2019/2020 Premier League Discussion: Chapter II

danyjr wrote:People in England talk about Laporte like he is an elite CB. The guy was hardly exposed last season playing in a team that has 75% possession every game and defending well as a unit. Remember his brain farts against Spurs the ONLY match he got mildly pressed? Where Liverpool are winning with Dejan freaking Lovren, people attribute City losing to Laporte being injured

If Van Dijk is a Lamborghini Aventador, Laporte is the 10 year old Fiat Punto your cousin bought at a shady pawnbroker.

Didnt he also play both league games against them last season and kept a clean sheet in both? I mean sure you may not rate him highly but hes better then what City have now in the back.

Laporte was absolutely fantastic since joining City.

Laporte like some key figures or managers on GL is one of the players who is disliked without merit and this usually does happen when a sudden hype spectrum brings attention to many viewers and I get what it does but there is no coincidence how City are in the back with or without him.


Elite CB

Talking about VanDjik and Laporte here. VanDjik scores

Edit:
Scores again and now on a hat trick

Arsenal fans didn't want Mourinho...

Mathew "With One T" Ryan deserves to be at a big club IMO

Winter is Coming wrote:Didnt he also play both league games against them last season and kept a clean sheet in both? I mean sure you may not rate him highly but hes better then what City have now in the back.

But when you say he kept a clean sheet against them, he is just one man. The defensive set up this team hasn't been much dissimilar to last season however other teams are starting to learn how to hurt them. I would doubt if prime Maldini frankly could have done nothing against that Shelvy strike, let alone Lafarte who has been continually dismissed or overlooked by World Cup winning coach Didier Dechamps, and rightly so in my opinion.

For me there are elite CBs, like Van Dijk, Ramos, Chiellini, Godín, Varane and Piqué, and then the rest like Laportes, De Ligts and Lenglets. To me Laporte is nothing special, just a really good CB. He wouldn't have changed anything today, or last week. City are starting to be found out and teams have learned they best way to play against them, both defending and attacking. And I also believe City are reaching Pepxpiration. I won't be surprised if Guardiola leaves the team at the end of this season if they don't win anything.

Hapless_Hans wrote:Mathew "With One T" Ryan deserves to be at a big club IMO

talk about hipster parents...

RealGunner wrote:Arsenal fans didn't want Mourinho...

Plenty fans wanted him and more would accept him if our useless board signed him. The idiots at the club seem to want some nobody like Marcelino more.

PL fans are like someone having been hit on the head and having amnesia as a result. How the hell can you forget EVERY SINGLE TIME how bad shit gets under Mourinho if he stays longer than 18 months?

RealGunner wrote:Arsenal fans didn't want Mourinho...

You?

RealGunner wrote:KDB...

might be goal of the season here. Check GL APP ffs

class goal

class app

Dele is revitalized under Mou atm

He's one of Spurs best players since Mou has come in. Looks amazing out there.

The "handling intentional or not cancels a goal" rule used against Tottenham. I cannot believe they made this a rule. How incompetent

Could’ve sworn Arsenal fans on here said he was past it about a year ago. Two matches changes EVERYTHING

Alli will be back to being meh come the turn of the year

El Gunner wrote:Alli will be back to being meh come the turn of the year

That’s usually when him and Kane tend to hit form, though. It was Son who carried them around this time last season.

CBarca wrote:Dele is revitalized under Mou atm

He's one of Spurs best players since Mou has come in. Looks amazing out there.

The "handling intentional or not cancels a goal" rule used against Tottenham. I cannot believe they made this a rule. How incompetent

It's because Mourinho dropped the pretense of Alli being a midfielder and employs him as second striker, no?

and what I don't understand is, where is Naby Keita?!

Why isn't he playing, like ever, when this would be a good opportunity today?

Hapless_Hans wrote:and what I don't understand is, where is Naby Keita?!

Why isn't he playing, like ever, when this would be a good opportunity today?

because he can't stay fit for more than 2 days. The guy is made of plastic ffs.

Unique wrote:

Hapless_Hans wrote:and what I don't understand is, where is Naby Keita?!

Why isn't he playing, like ever, when this would be a good opportunity today?

because he can't stay fit for more than 2 days. The guy is made of plastic ffs.

he's on the bench though, so he's not injured. Oxlade is so limited ffs, Keita should walk into that midfield with Fabinho out

WAIT A MINUTE

is that THE Montoya, La Masia and Inter legend, on Brighton right back position?

danyjr wrote:

Winter is Coming wrote:Didnt he also play both league games against them last season and kept a clean sheet in both? I mean sure you may not rate him highly but hes better then what City have now in the back.

But when you say he kept a clean sheet against them, he is just one man. The defensive set up this team hasn't been much dissimilar to last season however other teams are starting to learn how to hurt them. I would doubt if prime Maldini frankly could have done nothing against that Shelvy strike, let alone Lafarte who has been continually dismissed or overlooked by World Cup winning coach Didier Dechamps, and rightly so in my opinion.

For me there are elite CBs, like Van Dijk, Ramos, Chiellini, Godín, Varane and Piqué, and then the rest like Laportes, De Ligts and Lenglets. To me Laporte is nothing special, just a really good CB. He wouldn't have changed anything today, or last week. City are starting to be found out and teams have learned they best way to play against them, both defending and attacking. And I also believe City are reaching Pepxpiration. I won't be surprised if Guardiola leaves the team at the end of this season if they don't win anything.

Exactly look how they are without him. He made them look better and without him they show more vulnerability. Shelvy strike was due to a foul by Ferna who was playing in Laporte position its all hypothetical but no guarantee he'd commit a foul like that. I also don't believe particularly teams have figured them out. As Hans said Pep himself is to blame as he had made some weird and idiotic decision that disrupt his team, playing a past it D. Silva and not playing B. Silva, making one sub at Liverpool etc. I'd also say the loss of Kompany leadership also hurts them.

Dechamps didn't leave him out due to his quality, it was because he threaten to play for Spain if he didn't get a call up when he was at Bilbao which apparently Dechamps didn't like. Nevertheless he was called up in Sept. by him until he got injured.

I'm not saying he's elite CB, he has away to go before getting into that category, but what I'm saying is he's the best defender City have.

Hapless_Hans wrote:WAIT A MINUTE

is that THE Montoya, La Masia and Inter legend, on Brighton right back position?

The one and only

lmao

Alexander Arnold, Origi etc getting a taste of their own medicine

Hilarious goal

Is that a 3 game ban for Allisson or just 1?