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That's absolutely superb!
He's a bloody genius!
Barca Juve is quite a game.
So’s Leipzig v Utd!
We look like a pub side
I’ve got you down to win 3-2.
If he brings Pogba on, I’ll slag him off relentlessly for being a bone-idle, overpriced showpony, which is usually when he scores an absolute screamer from30 yards out then sets up the winner with an inch perfect 60-yard pass to Rashford 😉
Here goes...
On a more pertinent note, it’s good to see the players on both teams united and taking a stand about what’s gone on in the PSG game
I’ve got you down to win 3-2.
It’ll have to be 4-3 now.
Bizarre incident though - alleged of course - of racism by the fourth official?!
I don’t think there’s much chance of a 4-3! United comebacks are all very well against bang average mid table Premier League sides - the Champions League is a step up.
Football expert, me 🙄
We only need a draw
My tactics are working so far 😃
He’s a bloody donkey who couldn’t hit a cows arse with a banjo
#OleIn4Eva
Bizarre incident though – alleged of course – of racism by the fourth official?
From the BBC description, it just sounds like he may have identified him from a a group as "the black guy" not sure that is any way near enough to merit the reaction.
Did PSG go off in protest as well or just because there was no point staying on the pitch at that time?
From a crazy first month, the excitement level has really dropped, as has the quality of the football. While it might look exiting to see so many teams still in with a shot, most of the matches have just become dire. I just want this season over already, get the euros dusted then hope some normality is restored next season.
The thread could be retitled "a drudgery of soccerball"
Yeah, kind of agree. No European games or cup games for a few weeks might help a bit? All those who played in Europe looked rusty this weekend.
The Manchester derby yesterday was one of the worst matches I've had the displeasure of watching for ages. It was like neither team wanted to win - I couldn't believe how many passes went either sideways or backwards, particularly from a City side that used to pride itself on playing fast triangular passing.
The Derby yesterday was absolutely awful. The worst one I’ve ever had the misfortune to watch.
It’s like they’d agreed beforehand to just have a bit of a kick about for a nil nil. All have a bit of a breather after midweek in Europe.
On a positive note it’s great to see fans back in the grounds. I think it played a big part in Fulham and Palaces performances today. Fulham looked great first half.
Just watching MOTD - WTF is going on at Arsenal? They’re an absolute shambles. They look like relegation fodder
I don’t know how much truth there is in the rumour they’ve approached Big Sam to help keep them up 😉
As an aside, if you’ve not watched it then Anton Ferdinand,s documentary Football, racism and me Is well worth a viewing on iplayer
It’s pertinent at the moment particularly, with BLM and Millwall last week, but it highlights how the FA dealt with it. Unsurprisingly, it doesn’t reflect well on the FA. John Terry obviously doesn’t come out of it well, but that can hardly come as a surprise to anybody
It’s a very powerful programme from somebody is obviously still massively effected by what happened to him
Amazon prime really should not do live sport until they go to broadband. Constant dropouts.
Fine here.
Well, in a TV context. Lol
Doesn't look hd quality at times, but ok for me
Hope spurs don't disappoint. Coys!
Big Sam back! Probably should’ve held out for the Arsenal job though? I think Bilic has been pretty hard done by.
This Amazon feed is absolutely shite! Constantly dropping out. I’ve given up on the tellybox and am now watching it on an iPad and it still keeps dropping out 😡
Went for a dodgy stream instead of Amazon earlier and ended up with Premier Sports. The Irish commentary more than made up for the delayed stream! 🙂
RM.
I can watch it on the BT app but not the fire stick. Not just me, Twitter has gone viral.
Pay squillions of pounds for broadcast rights to the Premiership, then broadcast if through a modem
https://twitter.com/enigmahimovic/status/1339325119471235072?s=21
flawless here, through the Apple TV app on Virgin Media
Perfect for me on Firestick.
Bloody hell Liverpool!
Kinda helps with the goal difference after that, ahem, other game. 😀
For me that puts the Villa game to rest for me. I was thinking after Spurs that Liverpool were due to thrash someone but thought it’d come at home not away, considering we’ve been average away.
Bobby’s no look goal was awesome.
they were all simply fab goals, really impressed.
I honestly thought Palace played fairly well, at least for the first hour or so and could have easily been in the game still. Just class passes and finishing wiped them out.
I'm not going to complain though and gives a few teams something to think about.
Yep, and been a bit of a bogey team over the years. If we’ve won it’s always been a horrible win.
^^^ Liverpool have won the last 7 games v Palace!?!? Going back to 2017
It’s probably the 3-3 collapse, Suarez’s tears, and the 4-3 FA Cup semi final that clouds judgement of them being a bogey team.
Crystal Palace became a tough game for the top teams for a season or 2 after Hodgson took over, but they have slipped back from that more recently. Zaha's performances have become more one dimensional as his move to a bigger club hasn't materialised and he seems to have lost heart in trying to prove his worth.
And who's have thought city relying on a tight defence to scrape wins.... Too many of the attacking line playing for themselves, stopping to do tricks and stepovers allowing the opposition defence to get in shape. They need to get back to making decisions on the run instead of stopping and then deciding what options available.
Missing Aguero.
United v Leeds this afternoon for the first time in 16 years. I’m sure GMP are delighted there are no fans in the ground, but I’m hoping that doesn’t mean another dull-as-dishwater borefest that was the Manchester Derby
It was always an ... ahem... ‘feisty’ affair in the past. Here’s hoping they both go for it and it’s a 4-3.
Beforehand, Leicester are still high enough up the table to provoke another Maureen bus-parking exercise. I wonder how Harry Kane is enjoying his new centre back role 😂
United v Leeds this afternoon for the first time in 16 years.
Hopefully it will live up to the clashes of previous decades - such a shame that Old Trafford will be empty as this is one of those games where the electricity in the ground could power the floodlights. Not sure there are any players on either side who understand the significance of this rivalry to the respective cities.
MOT / ALAW
It's not that big! It might be for Leeds but for Utd they have bigger, longer rivalries.
ABU
Hope Leicester continue to punish Spurs for the anti-football dross they keep serving up.
It’s not that big! It might be for Leeds but for Utd they have bigger, longer rivalries
You certainly wouldn’t think that if you’d ever been in a full OT when our friends from the wrong side of the Pennines were visiting. I’m sure they’d have got exactly the same reception now with a crowd there.
I just hope it’s not one of those that is nothing without a crowd. The Derby was absolutely dreadful.
Well that was a start I didn't expect or want. It's certainly exciting and we could have had a couple.
MOT / ALAW
@binners - in normal times, how could you possibly hear the crowd over the chomping of prawn sandwiches?
😋
We have our butlers shout for us while we’re eating 😉
Fantastic game so far
Well that was absolutely bonkers! Brilliant match!
Third in the table having played a game less than the others around us. Happy days! 😃
And no distraction of UCL football. It could be your year. Nah, seriously, cracking result which must mean a lot given that your traditional rivals aren’t really bothered any more.
#OleIn
Was going to post before the game began that we’d see whether Utd are genuine contenders via their next run of games, Leeds, Leicester, Wolves and Villa......and then Liverpool in mid January. I’m amazed they are where they are given the defence and how awful they are when they’re bad!
And no distraction of UCL football.
That might be for everyone at this rate!
Huge disappointment as a Leeds fan as didn't expect to win but did expect us to be at it. Plenty of our players just didn't perform today and made it easy for the opposition. Still think we'll stay up but we will get thumped a few more times along the way.
That might be for everyone at this rate!
Well, there is that!
Klunk, those cartoons are dreadful* mate.
* I hope they're not your work, then I'd feel bad!
Klunk, those cartoons are dreadful* mate.
Thank **** someone said so, I thought it was just me.
Thank **** someone said so, I thought it was just me.
+1
Unmitigated shite.
I quite liked the 'taking the knee' one but I don't really get the above one.
I like this also 🙂
I’d imagine it’s the type of thing that Max and Barry over at the Guardian football pod love...
Well this is a bit of a turn up for the books. Chelski are absolutely awful. They look like a side who thought that all they had to do today was turn up. Which they have so far failed to do. All good for us, watching them drop points.
The United Leicester game was a good’un earlier. A draw was a fair result. 2nd and 3rd, but I’m sure Liverpool will extend their lead tomorrow and probably add a load to their goal difference
but I’m sure Liverpool will extend their lead tomorrow and probably add a load to their goal difference
Damn well hope so 🙂
Oh Christ! I’d forgotten Big Sam was back! Or maybe just mentally blanked it out
Tactics working a treat! Battle of the buses on 6th Feb Binners....
That’s got the potential to be the worst game of football ever played. Basically you’ll have 20 defenders on the pitch
Liverpool have just been Big Sammed. I had a few quid on a draw too at 9/1 😃
Aye, Big Sam will enjoy his pint of wine tonight.
As I Liverpool fan, I haven't been enjoying our football recently. So many teams are parking the bus and it doesn't make for good football. It reminds me of Barcelona in the Guardiola era with defenders sitting deep and no one willing to have a shot. Oxlade Chamberlain is about the only player willing to have a shot from slight distance but he's rubbish at everything else.
I appreciate it's the right tactics from opposition teams but my god it's dull.
As dull as Spurs?
Let’s be honest, Maureen has out-Sammed Big Sam this season
As I Liverpool fan, I haven’t been enjoying our football recently.
Apart from the 7-0 win presumably? 🙂
It is pretty dull in general though. And for Big Sam those tactics make sense but Spurs have a decent team and don't need to be so negative all the time.
Currently Spurs trying to hang on to a 1-0 lead from the 1st minute isn't looking too clever.
Well who’d have thunk it? Who could possibly have predicted that game plan?
Life’s too short to watch Spurs
It’ll be interesting to see how long it is until he inevitably loses the dressing room with ordering everyone to play in defence for 89 minutes every match in another dull dreary display of anti-football
It's not just bus parking, there was a good article in the Guardian a couple of days ago. The compressed season, the short off-season, the sheer number of games, has meant that teams cannot press and play at the high tempo that was so successful in the past couple of years.
The gegenpress is a high intensity activity and teams need to pick and choose when they can afford to employ it, the article says that teams are pressing 25% less than they did in previous seasons, so creating less turnovers when teams are out of position.
Very glad to see the 89 minute defensive strategy didn’t work.
Oh look, it's not the special ones fault. It's the players.....
After the game, Mourinho said it was never his intention to defend the slender lead and instead questioned his players for not showing more ambition to go for more goals.
How very predictable.
And so it begins. The Mourhino cycle.
Each time it happens the time frame gets compressed further. He’s even already selected Deli Alli for the Luke Shaw whipping boy role.
I wonder, with the transfer window about to open, how many players have already seen how this one plays our and have got their agents putting the feelers out, planning their escape?
November 2021 looks a long way off. Implosion before then?
Very glad to see the 89 minute defensive strategy didn’t work.
I'm getting pig sick of playing this way now and we deserve to get beaten playing this negative dross, I think that our attacking players are losing their sharpness as they're defending most of the time.
I didn't want Jose when he came to us, and those reservations have remained, but when we were on a winning streak I thought that I was wrong and maybe there was something in him (fickle, I know!). After four bad results in a row I can see us losing more as we can't seem to get away from this defensive rubbish, it goes against the culture of the club and I think that some of the players are having difficulty with it.
If we win a cup I'll have to eat my words, but it'll have to be a better cup than the League Cup.
I didn’t want Jose when he came to us, and those reservations have remained, but when we were on a winning streak I thought that I was wrong and maybe there was something in him (fickle, I know!). After four bad results in a row I can see us losing more as we can’t seem to get away from this defensive rubbish, it goes against the culture of the club and I think that some of the players are having difficulty with it.
That statement could have been written by any United fan a couple of seasons ago, and any Real Madrid fans a couple of seasons before that...
@binners The worrying thing is that I don't think that Utd have recovered from it yet.
We're getting there. We're playing some decent attacking football now under Ole. We're still nowhere near title contenders, but at least the football is watchable with some serious attacking intent, even if there have been some defensive horror shows along the way (not least against you).
I don't think Maureen was ever forgiven for going to Anfield and parking the bus to grind out a horrendously dull nil-nil in one of the worst games in premiership history.
You just don't do that. Better to go and play and risk getting hammered than turn up for that particular match already admitting that nil-nil is the best you can expect and think that that's fine.
Ole is actually doing pretty well, and signing Fernandes was probably the best bit of business anyone has done in the PL over the last couple of years. I'd still be surprised if he goes on to win big titles though.
City vs Everton game off due to covid cases at city. I don't see where city have the scheduling capacity to finish the season now, without withdrawing from a cup competition. Obviously if they get knocked at the next round in the CL or FA cup then the schedule starts to get easier. But if they go to any where near the end in both competitions, then there just isn't space in the schedule to play the matches.
United will be in business when Ole realises Martial is crap and plays Cavani up top and an attacking right back would be an improvement on Wan-Bissaka too. Going out of the Champs League might pay off in terms of the title and obviously they need to keep Bruno fit.
MSP - City have more or less two decent sides don’t they? I’m sure they’ll cope.