Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [23rd February - 1st March 2018]
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Ta, that firmino goal was awesome, ox assist was good too
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Agreed it is a must win for us. Still have to play city and arsenal as well. If we win today everything will be a lot better. Only problem is we are playing abysmal.
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Just logged in to post that. He's done that twice already today but seems to be immune to the card.
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If Ali got a yellow for every time he's dived this season he'd probably be banned for next season.
The latest one he started falling into the goalkeeper before he’d even been touched, so that’s not nonsense.
To be honest, for the rest of the season, we just need to grind it out. Ideally good performances would be preferred but the points are too critical now, we just need the points.
Need huge performances from our 'star' players today, another rubbish pedestrian performance and we might as well give up.
I think Hazard/Willian will be right up for it and we'll struggle. Lindelof
Yep, fully expecting them to do us over, could well be another embarrassment...
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I think lacking ambition would be fairer to Palace.
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I think it has Henry the other week that was talking about keeper contact. Basically he said that when he first came to premier league if you took a heavy touch that you couldn't reach or one that was going way wide of goal it just wouldn't be given as a penalty.
I'd like to see a return of this. If a player sprints to get a touch and then spanners the ball of the pitch who cares if he gets tripped? Unless it's a small touch where they could round the keeper it shouldn't be given.
Now players just kick the ball anywhere and dive into a keeper creating any contact. Ali's dive a few months back ago for example. That balls going away from goal to nobody, just fishing for a penalty. Even if they keeper had made contact and Ali didn't dive its still not worthy of a penalty.
I'd like to see a return of this. If a player sprints to get a touch and then spanners the ball of the pitch who cares if he gets tripped? Unless it's a small touch where they could round the keeper it shouldn't be given.
Now players just kick the ball anywhere and dive into a keeper creating any contact. Ali's dive a few months back ago for example. That balls going away from goal to nobody, just fishing for a penalty. Even if they keeper had made contact and Ali didn't dive its still not worthy of a penalty.
I agree with that - the game should aim for that but recent past has not reflected this.
Game needs consistency.