Snakebauer007 said:Surround that referee
For someone who see most of their games, why does City dominate possession but regularly commit the majority of the fouls?teddykgb said:City haven't played well since like December. Burnley deserved the points today but the remaining schedule looks too difficult.
Edit: and that was a penalty against Zabaleta but fuck the entire squad for needing a stoppage time penalty to even draw. I said months ago that top 4 was not secure and now City are stuck fighting for it
blueguitar322 said:
Snakebauer007 said:For someone who see most of their games, why does City dominate possession but regularly commit the majority of the fouls?
Luis Taint said:As an aside,I don't watch Ligue 1, so I really didnt know all the players. I watched an interview with Zlatan, that dude is nuts.
John Terry says hiSocrManiac said:Ivanovic is giving Costa a hard run for the biggest cunt on Chelsea if not the entire league.
Edit: wrong etre.
There was a handball, I think on Terry, in the box, that looked to me to be intentional.Morgan's Magic Snowplow said:Soton look dangerous playing against Chelsea's high line. They just don't quite have enough quality in the front line though.
I'd like to see a replay of that block on Tadic's shot. Looked like hand ball.
Chelsea are playing like garbage, again.
That's Danny Rose, God bless his soul.DennyDoyle'sBoil said:Someone from Spurs rocking the Red Sox cap on the walk in from the bus.
ifmanis5 said:United with their tails up. Rooney with a sick finish and celebration.
coremiller said:So this game has been a tactical masterclass from Van Gaal. He's ditched the back 3 experiment, plus he's playing Rooney and Fellaini as sort of twin false 9s. Both are dropping into midfield and neither is playing up against the centerbacks. The result is to give Man Utd greater numbers in midfield -- he's basically sacrificed both a CB and and CF for two extra central midfielders. There is no space in midfield anywhere for Spurs, every time a Spurs player gets the ball in the center of the pitch he's immediately under pressure from multiple angles. For a while, Spurs had 2-3 central players United had 4-5 (Carrick, Herrera, Rooney, Fellaini, Mata). Not surprising that Spurs couldn't keep the ball and Utd always had a free man.
Spurs like to press too, but they don't have anyone with the physical presence to counter Fellaini. So when under pressure Utd can just hit diagonal long balls at Fellaini and Fellaini is winning every ball. Utd might be vulnerable to pace in behind with this setup, but Spurs haven't had the time on the ball to play throughballs very often, and when they have Kane has been offside. It's been a great system from Utd and perfect execution.
To his credit, Poch realized what was happening quickly and sacrificed a winger for a midfielder after 30 minutes to help even up the numbers in the center. But by then they were already 2-0 down and then they gave away a silly goal to Rooney right away. Too little too late.