EPL 16/17
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@Rocky-Rockbottom wheels are off at Anfield. Teams have worked out to give us the ball, and sit back. We can't power these teams aside, as our game is about hustling teams and then punishing turnovers. If Liverpool have huge amounts of possession we'll lose.
Hull have really turned things around though, and might go from a complete cluster fuck to surviving.
Give Chelsea the trophy
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@Rocky-Rockbottom said in EPL 16/17:
Spurs muddle their way past Middleshite. God I hope those negative pricks get relegated. Their keeper started time-wasting after 30 fucken minutes. In the first bloody half. Score still 0-0.
Village madness at Hull. Liverpool with ALL the possession and they somehow conspire to lose 0-2. Mustered about 3 shots on target. Hull didn’t even venture out of their own fuckin half. Except to score. Lpool with all their guns playing too. Coutinho was absolute shit.
If Liverpool don't score it leaves their shaky defence at risk. Bloody hard to score when the other team packs in on defence, spurs had the same thing at Sunderland
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See, Liverpool play teams who want to attack and we're gold. Even with Lucas at the back we keep Spurs goalless
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Leicester look doomed. Falling down the table, haven't scored in ages, and they don't look to have a clue how to turn it around.
I'm really hoping Allardyce takes Palace down. And surely Sunderland can't come 17th again.
So they are my pick for the drop.
The top is ridiculous now. Chelsea clear. If City win tonight they'll be 8 back. But it will be 4 points covering 2nd to 6th.
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Some stats about Leicester (to date):
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the first reigning top-flight champions to fail to score in six consecutive league matches.
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are the only team in the top four divisions of English football to not have scored a goal in 2017.
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have now gone over 10 hours in the Premier League without scoring a goal.
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are the first defending champions in English top flight history to lose five consecutive games since 1956.
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Jamie Vardy has not registered a shot in the Premier League since December 17th.
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have not won away from home in the Premier League since April 2016.
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Leicester in the last 3 seasons
Played 29, Won 4, Drew 7, Lost 18. PPG = 0.66
Played 47, Won 30, Drew 13, Lost 4. PPG = 2.19
Played 25, Won 5, Drew 6, Lost 14. PPG = 0.84And even better, they get to play in the Last 16 of the Champions League soon ......
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I'm with you, that's an appalling decision. Win the league, have your best player sold, still the next year have a great shout of making the Champs League quarters. And get the sack with 13 games to go.
I hope they go down.
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Agree with the decision to sack Ranieri.
Sentiment won't get you anywhere and Leicester clearly in all sorts of bother.
Pretty much every other team in the PL would be sacking their manager if their team was in the same position on the ladder as Leicester are, and performing as Leicester are.
No idea who new manager might be or if he can arrest the slide and don't particularly care but agree with the decision to sack.
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Agree with the decision to sack Ranieri.
Sentiment won't get you anywhere and Leicester clearly in all sorts of bother.
Pretty much every other team in the PL would be sacking their manager if their team was in the same position on the ladder as Leicester are, and performing as Leicester are.
No idea who new manager might be or if he can arrest the slide and don't particularly care but agree with the decision to sack.
2 years ago at this stage, Leicester were 4 points adrift at the bottom of the table and didn't sack their manager ... and stayed up.
Imagine telling their fans at that time that 2 years later they would be 2-1 down after the away leg of the Champions League last 16 and that they would sack their manager ......
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Agree with the decision to sack Ranieri.
Sentiment won't get you anywhere and Leicester clearly in all sorts of bother.
Pretty much every other team in the PL would be sacking their manager if their team was in the same position on the ladder as Leicester are, and performing as Leicester are.
No idea who new manager might be or if he can arrest the slide and don't particularly care but agree with the decision to sack.
It depends what you are trying to do. If your goal is to win the league Raineri has a better job of doing that than anyone else. I wouldn't have sacked Raineri even if Leicester had got relegated. I would at least back Raineri to pull Leicester back up.
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And Liverpool, true to form, lose 3-1 away to Leicester ffs.
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fuck the dead cat bounce.
Another wasted season of irrelevance for the once mighty Liverpool. Seriously, its time we embraced our true level, a domestic cup/UEFA cup side. We should be putting our efforts in to those comps, and making sure we come inside the top 6 every year.
This year is proving what a fluke Leicester was last year, to get City, Chelsea, and Man U all having shit years at the same time. Arsenal and Spurs can fight out 4th so they can get knocked out of the Champs League at the first challenge.
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I reckon Man United might be good for second in the league ... Yeah, it's only the league cup they won, but still, confidence breeds confidence, and with Mourinho and Ibrahimovich arguable the most confident people on the world ... I can see a fantastic end of season surge.
They are too far behind Chelsea to push for the league though.
Liverpool and Arsenal stay true to form for the last 20 and 10 years respectively ...
Wenger must be out at the end of this season, surely.
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That EFL final was tough on Southampton. Valid goal disallowed, going 2-0 down and coming back to 2-2 and then being denied extra time.
Ibrahimovic is the man - his reputation in England has soared given I reckon most people considered him a bit of a show pony who always played for dominant clubs in Europe. The man is a real pro and who would have thought he would have played so many games at 35 when he was signed.
Leicester finally played as they did last season and blew Liverpool away - will be interesting to see whether they can keep that up now the emotion of Ranieri leaving is over and they play lesser teams (such as Hull this weekend).
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And Pool beat Arsenal 3-1.
There's something weird when it's the donkey teams we struggle with.
