The Footie Thread

[Swango1980]

Is Delap actually any good?

He just looks like a big physical lump, with no real quality to play at the highest level. Seems to be a good choice as a battering ram striker for teams lower half of the table, but not suitable for teams expected to win every week.

I might be wrong, but only based on the limited times we get to see him.

 

[Steve Wilkes]

I don't care a hoot about Chelsea but I'm pleased they scored. Should have had a penalty the corner before, have been given to other teams and frankly it just was.

Reset for the second half now, not caring about either team

Wasn't given to Leeds yesterday, but it's not Arsenal so who cares

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Shearer said about Osuala, Newcastle, in the week that he just needs to slow down. I feel Delap is in the same boat. He's so desperate to impress at Chelsea that he's become a headless chicken, a walking yellow card.

He needs to move to a middle ranking team, have a manager put their arm around him and reset. Moving to Chelsea was a poor decision and it's hurt him, not his bank balance though.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Wasn't given to Leeds yesterday, but it's not Arsenal so who cares

There are so many shenanigans at corners now. I'd have given a penalty for Rice holding him first off, then the arm secondary. Holding and grappling happens every corner, it needs a clean up.

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Shearer said about Osuala, Newcastle, in the week that he just needs to slow down. I feel Delap is in the same boat. He's so desperate to impress at Chelsea that he's become a headless chicken, a walking yellow card.

He needs to move to a middle ranking team, have a manager put their arm around him and reset. Moving to Chelsea was a poor decision and it's hurt him, not his bank balance though.

I think somewhere like a Brighton, Brentford or a palace he could do well as the teams are more suited to his play and he would better adapt there. At Chelsea he’s just another young lad trying to hard and getting it wrong.

 

[Arthur Wedge]

There are so many shenanigans at corners now. I'd have given a penalty for Rice holding him first off, then the arm secondary. Holding and grappling happens every corner, it needs a clean up.

It looked a blatent penalty

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Is Cole Palmer overrated

Too many times in these big games he is missing

Every now and then he seems to have a little spurt but doesn’t seem to play at a regularly high level

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Is Cole Palmer overrated

Too many times in these big games he is missing

Every now and then he seems to have a little spurt but doesn’t seem to play at a regularly high level

Yes he is and so is Saka. Palmer is all hype and had one good half a season yet is lauded as an England starlet, Saka the Star boy runs into people cuts inside and passes backwards. I’d say Saka is better than Palmer but both are hugely overrated as they’re English.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Is Palmer not recently back from injury? He looked under cooked today.

I'm not joining this bandwagon, I think he's a class act.

 

[anotherdouble]

There are so many shenanigans at corners now. I'd have given a penalty for Rice holding him first off, then the arm secondary. Holding and grappling happens every corner, it needs a clean up.

Am I right in thinking that until ball is touched at a corner the ball is dead and so nothing can happen. Refs have not got the bottle to penalise the defender, it always seems the attacker is committing the foul. Maybe it will just take a farcical couple of weeks in all divisions and have 6,7,8,9 penalties a game and it might stop. Like anything in this life, if the wrong doers have no consequences, then why stop

 

[Arthur Wedge]

Is Palmer not recently back from injury? He looked under cooked today.

I'm not joining this bandwagon, I think he's a class act.

He has played the last 5 prem games and missed 1 games in the last 14 prem games

It seems that whenever there is a big game for Chelsea he has a quiet game and doesn’t look involved

 

[Swango1980]

Am I right in thinking that until ball is touched at a corner the ball is dead and so nothing can happen. Refs have not got the bottle to penalise the defender, it always seems the attacker is committing the foul. Maybe it will just take a farcical couple of weeks in all divisions and have 6,7,8,9 penalties a game and it might stop. Like anything in this life, if the wrong doers have no consequences, then why stop

Yes. But Rice was wrestling his opponent the entire time, hence why his arm was high when ball hit it. And in next corner, he was sumo wrestling an opponent out of play as the ball flew past them.

 

[Swango1980]

Is Palmer not recently back from injury? He looked under cooked today.

I'm not joining this bandwagon, I think he's a class act.

I think he is excellent.

Been injured. But also wonder how easy it is for any player to shine in this Chelsea side to he fair. Do they have consistency in players and coaching. Is it easy to build relationships with his team mates?

They seem very disjointed

 

[Billysboots]

I think Dalot is simply one of the worst passers of a ball the Premier League has ever seen.

He was the worst player in a red shirt today, by some distance.

Obviously we couldn’t tell from the stands, but was the VAR review when Kavanagh went to the monitor for the penalty itself or red card? If for the penalty, interesting to see him stick with his on field decision.

 

[Billysboots]

I would be interested to know what Billy's perception of that VAR call was, as he was in ground.

As an armchair fan, I knew the review was whether it was a red card or not. But as a fan in the ground, did they think the review was about it being a penalty or not?

I assume the Screen in the ground says "red card review"? But Old Trafford seemed to groan when ref went to screen.

I asked the question above before I read this!

We couldn’t tell, but when the penalty was allowed to stand I did wonder whether the review was for the red card. The small screens in the ground suggested the check was for the penalty itself, just to add to the confusion.

 

[Swango1980]

He was the worst player in a red shirt today, by some distance.

Obviously we couldn’t tell from the stands, but was the VAR review when Kavanagh went to the monitor for the penalty itself or red card? If for the penalty, interesting to see him stick with his on field decision.

It was for red card, VAR agreed with penalty

 

[4LEX]

Not sure Utd looked as good with Mbeumo out wide, lacked real width today. Amad was poor against Everton but you can't play two number 10's out wide against any half decent sides and get away with it. Today it took a red card and a penalty to scrape the win.

What a job Carrick has done though in terms of results