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

big fan of Nuno Espírito Santo's beard right now

don't know what product he's using on it, but it's currently magnificent

Best thing about us yesterday. Wish I hadn't watched that

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Another absolutely farcical goal from the new goal kick thing.

Why... does any team want to pass it around in their own area from a goal kick? Sure the IFAB only changed the rules to clown these poshlost play it out from the back merchants

Norwich did it yesterday and scored tbf but yes, it’s bizarre.

David Luiz with another penalty concession.

Watford the only team likely to win this. Arsenal look even worse than last year when they’re under pressure.

https://i.ibb.co/tJ1S330/EEh-Znh-PXUAgm9-Mf.jpg

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(latin for 'skill')

hard to see a case for that only being a yellow for delph

sorry for broken record but TONIGHT ON MINGS WATCH - he has just properly gone after Anwar El Ghazi for not tracking his man, i mean he was fucking livid and El Ghazi, foolishly imo, got angry in return and shoved his face in at Mings. on the one hand i suppose youre a better man than I, Gunga Din, cause seriously, Tyrone is a terrifying spectacle when roused, but then on the other, do as youre fucken told lad it's clear who the boss is in this situation. VAR check for possible red card scenario in case one of them had headbutted the other. cameras cut straight back to Mings with a grin so wide it was practically meeting at the back

think Villa will lose this, Guilbert at right back couldn't be less interested in defending, the Felipe Anderson / Masuaku combo is gonna kill us off sooner or later

Lord, I have a broken stream

Just found out one of the barmen in my second home is Villa, I hope this isn't a KoD but you'm still in it and rightly from the bits I've attended to

David Cameron derby

Good timing for the c*nt

Shit ourselves once Masuaku walked, not a clue what to do once the onus was on us to actually go after the win.

Fuckin Wesley though, wtf was that at the end. Admit I am a little worse for wear rn but as I saw it the guy miscontrolled at the crucial moment and pathetically faked an injury to cover

Fair or unfair? I was too busy swearing at the screen to give it a fair viewing

Tbf or not tbf

I didn't understand what happened there with oor wes

My feeling is you bought a whole new first team - stupidly or not - and it will take another month or two to fully gel but no way Villa are in the relegation fight

They've Got Moxie - But Sometimes They Fight Each Other

I can see it being close-run, like all of our wins will be insanely exhausting 37% possession rearguard actions where we play like we're the little team in a cup tie, and we'll go on several long winless runs as a result

Yes, we are a dour and pessimistic people

all of our wins will be insanely exhausting 37% possession rearguard actions where we play like we're the little team in a cup tie

otm. and John McGinn will still be top scorer with 9 goals in all competions.

the whole new first team thing was kind of thrust upon us; we'd have been down by spring if we'd relied on Glenn Whelan, Alan Hutton, Albert Adomah, Tommy Elphick etc. which is why the fulham comparison were always wide of the mark, they were spending all that money bringing in e.g. Seri as an upgrade on Tom Cairney or whatever, whereas the core of our team is still built around Grealish, McGinn, Mings as the star players from last year (and obviously we would've kept Abraham too if Chelsea had been open to offers)

the concern is that the average level in the league this year is gonna be too high. i don't really know who the obvious relegation candidates are, even theoretically waste teams like Southampton and Brighton have got rated managers who know their business these days

I love Grealish and his twattisheness is probly part of the appeal

ditching the much-maligned headband (which i notice Todd Cantwell is also rocking) only to see him up the ante with blonde highlights and a shit ton of fake tan def gave me a chuckle

hes a cock

it's all of a piece with the most-fouled-player stats and getting punched in the head by that Bluenose vermin, he takes such obvious pleasure in being disliked

xp otm

Every right thinking human on the planet knows that the Bluenoses are even BENEATH Leeds scum

Lol the capitalised beneath was an accident but my spell check apparently knows what's up

My feeling is you bought a whole new first team - stupidly or not - and it will take another month or two to fully gel but no way Villa are in the relegation fight

Isn't that what people were saying about Fulham this time last year?

Huge, huge let-off for Gazzaniga.

Nightmare game to have to referee.

5 minutes watching and a VAR call and multiple possible cards. “Fabulously effervescent” or a frenetic mess?

Sissoko probably not even yellow imo

And that’s a lolgoal!

wow

That’s marvellous.

Lol I come out for a cig and heard it but

gonna seek out comments saying he didn't mean to do it specifically to piss myself off

Saw the replay, brilliant imo

absolute joke

dont tell me the FA dont want var to fail

That is the definition of level.

madness

ffs

Had been coming, obviously.

that's precisely as much a guess as it would have been were it done by a tech-bereft linesman

1-1

thats coming, our passing is terrible again. and no defending. and all attacks outsourced to the fullbacks.

we're as easy to get through as at any time since poch joined

son has been rotten, isn't in any way even trying to narrow down his full back and has been the start of a few of their most dangerous counters