The Footie Thread

[Junior]

Great game for the neutral - Newcastle losing their best two players and still nearly getting the win

Utd - no idea what their style is ? The formation? Ronaldo spent the whole 90 mins sulking like a 4 year old and prob should have seen red , Fernandes finally getting a card for his constant whinging as well, Rashford is far too good for that team and in the end some class movement from Cavini rescued a point along with De Gea

Newcastle - they might as well just go for it but need to play like that in a lot more games, Joelinton looked like a footballer

Were we watching the same game ? Utd were terrible but he was one of the worst players on the pitch. Constantly running down blind alleys and he must have given the ball away by simply passing it to the opposition at least 5 times. He made one good pass in the 2nd half.

When Sancho came on on the right, he and Cavani gave us the glimmer of hope , and in the end got us the draw.

Agree with what you say re Maguire and Varane showed lack of match time. I get what RR trying to get UTD to do but the players look like they are confused. Like I said, a City, Liverpool team would have pasted us last night.

 

[nickjdavis]

Newcastle won't finish above Leeds. Leeds have been without key players all season and play some excellent football. Burnley will grind out results, Newcastle still going down and Howe has a bad record in the transfer market and relegation battles. Another poor appointment.

Eh? I'm really not sure how you deduce his record in relegation battles is bad. He has been relegated once. He has achieved promotion three times (which may be very relevant come next season....I'm not by any means saying Newcastle are staying up). He saved Bournemouth from dropping out of the league, overcoming a huge points deficit in the process, and then got them promoted from Div 2 to Div1 despite the club being under a transfer embargo. His single relegation came at Bournemouth, a club with relatively low resources who lived within their financial means and were never big players in the transfer market and punched above their weight for 3 seasons.

 

[PJ87]

Dixon hit nail on the head .. some teams have played loads of games others are getting breaks it's making it very odd for results

We are knackered now however in few weeks when everyone playing their other games going to be them who's knackered?

However that said WHAT a goal from Dennis. Really good finish

 

[Papas1982]

Dixon hit nail on the head .. some teams have played loads of games others are getting breaks it's making it very odd for results

We are knackered now however in few weeks when everyone playing their other games going to be them who's knackered?

However that said WHAT a goal from Dennis. Really good finish

Tbf your poor run probably has more to do with Europe than covid.

watford are your first opponents who’ve had a break aren’t they?

 

[PJ87]

This is something I've been saying all season..rice is out today. He's class we know he is but to keep him at club he's been given a more attacking role this season and it's hampering soucek

He's suspended today and who scores? From open okay

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Looks like it’s quite slippy at St Mary’s- Spurs players are struggling to stay on their feet , falling over without being touched as well

 

[PJ87]

Tbf your poor run probably has more to do with Europe than covid.

watford are your first opponents who’ve had a break aren’t they?

The 3rd in a row ..

Spurs had a long break

Southampton had 10 days was it?

Watford 18 days?


Can't overly Blame europa when we played the kids in that game as we had won the group

 

[Deleted member 15344]

The 3rd in a row ..

Spurs had a long break

Southampton had 10 days was it?

Watford 18 days?


Can't overly Blame europa when we played the kids in that game as we had won the group

West Ham played Spurs 3 days after they had played Liverpool

Also didn’t your team have a game postponed as well so had 7 days off ?

 

[PJ87]

West Ham played Spurs 3 days after they had played Liverpool

Also didn’t your team have a game postponed as well so had 7 days off ?

And when did spurs play before Liverpool they had a 10 day gap wasn't it?

We had one game called off enabling a 7 day gap

I'm not saying it's wrong but it's understandable that our players are knackered. We are down to the back up defence minus one

Not to mention Norwich game coufal should have been "banned" for yet it rolled over to the spurs game because of the postponed game .. which is unfair on Norwich as now they have a better defender to play against

 

[Papas1982]

The 3rd in a row ..

Spurs had a long break

Southampton had 10 days was it?

Watford 18 days?


Can't overly Blame europa when we played the kids in that game as we had won the group

Didn't realise it was sours you've played. We've played 19 like yourself.

Realistically though the covid situation is going to benefit the bigger clubs significantly imo.


Blatant pen no doubt, but wouldnt Mind Emerson hurting himself at some point. Not seek the imaginary cards as often as this match....

 

[PJ87]

Didn't realise it was sours you've played. We've played 19 like yourself.

Realistically though the covid situation is going to benefit the bigger clubs significantly imo.


Blatant pen no doubt, but wouldnt Mind Emerson hurting himself at some point. Not seek the imaginary cards as often as this match....

Those with bigger squads will benefit for sure , it's certainly making for some interesting scoring games

I'm surprised one thing they didn't do was open the window early to allow clubs to make some signing now to help

However the Acon is gonna cost people.. plus prob cause a massive spike

 

[Blue in Munich]

No Lukaku for about 8 games, Kovacic missing most of the season, Kante injured, Havertz & Werner been injured and a some of the breaks that have gone against have been ridiculous. But apparently it's something deep & the manager is doing a Mourinho...

edit; add Chilwell to the list.

For the rest of the season...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59811783

 

[GB72]

Been reading that to play rugby in France from 15th January you must he fully vaccinated. Going to impact massively on our European competition. Anyone heard if there are similar plans for football

 

[PJ87]

For the rest of the season...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/59811783

That's gutting for him..Shaw is massively out of form and he was a shoe in for the world cup

 

[Papas1982]

Those with bigger squads will benefit for sure , it's certainly making for some interesting scoring games

I'm surprised one thing they didn't do was open the window early to allow clubs to make some signing now to help

However the Acon is gonna cost people.. plus prob cause a massive spike

2 PL games for Afcon now isn't it? Not as bad as it used to be due to further pandering to the bug clubs.....

Not sure it really matters where its held re a spike. If the league truly cared they'd impose properly strict rules almost in the form if their own little lockdown.

 

[PJ87]

2 PL games for Afcon now isn't it? Not as bad as it used to be due to further pandering to the bug clubs.....

Not sure it really matters where its held re a spike. If the league truly cared they'd impose properly strict rules almost in the form if their own little lockdown.

Oh fully agree. Its all about money

The Acon surely should be cancelled due to international travel and covid right now but money talks

Prob why the restrictions to Africa changed just before Xmas

 

[Deleted member 15344]

2 PL games for Afcon now isn't it? Not as bad as it used to be due to further pandering to the bug clubs.....

Not sure it really matters where its held re a spike. If the league truly cared they'd impose properly strict rules almost in the form if their own little lockdown.

It will depend on when the rescheduled games happen - at the moment it’s just two Prem games but wouldn’t surprise me to see them put the rearranged games in during that period

 

[Orikoru]

When did Southampton become the new Stoke? Long clattering our players every two minutes, somehow avoiding a card. Long throws seemingly were the main weapon of attack. Horrible team. Salisu was clumsy as hell, saw his red card coming a mile off, looks an awful clumsy player. Unfortunately we'll probably see the old 'harder to play against ten' adage coming into play now. We've always struggled to break down compact teams.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

When did Southampton become the new Stoke? Long clattering our players every two minutes, somehow avoiding a card. Long throws seemingly were the main weapon of attack. Horrible team. Salisu was clumsy as hell, saw his red card coming a mile off, looks an awful clumsy player. Unfortunately we'll probably see the old 'harder to play against ten' adage coming into play now. We've always struggled to break down compact teams.

When did Spurs players start to throw themselves to the floor - Emerson going down as if shot without being touched , Ali doing the same and and Salisu first yellow shouldn’t haven’t been given due to a handball

 

[Orikoru]

When did Spurs players start to throw themselves to the floor - Emerson going down as if shot without being touched , Ali doing the same and and Salisu first yellow shouldn’t haven’t been given due to a handball

What game are you watching? Their entire gameplan has been to clatter us with late challenges and in the back at every opportunity. Salisu should have had another yellow before that for studs on Dele.

I'll give you one from Emerson early on when I couldn't see how he'd hurt his knee, that was a strange one.