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

Sky commentators loving these free kick options

Kane and bale

Ffs

I hate this team with a passion.

In absolute control until they unaccountably decide to not be.

Cant believe how theyve decided to stop playing here.

Went from nice tempo to panicking and hacking the ball away

Sanchez for the goal is incredible. Ambles away from benteke just as a cross is coming in.

Incredible

Ok, I love them again.

If they didnt come out and do this the season was legit over

This is nothing like the dreary one nils to one alls that had been killing us, we were far far better that first 35 mins than weve been for months

If we'd just let that go because of ten bad mins then tbh the whole squad really did need scrapping and start again

What a ball bale

Insane that after going back in front the next incident was sanchez getting very lucky in winning a free kick that looked much more like he had just gifted zaha the ball for no reason, the margins from fine to disaster are these moments that are unforgiveable

How the two or three problem players arent absolutely getting killed in training is beyond me.

All it would take is aurier/doherty/sanchez getting three or four simple instructions and hojbjerg/alderweireld authority to enforce physically in-game and we'd have a fucking team here

when you're dancing, and laughing, and finally living,

To think we can add sessegnon and skipp for davies and winks next season for free is a heady enough thought tbh

Hugo ffs i couldve driven to get that you haunted cunt

Id say sanchez couldnt get on a bus without getting in someone's way, just a really awkward indecisive presence around others

Offside or handball or what

Nope

Souness going in so hard on bale after this match that im actually googling to make sure he is still white

This is possibly the perfect Leeds performance in the first half - having a goal ruled out for being 2mm offside and then immediately conceding two due to catastrophic defending.

Wilder gone

game's gone sensible!

I reckon the letter's dated 15 November and it got lost in the post

carrying that downward momentum from a disastrous Prem season into the Championship with the same manager rarely seems a good idea. Although Norwich seem to have bucked that trend in good style this season, but the manager didn't fall out with the owners and lose the dressing room.

The owners seem to have had a huge amount of patience with him. aiui, they tried to introduce a new DOF position after Wilder spent £90m on Brewster, Berger, McBurnie, Ramsdale and Mousset, and he objected.

Sheffield United have not sacked Chris Wilder, sources indicate. Clearly a fast-moving situation & may change soon, but as things stand he remains a SUFC employee. More @TeleFootball

— Sam Wallace (@SamWallaceTel) March 12, 2021

‘Dwight McNeil golazo’ is something I hadn’t anticipated needing to type.

Burnley are killing Everton.

this is a glorious mullering

Enjoy the little leagues gammon utd

caek to thread pls

bananaman prolly just radge at the prospect of more A23 derbies next season, which would be quite odd tbf as they're usually guaranteed 4 points from them

"gammon" is an unfair slur on a club from a cosmopolitan city with a proper theatre and stuff, especially as it looks like the real gammon club are going to remain in the prem again with a little help from their friends!

I can't stand Wednesday myself, but we usually insult them as "The Massive" because their fans have often been as big-club delusional as that lot up the road.

This is an alarming start from Spurs.

Its not untidy tbh its just very passive

Rabona!

that sounded entertaining

He absolutely doesn’t want to use his right foot for anything other than balance.

was just reflecting on his previous rabona goal

was quite the move, featuring an extremely lengthy moura run where he was fouled about 3 times

Sick goal.

Clinton and the radio commentator just spent two minutes struggling to remember the word "rabona"

moura dribble, raking bale crossfield, volleyed reguilon cross, rabona nutmeg finish

Erotic

deems feeling again, for the first time in months

Feeling like we should be two down tbh

strongly doubt this is the final scoreline

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Doherty has been abysmal.

was just gonna say exactly that

you'd think Mou would've stopped playing him in a defensive position by now

martin tyler literally losing his concept of time

Its the players around doherty giving him no chance also tbh

Spurs centre halves defending crosses without reference to the opposition players consistently confuses me.

What do they think would happen to a cross if they marked the men trying to score from it, i wonder

Its a very very curious trait, really. The "we dont mark" approach.

I wonder when it will start to work.