Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [23rd February - 1st March 2018]

sneakysnail said:
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.
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Agreed - there needs to be a genuine attempt to play by the attacking player in my book. It's similar to the Lamela one against Liverpool. It wasn't a dive in that he was kicked, but he didn't even attempt to play the ball whereas Van Dijk did, so it shouldn't have been a penalty either.
 
manic111 said:
Agreed - there needs to be a genuine attempt to play by the attacking player in my book. It's similar to the Lamela one against Liverpool. It wasn't a dive in that he was kicked, but he didn't even attempt to play the ball whereas Van Dijk did, so it shouldn't have been a penalty either.
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Same for the offside kane one as well. Just knocks the ball past the keeper off the pitch and dives trailing his legs. If he wants to stay up and chase the ball he could have but his touch past the keeper was crap so he dived.
 
We've got a really attacking squad and 0 tactics for attacking and our general plan is to hope we can attack on the counter. Makes 0 sense to me.
 
We're like the opposite of Tottenham. Stacked full of quality players but we play like a team that is half as good as the sum of its parts. Tottenham are good because their entire team knows their job and does it well. You can see that every attack has a plan and people know where to go and where to make their runs. That the main job Mourinho has to do, give us a plan and we still have none.
 
This game has like zero pressing. Just drop back get 10 behind the ball. Then get it back from poor pass and try to pass through 10 players...rinse and repeat. No midfield battle. Hopefully it turns into end to end football by the end
 
Willian is in great form at the moment

McTominay just stops following Willian for some reason.
 
Hit the ball hard enough from close range and the keeper ain't saving it unless his body happens to be in the way already.

McTominay is getting shown up defensively here. Not tracking, not close the space and letting players go past him far too easily.
 
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