Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

"it wasn't a pen because he wasn't using the chokehold to make himself bigger"

This is an outrageous double substitution for a fundamentally shit team to be making.

McTominay is a crushingly poor footballer

"Marcus! They'll just spend it all on drugs, tattoos and Sky TV, you know that, don't you?" pic.twitter.com/wKMfWOslFE

— MrPaulRobinson (@MrPaulRobinson) October 24, 2020

idg coming to Old Trafford and playing for a draw. Chelsea have put no pressure on the defence at all.

That was fine, considering

Chelsea's vaunted forwards showed fuck all

Two mediocre sides who made no meaningful attempt to win, neither could have had any complaints if they had lost. A truly atrocious game of football.

— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) October 24, 2020

Clearly not a student of the game

One for the purists.

You'll have all wanted to sit through our boys downing Team Dommy P in a gale earlier. No passing, no guile, just wind, rain, a goal from a corner scramble scored by Darren Pratley and a faintly comical og. Bliss

i missed all the fun due to being busy, now I'm stuck watching MLS, Orlando vs Miami, where Gonzalo Higuain will not be playing against us as he got red carded previous match. lol...#retirementleague

Kieron Dyer go fuck yourself kthx

Interesting to see so many of our nominal title rivals stuttering as well this weekend. The way this season's going you wouldn't bet against some underdog team like one of the Manchester clubs sneaking into the Champions League places and making themselves famous. You love to see it really

Podence looking like he wants a birthday goal

Can we get a rona test for Raul please?

We really need to stop playing Saiss as a wing back

Not a bad half. Semedo seems to be doing pretty well?

Newcastle seem to be comfy just parking and countering

like the rest of the team, Somedo is playing better without really being good. Podence showboating has been the only entertainment so far. I'm pretty sure these first halfs are like this on purpose ffs

I won't say that was worth the wait but it almost was

Nice technique but it should have been fairly straightforward for Darlow

Yeah on the replay from behind the goal it's within his reach

If it says this way it has to go down as another good win, it's not easy to stay awake for the full 90 with this Newcastle team

Don't wanna kiss of death it yet, not sure how far behind this stream is

I have bad news for you.

Ah. That's how they get you

Just seen it ffs

Not undeserved all things considered

every fucking time we play Newcastle

i dunno i'm not worried or even annoyed but i have some questions about our "don't start playing until the last 20 minutes" approach

Ugh gutting to give up that free kick goal.

But goals seem hard to come by so far for Wolves. Tho when you're playing a back 5 and plugging the box up that makes it harder.

Jamie Vardy's shinpads had 'chat shit get banged' written on them.

This has 1-0 Burnley written all over it.

Spurs just can’t break teams down when they’ve set up to defend.

Thankfully Burnley are the only team in the league who currently play like this.

Feel like this game could use Vinicius - if we're not going to bring on a big lump of a centre forward now then what's he for?

I see Karlan Grant scored for the Baggies earlier (in the game everyone was talking about). I think he scored about 5 for us in the Prem in one of the worst teams ever, a goalscoring spree that yielded zero points for us.

If that corner was planned, it is brilliant.

Seven minutes left, we all know what happens now.

You've proper Burnleyed that one, m8s

Wolves starts during my class, I'm not presenting, but I'm supposed to have web cam on. Perhaps i conceal my match watching

just saw the lineup. is Traore off the bench now a permanent strategy?

Looks that way at the moment, haven't seen a lineup yet but I've come to the pub for this. Tbh I understand what he's trying to do with that front 3, Podence and Neto are both better technical players

In any case there's a lot to be said for bringing on an express train late on to run at tired fullbacks.

Yeah, my concern with that is how happy Traore is to play that role all season but he's still negotiating a new contract as far as I know so he can't be that arsey about it

that was mostly my thought process. I know interest in him is high.

super-subs are a valuable tool though when you have them.

I don't think interest in Adama is anything like high enough to meet the prices that were being bandied about last season tbh. Joyful to watch him in full effect but he'll always carry a bunch of question marks over him

Ait-Nouri starting is exciting

Should I lose Saiss from my fantasy team now then?

He doesn't look an automatic starter as long as Kilman and one of the alternative LWBs are playing well

helluva start from Ait-Nouri

beautiful GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL