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Sean why bother watching football if you’re so sure on the outcome?
Actually I know why you’re being so negative, its self preservation against disappointment. Don’t like or agree with it however.
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You raise an interesting point pagan about the subs in injury time will be interesting when that situation occurs. Or theres a contingency plan purely for subbing keepers.
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Think they’re scrapping the away goal next season, anyone confirm that?
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I think some of the rule changes will improve the game. For instance the ones about subs going off at the nearest part of the pitch not just the technical area or no subs in injury time. How often do we see a substitution in the 92nd minute and the player is as far away as possible and walks over in slow motion? Kills any momentum and excitement, which is exactly what the winning team wants, but as a neutral or fan of the losing team it infuriated me.
Some I don’t understand the need for. No rebounds from penalties. No attackers in the wall. Why? These worked perfectly ok in the first place.
The handball will cause most debate I’m sure. I think they are trying to make it clearer by saying pretty much everything is handball but safeguarding against attackers deliberately flicking the ball towards the arm, ala Suarez. The whole “close to the body and not made their shape unnaturally bigger” is open to interpretation. To me Llorente’s goal would fall within this category and therefore be a goal, but maybe this only applies to defending teams and penalties. The whole arm in natural position is funny as the most unnatural position is to tuck both of them behind your back!
As said before I cannot be sure if these changes will happen or are pure speculation.
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Nine I disagree about the goal would not of counted next season. It was not scored with the hand, it was clearly the hip. It was not created by the hand either, it merely brushed it on the way to contacting the hip and this brush made no difference. It was neither intentional or avoidable. Goal for me.
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After yesterdays epic battle between City and Spurs Saturdays match has nil nil written all over it!
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Actually we were all over the place for the first 20 minutes or so. If Porto had a striker that could actually strike the ball well then we would of been in trouble.
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I’ve seen the video where you can see the ball hit the elbow and the arm moves with the impact, but still not a pen. He was moving his arm away and it brushed it on the way to hitting his hip which forced it over the line. No intention, arm in a natural position, not the decisive contact, not a pen.
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Hightown, can understand where you are coming from but I have to agree with Nil that VAR is there to serve a greater purpose. Imagine if Sterlings goal was given and then Spurs fans had to watch it over and over again on TV relays? They would be understandably livid that they were robbed of a first Champions League semi-final and a good chance of winning it.
As someone who no longer goes to matches but instead watches from the comfort of the living room I think it adds excitement, almost like pantomime. I want to ref to indicate his decision by use of a Roman Emperor style thumbs up or down just to add to drama. But again, can understand the frustration and confusion VAR causes in the stadium. It’s not perfect, maybe never will be, but it was used in 3 decisions last night that an unaided human couldn’t call and got them all correct.
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Whenever I’ve watched Utd play recently I’ve had no idea what style of football they actually play. Are they are counter-attacking team? Long ball? Possession? Press or stand off? Utd need to establish their playing identity and work towards getting the players that fit it.
There was an incident last night when Barca were playing around at the back and the Utd forwards were pressing. The ball went back to Ter Stegen who passed it through the middle I think to Arthur who didn’t have a Utd player within 30m. It was like half the team were pressing, the others just standing off retaining shape. If you press from the front it’s bad enough giving the goalie an easy option but even worse if that option actually gives an opportunity to start an attack.
Pogba needs someone to do all the dirty work in midfield. If you stuck Kante there Pogba would be free to do what he is good at and you’d have a world class midfield. Matic and the other midfielders just are not good or mobile enough.
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Just bear with it for 90 minutes and then never speak about it again!
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This feels different to 2014. Then I felt like we didn’t belong at the top as a title challenger, that we were just experiencing a freakish season (with a freakish goalscoring Suarez it must be said!), and we would return to being also rans the next season. This year we deserve to be this close, we are a much better balanced team with a fantastic manager. No matter what happens in the next few weeks we as LFC supporters can be very proud of the teams performances this season that rightly puts us back amongst today’s very best.
Still bloody hope we win it mind…
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The two north London teams are favorites for top four in my opinion, and for Utd to stand a chance of getting there I think they will need to win every single game. And that obviously includes next week against City were I will be unashamably cheering on those from Salford!
Last night was a big result from Arsenal if not a big performance, especially given their away form.
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Robertson is banned nil, too many yellow cards.
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Was just about to post something similar about Sanchez!
I’ll throw another couple of overrated into the pile, Harry Macguire and Davinson Sanchez. Both look good on the highlights reel because they can head the ball but postionally they are all over the place and are pretty poor defenders . A bit like Matip. Except they can head.
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Really Mikus? I actually think opposition teams let him stride forward knowing he will lose control at some point and leave a massive hole for them to counter attack.
Anyway, back to topic, most underrated: Wan Bissaka, although he is getting more plaudits these days
Most overrated? going to controversial and say Harry Kane. He is a good striker, maybe even a great one, but he is not the living Saint the English press make out. And I think Spurs play better football without him in the team.
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He often gets criticised for not doing this but Klopp got his subs spot on and early enough to make the difference.
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Sounds like another stepping stone to the inevitable elitest European Super League for the already super rich and super powerful, where we can all pay obscenely expensive TV subscriptions to watch Neymar and co rolling around every week. If this happens I’ll join you Chucky in hanging up my jersey, if I indeed had one.
But going back to what you wrote, are you saying that it will just be the same participants every year, based on how successful/much money they can make at the moment? So the rich get richer and the poor, well who cares about the poor right? Read somewhere something about promotion and relegation, and weekend matches, but surely that is a step some time in the future towards to the inevitable?
If they are going to do it historically I think they should not be so selective on the era, so that England’s four representatives will be Liverpool, Man Utd, Nottingham Forest and a toss of a coin between Chelsea and Aston Villa.
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Sean, you mean it looks like City might get over 90 points and finish second
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“but it will be interesting to see what the season average was between City and Liverpool .”
Not really, the figures will not be a true reflection on the actual attendance as season ticket holders are counted whether they go or not. And not just City, all teams do it that I think, or at least Arsenal do when people questioned their empty seats. So when they say the stadium was 98% full but my eyes tell me probably around 60% I know which to believe!
Not having a dig at City, more of a dig at the way football has become.
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