Greenlizard0 PL & FA Cup Football Thread ** spoilers ** [18th - 22nd July 2020]
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Reports coming out that Watford have sacked Pearson. Watford are such a mental club, the deserve to go down.
Classic robfosters that
What we see on Sky isn't always what VAR are looking at. You'd assume they would have checked that first but when you first saw it, it looked like Son was just in Leicester's half.
In normal circumstances I'd agree but given the situation, they've had to set-up to go and win today, not to sit deep and hope for the best. You have to remember that a loss or a draw doesn't change much for them - they've got to assume that Utd will beat West Ham and at the very least Chelsea are picking up 3 points from their remaining 2 games. Draw or lose and they still need to beat Utd on the final day. Win and they've got one foot in the CL.
No they won't. If Utd win 4-0 vs West Ham their GD will be 4 better but Leicester will only need a 2 goal win to reverse that as Utd's GD will drop by 2 and Leicester's will increase by 2 - that will leave you level on GD but Leicester would be ahead on goals scored.
Correct. It would only decide whether it was a red for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity but as Martial wasn't in control of the ball that clearly wasn't the case.
The one on Chelsea's bench.
Just waited to see the replay again, that's never a red. He's in an awkward body position trying to pinch the ball in front of the Chelsea defender and there's a 2nd Chelsea defender coming round on the cover. There's huge doubt that he's controlling the ball cleanly, to get into a position to get a clear shot away and that the 2nd Chelsea defender isn't getting back at him for that to be a clear goalscoring opportunity.
He's earning over £350k per week, they can't shift him and how do they bring somebody else in to replace him while he's still around?
3 more seasons with the option to extend that by another.
He wouldn't be the first keeper that's just fell off a cliff. Pepe Reina was the same - he just woke up in 2010 and decided he wasn't going to dive for anything every again and stuck to it for 10 years.
Some commentators don't half talk some ****. Earlier they spent 5 minutes talking about how shocked they were De Gea made a mistake, as if he's not been throwing them in for the past 2 years and now it will be a standout season for Lampard if he can get them in the CL and FA Cup Final - Chelsea of course finished 3rd and won the FA Cup last season.
They had a transfer ban and yet added Pulisic, Mount, Abraham & Tomori to their squad and had Loftus-Cheek & Odoi back from long-term injuries. Of course it wasn't ideal but it was hardly the end of the world with them adding £100-150m worth of players to their squad still.
Thanks but Goldbridge doesn't do it for me ever since he started doing interviews and basically admitted it's all an act.
It's a decent season but when you consider the seasons Utd, Spurs and Arsenal have had, it's hardly the massive achievement the commentators were making it out to be. What Rodgers has done at Leicester or Wilder at Sheffield Utd has been far more impressive.