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sharkie
Austria18575 Posts
Do I like the super league? No. Do I think this will destroy football? Hell no, football is way bigger than that. Let the super league go live, let the big clubs go there. In the end we will know what is more popular and brings in more money (fandom). The Saudi money hasnt done any damage to football this year. Even better we have one of the most exciting years of football ever. Almost every big national league is open and we dont know who will win the leagues for sure | ||
FlaShFTW
United States10290 Posts
On December 22 2023 05:01 sharkie wrote: I will never understand teams who could go wide force their fullbacks to go towards the center. Well there's definitely a balance to be struck. Trent inverting in the new Liverpool system (or fullbacks in general) are doing so to counter the box mid/4 in midfield strategy that the top teams seem to employ (Man City in particular). While it offers more central creativity with options to go on either side of the pitch, keeping width is still important in terms of breaking down a low block, which when Trent inverted, was not happening against United. Gomez keeping the width as a traditional fullback (and Elliott and Jones both being excellent at stepping out wide) are what allowed Liverpool so many attacking options going against West Ham. The problem is that Trent/Szobo/Salah all sort of want to occupy the same space in that right half-space, and in doing so there's no one that drifts out wider. It should be Szobo imo, with Trent moving up, Szobo drifts wide to knock a cross in or play some 2 man game with Salah. Instead, they all congest each other and suffocate themselves out of space, where Trent then is forced to either recycle or knock a pass into the box. Against more aggressive pressing sides like Arsenal this Saturday, I fully expect the inversion to happen often and won't hurt us as much as there will be more space from an aggressive pressing side. | ||
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Brazil65 Posts
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RKC
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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RKC
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26236 Posts
On December 23 2023 01:13 Vinekh wrote: It will add competition. That is always nice. UEFA won't fall over and die - it will still exist. Some teams will just not play in the CL, but in the super league competition. I can't see harm in that. In the end whoever creates the best product will "win" the audience. Somehow we are supposed to believe that, because some teams decided to create their own competition outside of UEFA, football will stop to exists or something like that. For me, this really looks like a narrative, that is pushed by UEFA. Football means something to a hell a lot of people, well beyond being a means of entertainment. You have cultural institutions over a century old, that in some way reflect local pride. Ideally the competitive gaps should be smaller than they are, but fuck a super league. It’s a horrendous idea that concludes the solution to the increasing competitive imbalance that many of us bemoan is to say ‘fuck it let’s just splinter off the elite entirely’ Zero interest in such a prospect personally | ||
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Dav1oN
Ukraine3164 Posts
On December 23 2023 04:57 RKC wrote: Great game, both teams all out to play football, lots of intriguing one-on-one duels, scoreline didn't really tell the full story, City just was more clinical in the final third. Wdym? This was as one sided as one could get, starting from minute 2 till the end of the match. City as a team structurally on a very different level. I have doubts Flu would have easy time not relegating from EPL regular season to Championship in comparison, especially remembering how many aged players they got in a roster | ||
Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
Also the tv replay of Arsenal goal looked offside and lines said he onside, didn't get that one either. Entertaining game though i guess! | ||
GTR
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FlaShFTW
United States10290 Posts
On December 24 2023 03:30 Pandemona wrote: No idea how odegaard handball isn't a penalty, regardless if he slips or not, he literally fell onto the ball with his hand and stopped it. If you slip over and tackle someone, you don't get "oh well he slipped and accident, no foul" its still a foul, so no idea how that not given. Also the tv replay of Arsenal goal looked offside and lines said he onside, didn't get that one either. Entertaining game though i guess! Dude was playing basketball with that handball. Incredible that VAR called it as a natural position because he was "falling" and even then, they could've returned to the penalty if called when we had a penalty called on Quansah like 2 minutes after the incident. The goal was barely on I think. Gakpo's knee played him on. It was super close but Arsenal deserved a goal nonetheless. Trent's open goal was so tragic. The ball just barely hits something and bobbles up, but he should still easily slot it in. We definitely should've won and looked like the better side for most of the game, but they're a team that's been title contenders and we're still rebuilding, so I'm very happy with the game overall. | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Liquid`Drone
Norway28738 Posts
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DropBear
Australia4389 Posts
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WombaT
Northern Ireland26236 Posts
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FlaShFTW
United States10290 Posts
On December 24 2023 12:38 DropBear wrote: The best player in the world is due to finally return from his hamstring injury soon. Watch City win 10+ straight when he does idk if kdb is the best player in the world. rodri is more important to city's system imo. when rodri doesnt play, man city looks lost. for sure he'll boost their offensive capabilities, but against mid to low table teams, man city have more than enough fire power to beat them with or without kdb. | ||
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
 Starting to think Poch doesn't know what he's doing..... | ||
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{CC}StealthBlue
United States41117 Posts
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Pandemona
Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts
I can see him getting 50% in the next 2-3 years though | ||
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