Interesting team Leicester. They don't look particularly good going forward but are strong defensively and confident in midfield.
Premier League Gameweek 24
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
I wanna rub it in, but I feel bad about it.
Dammit.
Who's bright idea was it to give human beings a conscience? Pfft.
He was strong for the final 20 minutes or so but was terrible before that. Constantly giving the ball away cheaply and he was struggling to really stop the Liverpool attacks even before the injury.
Still a lot of football to play yet.
Just think they could be 7th by middle of the week... 
I love you too. You know that. :fistbump:Klopp is moaning about their first goal despite being legitimate?
At least no muppets tried comparing your team to the 99 treble winners or the side that won 3 back to back Prem's.
Did Klopp just try to argue that the offside rule should apply when Amartey goes to touch the ball as opposed to when Maddison kick it?
They are back to where they belong..
I had a thought about Moyeses and Lingardinho's West Ham taking 4th, leaving Liverpool out of Champions League and I can't stop thinking about that since.
Damn I sat through 70 mins of Liverpool playing well and turned the TV off as soon as Salah scored.
Ahh I'm really annoyed I missed the comeback.
Ahh I'm really annoyed I missed the comeback.
You are a star.
Beglins 'neutral' commentary for the first Leicester goal?
Everton please... West Ham can join the dippers in the Europa or better yet they can both be relegated, just a thought.
Why? Are they bringing Flanagan back to bolster the defence?
But bet you're smiling as you post?
Forest fan
Burnley take the lead.
But enough about Liverpool's win last season...
I'm never relying on anything other than a rollover by Everton against Liverpool.
Everton wins just don't happen.
Another for Burnley. Rodriguez. 0-2.
What did I miss!!!! Decided to take a nap rather than watch this, my gosh I have I missed a treat! Off, off to RAWK
Burnley fans must be self-imploding, watching their team score 2 goals.
It wasn't that long ago some of our supporters were cheering Man City goals against Chelsea because they wanted that insurance policy to stop Liverpool going to 20. I said at the time, I had a feeling they might regret that later in the season. Liverpool have looked terrible all season. It's only fair that the results are beginning to reflect their performances now.
Liverpool are 4/9 to finish in the top four with the bookies right now, still a shorter price than Leicester at 4/7. I wouldn't back Liverpool top finish in the Champions League places if their odds were even money on current form. At some point, you have to accept this is not a temporary blip that will rectify itself before the season is done. It's starting to look like the Dortmund farewell all over again right now for Klopp.
The Leipzig game could be a lot of fun next week. Liverpool's defence and midfield is looking atrocious atm. The Germans should fancy their chances.
Liverpool finishing outside the top four will have major ramifications for their summer transfer business.
United are back. The pieces are all falling into place for us.
They will be. What is it with this thing about Palace cannot perform without Zaha. God help them if he actually left all together.
Star Trek fact.
Most Vulcans are vegetarians and do not touch food with their hands unless they are wearing special gloves.
Most Vulcans are vegetarians and do not touch food with their hands unless they are wearing special gloves.
I will remember this for the rest of my life.
That's a class goal
I like Nick Pope, and he is a fantastic goalkeeper, but one thing that worries me about him potentially playing away from Burnley is that whenever I watch them play, all the shots against them always seem to be straight at him.
Question for next level; Why they are vegetarians? You have 30seconds.....
He was pretty good in the first half to be fair but you're all welcome
Shame eh Liverpool fans.
I haven't watched this match but Burnley restrict a lot shots from the edge of the box as they get back in numbers. Pope has a lot to deal with but they're usually relatively simple.
They also did the same thing when Heaton was there and he looked amazing in that set-up as well.
Not saying Pope is bad (he's ace in their team).
Ben Mee carried off on a stretcher, Burnley make concussion substitution.
Jose placing his trust in Dier at centre back again...
I don't know how into your stats you are, but I think one of those newer ones is supposed to give some insight into that.
First there was xG or expected goals that was trying to quantify the chances of scoring from a specific place on the pitch. They took that and applied it to goalies too as the chances of scoring are the same as the chances of conceding from the 'keepers point of view of course. They then compared how many goals goalies let in compared to expectations.
That wouldn't apply to what you were talking about but then they went further with post-shot xG that actually looks at how good the shots were too. Basic xG would include shots that were off target but that's no good for measuring goalie performance. Post shot xG eliminated those and looked at stuff like the height of the shot, how far into the corner it was going etc to try and evaluate 'keepers as I understand it. Never really looked into tin massive detail, but in theory it should be best one for telling you about the quality of the saves themselves.
I just had a bit of peek at this explanation but can't really be bothered reading it all - https://statsbomb.com/2018/11/a-new-way-to-measure-keepers-shot-stopping-post-shot-expected-goals/
Edit, should probably link to some of those stats - https://fbref.com/en/comps/9/keepersadv/Premier-League-Stats
According to that, when taking into account how good the shots were, Pope has let in 6.5 goals fewer than he should have been expected to if he was bang average. That makes him the best in the league this season so far on that metric (2nd table sorted by PsxG +/- column).
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What the feck was Allison doing.