Premier League Gameweek 11

[Ooh2B]

Fair play to Chelsea. Will hold my hands up and say I had it wrong about them and Lampard.

Don’t rate the squad too highly on paper, but they’re easily the best coached big team outside of Liverpool and City, and clearly spirits are being kept very high. Should only improve with the age of the squad as well.


Still early of course and I imagine they will have downturns, but Lampard is doing a stellar job under the circumstances. Helped by the incompetence of us, Arsenal and United but still, definitely doing well.

Fully agree! I had them pegged to be having the same problems as all of Arsenal, yourselves and Utd. are having and occupying a similar league position.

It’s proof I guess, that players returning as managers can do a job, and at the highest level.

It is early days as you say, but I’m impressed more because it’s Chelsea, and no offence to Chelsea supporters, but that job did not have any appeal at all due to many factors, but Frank has so far got them working together and for the team, which is more than can be said for the terrible trio mentioned above.

 

[GifLord]

What a save by Foster

 

[VorZakone]

Jorginho's assist

 

[SquishyMcSquish]

Fully agree! I had them pegged to be having the same problems as all of Arsenal, yourselves and Utd. are having and occupying a similar league position.

It’s proof I guess, that players returning as managers can do a job, and at the highest level.

It is early days as you say, but I’m impressed more because it’s Chelsea, and no offence to Chelsea supporters, but that job did not have any appeal at all due to many factors, but Frank has so far got them working together and for the team, which is more than can be said for the terrible trio mentioned above.

They’re just way better coached than any of us are. You can see it whenever they play, the players are dedicated to the plan and are happy to play for Lampard. It makes a tremendous difference.

 

[Lennon7]

Yeah but lets be honest, nobody really expected anything from Villa today before the game started

I knew it wouldn’t be easy for them! Villa look decent. Liverpool were a bit rubbish yet again

 

[ColvaleGoa]

Ffs, Villa winning. Leave my house to go to the local shop and back, which takes no more than 5 minutes. Get back and of course, Liverpool have won it

You Jinxed it ...It's all your fault..could you have not gone maybe 20 minutes later??

 

[GifLord]

Foster saving Watford

 

[DomesticTadpole]

Pulisic makes it 2-0.

 

[duffer]

Great movement from Captain America there.

 

[MackRobinson]

Great movement from Captain America there.

Chelsea play some lovely stuff.

 

[Pow]

Great goal. The football and playing out the back has been great at times today.

 

[GifLord]

0-2
Pulisic

 

[Pow]

Oof feck of foster

 

[Aidan Azar]

4 goals 5 assists in 12 games so far for Pulisic. Not too shabby.

 

[Sara125]

Are Croatian surnames with the ‘ic’ suffix not pronounced with the same ‘itch’ sound as the Serbian ones with the same suffix? Why do the commentators keep pronouncing Pulisic with an ‘ic’ sound at the end?

Edit: Okay so I’ve just gone on to his Wikipedia page and apparently he said in an interview that he accepts both the proper Croatian pronounciation and the Anglicised version

 

[UweBein]

He changed his name.

 

[Dante]

Are Croatian surnames with the ‘ic’ suffix not pronounced with the same ‘itch’ sound as the Serbian ones with the same suffix? Why do the commentators keep pronouncing Pulisic with an ‘ic’ sound at the end?

Pulisic himself has americanised it.

In the same way as we might say 'David' as an anglicisation of the original 'Dāwîḏ' from Hebrew.

He's probably americanised his first name 'Christian' from the Greek 'Χριστιανός' as well.

 

[Sara125]

He's americanised it. In the same way as we might say 'David' as an anglicisation of the original 'Dāwîḏ' from Hebrew.

Yeah just found that out thanks though

 

[duffer]

Are Croatian surnames with the ‘ic’ suffix not pronounced with the same ‘itch’ sound as the Serbian ones with the same suffix? Why do the commentators keep pronouncing Pulisic with an ‘ic’ sound at the end?

He said himself he uses and prefers "Pulisick" and not "Pulisitch". He knows it's wrong but there we go!

 

[freeurmind]

Pulisic looks like hes going to be some signing.

 

[duffer]

Lets have some subs please Frank.

 

[MsNuno]

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[duffer]

How long is this taking? fecking hell.

 

[duffer]

Non-contact sport officially now I guess.

 

[AC1689]

I do believe that was a pen. Sorry guys.

 

[Prodigy24]

How is that a penalty

 

[Guy Incognito]

Here we go!

 

[Mibabalou]

games gone

 

[utdalltheway]

He’s had a rough start Pulisic but he seems to be adapting well now.

 

[mu4c_20le]

Game on!

 

[Aidan Azar]

Thats a new low for VAR.

 

[_00_deathscar]

It's a really shitty/stupid tackle, one that Lovren would give away. It's a penalty IMO.

 

[always_hoping]

Were the VAR lads asleep? That took like a week to decide. Less of penalty than the one Martial didn't get today.

 

[pseudo_canadian]

VAR is an absolute joke. Get rid of it.

 

[Pow]

Is that really a pen ? Seriously

 

[SquishyMcSquish]

With some of the pens VAR has been turning down all season I honestly cannot fecking believe that's been given.

Do they flip a coin, roll a dice? Like seriously, what is the decision making process.

 

[Tostao_80]

Non-contact sport officially now I guess.

You cant stick out a leg and trip your opponent, and claim it was just contact. It was an impediment. Soft, but penalty non the less.

 

[duffer]

You cant stick out a leg and trip your opponent, and claim it was just contact. It was an impediment. Soft, but penalty non the less.

It didn't trip him though, he took another step, saw he had lost control and flopped to the deck.

 

[duffer]

Amazed that Foster didn't score there, given the game he had!

 

[Tostao_80]

It didn't trip him though, he took another step, saw he had lost control and flopped to the deck.

It looked like he had lost some of his balance initially, which is why he didn't go down straight away. Soft pen regardless.