7 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Modern football is so stupid. All of these newly promoted teams and teams at the bottom end of the table lose every game trying to play similar football to the teams at the top and get caught out every time. Southampton go 1 up against Arsenal, and instead of being a bit cautious and prepare for Arsenal stepping up their game, they continue to play the same way and concede a goal almost instantly.

 With Everton now allegedly close to a takeover, watch them sack Dyche and hire a young, obscure possession oriented coach who will finally relegate them

Wolves are a mess.

Off go Jorginho and Sterling and then, sadly, the goals start flying in for Arsenal. 2+2 still equals four. 

7 games played, and only one team has failed to score against Manchester City ... 🙂 

They certainly look nowhere near as dominant when missing just a couple of key players (Rodri, De Bruyne). Imagine how they'd look with 10-12 out including half the best starting XI, like we had all last season ... 

Title challangers, and winners, almost always find a way, whether the nick or or smash them, to beat the less sides.

Of course Arsenal, Pool and City beat sides like Saints,  Palace and Fulham.

Just now, Sexyfootball said:

7 games played, and only one team has failed to score against Manchester City ... 🙂 

They certainly look nowhere near as dominant when missing just a couple of key players (Rodri, De Bruyne). Imagine how they'd look with 10-12 out including half the best starting XI, like we had all last season ... 

I believe their run comes to an end this season. They are weaker, Rodri and huge miss. Up to Slot and Arteta to Duke it out as to who takes the crown.

There are some poor teams in PL, any 3 could go down, Wolves, Palace, Southampton, Leicester, Everton or Ipswich

1 minute ago, axman2526 said:

I believe their run comes to an end this season. They are weaker, Rodri and huge miss. Up to Slot and Arteta to Duke it out as to who takes the crown.

ABA. (Anyone but Arsenal)

9 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

I believe their run comes to an end this season. They are weaker, Rodri and huge miss. Up to Slot and Arteta to Duke it out as to who takes the crown.

Might as well be us eh ?

14 minutes ago, POCH OUT said:

There are some poor teams in PL, any 3 could go down, Wolves, Palace, Southampton, Leicester, Everton or Ipswich

Wolves have been shockingly poor so far. I keep thinking they will turn it around, but they just keep conceding more and more goals. They have too many good players to be 20th.

Alisson is injured for Liverpool again, looks like it could be a bit of a longer period out for him. I've never actually seen Kelleher play badly for Liverpool though, so I don't think it will make much difference.

Edited October 5, 20241 yr by Scott Harris

1 hour ago, Scott Harris said:

Wolves are a mess.

My money is on O'Neill for the first tin tack of the season, slightly ahead of the guy at Southampton and ETH

34 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Might as well be us eh ?

Would be a wonderful surprise, but not going to happen. Our defence is too weak and our keepers too unstable. 

Against sold back lines we will struggle and drop points.

7 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Would be a wonderful surprise, but not going to happen. Our defence is too weak and our keepers too unstable. 

Against solid back lines we will struggle and drop points.

Good job there aren't too many of those in the PL this season then LOL !

The key will be how many points we can take against lower half teams, assuming we can at least match last seasons results against the top half.

19 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Good job there aren't too many of those in the PL this season then LOL !

The key will be how many points we can take against lower half teams, assuming we can at least match last seasons results against the top half.

Would need to beat everyone left, home and away, not named Liverpool, Man City or Arsenal.

11 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Would need to beat everyone left, home and away, not named Liverpool, Man City or Arsenal.

We are 4th favourites with Skybet at 14-1 ... hmmm .... tempting ... 🙂 

Havertz is starting to score again, theoretically with City's issues with Rodri and De Bruyne Arsenal won't get a better chance of winning the league, IMO.

Kovacic is not supposed to score goals. 

But when he does it's a cracker.

9 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Alisson is injured for Liverpool again, looks like it could be a bit of a longer period out for him. I've never actually seen Kelleher play badly for Liverpool though, so I don't think it will make much difference.

God no, I don't want us to face Kelleher yet again. The bastard keeps saving everything we come up with, rather we face Alisson after international break 

22 hours ago, Sexyfootball said:

Some speculation in the Daily Mail that the ball hit an object on the pitch, which caused it to change direction.

There was also speculation that it hit a divot. There was clearly nothing on the pitch, I couldn't see a divot. Just spin, methinks. It turned like a leg break. Still, Meslier took it too casually. He has history.

17 minutes ago, dermott said:

There was also speculation that it hit a divot. There was clearly nothing on the pitch, I couldn't see a divot. Just spin, methinks. It turned like a leg break. Still, Meslier took it too casually. He has history.

This is the pic they showed in their article : 

 

I couldn't see anything like that in the original footage mind you.

He's not a great goalkeeper, and had the 2nd worst stats in the PL the year Leeds went down. I can't believe we were even linked to him at one point !

 

29 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

This is the pic they showed in their article : 

 

I couldn't see anything like that in the original footage mind you.

He's not a great goalkeeper, and had the 2nd worst stats in the PL the year Leeds went down. I can't believe we were even linked to him at one point !

 

Pretty obvious Photoshop. Clarity of the gloved fingers in the close-up the giveaway.

Tottenham broke through Brightons high line within 13 seconds, werner clean away but as usual he crossed to far in front of Johnson, they should be 2 up already

This should be a high scoring game, Tottenham defenders just inside Brighton half! Brighton player caught offside with one foot inside Tottenham half