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

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

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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

didn't take jose long to find the luke shaw in his new team. am surprised that it's ndombele tho.

I'm sympathetic with him on the Shaw issue now

His showing last night was a disgrace

lingard and matic nowhere near it either

i mean i did think you were maybe exaggerating about lingard of late but he was hopeless last night.

in other news be sad to see bournemouth relegated, they've been a non-negligible revenue stream for lfc over the last couple of season

Lingard didn't score or assist a league goal in 2019

Solskjaer should have been sacked for gross negligence the moment he was named on the team sheet

imago impotent rage at palace's continuing ability to grind out acceptable results low-key the only thing keeping me at all engaged with the sport rn

mourinho confirms that kane's injury is likely career-ending, also wore a t-shirt that had "ndombele out" printed on it but refused to take questions on the matter- when asked about the possibility of signing striker cover for kane or indeed first team options for defence he promptly turned into a bat and flew away

tell you what its better than poch riddles anyway

bit cheeky United valuing Maddison at £20 million

Lemar is good imo but i don't think 'tricky attacking midfielder' is the most pressing way for Spurs to blow €60m.

I read loan with an option to buy which might make sense but yeah hardly a priority position right now.

Guessing Lo Celso is going as well.

Are they they not obliged to buy lo Celso?

lol

if we finish top four lol

id complete lo celso deal now fwiw, 32m fee if we do it now iirc

and id loan lemar with an option

we dont have any competition in that squad

GLC has looked bright in places but he's the only player we have (other than Alderweireld) who's capable of playing incisive forward passes from deep, and one reason why we've been stop-start this season is because we're very awkward, slow and predictable in transitions. OK he hasn't always been accurate in those passes but that'll come with playing time I think.

id agree

sissoko out tip april after knee surgery

longshot but maybe this could get Ole the sack if it's in the six nil range