Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

Nice of the Palace players to put the ball out of play when Lamela was down with blood streaming from his head.

nobody enjoyed jacques santini

its a question of workload and ability, theres a dozen midfielders behind kane and they have no job at all but to touch it and pass it backwards afaict

if we had players quicker or with a better touch/pass than davies (tbf it works with rose and intermittently with aurier/trippier) then great but as it is we're maximising ball time for wanyama, sissoko, davies and davies and its like offering the opposition a ready baked tactic

sissoko best game for us today tbf but still one bad loss of possession as last and a few poor passes under no pressure

Only seen the last 15mins or so but why wasn't Winks on from the start? It's not like we're overburdened with midfielders who can play the ball from deep right now.

How did he not score?

presume rested tbh hes been everpresent recently

xp which

how is he unmarked from a simple dropping ball is the question

Both!

amazing the skills we have keeping it in the corner when we fall over the damned thing from open play at 0-0

pffffft

once we start playing.....ah who am i kidding we'll probably start losing as soon as te attack clicks

U gotta have Foyth Foyth Foyth.

Quite enjoying us sitting two points from the top despite having played well maybe twice all season. Imagine what it's going to be like when we remember how to play football.

cmere ive seen foyth reported as 6 ft 3 but hes clearly two at least inches shorter than that right

Seems like the big 6 (bar man u I guess) just need to turn up for 3 points this season, regardless of how they play. Relentless pace at the top

embarrassing for that fool austin and that cunt hughes that the watford pen not given is a much more obviously wrong decision than a judgement that the gk was affected by the offside soton player

stone cold pen as well. Would donate to a crowdfunder to buy Austin his own private helicopter.

how that did that Billing shot not go in?

jaysus xp

saw foyth beside son at end and i guess he is six three. doesnt rly look it rest of time

Six foot foyth, at least.

he's a shortarse next to Billing and is 6 ft 1.6 according to wiki.

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— Josh Anderson🔰 (@Joshanderson951) November 11, 2018

Matic and Fellaini up against the Silva brothers is a cruel joke

Loving Aguero's white hair though.

CHEERS FOR THE FREEBIE Arsenal

well-deserved half team lead but we should have took one of our other chances to get the cushion. Arsenal pleasing lacklustre so far but shurely that can't last?

they only seem to get going in the second half this season

yes at craven cottage it was 1-1 at HT; ended 5-1

oof

the plucky little Manchester Utd fightback is a true inspirations to us fans of teams in the mini pub league at the bottom of the prem table that haven't taken points from any of these fuckers yet!

Coady just bossing everything again

Aubemayang misses the sitter :D

fair to say City are a little bit better than us

ouch Mkhitaryan with the flukey equalizer

getting a slating from the Arsenal bench and fans for time wasting, oh the irony

then Adama breaks and shd've scored, one on one aaaargh

fucking Leno has kept these in it today

fucking stream breaking up in the dying minutes

two points dropped, still need improvement

Mourinho argues that City would have been in "big, big trouble" had he been able to bring Fellaini on as a sub, rather than starting him
"He was not ready to play for 90 minutes. I can imagine when it was 2-1 to bring a fresh Fellaini, I think they would be in big, big trouble."

— Miguel Delaney (@MiguelDelaney) November 11, 2018

Drug test now

bbc making a hoo-hah about the 44-pass goal, ignoring that it was scored from a routine cross that some centre-back (matic) just didn't bother defending

*(matic?)

More significant might be United's inability to break up the previous 43 passes despite having had three defensive midfielders on the pitch at the time.

I don't know whether it's galling or impressive that KDB, the best player in the league last season, is barely even missed by them right now.

we're too stupid to even commit a tactical foul in that scenario. Fernandinho (who seems to be totally immune to yellow cards) was doing it all game

Also Matic's brain appears to have atrophied along with his legs

think he should confiscate Fred's greggs loyalty card and give him a run in the team, can't be worse than matic at the moment.

Fred has looked dreadful on the occasions I've seen him, the whole midfield is a mess of cloggers and water carriers with only Pogba offering anything different and he can't be expected to do everything on his own. You badly need a real playmaker to complement him, just someone who can knit play together properly and transition the ball from deep and there doesn't appear to be one in your squad.

Pereira could possibly be a version of that player, but Mourinho clearly doesn't fancy him

The Fred transfer looks pretty baffling at this point. He's had some good moments when he's played (although he has been erratic) but again, Mourinho doesn't seem to trust him enough to give him a run of games, whereas Matic can stink the place up week in week out and still complete 90 minutes of every match

always unpleasant to be reminded of the existence of miguel delaney, who occasionally takes time out from writing cliched drivel to be a massive cunt

Apparently there's a bunch of Delaney's football writer friends who have a problem with me tweeting about art? And he wanted to make sure that I knew? Shame he couldn't really hide their names well enough. pic.twitter.com/C6x6MBxs1L

— Zito (@_Zeets) August 18, 2018