Official Premier League 2009/10 thread

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Nasri committed suicide?

[EddieG]

So Nasri commited suicide?

[Shelty92]

3/4, I should say.

[ONO]

What a fucking disgrace that was. Big questions need to be asked now. O'Neill appears to have no new ideas whatsoever.

[Scott McFly]

I'd bring in suicidal Samir Nasri

EDIT: Own Goal does it again! Forget Nasri, Villa should go for him!

[stokeriño]

I like Villa (of course), but unless they can arrange for United and Arsenal to both throw away their matches this weekend, I hope Chelsea batter them.

^_^

In other news, that Own Goals is a machine for United. They should extend his contract, pronto.

[therockbox]

FFS, Samuel's own goal was absolutely ridiculous.

[stokeriño]

Aaaaand Bolton utterly implode.

That was more expected than when Villa did it, and thus marginally less interesting.

[Shelty92]

Fantastic performance in the second half, even without Rooney and Rio. When you compare this match to the scrappy one against Wolves a couple weeks back (when we played without Rooney), there was a huge difference - you wouldn't believe it was pretty much the same squad in there. Nani deserved his standing ovation near the end due to his fabulous tricks, Berbatov showed good finishing and so did Gibson, but the man of the match for me was Nemanja Vidic. No doubt about it.

This performance combined with a win at Bayern could create such a momentum for us that it could be one hell of a night at Old Trafford a week from now.

Edited March 27, 2010 by Shelty92

[9 to 5]

Glee. :D :D

[therockbox]

So who thought hiring Brian Laws was a good idea?

[9 to 5]

Some inbred twats.

[Szumi]

Torres, you are a fucking beast.

That goal was simply incredible. At least 85% luck, probably more like 95%, but sheeze, what a goal.

[Scott McFly]

but the man of the match for me was Nemanja Vidic. No doubt about it.

Yeah, my favourite part was where he busted Elmander's head open by blatantly leading with his elbow in a header challenge and somehow got away with it. >_>

[Guest Mr. Potato Head]

Bah.

[Hobo]

Torres' goal was amazing. A confident performance that could've had a bigger scoreline. Agger could've had a hatrick if he got anything on target. Torres could've had several more.

[Szumi]

Oh yes, this was definitely a good performance from Liverpool. Dominated pretty much the whole match, great runs forward, nice trickery with some of their passing, loads of chances, etc. Lots of wasted chances too, but the fact that they were at least making them is refreshing to see. It was nice to see Gerrard have a solid match in the midfield. Usually when he's had to drop back, he's been non-existent. Today, he still made good runs forward without having to always be the center piece of Liverpool's attack.

If I had to point out one weak spot of today's match, it would have to be Babel's inability to pass a ball in the final third. That's not to say he doesn't pass, he does. However, he is just awful at it. Quite a few times he had guys open for an easy strike, and his lay-off was atrocious. Most notably his lay-off for Gerrard, and his square pass for Kuyt that he ended up flopping over the goal. On the ball for Gerrard, 'Pool got lucky that Gerrard was fouled because the pass was so poor that he was never going to be able to collect it and shoot.

[IAceI]

I'm highly confident that Sunderland could take a sample of Man Utd, Barcelona, Arsenal, Real Madrid and other tops teams players, get them together, let them put on a Sunderland shirt and all players would become incapable of doing anything of use, ever.

Regardless of the manager, the players, anything - we'll never be actually any good. :-\

[HailtotheYo]

Eh, that Darren Bent guy ... and Steed Malbranque are pretty good.

Oh wait, they only played for Tottenham

[IAceI]

Malbranque's been good since the Bolton match.

He's done nothing of note prior to that since we signed him.