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Premier League 25/26 Discussion

Big Willie Champ

USArsenal Because even if you hate Emery, he a pretty damn good coach

He is a really good coach. Don't hate him at all.

Big Willie Champ

@Klaus your boy Isak really doing the business. Given a 3/10 match rating on Sky Sports.

Player ratings:
Liverpool: Alisson (6), Gomez (5), Konate (5), Van Dijk (5), Robertson (6), Mac Allister (6), Gravenberch (6), Wirtz (7), Szoboszlai (5), Gakpo (4), Isak (3).

Subs: Salah (6), Jones (6), Ekitike (6), Chiesa (6), Kerkez (n/a).

Sunderland: Roefs (8), Reinildo (7), Alderete (8), Ballard (8), Mukiele (7), Talbi (7), Sadiki (7), Xhaka (6), Hume (6), Brobbey (6), Le Fee (7).

Subs: Isidor (7), Geertruida (n/a), O'Nien (n/a).

Player of the Match: Omar Alderete

Better still, he benched Salah.

The hosts struggled to create again, suffering from imbalance and sloppiness, with Alexander Isak failing to make any sort of impact at the top end. Salah was introduced at half-time to create some urgency and had touched the ball more times inside 15 minutes than Isak had managed all game, despite being unable to land a shot on target.

Klaus

Big Willie Champ Like I said in the summer, Isak creates virtually nothing and puts in no shift. People expect him to be like Henry just because he has great technique but he's a luxury player who mostly contributes when circumstances are favorable to him.

To put his start at Liverpool into contrast: at this stage last season he had scored 4 in all comps for Newcastle. This is not an outlier caused by lack of fitness and new surroundings, it's habitual. I have no doubt he'll score in 10 straight games at some point, but by then Liverpool will be buried. If you're gonna be a top striker today you need to be world class off the ball because you're only gonna get a handful of touches on it. He's still got a lot to work on.

MistaT

Dom — he’s a great coach, and he’s used his deep squad really well to keep them fresh. I posted about it earlier this week in the general football thread, but they essentially have two starting lessons and he’s done a really smart job rotating them.

Yes, they’re lacking top end quality, but their squad is high functioning.

Dom

MistaT

I don't like him because I witnessed the worst football Arsenal have ever played under him and I remember the late George Graham and Bruce Rioch years. He also acted like he was bigger than the club because... uh, he won Europa League and managed PSG I suppose?

Big Willie Champ

Where are the celebration police?

Burnwinter

Big Willie Champ What the fuck is he wearing here by the way? Bloke looks like he's auditioning for Nightcrawler in an X-Men reboot.

RocktheCasbah

Dom I work with a Villa season ticket holder - essentially, he says they've won several games by scoring worldies. Unsustainable, you would think.

Dom

RocktheCasbah

I've just finished watching highlights of their recent games and this partially rings true. They're so chaotic and determined. Got a feeling we might need to score four again to win.

I said it before the Chelsea match: if we get four points out of Chelsea and Villa away, the league title is ours. It would be a massive psychological blow to the chasing pack. Need to treat tomorrow like a CL semi-final.

Big Willie Champ

They concede because he, once again, points his arse to the ball (which deflects it in lol) instead of going to close the man down.

Worse still, even if the guy didn't shoot, the scorer could have played in the guy in the middle for an easy chance all because van Dijk ran back toward the area between him and his left back instead of either tackling the shooter or marking the guy making thay central run.

CPM

Leeds absolutely played Chelsea off the park today, amazing performance. The first two goals from Bijol and Tanaka were terrific.

JazzG

Title contenders to going backwards within a week!

lorddulaarsenal

JazzG they have to play City and Villa twice whilst also yet to visit the Emirates and Anfield. Chelsea’s billion dollar circus ain’t sniffing the league title

Burnwinter

The table movements give you whiplash pretty quick. Even United could have a minute in the top four soon if a couple of results go their way.

Qwiss

Big Willie Champ Morrison supports Spurs AFAIK

Burnwinter the league is really condensed from 4th to 14th. Only a 5 point gap. Before the weekend that gap was from 5th to 15th and a stat I heard was that this time last year the same gap was 15 points.

lorddulaarsenal

Guys if you fancy a lol check out that Man United starting eleven

Klaus

The state of United's defence in this game. They're playing three centrebacks, and one of them is our former youth player Ayden Heaven. The second one is Luke Shaw. The third one is an old bastard who has heart palpitations.

Heaven is the only one of those players who looks like he could run 10 km in under an hour, and he's already on a yellow because he's shit.

Klaus

Looks like Amorim smelled danger. Heaven is off at half-time for Yoro, who's been so bad lately that ge got benched for Heaven in the first place.

Sicario2

As things stand Utd on the same points as title contenders Chelsea…

lorddulaarsenal

Things didn’t stay stood. Why are United persevering with Amorim.

Supposedly the biggest club in the world yet they play in a crusty old stadium and have a joke squad

Tactics

Another glorious weekend!

Klaus

West Ham equalized in the 85th minute and United were clinging onto their point for life towards the end haha.

lorddulaarsenal

By the way I only check the scores online. I never really watch any games that don’t involve us

invisibleman18

lorddulaarsenal Same pretty much. With the time difference here and a busy enough life it's just too difficult to commit the time to other games.

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