Weekend Football Thread - 15/8 to 17/8 *spoilers*

Spurs were much the better side.

Liverpool looked very poor in the first half, a lot better in the second.

A lack of service and creativity in the midfield. It's too early to dismiss or really judge Liverpool, I thought that they missed Alonso today, Rafa shouldn't of forced him out.
 
No, nothing I just knew that it could crop up at some point, Liverpool having a "tougher/harder" start then Manchester United / Chelsea.

Thought Liverpool were very poor first half, much better second, but Spurs bossed the game :)

Torres lacked service, Babel was very poor, he's not improved much.
 
Tombstone said:
So nothing actually wrong with my statement then..thats what I figured.
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Nope, just nice to see you getting your excuses in nice and early :p

Babel, always looked like he could be come something special, he's quick and has decent feet, just hasn't improved enough. He's not very good from what I've seen of him.

However, Lucas is a far better player, and has improved a lot and still gets abuse :rolleyes:
 
Tunney said:
Speaking of yellow cards, Liverpool really were a bunch of cheats today. I've never seen a team commit so many professional fouls. How they ended with 11 men, I'll never know.
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I've seen much worse, I suppose many on here have as well.

Liverpool made some bad tackles, but weren't particularly dirty or anything today, just out played and the few yellows they got were out of frustration, not been dirty players.
 
Chong Warrior said:
Just talking about the intent from the attacking player.... he see's the keeper going to ground, kicks the ball and falls over. If that's everyone's idea of sport and what it's all about then you're no sportsman in my mind. If I'm in that postion on a football field I'm not expecting anything at all as I wasn't representing a threat on goal... the ball has already gone out of play, why is it different because it's the Premiership??
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Those decisions are given world wide in football, you don't bring a player down in the box in such an obvious way and get away with it.

I understand the argument, "he wasn't going to do anything with the ball" but does that some how make it right for the goal keeper to foul him ? The attacker, is very simply been clever, he's not diving, he's just taking advantage of inexperienced/nervous/aggressive goalkeeper. The fault with these fouls, lies with the goal keeper imo, the sooner he stops charging out, the sooner they stop getting these decisions.

You see players, in a similar vain, doing this all across the pitch, waiting for the tackle kind of thing.
 
BaZ87 said:
If Gomes doesn't come flying out of his goal, Johnson's taking a more controlled touch and is more than capable of keeping the ball in play and taking either a shot or cutting it back.

Gomes came flying out which made it a 50-50 ball, Johnson got there first and Gomes took him out. It's a penalty all day long.
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I don't understand why people blame the attackers in these situations, like I said in my novel.

When keepers stop making rash/stupid decisions like this, Refs will stop giving the fouls.
 
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