EPL 2023/2024
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Big Ange's Spurs get a meritorious 2-2 draw against Arsenal at the Emirates. It was an exciting encounter, Spurs seem unphased about trying to play out from the back, which made for some dicey moments at times. But their attack is very attractive to watch, and they have a high energy press, a big step up from last year
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@canefan They looked good but gifted a goal by Jorginho whom Arsenal should have replaced in the off season. Saka was lazy on Son's goal.
Disappointing as an Arsenal fan and Arteta is losing my support. WTF on Havertz. Surely there was a midfielder, by trade, out there that actually plays the position. What was he thinking? ESR on for 4 minutes and Saka kicked to shit then is not able to train? Lets run him into the ground. Can Arteta and the Brazilian not spot talent? I said we need another dominant midfielder. Someone that can attack centrally as everything we do is down the wings and everyone has figured that out. 2 go down (our most physical) and we have Jorginho and Viera. Thats enough to scare no one.
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Havertz is a complete dud. Don’t even think Luton town would take him.
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Disappointed there is no Spurs-Liverpool content on this thread. For a neutral, the ending was hilarious as it would have been had Liverpool scored with 9 players in the 96th minute. Spurs had no clue how to break down a 9 man team, playing way too narrow with both wide players not starting wide and then cutting in on their stronger foot. Finally they get a right footer on the right to ping one into the box and Matip with the excellent finish.
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@KiwiPie Another weekend another VAR controversy.
How can the PGMOL contrive to be so inept?
Howard Webb must be clocking up the miles driving around the country to deliver yet another apology. Twice to the Cottage in only six games?
Being accountable is all well and good, but maybe they should focus on getting it right in the first place.
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@dogmeat It was bizarre that they never reviewed the offside at all - a different issue to not drawing the lines correctly. That sort of decision was exactly what VAR was invented for - assistant made a call of offside as it was a very close call. So we could get rid of VAR and then just blame the assistants instead?
A lot of enjoyable Liverpool whining about the cards. On Jones, looked a red to me - sure he made contact with the ball first but it ended up as a potential leg breaker for Bissouma. For Jota I disagree with Liverpool fans on the first yellow. They show footage of Udogie tripping over his own leg but given that players generally don't trip over their own legs, I think it was a cynical foul by Jota running behind the player so that he nudged his leg causing the loss of balance. Second was a clear yellow and dumb play by Jota having just been booked.
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I think you mean jota.
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Tough week for Bournemouth fans. looked like we were starting to get used to the press and some players coming back and put in a woeful effort against Arsenal. To make it worse watching our Neto concede 4 and GON's Neto terrorise City made the loss even more bitter
Finally some easier games coming up, but really need some wins otherwise will be a tough season
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2023/2024:
Disappointed there is no Spurs-Liverpool content on this thread. For a neutral, the ending was hilarious as it would have been had Liverpool scored with 9 players in the 96th minute. Spurs had no clue how to break down a 9 man team, playing way too narrow with both wide players not starting wide and then cutting in on their stronger foot. Finally they get a right footer on the right to ping one into the box and Matip with the excellent finish.
Plus they are admitting to making a mistake of the Liverpool goal that was not given. The red was harsh too.
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2023/2024:
@dogmeat It was bizarre that they never reviewed the offside at all - a different issue to not drawing the lines correctly. That sort of decision was exactly what VAR was invented for - assistant made a call of offside as it was a very close call. So we could get rid of VAR and then just blame the assistants instead?
A lot of enjoyable Liverpool whining about the cards. On Jones, looked a red to me - sure he made contact with the ball first but it ended up as a potential leg breaker for Bissouma. For Jota I disagree with Liverpool fans on the first yellow. They show footage of Udogie tripping over his own leg but given that players generally don't trip over their own legs, I think it was a cynical foul by Jota running behind the player so that he nudged his leg causing the loss of balance. Second was a clear yellow and dumb play by Jota having just been booked.
Rubbish on Jone's red. No intent there at all and his foot rolled awkwardly off the ball. Totally accidental.
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@broughie I thought it was red personally. Of course there was no intent, but he caught Bissouma and that's the risk you take if you don't get the ball cleanly. It's also how legs get badly broken.
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@African-Monkey I agree, but there has to be intent. He was playing the ball and what happened incidentally was not his fault. So if you head the ball and hit someone in the head on the follow through it's a red? Doesn't make sense.
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@broughie said in EPL 2023/2024:
@African-Monkey I agree, but there has to be intent. He was playing the ball and what happened incidentally was not his fault. So if you head the ball and hit someone in the head on the follow through it's a red? Doesn't make sense.
Makes all sense. Intent has no bearing and has not for some time. He had no intent to injure, but he was reckless and clumsy. Just like rugby players showing poor technique, they don't mean to hurt the attacker, but they are getting YC and RCs for being clumsy and reckless
