Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [13th - 16th December 2019]

I won't believe it until the last game of the last day of the season. And I'll still have someone kick me in the swingers to make sure I'm not dreaming.
 
I've seen Liverpool blow the premier League title too many times to get excited just yet. Even if we are 10 points clear with one game left, I'd still be worried we'd find a way to **** it up.
 
adam cool dude said:
Liverpool always looked on edge during those times. This year reminds me of United from 99 to 2001. Watching pep disintegrate is hilarious too.
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To be fair to Pep, between 99 and 2001 he'd still be in the title race. In terms of sheer dominance over the rest of the league, what City produced in the 2 seasons prior to this and us last and so far this season is miles ahead of anything else in PL history.

Teams were winning the league with sub 80 points and losing half a dozen games back then, we're averaging the equivalent of over 100 points per season for 18 months now. 25 wins and a draw from our last 26 games is truly mad.
 
Azza said:
Oh my god I've only just seen that Sarr miss! WOW!
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Am I the only one who's not seeing that as a terrible miss? Two players and the keeper were on the line. Still a terrible attempt at a shot but in no way the worst miss I've ever seen. El Ghazi's was worse last week.
 
Liverpool have a tough 6 weeks ahead of them, if they can still keep a semi decent lead by the end of Jan, then its time to get excited, until then.
 
BaZ87 said:
To be fair to Pep, between 99 and 2001 he'd still be in the title race. In terms of sheer dominance over the rest of the league, what City produced in the 2 seasons prior to this and us last and so far this season is miles ahead of anything else in PL history.

Teams were winning the league with sub 80 points and losing half a dozen games back then, we're averaging the equivalent of over 100 points per season for 18 months now. 25 wins and a draw from our last 26 games is truly mad.
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Back in 99 pep wouldn't have had unlimited oil money to bank roll his project!

Also cups are a lot less precious now with the big teams concentrating more on the league and champions league. Unless you had the squad depth of a team like city. Things might have been different if Liverpool had gone far into the league cup or FA cup. Would they have got the points total they did? Back then a double was something special. It is really meaningless now.
 
BaZ87 said:
To be fair to Pep, between 99 and 2001 he'd still be in the title race. In terms of sheer dominance over the rest of the league, what City produced in the 2 seasons prior to this and us last and so far this season is miles ahead of anything else in PL history.

Teams were winning the league with sub 80 points and losing half a dozen games back then, we're averaging the equivalent of over 100 points per season for 18 months now. 25 wins and a draw from our last 26 games is truly mad.
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Imo there was a lot of better centrebacks in that era than there is nowadays.
 
adam cool dude said:
Back in 99 pep wouldn't have had unlimited oil money to bank roll his project!

Also cups are a lot less precious now with the big teams concentrating more on the league and champions league. Unless you had the squad depth of a team like city. Things might have been different if Liverpool had gone far into the league cup or FA cup. Would they have got the points total they did? Back then a double was something special. It is really meaningless now.
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I'm not sure why the source of the money effects a manager's achievements or how the point on the cups is relevant to your comparison between this Liverpool side and Utd of 99-2001. What City and now Liverpool are doing is on a different level to what we've seen before. There's almost no margin for error if you want to win the league and that's never been the case before.
rebel rebel said:
Imo there was a lot of better centrebacks in that era than there is nowadays.
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Possibly, although the best of the PL era is playing now. There's more better forwards around now too so it'sa bit swings and roundabouts in that regard. The fact that PL sides are doing as well as ever in Europe would suggest that the league, relative to the rest of Europe, is as strong as it's been, certainly far stronger than around the turn of the century.
 
Forwards are definitely as good as they've ever been. Agüero, Salah, Mane, Kane are all world-class players who could pick their team.

Defenders wise, in the first 10 years of the premiership the top teams all had several decent centrebacks. Arsenal had Adams, Bould and Keown all at the same time for instance. And even the lower teams had people like Southgate, Woodgate.

There's also an emphasis on attacking and entertaining football now.
 
rebel rebel said:
Forwards are definitely as good as they've ever been. Agüero, Salah, Mane, Kane are all world-class players who could pick their team.

Defenders wise, in the first 10 years of the premiership the top teams all had several decent centrebacks. Arsenal had Adams, Bould and Keown all at the same time for instance. And even the lower teams had people like Southgate, Woodgate.

There's also an emphasis on attacking and entertaining football now.
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They could also get away with kicking people off the pitch a lot more back then. The style of defending has changed a lot since then.
 
Started well, but playing pretty badly now, and then we score a comical own goal :p

Thought VAR might scrap that goal, forearm in De Gea's face...
 
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