Everton at least bring desire and fight (see Pickford assault on VVD (not condoning it)). Liverpool players and fans know that game is going to be a fight because Everton are not going to lay over. This Man U era are a joke. They need some real generals who are prepared to go nasty if the need be._____________________________
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“I thought Leicester were somewhat lucky today and didn’t deserve to win”
Agreed Adlab, but you know what, these last few months we have deserved to win many games in which we’ve had no luck and lost, sooooo
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I think that is harsh Ed. I do think Bielsa is overhyped, however they have had crazy injury issues all season. When they are already operating with a lean squad, expecting that workrate from the remaining players is a tough ask
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I thought Allison was very lucky on the penalty shout on Dan James. Nailed on pen for me. Could have been a different game had the decision gone the way it should
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He’s impeding his view of the shot from an offside position. That is interfering with the keeper. We’ve had three goals ruled out for offside for exactly the same thing, two in one game against Brighton earlier in the season. This is no different. In fact it is more blatant as Barnes at no point impeded the keeper’s view, whereas Jimenez clearly is
“An attacker in an offside position (A) is obstructing the goalkeeper’s line of vision. He must be penalised because he prevents an opponent from playing or being able to play the ball.”
straight out of the laws of the game!
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Yeah, still not happy with that first goal. How Jimenez couldn’t be judged to be interfering with Schmeichel from an offside position is beyond me!
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Tielemans has been our only shining star this season. I can’t see how we will hang onto him in the offseason. He really has been incredible!
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See, here is the thing. I actually think Ole gets waaay too much praise. In my eyes, he is the accidental hero. He was great for boosting the morale of a team that was low after Jose, but that is just about all he was able to do. Quite frankly, someone like Tim Sherwood could have achieved the same thing as Ole. This whole, “he doesn’t get enough credit for getting us to second” is a furphy! He did it in weird times. COVID, injuries and other clubs transitioning were bigger factors in Ole getting Man U to second. The COVID disruptions were admittedly the same for everyone, however the stop start really did help them when they were transitioning from Jose to Ole. Injuries to other teams, Liverpool, us, Chelsea and their managerial change were all massive factors in how that league table played out.
I’ll use as an example our league win in 2016. is Ranieri a legend in my eyes, yes! Is he an amazing manager, no. I am by no means under any allusions that he was the beneficary of some very favourable circumstances. Don’t get me wrong, he still managed those circumstances better than anyone (clearly). However, in any other season, we would not have won the league, we might not have even finished in the CL spots. Chelsea were in transition, Liverpool were in transition, City were still learning the Pep way and were a shambles. Our main opposition all season were Spurs and a has-been Arsenal outfit.In the grand scheme of things, Ole achieved absolutely nothing and just delayed the desperate rebuild the club needed by 3 years.
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Yeah, I really thought Brighton were the authors of their own demise there. If I’m honest, and I was a huuuuge detractor of Ole’s, I think they look worse now. At least under Ole you’d have the odd bounce back result where the faithful were given false hope into thinking they were “back”. So far under Ragnick, it’s looking worse. I realise he has a huge job to try and turn things around with little time and personel at his disposal and that Ole’s damage will take some undoing.
I live in Australia, where I only have access to the PL games, CL is on a different subscription service which I can’t be effed with. The plus side is I get to see every EPL game wherever and whenever I want. I get better coverage than the average Brit, all for the measley amount of 25 quid a month!_____________________________
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not a red for me. Enough doubt that the Brighton player would/wouldn’t have got there first. For me it needs to be clear to overturn the onfield decision, that was by no means clear
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I don’t have any qualms about it being a handball, the new rule is clear. What I do have a problem with is Antonio’s clear wrestling of Vestergaard. He never once faces the ball and show intent to play it, he burrows his head into his belly all with the sole attempt to stop Vestergaard from making a play at the ball.
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WTF are you on about? Nothing to do with debts or finance or nationalism (or whatever that last God Save The Queen BS was about) and everything to do with the gradual move towards a social credit system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Credit_System
This is precisely where cancel culture takes you
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there’s a brilliant episode of Black Mirror that perfectly sums up this discussion. Whereby you are constantly judged and merited based on behaviours. It is happening currently in China and we are certainly heading that way too. It’s a slippery slide people!
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What many of you are subscribing to based on the posts I’ve seen about Zouma is “Cancel Culture”. I’m not for one second defending his actions, they were very wrong and sick. However the dropping him notion is a slippery slide. How long does he get dropped for? If Moyes drops him for one match, is that enough? Is 10 matches enough? Should he be sacked?
I’m not sure Moyes can really win in this situation. His priority is to pick the best team he can and so long as Zouma’s actions haven’t affected the balance of the rest of the team then that is what he has done. If Police decide to lay charges then there will be a bigger decision to make.
I remember Mahrez being in the news last year for not paying his live in nanny and being accused of slavery. Is that less, worse or the same as animal abuse? Did he get dropped?
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I know the rules on handball changed, but that goal was ridiculous. I support the accidental ones where they deflect accidentally onto the hand, that I am fine with. But the Boro goal was down to a really shit touch, nothing accidental about it. Should have been a Manure freekick.
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