12-18/19 Weekend Game Thread - Going Viral

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Certainly should have been a pen for Jota. Red card for Robertson was clear. Still think the goal shouldn’t have been allowed Salah gains way too much of an advantage by handling
 

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At once livid and lucky to come away with a point
Livid & Lucky are just the words I was looking for. Liverpool have let a lot of slip through their fingers this season. I don’t see a title challenge unless City hit the skids.
 

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Kane early red and Jota pen make it a different match altogether - but so does Son finishing his early chance or Kane finishing one of his myriad opportunities.

Hot take: Tierney + VAR got nearly everything spot on in the second half, aside from Salah handling the ball before Robertson's goal; just makes the contrast of the first half that much more exasperating
 

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Kane early red and Jota pen make it a different match altogether - but so does Son finishing his early chance or Kane finishing one of his myriad opportunities.

Hot take: Tierney + VAR got nearly everything spot on in the second half, aside from Salah handling the ball before Robertson's goal; just makes the contrast of the first half that much more exasperating
The current rules are that VAR will only reverse a goal on unintentional handball by the goal scoring player. So it would only have been proper to reverse that decision if it was determined that Salah intentionally handled the ball and I'm not sure you could really come to that conclusion.
 

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Livid & Lucky are just the words I was looking for. Liverpool have let a lot of slip through their fingers this season. I don’t see a title challenge unless City hit the skids.
City had a tough early schedule but are playing a soft underbelly right now. Title race is properly on imo absent injury/Covid. Citys transfer approach of buying dozens of 50-60 million pound players really gives an edge in these weird ass Covid times
 

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City had a tough early schedule but are playing a soft underbelly right now. Title race is properly on imo absent injury/Covid. Citys transfer approach of buying dozens of 50-60 million pound players really gives an edge in these weird ass Covid times
with these Liverpool and Chelsea hiccups, I think this is where City runs away with the league....although the league might become a distraction to winning UCL
 

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Klopp needs to just shut up post match. All of his irritating comments come right after the match. He’s not necessarily wrong but whines so damn much
 

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I think Spurs are improving under Conte but missed a golden opportunity to take all three points here. You won't get a better shot at Liverpool than playing them at home while much more rested (even with the disruptions from Covid, its an advantage over a Liverpool that has been playing twice a week and now running on fumes), them missing their entire midfield plus VVD, and getting the major decisions in your favor.

Liverpool could really benefit from the league shutting down for a couple weeks, when their relatively weak depth (compared to other title contenders) is starting to get stress tested.
 

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Klopp needs to just shut up post match. All of his irritating comments come right after the match. He’s not necessarily wrong but whines so damn much
NBC Sports love showing his full post-match comments, while showing only clips of everyone else. They could do better replaying Sean Dyche's full comments though
 

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The current rules are that VAR will only reverse a goal on unintentional handball by the goal scoring player. So it would only have been proper to reverse that decision if it was determined that Salah intentionally handled the ball and I'm not sure you could really come to that conclusion.
Ah, true - overlooked that there is that distinction between 'sequences of play' around unintentional handball. So the match officials hit the nail on the head in the second half :fonz:
 

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Tierney has been in the past, was today, and will continue to be a farce in the center. Kane caught Robertson mid-tibia, studs up without coming near the ball is a perfect video example of a straight red in any ref course anywhere in the world.
 

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It sounds like the current thinking in the PL is to postpone all of the matchweek 20 fixtures (Dec 28/29/30) but keep going with everything else. This wouldn't be a Covid break at all. They want to power through the Omicron wave but are concerned that the toll of the festive period with squads being depleted by Covid will be too much.
 

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The TV guys disagreed with you. They liked his game and effort today.
Earle + Howard or the match commentators (Drury/Townsend)?

It sounds like the current thinking in the PL is to postpone all of the matchweek 20 fixtures (Dec 28/29/30) but keep going with everything else. This wouldn't be a Covid break at all. They want to power through the Omicron wave but are concerned that the toll of the festive period with squads being depleted by Covid will be too much.
Not sure why the FA wouldn't allow more U23/Academy/B-team call ups for these COVID seasons. There should be a larger number of players registered for each team.
 

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I thought Dele played quite well.
Sessegnon and Winks, too.

Spurs clearly drilled to move the ball forward, quickly, from midfield. Great to see.
 

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Not sure why the FA wouldn't allow more U23/Academy/B-team call ups for these COVID seasons. There should be a larger number of players registered for each team.
Every club already has a huge number of u21 players registered in addition to the normal 25 man roster (Arsenal have 63) so I don’t think that is an issue.

The problem is that most of those players are crap and nowhere near PL quality.
 

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It sounds like the current thinking in the PL is to postpone all of the matchweek 20 fixtures (Dec 28/29/30) but keep going with everything else. This wouldn't be a Covid break at all. They want to power through the Omicron wave but are concerned that the toll of the festive period with squads being depleted by Covid will be too much.
They rejected this idea today apparently.

Its full speed ahead, no break or rounds of fixtures cancelled, use U21 players to make up the numbers if necessary.

I think we're going to see a lot of injuries.
 

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I was sort of looking forward to blasting the FA for including "safety of our players" in a statement, but they couldn't even be bothered to pretend.
 

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Not only should they put it on ice for COVID, they should rethink this whole "festive period" crap and give the league a couple of weeks off. Bundesliga has the right idea. PL doesn't need as much time, the weather's not as bad, but watching the spendiest league in the world (top to bottom) force their astronomically expensive players through a compressed schedule in miserable weather is something other than optimal.

I mean, I realized I had a problem with watching any crap footy that was on when I sat through a half of Gibraltar 0-0 Andorra. So I'll watch it. It's not worth the muscle pulls (or even the risk of muscle pulls) to watch teams go through the motion in front of miserable crowds in miserable weather. If you've been you know you'd rather be in a February blizzard in Boston than a December rain in England.

"Shut them all down" - C3P0
 

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Liverpool and Chelsea are putting out youth/reserve sides in the League Cup quarters like they want out of the competition.

West Ham is also fielding a fairly weak side, while Spurs are pretty close to their first XI except with Son on the bench and Doherty getting a start at RWB.