Lads, it's the Premier League thread - EPL 2019/20

Lovely goal from Ings but so slack yet again.

look if i were on my own on a pitch id have made that look a little less clumsy than hes done there tbh

ndombele off

injury, fitness, or because he wont cover the defence, ah who knows

Goddammit, Donk

kane couldnt have less interest in winning or holding a ball up

This official is garbage

these are officially garbage

like a team of reality tv stars told to do a football scene

Wolves a pretty mediocre half there.

idk that I agree with the sportscasters that Neto should have had a PK, but he definitely shouldn't have been given a yellow for simulating.

Nuno's gotta get them refocused here. attack is aimless, and defending has been dire at times. almost gave up a second there.

Fucking abysmal

Southampton look like the only team that’s going to score. Spurs are totally sluggish, Lucas aside.

think lo celso is buzzing but looks incredibly naive ito what hes going to get away with trying

sissoko been good, aurier been ok

kane and alli have been rotten, attitude and effort and everything else

watford player with a glorious deliberate punt out of play so they could complete a substitution after nearly 5 minutes with ten men

Neto gets one back.

Xpost yea that was hilarious

wolves obviously score from the throw

kabasele a 'lucky boy there' imo

Red card!

'lucky boy there' no longer exists in our brave new world of computerised truth

Second red for DOGSO in three matches...both earned by Jota lol

generous yellow but harsh red imo

Kane pulls a hamstring scoring while offside.

kane offside by the width of a pulled hamstring

tbh no loss to see him subbed

xp off

we're back

that was as mediocre as I've seen Wolves play in a while. very disappointing to follow up the Man City victory and the gutty effort at Liverpool with this, but lord knows that's a helluva week with those three matches.

watford holding wolves at bay with ten a good bit better than city did

They defended well (Watford)

i never thought watford were cannon-fodder with their squad but it's taken sensible hardman nigel pearson to bring out their strengths, they look like getting out of it

arsenal 5 points clear of relegation zone. alas reports say they looked much better in the last game

cheated out of it by the referee

the VAR sending off is potentially the worst VAR decision yet, no excuse for it, directly told the referee his decision was wrong

wait what

i think it was probably a good VAR decision! i.e. it was probably a red

in what circumstances is VAR supposed to be invoked? clear and obvious error missed by the referee. the ref had a clear view and decided it wasn't a red. imo it was a red, but VAR has now over-ruled the idiot's decision which looks a helluva lot like mission creep to me.

i'll go into the coward cheat ref's consistent condoning of Watford kicking us to death later on

in the defence of that one, they were looking at the other defender's position on the var check i think

Mourinho: "The yellow card was fair, because I was rude. But I was rude to an idiot"

— Jack Lang (@jacklang) January 1, 2020

xpost

It's rubbish, the ref could see both defenders, the law says "clear goalscoring opportunity" and arguing the toss over the defender is meaningless. It shd've been a red, but in that situation VAR isn't bringing additional knowledge to the decision it's just disagreeing with the ref.

Same ref who booked Neto for getting fouled in the box but hey.

haller goal >>>> brighton goal

On first look that City goal looked more offside than the one of ours that got insanely disallowed earlier

Magnificent hubris by Bravo

gaaah these spawny bastards always score late, and they're not even any good

it's alright they've got a month of Zaha not having his heart in it while they refuse to sell him for less than twice what he's worth now.

tbf he is completely invaluable to them

in an alt timeline it sort of works out for him at united and palace were relegated four years ago

seriously think he may have passed the point where he's gonna attract serious interest from *cough* the big clubs *cough*

he'd be an asset to almost every club in this league

not the same thing as being a player that the kind of club he wants to go to will pay first team regular money for

and so we are stuck in the hellverse where he gives ten to twelve years of his life to promoting and then protecting the worst* football club in south london, and there's nothing anyone can do about it

*i'm biased and what of it

oh sure nobody said it was fair

imagine if we'd gotten to keep hold of jonjo shelvey ademola lookman, it's like that basically

man utd dogshit that half. arsenal absolutely rinsing them. ozil superb.

pepe with the most astonishingly bad simulation i've seen in ages, should be an automatic yellow

IMO there should be a 'dead card' that when you simulate really badly, it's shown and firing squad shoots you on the field