12/30 - 1/1 Weekend Game Thread
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Salah has scored as many goals for Liverpool as Raheem Sterling.
To swiftaw's post... the top 9 are:
Robbie Fowler (×3)
Michael Owen (×3)
Luis Suarez (x2)
Fernando Torres.
Only Suarez in 13 averaged more goals per game (33 in 33).
To swiftaw's post... the top 9 are:
Robbie Fowler (×3)
Michael Owen (×3)
Luis Suarez (x2)
Fernando Torres.
Only Suarez in 13 averaged more goals per game (33 in 33).
Holy hell what a finish to City / Palace.
Milivojevic has a penalty saved by Ederson, and immediately after De Bruyne got brought down by a hellacious Jason Puncheon tackle in extra time and had to leave with an air cast around his right leg.
City’s streak of away wins is over but Palace should have had the 3 points
Milivojevic has a penalty saved by Ederson, and immediately after De Bruyne got brought down by a hellacious Jason Puncheon tackle in extra time and had to leave with an air cast around his right leg.
City’s streak of away wins is over but Palace should have had the 3 points
Didn’t go to the hospital immediately is all I’ve read, so that’s probably good news
I just finished watching this and I am exhausted. Outstanding game. So happy with the result, but still regretting the missed penalty (and Townsend’s sitter). Probably the fair result. I’m happy not to have to play City again this year.
Edit: loved the scene of Roy and Pep sharing a laugh about the game.
Bad PK call awarded to West Brom with a handball that hit Chamber's arm right in front of his body.
I'm torn as to which of the Chambers 'handball' penalty or the Calvert-Lewin flop was a worse decision.
You could add the penalty call on Sterling in the Palace game.
So .. next season .. there have been mentions of a Video Review system coming to the Premier League. If true, is this a good thing? I hate cheesy penalty calls but despise instant replay .. so I'm torn.
I can see the Sterling call. Zaha had a half a step on him and Sterling barges thru his back. A little soft maybe but don’t give the ref the chance to call it.
Given what happened with the PK and immediate aftermath, I bet Pep would rather have seen the PK go in and have a healthy De Bruyne versus the draw and life without De Bruyne.
Given what happened with the PK and immediate aftermath, I bet Pep would rather have seen the PK go in and have a healthy De Bruyne versus the draw and life without De Bruyne.
Two things bother me about that call beyond the fact that the arm was drawn into the body:
1. There's no way that Mike Dean knows where the ball hit Chambers from behind him.
2. That Mike Dean is doing an Arsenal game at all as he's made it pretty clear he's a Tottenham fan. https://www.101greatgoals.com/top-stories/referee-mike-deans-top-5-premier-league-goal-celebrations-pictures/
edit: half kidding.. but it just feels like things don't go Arsenal's way when he's on the pitch. VR will be a nice addition, but will they need clear evidence, beyond a shadow of a doubt, like other pro league's reviews are supposed to have?
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I think using that language “clear evidence, beyond a shadow of a doubt” is applying an NFL standard (outside of MLS, anyway). From what I’ve seen so far, referees are using fairly good judgement, not a court of law approach.
I don’t think Mike Dean had a particularly good or bad game (pretty much his highest attainable standard) outside of the penalty call. There’s a wonderful replay view that puts the camera/Dean/Chambers directly inline. You can see the arm and its location relative to the body. There are two pieces of game data that make the call totally awful, and then a third that Dean provides. The first is the distance between Gibbs and Chambers. If Chambers could intentionally handle that ball from that gap, he’d be among the world’s elite goalkeepers. The second is the position of the arm and the body. Dean’s view was very clear. He’d have to be lacking some pretty significant depth perception or basic understanding of human anatomy to think the arm was in an unnatural position. Most damning, however, is what Dean provides- the multiple thrusts up of the arm indicating arm to ball. That’s completely fabricated. There is no evidence of that at all.
The post-match card to Cech was the icing on the cake. Completely indefensible if Cech’s story is true. Based on his citizenship, I have no reason to doubt him and every reason to doubt Dean.
Note: I’m a Liverpool fan in EPL and hate Arsenal, but this was a hatchet job.
I don’t think Mike Dean had a particularly good or bad game (pretty much his highest attainable standard) outside of the penalty call. There’s a wonderful replay view that puts the camera/Dean/Chambers directly inline. You can see the arm and its location relative to the body. There are two pieces of game data that make the call totally awful, and then a third that Dean provides. The first is the distance between Gibbs and Chambers. If Chambers could intentionally handle that ball from that gap, he’d be among the world’s elite goalkeepers. The second is the position of the arm and the body. Dean’s view was very clear. He’d have to be lacking some pretty significant depth perception or basic understanding of human anatomy to think the arm was in an unnatural position. Most damning, however, is what Dean provides- the multiple thrusts up of the arm indicating arm to ball. That’s completely fabricated. There is no evidence of that at all.
The post-match card to Cech was the icing on the cake. Completely indefensible if Cech’s story is true. Based on his citizenship, I have no reason to doubt him and every reason to doubt Dean.
Note: I’m a Liverpool fan in EPL and hate Arsenal, but this was a hatchet job.
Holy shit Mané
Great work by Oxlade-Chamberlain in the buildup to create the opportunity for Alexander-Arnold to cross that in
Great work by Oxlade-Chamberlain in the buildup to create the opportunity for Alexander-Arnold to cross that in
Is Nick Pope an above-average keeper, or does Burnely’s well-organized defense make him look better than his ability?
Outstanding shot-stopper in the matches I've seen, questionable with the ball at his feet but Burnley haven't missed a beat with Heaton out
Could see that coming once the Wijnaldum / Oxlade-Chamberlain chances didn't pan out
Mignolet's got to be off his line in the sequence leading up to that throw - he put Alexander-Arnold in a tough spot and he was just forced to launch it out
Mignolet's got to be off his line in the sequence leading up to that throw - he put Alexander-Arnold in a tough spot and he was just forced to launch it out
During the second half you could tell Pogba got pissed off (he looked like he was going to strangle Lennon at one point) and sort of took over. From about the 60th minute on he was like a soccer-version of LeBron with his size and speed and his ability to dominate on both ends.
Klavan's goal was the first ever goal in the premier league by an Estonian. This makes is 97 different nationalities that have scored in the premier league.
Interestingly, there are 15 nations that have had a player in the premier league but have never had any of them score: Albania, Bolivia, Cape Verde Islands, Cyprus, Equatorial Guinea, Faroe Islands, Guadeloupe, Guinea-Bissau, Kosovo, Lithuania, Malta, Oman, Pakistan, Seychelles and Zambia.
Interestingly, there are 15 nations that have had a player in the premier league but have never had any of them score: Albania, Bolivia, Cape Verde Islands, Cyprus, Equatorial Guinea, Faroe Islands, Guadeloupe, Guinea-Bissau, Kosovo, Lithuania, Malta, Oman, Pakistan, Seychelles and Zambia.
Chicharito must have slept with Moyes' daughter when they were in Manchester. Only explanation for his being on the bench behind the following over the last 5 league matches ... Antonio(garbage and not a striker ) Ayew(not a striker) and Carroll (Donkey)
Kane on the bench (ill) for Spurs at Swansea. Llorente up front and Lamela gets his first start in a millennia. With Son, Erikksen and Alli, makes for a pretty attacking line-up.
Llorente looked well offside there but it stands 1-0 to Spurs
as an aside, it's absolutely pissing rain in Swansea
as an aside, it's absolutely pissing rain in Swansea
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