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feels like Liverpool are on their holidays annoyinglyHopefully Liverpool beat Chelsea meaning Chelsea need to win v wolves
feels like Liverpool are on their holidays annoyinglyHopefully Liverpool beat Chelsea meaning Chelsea need to win v wolves
Liverpool just couldn't give a shit anymore, which is amazing for a team who could have smashed all sorts of records this season. Really wouldn't shock me if they didn't even turn up for their final two games.Hopefully Liverpool beat Chelsea meaning Chelsea need to win v wolves
As long as we get europa couldn’t care less what else happens, United and Chelsea will spend big anywaySo who do you hope miss CL next season? Chelsea, Leicester or United?
It will great regardless, but I kinda want Chelsea to miss it. They have the squad to manage both CL and PL and I suspect they also need the funds the most as they have spent big.
So who do you hope miss CL next season? Chelsea, Leicester or United?
It will great regardless, but I kinda want Chelsea to miss it. They have the squad to manage both CL and PL and I suspect they also need the funds the most as they have spent big.
What're the odds of us finishing 7th and Arsenal winning the FA Cup taking Europa from us?
Arsenal are going to win the cup aren't they
Even if Leicester do completely implode (unlikely with Maddison and Chilwell coming back), I see next to zero possibility of us overtaking them because that would require us to win six (five + Everton) games on the bounce - which only Spurs teams in the thick of title races in 2011, 2016 and 2017 have ever done in my lifetime.
Watching Arsenal and Leicester last night actually made me feel sad - both teams seem to move the ball around way better than we do and seem so much more organised. Arsenal looked a complete mess not too long ago, now through changing the formation and integrating a few talented, hungry young players into the side instead of twats like Ozil and Guendouzi, they now look like a half decent team. Even Luiz and fucking Mustafi are looking solid now - without the red card they'd have likely picked up their fifth clean sheet in a row. But apparently it's impossible to create chances without "sorting out the defence" and "something something winning mentality" first.
We have to play both of these teams between now and the end of the season, and on current form both are going to come to the Lane and beat us. Mourinho has had Arsenal's number for years (though that was all under Wenger), so I pray he has some trick up his sleeve, but at the moment the best I can hope for seems to be us nicking a goal from a defensive mistake and then putting 10 men behind the ball like we did against Man Utd and hoping not to concede - can anyone really see a scenario where we take the game to these two teams and emphatically beat them like we used to?
Well we almost did it. Surprisingly Bournemouth was the banana peel.
Do you still think Arsenal and Leicester look better and more organized than we do? Don't mean to be a dick and drag "old" posts out of the grave, and I had similar fears myself - it's just interesting to see how events deviate from expectations.
Not confirmed yet, but probably. It's a huge chunk of the EFL's income and the Premier League agreed to keep participating as part of the breakaway deal back in 1992, so as much as they'd probably like to bin it next year that would be very difficult. The proposal seems to be to run Round 2 (featuring the Premier League clubs who haven't qualified for Europe) during the first international break which is just before the start of the season. Round 3 (where the rest of the clubs enter), Round 4 and the Quarter Final would then have to be staged during the same midweeks as European matches. So Europa sides would play Premier League on the Sunday, Carabao on the Tuesday, Europa on the Thursday, and Premier League again on the Sunday for any rounds they made it too; Champions League sides would play their European tie on the Tuesday and the Carabao on the Thursday.Will there be carabao cup next season??
I had a look at the PL table..What a really weird season this is...
- Liverpool - Champions - have just scored 77 goals - which is just 17 goals shy of us
- City have better Goal difference (+10 more) than Liverpool, yet have lost 6 more than City
- Chelsea are 3rd in league, yet they have the worst defensive record in top 10 of 49 conceded.
- Spurs are 6th but just 1 Goal difference shy of Chelsea who are at 3rd.
- Wolves one of the most "entertaining" football team have scored 49 goals, 11 short of Jose "boring" Mourinho team of 60 scored
Wolves are a prime example of what you do with possession being more important than the possession itself. They tend to counter with quite devastating effect which is why when they're against the "bigger clubs" they look so entertaining and get great results.
Conversely thats also why they are not as effective as City and Liverpool because they haven't found a solution to get consistent results vs the rest of the league when they aren't able to counter as much.
Hopefully Liverpool beat Chelsea meaning Chelsea need to win v wolves