Premier League 2022/23

[gunnar hendershow]

Man I almost went with a scoreless draw in the Prediction League but thought "nah, Everton are just too bad for that to happen."

[Szumi]

Here's the biggest concern. Fulham, Manchester United, Newcastle, and Everton ALL showed more desire and determination than us. Bournemouth gave up after 10 minutes. We only really showed desire vs Palace after the Nunez red card.

Liverpool squad has a serious mentality problem. IDK if it's because of last season ending in such a disappointment, tired of being second best, run into the ground, or what... but it's pretty clear that in almost every match, Liverpool have been second best.

[METALMAN]

The really smart thing Liverpool does in situations like this is when they make deliberate strategic choice to build a squad without much depth which allows them to claim that if it weren't for all the bloody injuries they'd be winning the league easily.

[stokeriño]

5 minutes ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

Here's the biggest concern. Fulham, Manchester United, Newcastle, and Everton ALL showed more desire and determination than us. Bournemouth gave up after 10 minutes. We only really showed desire vs Palace after the Nunez red card.

Liverpool squad has a serious mentality problem. IDK if it's because of last season ending in such a disappointment, tired of being second best, run into the ground, or what... but it's pretty clear that in almost every match, Liverpool have been second best.

A similar predicament to Chelsea, atm. The only team we've looked determined against was Spurs.

[METALMAN]

As a good old fashioned football pundit would have told you before they were replaced with all those nerds with their iPads and xG, it's about who wants it more.

[DavidMarrio]

Least I got to celebrate Fiorentina scoring in Florence compared to us not getting anything 

[Szumi]

37 minutes ago, stokeriño said:

A similar predicament to Chelsea, atm. The only team we've looked determined against was Spurs.

At least Chelsea were up for their derby! We've looked our worse when playing the derbies

[King Ellis]

Sinisterra seems to have mastered the long range @Jimmyanite pea-roller.

[stokeriño]

1 hour ago, Szumi - A Polack said:

At least Chelsea were up for their derby! We've looked our worse when playing the derbies

Aaaand now we're losing at home to West Ham.😅

[King Ellis]

Just when we think we're getting back in the game we go and concede directly from the resulting kickoff. Great.

[stokeriño]

But Chilwell and Havertz have turned it around~! 😃

...For a few seconds.  

But VAR to the rescue! (I would have let that count tbh)

Fucking got away with that one. Not that WH threatened much, but we were a shambles when they did manage to get into the box, and their header against the post at 1-1 would have ended it. A draw would have been the fair result. Annoyed that it required conceding a goal for the Chelsea players to play with any tempo or impetus whatsoever, but pleased they pulled it off. Chilwell's goal was cheeky af.

[gunnar hendershow]

Well another bad for VAR all around

[King Ellis]

Bah. 5-2 feels a little harsh as we weren't bad it anything but felt very susceptible to the break. Hopefully this is an anomaly as we've looked a bit more defensively sound after the days of shipping goals for fun under Bielsa, even if we still have looked a little shaky at times. Bamford had some encouraging signs after coming on and should have scored at least 1 so hopefully things start to click when he gets up and running.

Still, this little winless run does start to look a bit worrying so we definitely need to get a result against Forest, especially since we're at home.

[Lineker]

Another three points; lovely stuff.

[Colly]

Guess what. 5 minutes added on. Keeper down for a minute and a bit. 30 seconds for a defender with cramp. Whistle blown at 5:30. Consistency!

[FLiam]

Seen that Paul Tierney is the ref for our game tomorrow. 

He's literally from Old Trafford. Surely there should be a rule against that? There is in La Liga iirc.

[Szumi]

Oh sure Gerrard, NOW you don't let the result slip and grind out a draw. But when a result would've gave Liverpool the title... 😑😑

[Gazz]

Standard of refereeing across the league today has been even more abysmal than usual.

[Kaney]

27 minutes ago, FLiam said:

Seen that Paul Tierney is the ref for our game tomorrow. 

He's literally from Old Trafford. Surely there should be a rule against that? There is in La Liga iirc.

At least we'll still be top after tomorrow regardless how it goes.

[The Lusophone]

2 hours ago, FLiam said:

Seen that Paul Tierney is the ref for our game tomorrow. 

He's literally from Old Trafford. Surely there should be a rule against that? There is in La Liga iirc.

Bit of an exaggeration - he's from Salford, not Old Trafford.