Carabao Cup - Third Round ** Spoilers ** [25/26 September 2018]

[BaZ87]

Given the amount of changes we made I suppose you can understand that sort of performance. First 20 minutes or so we were all over the place, the front 3 not knowing when to press and as a result the midfield were being pulled out of position, making it easy for Fabregas to pick his passes. We gradually got back into the game and looked comfortable going into the last 15 mins or so but then seemed to get a bit complacent. We had chances to go 2 goals up and wasted them and a couple of moments of really lazy defending cost us 2 goals.

Never good to lose but if we were going to lose 1 game of this run, this was the game. Hopefully it'll give us the kick up the arse we need for Saturday.

 

[BaZ87]

Doesn't VAR remove that though in favour of fact? If he's offside, even by a millimetre, it should be given as offside.

Yep. It looked like they didn't have a proper camera angle to call it though.

 

[Janesy B]

Urgh it's like being a Tottenham fan in the 90's again.

 

[vanpeebles]

Klopp having a right go at Shaquiri there!

Was weird that! Usually Klopp acts the best man manager ever, rather than bawling his players out in public,

 

[BaZ87]

Was weird that! Usually Klopp acts the best man manager ever, rather than bawling his players out in public,

Not true, he regularly loses his rag on the sideline usually at Moreno.

 

[Liquid_Entity]

Capoue LOL literally pooey penalty

 

[vanpeebles]

During the game is different than afterwards though.

 

[robfosters]

Spurs luck their way through.

 

[Liquid_Entity]

Spurs luck their way through.

Watford were lucky to get to pens after that freak deflection to score their 2nd.

 

[Janesy B]

Spurs luck their way through.

looool what a load of ****. Watford's second goal was pure luck.

 

[robfosters]

I’m an Arsenal fan. That means Spurs are always lucky

 

[Skorpion]

Please dont get drawn against Man Utd in the next roun......oh hang on a sec

 

[Participant]

You dont even need code. Just click the media button (next to the image button), paste in the video URL and click embed.

Thanks but I've disabled all that because it causes problems in Google Chrome with swipe style keyboards.

 

[HangTime]

Anyone know what happened to ABBA format for penalty shootouts, MU had 4 max pressure penalties (miss and you are out of the cup) whereas Derby had none?

 

[explicit4u]

Anyone know what happened to ABBA format for penalty shootouts, MU had 4 max pressure penalties (miss and you are out of the cup) whereas Derby had none?

It was only a trial for last season, no idea what the outcome was.

 

[HangTime]

Some people moaned about it but I think their complaints are illogical:

"If you miss that first penalty - which is the advantage if you score it - and the other team scores their first two then 2-0 is a big advantage to the second team."

What, as opposed to the big advantage from the old format to the first team whereby if you went second and missed your first kick you could be 2-0 down? The difference is, at least with ABBA format, you would get a chance to make it 2-2 without them replying. But that isn't really the point, I mean if you miss a penalty and the other team scores theirs, you are obviously going to be at a disadvantage

"Before you'd want to go first, but you would think twice now.

"If they miss you've got two opportunities (to score), so do you give them the opportunity to go first?"

I don't see how having to "think twice" is a bad thing, basically that just implies that the old format gave the advantage to the team going first, whereas now it is fairer.