Premier League 2016/17

[Baddar]

7 minutes ago, Whisper said:

Presumably Joel Matip was brought on up front for his ability to play in tight areas, because Jurgen Klopp would never encourage long balls that "end football"?

Doesn't count as ending football unless it's being played towards that "fucking tree Fellaini". Who, btw, gets a start today. Presumably just to mark Crouch at set pieces. 

[stokeriño]

Friday: Liverpool announce that Steven Gerrard will be returning to the club

Saturday: Liverpool slip suffer a setback in their title challenge

Coincidence?  

[MDK]

49 minutes ago, Baddar said:

Wow. A chance to go within two points of Liverpool now because of that. Never works out that easily though. Stoke is a tough place to go.

Hehe

[Baddar]

Soft own goal, then Mata skies it from 1 yard up the other end, while Fellaini has 2 headed chances and Pogba strikes a 120mph volley from a corner that hits Grant who had no idea about it. Knew today would be fucking shit. :/

[Lineker]

Rooney levels it at the death to become Man Utd's all-time record goalscorer!

[Whisper]

Some strike from Rooney that.

[Baddar]

What a fk.

Shit performance but we nicked a point. Missed so many clear chances again. Infuriating. 

[Whisper]

Leigh Grant must wish he could play us every week.

[Baddar]

2 minutes ago, Whisper said:

Leigh Grant must wish he could play us every week.

At some point Mourinho needs to criticise finishing as opposed to saying the keeper is having a worldy. It was so bad again today. 

[Whisper]

22 minutes ago, Baddar said:

At some point Mourinho needs to criticise finishing as opposed to saying the keeper is having a worldy. It was so bad again today. 

I'm sure he does behind closed doors - I don't want him coming out in the media and trashing people for missing chances though.

[Kyle]

That draw for United was ideal for us, the more points United drop the smaller the gap becomes. Only five points behind now.  

[stokeriño]

If City's grand purpose is to develop the "dominate at home and lose to a suckerpunch goal" trope into an art form, then I'd say this first half has been a magnificent success for them.

[Baddar]

59 minutes ago, Whisper said:

I'm sure he does behind closed doors - I don't want him coming out in the media and trashing people for missing chances though.

Oh yeah, I'm not saying to come out and publicly hammer our players for poor finishing, but it really has been awful this season. I was at the home Stoke game and it was terrible there, mixed with Grant having a good game. The early Ibra 1 on 1 was just shit. Today, we were missing chances from a yard or two. Mata blazing over, and Rooney headed it over from shockingly close range too. I'm really happy that we're creating this many chances, but not putting them away is hurting us. It's rarely the keeper having a blinder. The Burnley game, for example, saw Heaton make 2 decent saves. The rest were a result of poor finishing. 

Pogba is frustrating as well. He can hammer them from 40 yards and almost break the bar, yet put him on the edge of the box and he'll trickle a shot into the keepers arms. 

[stokeriño]

27 minutes ago, stokeriño said:

If City's grand purpose is to develop the "dominate at home and lose to a suckerpunch goal" trope into an art form, then I'd say this first half has been a magnificent success for them.

They've fucked it up in the second half though! 1-0 to City.  

Holy shit, Lloris cock-up! 2-0!

[Lineker]

ffs

[lanky316]

Would've got away with the first one if that handball to knock the ball past him but that second from Lloris was an unforgivable way to start the second after being fairly key in keeping it out at half time.

Edited January 21, 2017 by lanky316

[Moses Julep]

It's okay, we're gonna win 3-2.

[stokeriño]

They're praising Rose's tackle on Sterling, but he knocks into Sterling's right thigh/hip before the tackle, which is what sends Sterling over. Seemed a bit of a penalty to me.

[lanky316]

Spurs playing without defenders, should be an improvement on the majority of the games defending

[MDK]

Get in my Son!