2020/21 Premier League Discussion

El Gunner wrote:

Thimmy wrote:Chelsea will find their feet eventually, and when they do, GL will go back to praising Lampard as the promising manager they confidently predicted he would be when things were going their way. Rinse and repeat. Werner's on my fantasy team, so he better bring the goods sooner, rather than later.

who were those ones praising Lampard, and when?
what about him so far screams tactically astute to you?

I don't know how much knowledge people on here had of Lampard as a tactician, prior to him becoming Chelsea's manager. I would assume they had none, considering it's his first job as a top flight manager, and I don't suppose anyone on here watched him at Derby County. I remember someone on here saying they always knew he would be a great manager.

Regardless of how much insight people on here have about his managerial proficiency or current capability, he certainly seemed like an instant GL favorite, together with Arteta. Read through any of the Lampard/Arteta discussions from when they had just become managers of Chelsea and Arsenal, respectively, and you'd think they were destined for greatness already. As it always is with GL, things are more interesting when you go fucking all in and declare stuff to be either GOAT or extremely incompetent

El Gunner wrote:only Arsenal, Man City and Liverpool are guaranteed top 4 this season.

Of course

To be fair to Lampard, he was looking at a pretty bleak season following Hazard's departure. Mason Mount and Tammy Abraham performed well above expectations, and that solved a lot of those issues. I don't know how much Lampard had to do with it, but it patched up what looked like it could've been a pretty underwhelming season. In contrast, he's got a lot of talent at his disposal now. There's no pre-season this year, so it might seem like it takes longer than usual to integrate new players and find the optimal lineup/formations.

so now Man Utd are awarded penalites even after the final whistle?!

SMDH

Allison, Thiago, Gomez, Matip, Henderson out for the Arsenal game

Adrian will be in goal and another video like EG posted will turn up on how to beat Liverpool

Justice as Leeds nicks it in the end, sheffield parking the bus against a promoted side

Teams like Sheffield United always get found out eventually.

second season syndrome.

This new handball rule is shit.

The game has lost its mind.

VAR + the evolution of what handling is has honestly taken a huge huge hit to the game of football.

Singlehandedly ruining football. Honest. It's a joke

It's difficult to watch these matches knowing every touch of the hand, intentional or not, will be looked at, and teams will be fucked based on if the ball just happened to deflect onto an arm or hand.

I'm changing my team strategy if I'm an EPL manager. Get to the box and smash it into anyone's hand. If it happens to be outstretched at all, they'll be fucked. Pen for us.

That's why you go for the kill. You do or die. 1 - 0 is never a good result unless you do your best.

Holy shit Mahrez what a goal

huntsman wrote:That's why you go for the kill. You do or die. 1 - 0 is never a good result unless you do your best.

Obviously. But I'm talking in general here. It doesn't matter if it's 4-1 and the 1 is from some bullshit handling. It needs to go. This is 10x worse than diving ever was/is

"I prefer to give my money to charities than to give my money to The FA"

Mourinho refuses to talk about the handball rulings that cost @SpursOfficial a win over @NUFC!#beINPL #PL #TOTNEW HD11 pic.twitter.com/j9ia4SgnpA

— beIN SPORTS (@beINSPORTS_EN) September 27, 2020

Vardy destroying City.

If Leicester and Everton keep this up the top four race is gonna be fun.

VARDY HATTRICKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Leicester 3-1 at the etihad

Getting out of the title race early to focus on the CL.

Pep

#TheBaldFraud

So many damn penalties nowadays ffs.