Premier League Gameweek 11

AltiUn

likes playing with swords after fantasies
Joined
Apr 29, 2014
Messages
23,611
Can't believe we're only 4 points off top 4 :lol: It seems our season has been way worse.

I guess we'll be 7 points off next week though.
Barring the Juventus game (and our first halves) we've been fairly decent for the last month or so, started to pick up points and we've had some actual decent performances. We've got joint most points from losing positions which just makes you wonder how good we could be if we could figure out why we can't start playing till the second half. We had some really shocking losses earlier on the season which made it feel awful.
 

Klopper76

"Did you see Fabinho against Red Star & Cardiff?"
Joined
Dec 15, 2015
Messages
19,886
Location
Victoria, BC
Supports
Liverpool
Our joint best start to a PL season and we’re third.

City will run away with it over Xmas.
 

Ferrers

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Aug 31, 2017
Messages
59
Supports
Chelsea
Jamie Rednapp acting like he’s discovered the cure for world hunger over spotting players block off runs in the box.....

Blokes a buffoon.
 

ROFLUTION

Full Member
Joined
Jan 22, 2009
Messages
7,619
Location
Denmark
Barring the Juventus game (and our first halves) we've been fairly decent for the last month or so, started to pick up points and we've had some actual decent performances. We've got joint most points from losing positions which just makes you wonder how good we could be if we could figure out why we can't start playing till the second half. We had some really shocking losses earlier on the season which made it feel awful.
I think the fact we haven't played a lot of matches with 2 x good half's is a sign that we're still in a chaotic phase. Rashford scored the winner yesterday, but feck me: Him, Lukaku and Sanchez have been way off the standards required to make it here. There's been a lot of things not clicking. Not sure I'd call it decent, but at least result-wise it's been alright/decent, compared to the way we've been struggling.
 

Orc

Pretended to be a United fan for two years
Joined
Dec 17, 2012
Messages
5,322
Supports
Chelsea
Kovacic is significantly better than Ross on the ball and is a much more intelligent footballer. That's the difference. Barkley should be a rotation option and Kovacic the first choice starter.

As for the team as a whole, with Morata now scoring our only glaring weakness is the silly lapses in concentration at the back. Pretty much all of the dangerous opportunities for Palace today came from stupid mistakes by ourselves rather than quality from them.

We have to sharpen up at the back, but in midfield and attack we're on fire.
 

Santi_Mesut_Alexis_87

New Member
Newbie
Joined
Jul 21, 2015
Messages
38,565
Supports
Arsenal
So happy for Hughes. Most cocky shit overrated manager in the league. He deserves a thrashing every week.
 

Walters_19_MuFc

Full Member
Joined
Sep 3, 2013
Messages
29,561
Location
Birmingham
I wrote that at 1-1. Barkley doesn't impress me at all and is just poor with the ball. Gave the ball constantly away again today.
The words constantly and again really confuse me.

Not sure how you think he constantly gave away the ball with a pass percentage of 92.4, with Kovacic's at 90.4, completing less passes.

Again suggests that this is normally the case and it clearly isnt.

Barkley is fourth in the premier league in pass percentage (92.1). Only three players ahead of him. Stones, Laporte, and funnily enough, Kovacic with 94.2.

Barkley over the last few weeks has been brilliant and has deserved his place over Kovacic.
 

VanGaalyTime

Full Member
Joined
Jan 23, 2015
Messages
2,126
Any predictions for the score tonight? I'm going 2-1 Fulham. All depends whether Huddersfield go for it.
 

Irrational.

Full Member
Joined
Aug 10, 2011
Messages
32,917
Location
LVG's notebook
Fletch on MNF mentioning how he would play Martial-Sanchez-Rashford as a front three on Sunday, and also mentioned City's tactical fouling. :D

Good man Dazzla.
 
Joined
Feb 12, 2018
Messages
19,788
Fletch on MNF mentioning how he would play Martial-Sanchez-Rashford as a front three on Sunday, and also mentioned City's tactical fouling. :D

Good man Dazzla.
He knows Lukaku is not the guy - we should play that front 3 until the end of season
 

James Peril

New Member
Joined
Aug 10, 2016
Messages
3,576
Looks like Fulham have players from 11 different nationalities. That doesn’t happen often, surely?
 

Raw

Full Member
Joined
Oct 31, 2013
Messages
25,432
Location
Manchester, UK
Looks like Fulham have players from 11 different nationalities. That doesn’t happen often, surely?
Not that often no. United did the same in 2011 against Stoke at home. The lineup was: Kuszczak, Rafael, Vidic, Smalling, Evra, Nani, Fletcher, Gibson, Giggs, Berbatov, Chicharito.
 

Klopper76

"Did you see Fabinho against Red Star & Cardiff?"
Joined
Dec 15, 2015
Messages
19,886
Location
Victoria, BC
Supports
Liverpool
They better not sack their manager just before the game against us next weekend.
 

Nickthepip

New Member
Newbie
Joined
May 22, 2015
Messages
182
Not that often no. United did the same in 2011 against Stoke at home. The lineup was: Kuszczak, Rafael, Vidic, Smalling, Evra, Nani, Fletcher, Gibson, Giggs, Berbatov, Chicharito.
Not everything was as great pre 2013 as we like to kid ourselves eh?