EPL 2020/2021
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@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:
Fulham must be due a fucking shit load then. I get we haven't got the most accurate attack but FFS. WE WUZ ROBBED (again).
That handball was very harsh - it wouldn't have been given against a defender (example is Kante in the Chelsea game where his arm was up)
But then VAR is a guessing game most of the time.
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@antipodean said in EPL 2020/2021:
@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:
@KiwiPie Over the past 20 years the average points for safety has been 36 and has only been 38 or higher on 4 occasions - Pity West Ham who went down in 2003 despite having 42 points.
I reckon six wins / 15 left will be enough. However having become difficult to beat we now have to start winning matches. The next two - Burnley and Sheffield are critical. I actually believe we are good enough for the EPL. Despite a horror start we aren't out of it completely and I don't think we are one of the three worst teams. We have made a habit of doing well against the top teams but failing against those around us. That has to stop
Cheer up, you could go to LFC in a fortnight and secure an away win.
cough
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United giving themselves a sniff.
Title still has City written all over it, but if United can string together a few wins on the bounce & City drop some more points ... it's not long before they are in reach, and jitters could hit the City squad.
Unlikely, but it's not over.
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@antipodean Not the upset it would have been last year. These days it seems everyone wins at Anfield. Except Liverpool.
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@dogmeat said in EPL 2020/2021:
@antipodean Not the upset it would have been last year. These days it seems everyone wins at Anfield. Except Liverpool.
Too many injuries to key players and they've fallen off a cliff of lafe
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After an eventful week for the last European ties we have the Champions League and Europa League draws for the QFs and beyond.
CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
Quarter-finals
Manchester City v Borussia Dortmund
Porto v Chelsea
Bayern Munich v PSG
Real Madrid v LiverpoolSemi-finals
Bayern/PSG v Manchester City/Borussia Dortmund
Real Madrid/Liverpool v Porto/ChelseaFinal
Winner of semi-final 1 v Winner of semi-final 2EUROPA LEAGUE
Quarter-finals
Granada v Manchester United
Arsenal v Slavia Prague
Ajax v Roma
Dinamo Zagreb v VillarrealSemi-finals
Granada/Manchester United v Ajax/Roma
Dinamo Zagreb/Villarreal v Arsenal/Slavia PragueFinal
Winner of semi-final 2 v Winner of semi-final 1 -
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I look at that draw and the $6 for Chelsea looks alright
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Ajax taking an 11 point lead in the Dutch Eredivisie after an easy 5 - 0 win over lowest placed ADO Den Haag, this weekend.
PSV now has to share their second place with AZ Alkmaar, who beat them 2 to 0. Feyenoord takes a sad 5th place after they only managed a 1-1 draw against Emmen.https://eredivisie.nl/en-us/fixtures/overview
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I just saw the Spurs penalty and wonder what VAR is for. Once you see it in slow mo, Kane is about to cross and Cash slides to block the cross. Kane lets the ball run out of play, jumps over to Cash and lands on his leg and then rolls around in agony. I can understand the ref giving it but surely VAR will overturn that?
Anyway FA Cup semis
Leicester v Southampton (the draw both will have wanted).
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@higgins said in EPL 2020/2021:
@kiwipie said in EPL 2020/2021:
I just saw the Spurs penalty and wonder what VAR is for.
Especially after the Phoenix got stiffed last night
Haven't seen the game yet - will check it out.
Nearly all EPL players dive because that is the way you force a ref to make a decision and they almost never give a penalty if a player stays on their feet (see Foden v Southampton for an example). Kane is the master of the sneaky pen though, as per the one this morning. Not to mention his highly dangerous tactic of moving to the landing point of a bouncing ball to be knocked over by the defender heading it away.
They need to look at it from a basketball viewpoint as well - does the player change his line to tread on the defender and "Draw contact"
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@bovidae said in EPL 2020/2021:
VAR isn't the problem, it's the people using it who continue to make dumb decisions that is! Most of the controversy is in the EPL, not the rest of Europe.
All VAR/ TMO issues seem to stem from a lack of appreciation of context shown by those that use it. Slow something down frame by frame and you can make yourself see anything you want to. Doesn't make it the right decision
