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On November 23 2019 21:45 haitike wrote: This season Barcelona is the most boring Barcelona I've seen in my 20 years watching the team.
Its like watching 90s era italian teams. Except they arent even good at defending..
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On November 24 2019 04:00 sneirac wrote:vid: https://streamable.com/itim1I agree with this call, Lovren is in prime position to head the ball if Wijnaldum doesn't get it and gets shoved out of the way. It might be a soft call for the premier league, but then again so was the foul for the freekick Palace got to create this set piece in the first place. It's really hard to judge the amount of force used on slow mo, but I think the extension of arms gives the ref the possibility to call it at least. I'm a Liverpool fan, so I'll take it
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Bayern have only had on shot on their goal by the opposition since Flick has taken over. And they've been slowly playing more attractive football as well. As long as things go that well they can be pretty relaxed looking for a new coach. Whether that ends up Poch (whether in Summer to get the sweet Spurs money or in Winter) or ten Hag, who knows. But feels like there's very little rush for them now.
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On November 24 2019 04:48 Elentos wrote: Bayern have only had on shot on their goal by the opposition since Flick has taken over. And they've been slowly playing more attractive football as well. As long as things go that well they can be pretty relaxed looking for a new coach. Whether that ends up Poch (whether in Summer to get the sweet Spurs money or in Winter) or ten Hag, who knows. But feels like there's very little rush for them now. It's sometimes really weird with these managerial changes though. Ole had most success on his interim period. Sometimes the real level stabilizes only a bit later.
But yeah, the start has been very convincing and there's very little urgency in changing this as it stands.
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That was one hell of a final
River dominated for 88 minutes, Gabriel Barbosa did nothing for the entirity of the match, but when the final was about to end in favor of River 1-0, here comes Gabriel Barbosa to score 2 goals (89 and 92) to win the Copa Libertadores
Oh, and he also got sent off minute 93, and he touched the cup
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On November 24 2019 07:24 Faruko wrote: That was one hell of a final
River dominated for 88 minutes, Gabriel Barbosa did nothing for the entirity of the match, but when the final was about to end in favor of River 1-0, here comes Gabriel Barbosa to score 2 goals (89 and 92) to win the Copa Libertadores
Oh, and he also got sent off minute 93, and he touched the cup
I would not say that a team that stayed with the ball for only 39% of the time was dominating. River scored a goal early in a complete meltdown of Flamengo's defense, defended really well after that and in every chance they got, they shot on goal. And also wasted time, lots of time, in typical Argentinean football fashion. They had 2 good chances of scoring after the goal that were worked plays and not just a random shot from midfield.
This Flamengo is the best offensive team in South America in the past 10, 15 years, at least. Kudos to River for holding them for 88 minutes but you need to do it for at least 90. They are not as good defensively, as we saw today.
Blaming Pratto for the loss is pretty dumb.
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Ah crap I thought City vs Chelsea was tomorrow. I went to bed. Looks like it was the best game yesterday watching Match of the Day. Their analysis of Mourinho's return to the Premier League was significantly more positive than mine.
Liverpool did not play well or look good. But in the end they got the result. Things keep going for them this season.
Good job Famengo. I know nothing about South American football.
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That game aired on BBC which was random and a nice surprise!
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Southampton absolutely hammered Arsenal. Southampton missed like 5 sitters. Some how Lacazette equalises and they share the points. But wow things look bleak at Arsenal.
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how was sterlings goal ruled offside? wtf?
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I've given up on this season. I can't believe our board is so fucking incompetent that they refuse to sack Emery. At this rate we're not gonna even finish top 10
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On November 24 2019 10:03 ivancype wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2019 07:24 Faruko wrote: That was one hell of a final
River dominated for 88 minutes, Gabriel Barbosa did nothing for the entirity of the match, but when the final was about to end in favor of River 1-0, here comes Gabriel Barbosa to score 2 goals (89 and 92) to win the Copa Libertadores
Oh, and he also got sent off minute 93, and he touched the cup I would not say that a team that stayed with the ball for only 39% of the time was dominating. River scored a goal early in a complete meltdown of Flamengo's defense, defended really well after that and in every chance they got, they shot on goal. And also wasted time, lots of time, in typical Argentinean football fashion. They had 2 good chances of scoring after the goal that were worked plays and not just a random shot from midfield. This Flamengo is the best offensive team in South America in the past 10, 15 years, at least. Kudos to River for holding them for 88 minutes but you need to do it for at least 90. They are not as good defensively, as we saw today. Blaming Pratto for the loss is pretty dumb.
I know! Flamengo has like what 30 matches without losing? 13 points above n2 in Brasileirao and can win it if Palmeiras loses today right?
All I'm saying is that River played one hell of a final and had everything set to win their 3rd Libertadores in like 5-6 years... Madness, up until those last few minutes, man that was great to watch.
Flamengo made such great decisions, sold Vinicius & can't remember the other dude for like 90m, brought Gabriel Barbosa, Filipe Luis and Jorge Jesus
Great investment that was fully worth it.
You gotta give it to me that River was 2-3 steps above Flamengo, BUT THAT'S FOOTBALL, 2 PLAYS AND VOILA, YOUR SECOND LIBERTADORES ON THE SAME DAY 38 YEARS LATER!!! (both were 23 nov)
I'm a gabigol fan
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On November 24 2019 13:32 evilfatsh1t wrote: how was sterlings goal ruled offside? wtf?
At first glance I'm with you Sterling looks onside. But I think what the VAR guys are saying is that (who's the defender?)'s arms are not a part of him that can play the ball so don't count as playing Sterling onside. So technically Sterling's shoulder is beyond (whoever this is)'s left but cheek. So if you want to be an absolute dick about it (which VAR officials absolutely do) then he's offisde. But how accurately can you determine the excat frame at which the ball is played? I think there needs to be some kind of rule about margins for error where if it's so close to call you just let it go. But that just posses more questions. How do you determine to close to call, what are the margins of error. You have to draw lines somewhere and it's always going to cause issues.
edit: Also Sterling's comment ㅋㅋ
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i think the biggest issue i have with that frame is sterlings legs are so much behind the line its not even close. god damn var is ruining the game
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??? The legs are irrelevant, the shoulders matter.
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yeah by the letter of the law. a ref without var would never have called this offside though, and deservedly so. gregj pretty much says it all about how they should allow for margins of error. also "attackers advantage" has all but disappeared which sucks because it was a very good run from sterling
also, even from the image above, if we draw a line against sterlings shoulder how are we ignoring the defenders shoulder? thats some bs right there
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Charlie Sheens House51490 Posts
Thats just the way the rule is though, issue is the rule needs to be changed now with technology into place with it going back to needs to be clear daylight between players for it to be called offside. The commentator during the game said lawmakers are looking into changing offside rule though as these marginal calls make no difference advantage wise.
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On November 24 2019 23:51 evilfatsh1t wrote: yeah by the letter of the law. a ref without var would never have called this offside though, and deservedly so. gregj pretty much says it all about how they should allow for margins of error. also "attackers advantage" has all but disappeared which sucks because it was a very good run from sterling
also, even from the image above, if we draw a line against sterlings shoulder how are we ignoring the defenders shoulder? thats some bs right there I get what youre saying, but there were dozens of calls before var where much worse non calls or phantom offside calls stood. And if the rules instituted a 15cm margin of error, people would still bitch about a 14.99cm or a 15.01cm call.
I just dont understand how the premier league has so much trouble with offsides and VAR, the bundesliga had other issues with it but I can't remember close offside calls ever taking up that much time or being this controversial.
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