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

Shitty thug team the lot of them

Far be it from me to suggest Connor Coady isn't good enough to play in a back four but

Leicester have the most penalties this season by a distance (10) but nobody complains about them because Vardy is the nation's sweetheart
― Number None, Saturday, 16 January 2021 15:30 (fifty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

United have 42 pens in all comps in last couple of seasons to liverpool's 19. I dont think there's much doubt you get more than your fair share

― or something, Saturday, 16 January 2021 16:31 (thirty-seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It's neither the bare figures nor the "we have had decisions against us too"

Its the number of calls ranging from ridiculous to marginal in their favour over the long term vs those that go against them and if it seems like a disappointingly milquetoast bugbear of mine to continuously point out that united are frankly embarrassingly treated by refs, var and the entire setup that ensures discretion to do so, then yknow so be it

Leicester playing for and getting penalties, like harry kane does, like salah does, not imho comparable at all rly

rashford said in an interview during the week that it was jose who taught them about the importance of winning penalties. i think what we're seeing now is the effect of that combined with playing more attacking foorball and actually getting in the box a lot more

also systematic cheating by referees

Lol

Pretty obvious to me that Liverpool don't get as many penalties as Utd because they're primarily a long ball team ¯\_(ツ)_/

I mean... you can't really believe that can you

Lol football is entertainment and football is entertainment, this thread is an arena and one should never demand nor question sincerity it breaks kayfabe

fwiw united getting into box quickly and with menace is also a factor in getting decisions, wouldnt dispute that, and bruno fernandes is a little genius as well as a nauseating cheating coddled cunt

Cunt looks like hilarious normcore light comic actor Ralf Little ffs

Right I mean it's just not easy to suspend disbelief when the team I painfully watch week in week out have around 70% possession in the opposition's final third and do fuck all with it get described as long ball

I mean... you can't really believe that can you

That Liverpool largely bypass their midfield and rely heavily on passes from deep from Alexander-Arnold, VVD and Allison? It's not a question of believing it. It's reality

*when they were good

Not sure Lloris could attempt a save as quick as “Tanguy Ndombele finds the space....as Serge Aurier heads home”.

Ndombele was a bystander about twenty yards away at the time.

Tbh aurier has bulked up significantly so its not as easy to distinguish them at pace as it was

If we dont easily win this today its the start of jose out

Playing horribly this is no more than a delay on judgement tbh

Cannot believe some of the passing

Sky studio taking out their undercard nerves on poor Aaron Ramsdale whom we can thank isn't a Spurs player

Fair analysis of his dreaded robinson jitterfoot from micky owen on my stream

What a goal.

That’s ridiculous

nothing special, danny ings did it the other week

lol no it was pretty good though, better than the ings one

I was definitely coming here to say it was ridiculous, I was going to kind of elongate it a bit

Gotta find joy where you can when your team doesn't even exist

Yes, the ladies just lost 7-0 to Man City so not much help there. Will the 16:30 deliver any kind of worthwhile schadenfreude at all? We'll see

It really is disappointing how the last ten years have seen English women's domestic football attain the same dull hierarchy as the men's

Former top-flight regulars like Notts County copping a few desultory 11-0 thrashings on their way to fuck off to the little leagues forever

That was good

Embarrassed by our central defenders again but that were good

Harry Maguire. £80million.

It bears repeating.

my 'Luke Shaw for England' campaign showing no sign of abating

Rashford really leading Britain's line isn't he, streets ahead of the pack

blitw

Without their traditional long-ball tactics you have to say Liverpool look pretty toothless

Off you fuck Frank

this is some nil-nil

well it was

didn't notice the Rodri offside

shocker

aww that was a peach

Liverpool have had 22 shots and essentially no chances. Burnley penalty.

Burnley goal.

how much time left?

Three minutes.

oh no!

klopp out

Origi should have scored when clean through in the first half but there has been next to nothing else.

I recall Klopp struggling to manage Dortmund out of a slump but I can’t imagine Liverpool can be this bad for long.

liverpool need to FOTTLL imo

Cursed season

I spend more and more of my life in sickened disbelief at the rabble we fail to beat tbh

what the fuck has Klopp done to Shaqiri?