ElTerrible

Didn´t almost lose. Went behind, equalized with time to spare and won in ET with time to spare. West Ham almost lost.

Penalties saves Kepa 1 of 1 Henderson 0 of 8

Kepa to Sarr: Well done. I got to be the hero again.

That´s why you need Big Rom against these small teams. He can break the deadlock on a set piece with his presence in the box.

They have surpassed Arsenal as the banter club. Lingard: I want to go to Newcastle. Rangnick: Sure. Board: He can´t leave, because we need squad depth. Rangnick: Jesse asked to take some personal time. Lingard: No I did not. Rangnick: Son, please. Board: Five years, 600k a week. Son: Okay. It´s really hard to believe their level of stupid. You thought they´d have Rangnick sort out their front office mess, but it seems he´s just another pawn in their commercial game. Can´t wait for the contract extensions for Lingard, Pogba, Mata and Matic.

Don´t even care whether that is net/gross, cause I´m sure Bayern Munich will pay that on a free transfer after they decided to let Sule walk. Christensen is a proven commodity in the Bundesliga/Champions League and he´s only 25 years old.

Fun fact: Lukaku scored 2020/2021: 18 goals without penalties. 2019/2020; 17 goals without penalties. Right now Abraham is on pace to score 17 goals without penalties. "Italian" strikers are a dangerous commodity. Piatek and Immobile banging them in for fun in Italy, but utter flops in the free-flowing Bundesliga. Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic and Dzeko being top strikers as grandpas. You need some proper level scouting to successfully predict the transferability of Italian scoring to other leagues imho.

So what? Those are the rules. Pro athletes travel the whole world, playing against athletes from literally every other country in the world, so they are basically potential superspreaders. It´s their free choice to not get vaxxed. They simply have to live with the consequences of not being able to do their job. If you need a car to get to your job, and you don´t think the government should be allowed to mandate that you wear a seatbelt, while operating your own vehicle; that´s well within your rights. It also means you are not allowed to operate a vehicle, hence you can´t get to your job, and you can´t work. There is no difference, except seatbelts are socially accepted measures of public and individual health/safety, whereas vaccines are not. Societies set rules to function. Big whoop. Otherwise we´d life in anarchy and if your neighbour wanted your TV, he can just kill you, because it´s his freedom of choice to rather get yours than order one from Amazon.

I hope they do not. I hope they say: here are your new signings Hall, Gallagher, Gilmour, Broja and Livramento. Congratulations. Tuchel is not great with transfers, just bring back the kids and let him sort it out. That´s assuming all the defenders stay on board. Otherwise obviously replacements are needed.

Important things I learned during the game. Chelsea can still win league games and Dele Alli is half otter.

I think the situation is a result of a long season last year combined with COVID and injuries to key players. It´s no coincidence the performances always seem to tail off in the last 20 minutes of games. The team gets tired and to be honest it´s unlikely to get better with the club World Cup competition and everything else. The games come thick and fast. One thing I´ll say though is that the team (as currently available) seems to generate more chances in a 4-4-2 or 4-3-3 set-up. It becomes obvious that the 3-4-3/3-5-2 was dependent on James/Chilwell and three workrate players up-front. I´d also just take a chance and rotate more. Hall was the best player in the FA Cup. Sure the opposition was lower league, but he didn´t look like he´d have a meltdown, if he was covered by 10 senior players in a Premier League game against a poorer side.

Huh, without even checking whether they play each other (which I know they do) and assuming all teams win their games in hand the table would be.... Tottenham 48 (amazing, since they still play like crap) Chelsea 44 Arsenal 44 (with 20 goals to make up in three games) United 41 West Ham 40 Wolves 39 Leicester 37

I know right. There is no evidence that with Havertz, Werner and Mount the outcome against City would be any different.

Norwich coming.

Arsenal are just a poorly run club. When I know the new season of Cobra Kai is dropping on Netflix on New Year´s Eve, I call his wife and have her change the password.

Team won´t win the league with or without a new emergency LB. Team won´t finish outside the top 4 with or without a new emergency LB. Just keep developing players like Hall and save the strongest line-ups for the Cup competitions.

Bloody nose. Not worth looking at. They should call him Stevie Gomatose, cause most coaches would have strangled the 4th official.

In that case I´d go with Werner. Doesn´t put it in the hole a lot himself, but he´s pretty good settings others up. 😉

If this thread was on BlueMoon, you´d get banned for trolling. City trying to win the Champions League for a decade, bringing in Pep, spending a billion dollars, and people here are like: I wonder whether it will ever work out for Havertz or Werner, they are underwhelming etc.... IT ALREADY WORKED OUT. THEY WON THE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE. They started nearly all knockout games, including the final. I mean what else is there to make these transfer work out? There is nothing bigger than the Champions League. That´s the biggest title in club football. This is a football club. You expect them to wingman you into a threesome with some supermodels?

We´ll call it a 4-2-2-2 just to stick it to United and the professor. Rangnick needs a whole sememster for his students to get a D+ and Tuchel does it in one 90 minute lecture with the advanced students.

I guess what happens here is that Liverpool basically decided not to disclose the nature of the injuries/illness of the players, since I´m pretty sure medical privacy laws also apply to foootballers. If Liverpool hands in 20 sick notes, but don´t release all the medical information of the person, how do you know whether the player has COVID or a pinky finger injury. What I will agree with though is that the whole postponement process seemed completely arbitrary. These smaller clubs complain that five substitutions would hurt the competitive balance due to greater depth at the bigger clubs and they also have no problem to exploit it the other way around, too:

Classic English-speaking commentary. They always make attacking players sound like incompetent morons. According to them every game would/should end 15-13, if the attackers did their jobs adequately, but at the same time they look for every opportunity to assess own goals.

Taylor would have disallowed the 2nd goal for handball by Davies, then disallowed the penalty, because it was accidental.

United is the gift that keeps on giving. In a fight with Wolves, Leicester and Brighton for the Conference League and they don´t talk about catching West Ham, Arsenal and Tottenham. They talk about catching Chelsea and Liverpool. LOL.

Klopp is bored at home. Read TheShed and got so annoyed at our fans, that he called an audible.