Unfortunately in today's football you are expected to win 100% of the games. If you don't it's a crisis and all that fun stuff.
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Unfortunately in today's football you are expected to win 100% of the games. If you don't it's a crisis and all that fun stuff.
imagine being so angry
I wonder what he said.
Love that the old dude next to him is like "m8 calm down"
Losing the invincible tag is shit and would have been great to go unbeaten the whole season in the league. Problem is now everyone knows we're not invincible. Look at when fergie left United. Everyone starting going to OT and giving it a go.
Gonna be some nervous games now.
Gonna be some nervous games now.
The crazy thing to me is it took this long. So many times this year you've dug one out in the last few minutes and got the points.
Come on Bournemouth!
Both 2nd legs of the cup semifinals in Italy (Juventus-Milan today and Napoli-Inter tomorrow) are postponed. It's unclear what will happen with Serie A but the current situation seems to indicate all sports events in the next 30 days are gonna be either canceled or played behind closed doors. But the comittee built by the prime minister suggests, among other things, individual training sessions for sportsmen to avoid sweating "on each other" so to speak, and also a security distance of 1m from others when working. So I'm not sure they'd allow matches where this will clearly not happen, as on a corner kick alone you have like 18 people on top of each other at times.
City vs Arsenal rescheduled for next Wednesday. Wonderful. Couldn't be more excited to see City stroll past us 3-0 without ever getting out of first gear.
Lot of us fans got too comfortable winning. A goal is a goal but we have had more than a few wins or a tie that came from a very strange place (Lallana, own goal, etc) and Klopp continues to play guys like Origi as a winger when it's proven to not work. When we lose guys like Henderson you can see that our control of the ball is only based on a few tactics that are run into the ground during training. You get a team like Atletí or Watford that defend deep and we are done and dusted because all creativity goes out the window.
Not to mention that guys like Fabinho probably spent most of their injury time and the winter break trying to make babies. He's basically done now. Not the same player at all. I'm thinking that Minamino is a dud signing as well—but the whole point of bringing him on anyways was for the Nike Japanese market...
Is telling the truth a copypasta in 2020? Look at the state of where red fans are on Twitter—you'd think someone died after 3 losses. To say we don't have improvements to make and to handwave genuine concern about squad depth away is sort of counterintuitive. We aren't guaranteed 4 wins in this current state.
A lot of our wins have been piss this season but to say "well we got 3 points so who cares" has only exacerbated the issue.
The only team that could afford him and would sign him is probably United.
Confirmed now: all matches in Italy in the next 30 days will be played behind closed doors. This inevitably means Juventus-Lyon will also be played without a crowd, and so will be the home match of the quarter-finals of the remaining Italians.
I'm still baffled why managers play their second-best (and vastly inferior) keepers in cup games. These keepers often fuck up badly.
To give them match time/experience?
To 'rest' the first-choice keeper and stop potential injuries?
To give 'mental rest' for the first-choice keeper?
It's baffling. Keepers don't get fatigued.
The keeper fucks up and then there's a mad scramble to try and save the game, bringing on the team that should have started in the first place, but still with a shit keeper.
Start strong, get ahead, THEN sub players out when the game is won.
There's a weird dichotomy where managers send the message that they don't give a flying fuck about the cup game by picking a weak team, THEN scramble like mad trying to save the game when they invariably go behind. It's a pattern that repeats every damn season and it's infuriating.
To give them match time/experience?
To 'rest' the first-choice keeper and stop potential injuries?
To give 'mental rest' for the first-choice keeper?
It's baffling. Keepers don't get fatigued.
The keeper fucks up and then there's a mad scramble to try and save the game, bringing on the team that should have started in the first place, but still with a shit keeper.
Start strong, get ahead, THEN sub players out when the game is won.
There's a weird dichotomy where managers send the message that they don't give a flying fuck about the cup game by picking a weak team, THEN scramble like mad trying to save the game when they invariably go behind. It's a pattern that repeats every damn season and it's infuriating.
No, I mean, you are talking like a typical Real Madrid fan lol. Trademark pessimism.Sorry here is a picture of me
Oh I'm personally not being a pessimist. Elsewhere I've gone on to explain my support of the club. Losses happen—it was bound to happen tbh. But I do think it's fair to comment on why a loss or a series of losses have occurred. Obviously they can and will right the ship, but there are some depth issues that become more prevalent when key players are injured like Hendo, or starters coming back out of form.
FA Cup Quarter Final Draw:
Sheffield United vs Arsenal
Newcastle vs Manchester City
Norwich vs Derby/Manchester United
Leicester vs Chelsea
Sheffield United vs Arsenal
Newcastle vs Manchester City
Norwich vs Derby/Manchester United
Leicester vs Chelsea
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Man this tatoo won't age well if the championship is cancelled due to Coronavirus concernsSorry here is a picture of me
Oh wow I totally forgot that was happening. It will for sure be eventful.
Agreed. sell VVD and Mane to Bayern if you want a successful rebuild
Mané to PSG imho and I'm confident it has a high chance of happening.
Coulibaly is probably joining PSG next mercato (he just purchased a 4 million € flat in Paris)
There's lots of tension between Mané and Salah.
Also the fact that Mané didn't really like Klopp campaigning for Van Djik during the last Golden Ball award
Can't believe you're giving us these nuggets for free when The Sun pays their journos thousands to make up bullshit.
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