Liverpool have 2nd sewn up - EPL 2018/19

think this is sort of game that'd have spent so long pissing me off I'd be incapable of enjoying the pleasant moments when they arrived

💯

Time to put Lloris on the bench

Fellaini's off to China allegedly

Looks a done deal

So long, Marouane.

lol, Dyche stockpiling British players for no-deal brexit again.

gotta say, the man knows value for money

we could have picked up Che Adams for pennies when he was at Ilkeston and constantly having him watched, now he's worth £15m. FFS!!

only just saw the Adams story, too busy rolling my eyes about Crouch

even if Jonny is the only signing we make today, it's a great signing

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There's a Hednesford Progressive joke to be made here but

looks like Rafa's poverty excuse just ran out

noooooo not nkoudouuuuu

So much for closing the gap on Chelsea :(

I was still sanguinely hoping on a draw at 2-0 - but that was on my 4th drink crackpipe.

lolllllllllllllllllll

pen and red there

brb looking for my tambourine, wengerball is back

tbh the manager i was most reminded of is jol

fair

juuuust abt offside

well

always love those 20 inches from the ground headers

braut

beaut obv

Well this makes up for having sat through all of Spurs Newcastle yesterday.

Last time Wolves won at Goodison, Andy King (RIP) was sent off for punching Emlyn Hughes (RIP).

Diego Aguero

Almost entirely successful cloning experiment on the Arsenal touchline just then with that double substitution.

Prophetic thread title. We could be on for one of the all time great chokes here.

This is a fun league to watch from far away with no rooting interest.

facking ell

I'm enjoying the epl this year. not watching nearly enough of it, but we've got a title race on our hands and no mistake.

id kind of like liverpool to win it. first season of english football that i have any recollection of of 1990-91, so the season after they last won it.

Prophetic thread title. We could be on for one of the all time great chokes here.

with one of the highest points tallies of all time? seriously a spurs fan this season talking about chokes - the one-week title challenge and nosebleeds at the prospect of even being second.

fwiw i cant see beyond liverpool. every team has had a bump in jan p much

im just glad to be looking up not down

i think the next few weeks will reveal a lot - liverpool have been poor most of 2019 but they will come out of it. city have a few tricky games but can't really see them dropping points. not sure liverpool will do it really, and that's my attempt at an honest detached assessment. the defensive injuries are stopping them getting results they were grinding out earlier in the season.

gotta say, i knew joe gomez was class when he played for us in the championship but i didn't think he'd pretty much have the fate of the premiership resting on him

p.s. can u guys pay us a bit more for him in restrospect, i think that wd be fair

Utd Liverpool game in a couple of weeks looking fairly tasty

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dygb-OtW0AI6Fzp.jpg

sheeit, gonna have to pay Charlton £10 mil now.

looool

i think the next few weeks will reveal a lot - liverpool have been poor most of 2019 but they will come out of it. city have a few tricky games but can't really see them dropping points. not sure liverpool will do it really, and that's my attempt at an honest detached assessment. the defensive injuries are stopping them getting results they were grinding out earlier in the season.

― FernandoHierro, Monday, 4 February 2019 22:55 (yesterday)

I feel the same. A few injuries and everythings thrown into jeopardy. That midfield is not good enough to compete with City either. Last nights midfield line-up - lallana, keita and fabinho - they wouldnt get within an asses roar of the City team

citys midfield suffers badly with one or two notable omissions, every team's does.

What I've seen of Fabinho this season suggests that, after a bit more time adapting the Premiership, he might be good enough to get regular games in the City midfield, especially given their over-reliance on Fernandinho. The others I agree.

there are only a handful of non-midfielders in the city squad. they coped without kev, only fernandinho is essential atm. agree that fabinho looks great

VvD tried some damage control yesterday saying it's nbd and Liverpool shouldn't forget to "enjoy" being in the title race. I understand what he's getting at, but a draw or loss against Utd and I can see Klopp's carefully built squad crumbling under the pressure. Nobody said it was gonna be easy tho so ymmv

Meanwhile, if United beat Liverpool later this month they can go top four, topple Liverpool and send City top in one game. This assumes City beat Chelsea obviously.

the main damage is being done outside of top 6 teams interplaying

xp chelsea have city this weekend while united have fulham, so hoping we'll be top 4 before the liverpool match tbh

mahrez has played two minutes in 2019, looks like he's been chelsea'd