EPL 2020/2021
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god i hope this is true
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@Kiwiwomble Please please be true!!!
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@Hooroo said in EPL 2020/2021:
@Kiwiwomble Please please be true!!!
I heard something about this on a football podcast so I think it is indeed true!
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2020/2021:
@Hooroo said in EPL 2020/2021:
@Kiwiwomble Please please be true!!!
I heard something about this on a football podcast so I think it is indeed true!
Look at his swede!! It actually looks round as a football!!! Soooo good!
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@Hooroo said in EPL 2020/2021:
@KiwiPie said in EPL 2020/2021:
@Hooroo said in EPL 2020/2021:
@Kiwiwomble Please please be true!!!
I heard something about this on a football podcast so I think it is indeed true!
Look at his swede!! It actually looks round as a football!!! Soooo good!
Looks like that Italian ref that used to go around. Or those gay bald test netball refs
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Liverpool keep on winning to go top despite consistently going a goal down - starting to look like United during peak Fergie where they can play relatively poorly yet still find a way to win. Lots of teams close to the top in this strange season but none of them looking like they can seriously challenge for the title if Liverpool and City start to get consistency.
Thoughts on the penalty that Kane won? It looked a foul the other way to me. A bouncing ball that Lallana is running to jump and head clear and Kane puts his body in the way to take the contact and sprawl to the floor. Would have been a yellow if he'd done it in rugby. Kane is one of the smartest for playing the ref though.
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Fulham win the dance of the desperate 2-0 at home against WBA and move (for now) out of the bottom three.
Are we doomed as everyone suggests? My hope is that the team has really only had a few weeks together and will improve. I'd argue that their off season was even more truncated than the teams that featured in Europe. Couldn't even hope to make a signing until it was confirmed we were coming up etc
We've had two bad losses against teams in the top 1/3 of the table, 3 losses by the odd goal against teams in the middle third and taken points (should have been 6) against the fellow strugglers.
Unfortunately our next 5 games are: West Ham, Everton(h), Leicester, Man City, Liverpool(h)....
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@canefan said in EPL 2020/2021:
@KiwiPie evened out because they were robbed by VAR and the ref on the Brighton goal. Spurs scrambled the points despite not playing great, still very much a work in progress
The Brighton equaliser should have been ruled out once it went to VAR and the ref saw it on the screen - a definite foul. Should it have been referred to VAR at all? Arguable as although a goal followed before the ball went out, the foul wasn't a direct contributor to the goal - indirect as it removed a potential defender.
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@Bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:
I was happy to break a 14-yr drought at Old Trafford. Partey and Gabriel are proving to be great signings and Elneny looks to be a completely different player this season.
Arsenal look much more structured but they just lack a certain something - maybe it's a method of actually creating regular chances which can happen if you have 2 central midfielders who are grafters and you rely on 3 strikers to make things happen often without space to do so. United were awful, especially in the first half - just sitting back and letting Arsenal have the ball. It can work if the other side commits too many men forward but when the other side is cautious, it just makes for a tedious goal. Luckily for Arsenal, Pogba stepped up when they needed him. Ole secure in his job for the moment, but I'm not sure he would be if there were 76,000 people watching their 4 home league games so far.
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@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:
Fulham win the dance of the desperate 2-0 at home against WBA and move (for now) out of the bottom three.
Are we doomed as everyone suggests? My hope is that the team has really only had a few weeks together and will improve. I'd argue that their off season was even more truncated than the teams that featured in Europe. Couldn't even hope to make a signing until it was confirmed we were coming up etc
We've had two bad losses against teams in the top 1/3 of the table, 3 losses by the odd goal against teams in the middle third and taken points (should have been 6) against the fellow strugglers.
Unfortunately our next 5 games are: West Ham, Everton(h), Leicester, Man City, Liverpool(h)....
Early days but it looks like perm 3 from 5 for relegation with Brighton looking better than their position indicates. Still plenty of time for the likes of Villa, Palace, Newcastle and West Ham to go on a slide though. And Leeds who look about to lose to Leicester but should have too much to avoid a relegation fight. Not seen much of Fulham so far but winning against WBA is gold for them.
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2020/2021:
@Bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:
I was happy to break a 14-yr drought at Old Trafford. Partey and Gabriel are proving to be great signings and Elneny looks to be a completely different player this season.
Arsenal look much more structured but they just lack a certain something - maybe it's a method of actually creating regular chances which can happen if you have 2 central midfielders who are grafters and you rely on 3 strikers to make things happen often without space to do so.
Arteta knows that, which was why he was so keen to get Houssem Aouar to be that creative attacking midfielder. Like Pep, he wants to use a 4-3-3 but hasn't yet decided on what the best mix is in the midfield (Partey + two others). And maybe Auba needs to move from the left to the centre of the front three.
Gabriel and Partey have solved two of the problems, but it will take another couple of transfer windows for the other issue.
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@KiwiPie as long as it means Fulham remain in 17th I'll take it!!!
In fact I'd rip your arm off to take it
Scott Parker has said we are in a mini league and that finishing 4th from bottom would be a fantastic result for us. He is right of course but it's a bit disheartening to actually read it.
Parker quoted in Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/fulham-news-west-brom-scott-parker-fixtures-results-epl-table-b1527198.html
He said: "I want to win more than anyone, I want us to be successful more than anyone, I want to be seventh to 10th in the league this year, but reality tells us that's going to be very, very difficult and not where we will be finishing. "I know where we're going to be punching this year, and we're going to be punching in and around the bottom four, bottom five, bottom six, but at the same time I want my team to understand that. "To understand the battles and what we need to do to be successful and realise the peaks and troughs along the way and stay positive, keep staying motivated and understand this is what we need to do and this is where we need to get to and with that I do actually feel that's the best way for us to come out with points and be successful this year. "There's still a great hope, of course there is. I'm not saying that we can't end up with some good results and end up in 15th or 12th - sure we can but we end up there with a mindset and an understanding of where we are and the dips don't break us." -
@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:
@KiwiPie as long as it means Fulham remain in 17th I'll take it!!!
In fact I'd rip your arm off to take it
Scott Parker has said we are in a mini league and that finishing 4th from bottom would be a fantastic result for us. He is right of course but it's a bit disheartening to actually read it.
I think you want to avoid the immediate drop in your first year. Do that and you can try to consolidate from there
