Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

There's probably never been a better time for English football fans to enjoy good, exciting, attacking, technical football that also wins games, certainly compared to the Mourinho imperial phase. You shouldn't have to choose these days.

long live american soccer pic.twitter.com/HprqfYkQvZ

— Zack Goldman (@ThatDamnYank) December 19, 2018

Played worse than this and won this season

How has a Liverpool team just set a record for least goals conceded by xmas

Virgil player of the year I <3 u

Given mad Friday and booze and distraction that was a good match imo

It was indeed, news to nobody but you need a bit more firepower

I was in the pub so not really giving it my full attention but why were there massive fuck off fireworks and what appeared to be Gary Neville doing a DJ set beforehand?

have a feeling money will be lashed out on a new number 9 in January but that's never a straightforward job and especially not in terms of maintaining the shape of the rest of the team

Palace with two goals in three minutes against Man City!

😭

Oh in answer to Matt's question it's because our awesome owners bring the razzle dazzle whenever possible

That Townsend goal was ridiculous.

without Mooy, Hogg and Williams we don't even have a midfield functional enough for the championship. Lol can't wait for Town to get back there tbh.

Chelsea losing now too.

Palace again!

wtf City

stop making these scores up!

comedy sub Quaner coming on now, god help us.

poch in

Palace holding on

Merry Christmas everyone!!

*is extremely churlish*

Croydon Boxpark is going to be like Sodom and Gomorrah tonight.

Also Spurs fans, how many times have you seen Andros try that and it end up in the stands? Literally dozens.

Saw townsend belt one into the face of a small child (some distance) behind the goal, making him cry and his dad very cross, in the warm up at goodison park a couple of years back. A sweet strike then as well tbf

I mean, everton had put up netting for the warm up specifically to avoid that scenario, but like that was ever going to stop andros peppering the crowd

Well this is fun.

what a difference a manager makes eh

I know it's only Cardiff but it really does shine a light on how bad Mourinho was. He would never have allowed three or four players to stream forward on the counter like that.

yup. It's not all going to be plain sailing but the difference in application and energy is blindingly obvious

oh fuck me, we'll be adding to his bullshit rep next week. god help us.

He would never have allowed three or four players to stream forward on the counter like that.

or herrera taking a pop from well outside the box

Commentators going on about "an air of class about United" OH FUCK OFF ITS CARDIFF

They still look shite at the back too

Townsend for gots BTW the lad is incapable of scoring non-crackers

Utd's third goal was better :)

When you punt it hopefully from 30 yards 183 times per match then the occasional cracker is bound to happen

Football's Devon Malcolm imo, todays goal the equivalent of that 9 wicket demolition of South Africa at the Oval.

Lindelof >>> Beckenbauer

He's taking off a striker for a midfielder the fucking fraud! #solskjaerout

first time we've scored five since Fergie's last game

I bet that wasn't against Colwyn Bay in disguise tho!

Chances of your lot giving us a massive lol on Boxing Day calzino?

well it was against West Brom

and we also conceded 5

Xp
Npt a fucking chance

Townsend absolutely blitzed one off the bar at Anfield at the start of the season when Keita gave the ball away — I think Liverpool scored straight after it. He's always been a cut-in-and-whack-it kind of player.

That volley is an open and shut case for Goal of the Season. I literally can't think of any context-free strike being better. If he was on the half-way line that would still have gone in, that's how sweetly it was struck.

Was at Selhurst Park, not Anfield.

A lot of respect for Aduriz scoring 5-a-side penalties in a proper game.

Beppe Signori, eat your heart out. pic.twitter.com/QfDuyOzFqI

— GoalScorer Challenge (@GoalscorerC) December 22, 2018

xps best volley since d rose imo