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Leicester will drop points soon
Leicester are finished. They have to come to our place, Arsenal (who are on form) and Bournemouth (who are fighting for their lives). They also have United at home. That's four losses.
Leicester will drop points soon
Leicester are finished. They have to come to our place, Arsenal (who are on form) and Bournemouth (who are fighting for their lives). They also have United at home.
No it wasn't me who said that. So based on your impulsive interpretation of how football works Sheff Utd and Crystal Palace have better defenders then us because they have conceded less goals or do you think it is the way specific teams are set up?You said you think we would be lucky to have one player - GLS - who would start for Chelsea, didn't you? (Or was that the other poster - apologies I don't remember exactly who said it).
In any case, no it doesn't mean everything of course. But given we played West Ham a week apart, I would say it decently indicates current form. I definitely think our defense is superior to Chelsea's though (and in fact the stats this season even support that). Had our defense played that badly against West Ham we'd have people lining up guillotines.
So based on your simple assessment of how football matches work...we drew 0-0 with Watford..Liverpool lost 3-0 Watford ...that makes us better then Liverpool???
Also you don't understand that Chelsea set up more offensively from defensive point of view with both full backs going forward therefore leaving their centre halves more exposed down the channels. Unlike ourselves who allows just one full back to go forward therefore should make a better defensive unit. If Chelsea set up the same way then defensively and individually apart from the Keepers as clearly Hugo currently is better then Kepa they are just as good as us.
Also I'm not being negative about us...I'm offering a balance argument that is not prejudiced by my hatred for a rival club. I'm quite positive to what I have seen especially from a defensive perspective but let's not get carried away after two games. We smash Sheff Utd tomorrow and I will be jumping on the bandwagon.
After watching Bournemouth today...fighting for their lives wouldn't be the terminology I would be using. They are all over the shop.Leicester are finished. They have to come to our place, Arsenal (who are on form) and Bournemouth (who are fighting for their lives). They also have United at home. That's four losses.
Completely agree with you. It is about how he team sets up defensively. If you read my original point last week I was talking about the ability of specific individuals.By that logic, Villa should have the best defence in the league seeing as they leave 5 at the back when they attack, or at least a better defensive record than both us and Chelsea...not sure it works like that. The defence isn't just about the back four it's about how the whole team defend as a unit, If Chelsea set up more offensively that means they are leaving gaps at the back for other teams to exploit hence probably the reason why they've conceded a lot of goals.
Currently Spurs do have a better defence than Chelsea, the stats don't like, although Chelsea have played one more match than us, the only way to work it out if you're comparing the two teams is to wait until the end of the season.
After watching Bournemouth today...fighting for their lives wouldn't be the terminology I would be using. They are all over the shop.
Unexpected results, just what we needed.Just done a quick prediction for a bit of fun. Best we can do is 66 points.
By my prediction I have Chelsea in 3rd on 71, United 4th on 70, Leicester 67, Wolves 66 and Spurs 61.
If this is going to happen some of our competitors need to drop points to some terrible teams and fast. Going by this, and looking at our fixtures, our best chance will come from both Leicester and Wolves slipping up in 'easy' matches.
We really need United to win that since I can't see us coming close to catching them anyway.Fucking hell, Leicester playing Man Utd and Chelsea playing Wolves on the last day of the season.
That's because - apart from the ridiculous 'draw the lines on the pitch and decide by a millimetre' offside decisions - VAR is being used as a mechanism to affirm the ref's decision; and only a horrendous ('clear and obvious') error by the ref will ever be overturned. So if the ref decides that an innocuous charge is a penalty, the VAR will agree. If he decides that it isn't, the VAR will agree. Unfortunately Jon Moss wanted to give Manu a penalty.what I find annoying is Moyes going on about VAR he talks as if it cost them the match against us when the reality is we have as much reason to moan about VAR for the Son goal that was disallowed also it was not one nil to us we won by two goals and the probability is that even if our first goal against West Ham was disallowed we still scored another goal . Also I felt in that game the second half we were completely in control and if required could have gone up a gear . Getting back to VAR I have seen since the United game at least three similar tackles to the Dier tackle that have been called " no penalty " with the commentator saying " not enough in it for me to call penalty " but the same VAR calls the Dier tackle a penalty . So as say if anybody has a reason to moan about VAR its us . But we all have to stop wihinging about VAR because like it or not its here to stay and we all must take the rough with the smooth .
Well, I believe we have the best coach in the world for these kind of scenarios. He will strategise the hell out of our run and he will start the mind games against the others.
This got me thinking - has Mourinho EVER come out on top in a "squeaky bum time" race for anything? Yes he's won plenty of titles but unless I've forgotten some, these have all been when his team has built up a big lead early in the season - has there ever been a time when he was in a race for the title, Champions League qualification or anything like that where it went down to the wire and he came out on top? I remember Chelsea bottling the title in 2007 and 2014 when they got into pole position in the latter stages of the season, and he bottled the race for the top four with Man Utd in 2017 (but got CL by winning the Europa). I certainly can't remember him overhauling a deficit in the final few months of the season...
Wouldn't say Utd bottled top 4, they just prioritised the EL
Easy to say with hindsight after they have won the trophy. Think they were only about a point off 4th with a month to go but then dropped points in practically all of their remaining games - including against rivals in the race for the CL spot.
Leicester are finished. They have to come to our place, Arsenal (who are on form) and Bournemouth (who are fighting for their lives). They also have United at home. That's four losses.