Greenlizard0 PL & Championship Football Thread ** spoilers ** [14th - 16th October 2022]
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City are still 100% favourites for the title and to walk away with it. Lots of people are instinctively reacting to this result and earlier results, however anybody who has watched this City team under Pep knows these are the main reasons they'll likely walk it...
- City are a machine of performance - they are more consistent than any other team, they play one way and everyone plays into that system, losing one or two players doesn't change that.
- As the season goes on, City don't get stronger, other teams get weaker and more tired. City's strength in depth for rotation means they are fresher later in the season.
- More substitutes available - Like the above this will absolutely play into City's squad depth - they will be able to rest key players more often.
-They've plugged one of their main weaknesses in buying the best striker in the world.
-Lastly, the only team able to keep pace over the last few years have started poorly and will struggle to make up the gap and also remain as consistent later.
IMO
- City are a machine of performance - they are more consistent than any other team, they play one way and everyone plays into that system, losing one or two players doesn't change that.
- As the season goes on, City don't get stronger, other teams get weaker and more tired. City's strength in depth for rotation means they are fresher later in the season.
- More substitutes available - Like the above this will absolutely play into City's squad depth - they will be able to rest key players more often.
-They've plugged one of their main weaknesses in buying the best striker in the world.
-Lastly, the only team able to keep pace over the last few years have started poorly and will struggle to make up the gap and also remain as consistent later.
IMO
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Saw an amusing statistic this morning, Haaland has now faced Liverpool 4 times and lost all 4 times. Its weird how you get streaks like that, where players end up simply never getting a win against a specific team, even when the team changes and when they change teams themselves.
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Pep has never won at anfield I think?
Pretty sure he did when we were handing them out for free at Anfield during the Covid season, similar to Everton
Not sure he has when there are fans
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Liverpool 1-4 Manchester City: Pep Guardiola Finally Gets Anfield Win As Premier League Champions Collapse
Liverpool suffered a third successive league loss at home as ruthless Manchester City tightened their grip on top spot in the table
ahh yes he did but that was without fans
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Me too
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Wouldn't write arsenal off but hope they don't win. Being in the south I only know arsenal and spurs fans, so them both being trash is the best option. 
I was only able to watch bits and pieces of the match yesterday and only just got around to watching it now. Defensively yesterday wasn't just a hell of a lot better than what we've produced this season but I can't think of another time where we've restricted City to so little in the Pep era. We need to make sure we play with that sort of concentration and intensity in future.
Reading some of the praise Taylor's been getting for his performance yesterday is more than a bit baffling. I get some people want the game to flow more but he resorted to just not awarding anything. Ignoring the City disallowed goal, the challenge on Salah by Rodri in the 1st half and the Bernardo one in the 2nd half that resulted in Klopp's sending off were plain ridiculous. On City's disallowed goal, I can only assume it's a matter of VAR process but surely it would have been more straight forward for VAR to go straight to the foul on Alisson? Although a clear foul on Fabinho, there is at least some subjectivity involved however the Alisson foul is clear cut - as soon as he has either 2 hands on the ball or 1 hand on the ball plus the ball being grounded then it's a foul. Had VAR just given that then it would have stopped the cry arsing after the game from Pep, Bernardo and Richards.
Reading some of the praise Taylor's been getting for his performance yesterday is more than a bit baffling. I get some people want the game to flow more but he resorted to just not awarding anything. Ignoring the City disallowed goal, the challenge on Salah by Rodri in the 1st half and the Bernardo one in the 2nd half that resulted in Klopp's sending off were plain ridiculous. On City's disallowed goal, I can only assume it's a matter of VAR process but surely it would have been more straight forward for VAR to go straight to the foul on Alisson? Although a clear foul on Fabinho, there is at least some subjectivity involved however the Alisson foul is clear cut - as soon as he has either 2 hands on the ball or 1 hand on the ball plus the ball being grounded then it's a foul. Had VAR just given that then it would have stopped the cry arsing after the game from Pep, Bernardo and Richards.
Dock 3 points, I say.
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Yep, Merseyside youth football suspends all games in protest of how refs have been treated and then this bullying dinosaurs is seen fists clenched getting in the officials face, again. Yes it's annoying when they get things wrong but it's no wonder the youth game is utterly hideous from parents to kids with the officials when this is the standard they see from the top at all clubs.
The rules need a re-write and when teams have players banned for longer or points deducted for repeat offenders you can be sure this game gets cleaned up. I mean what's the point of all those respect boards at my kids games when they then go home and see this awful **** do that.
The rules need a re-write and when teams have players banned for longer or points deducted for repeat offenders you can be sure this game gets cleaned up. I mean what's the point of all those respect boards at my kids games when they then go home and see this awful **** do that.