Magic Lamps

damn alonso in a nutshell. leaves his position vacant, then commits a stupid foul "rushing" back.

Promes, Ziyech, tadic, van de Beek and to some extent Neres, that is one hell of an attacking lineup. Make no mistake, they are a great side.

azpi must put him offside

damn this defence is killing me

we really should reconsider assigning Tammy to the near post when defending set pieces. This is his second own goal from that situaiton already.

what a frenetic start to the game. thank god ajax can't defend

great start

that sounds reassuring. Alonso, and partly Zouma and Barkley are the only players nowadays I feel like close to a heart attack every time they touch the ball in our own half. Everyone else is so comfortable on the ball I would trust them to control it on a beermat.

IMO we need a proper old fashioned dm as a special team utility player. An imposing presence and hard tackler. Not to start games regularly but for situtations were we are threatened to get physically dominated by the oppostion or need to shut down shop. Ideally this guy could also play football. Someone like Rodri or younger Javi Martinez would be ideal. Chilwell is a solid enough defender. better than Emerson and Alonso

dafuq why is Emerson not even in the squad.... really hope it is no new injury and Lamps is just phasing him back in slowly. Alonso was an absolute clusterfuck in his last 2 games.

Said it before will say it again. Stay clear. His end product for an offensive player is average at best. This season CP have enjoyed a more than decent start and he has been anonymous, no goals just two assists. I think he has found his level and he would fail again at a big club. Would be a very expensive flop as well.

Nice little player. Great dribbler, good pace, can actually cross the ball with either foot. As he is left footed i could see him deployed in the Willian role on the right. Needs to make another step up in consistency to be realistically considered tho.

they must be absolutely kidding. no way City are gonna accept that. Even if Sterling does want to go there, City would ask for straight cash and not one of their washed-up players.

This might work against us, in the past few games the more opposition fans the better ^^

I am truly sorry, I did not know that. May he rest in peace. I have been there as well. Spectacularly beautiful, definitely will come back. And people in the Dinaric Alps are truly a bit taller than maybe even the Dutch and much more burly as well. But the area is very sparsely populated so you do not really see that many super tall people in one spot. Neither is Sweden. I think Amsterdam is probably the 'tallest' major city (<500k inhabitants) on earth then maybe Stockholm and some German ones. The relative effect of non-european immigrants is strong in Sweden. But in Frankfurt 1/3 are foreigners and still has that 1.837 average, so if you only look at 20-40, white Germans, you might even increase taht a bit. Then again other German cities have an average of just 1.75 so all in all we are not that tall. I did not know that for Lesbian relationships there is a preference for minimal height difference (?) but I guess it makes sense. For me, even though height development of a population is somewhat an interesting indicator of wealth, nutrition etc, the attractiveness of a partner is not really dependent on height. My tallest girl has been 1.90 and my shortest 1.52, so every height can be attractive with the right attitude

At this moment with how it is going wrong and how inconsistently it is used I would say it should only be used for offside decisions and things that the ref has not seen. Let the ref decide on pens and fouls. For non-factual decisions there is just another ref with another opinion and a power/responsibility struggle who gets it right. You are perfectly right... there clearly is even more possibility of matches being manipulated via VAR and we are seeing exactly this. The penalty vs us, liverpool, tottenham this is no coincidence. Damn thats one tall family. If you had brothers they would be absolute trees. I would give your Dad the 2m though. My 1.92 is straight out of bed with some stretching too, so 1cm extra might be achieved with enough effort and proper posture/positioning haha I guess there are more important things than height but it pretty much defines one's first sight impression, has come in handy in casual dating often enough lol, my female friend who is almost the same height as me however is so desperate despite the male population of German metropolitan areas of Frankfurt, Hamburg (male average 1.84) being among the tallest in the world. Guys like Söyüncü look like any regular dude here as well as in any EPL backline. Which is what is so annoying that English commentatory treat anyone taller than 6ft like some kind of magical creature and praise players physical attributes completely neglecting the skill aspect, even when their height is completely unrelated to their style of play.

lol "man mountain Söyüncü". He is like 5cm shorter than me and I have never been called that -.- the appetitte for exaggerations from english commentators reminds me of WWE

Palace have been absolutely poor tho. Roy had no better ideas than camping all his 6'3 dudes in the leicester box burnign their energy going up and down the putch every time giving leicester enough time to recover and organize themselves. Would be disappointed if we can not go there and beat the convincingly as well. Leicester are very clever and mature tho. When has Rodgers learned how to defend?

damn maybe we should have bought Jamie vardy for that 30m back then in 2016. 3 years on til lthen, the guy is turning 33 in 2 months and no show of decline.... not playing at top level till 28 clearly prolonged his career.

In a game as cagey as this one, this could already be decided. Torrid defending from CP on that corner. Shows how height advantage isbnot everything in set pieces

As long as Ole and Emery keep their jobs, top4 is safe I feel. And yeah fuck Livarpool. It has been theie title from day 1 tho, the FA made sure of that. But they can not fix matches for them next season, that would harm the competitiveness od the leacue and the product itself. Even Bundesliga is more suspenseful this season.

Game proceeded as expected. We score a beautiful goal, the opposition goalie has tzevgame of his life oreventing us fron goibg 4-0 up, the ref and sone stupid action combine to gift to the oppostion that makes us sweat. Great win still. Happy for Jorginho for that awesome assist, prime Lanpard style pass. Kovacic was at fault for keeping hold of the ball this long leading up to their pen in the first place IMO. Also happy for tammy to score again. Perfect timing, same for Pulisics run. We had Willian when he was 25 to 27 and he sucked balls back then😄 But agree it is the first time i see hin play well when the team does well. His prior purole patches were in 2015/16 and 2017/18 were the team was torrid.

I am not saying Tomroi is faultltess, he commits mistakes on his own. But how often have we seen Tomori stepping out and closing down the opposition winger on our left side running into the space Alonso has stupidly vacated?

Was a typo, I meant yesterday he offered nothing in attack which he definitely did not. His goal vs Newcastle was vital. Yet, I do not think his occasional attacking output justifies his overall shittiness. He more often than not leaves us vulnerable and commits stupid mistakes and turnovers. I do not think his goalscoring stats are so outstanding that this remedies his defensive incapacities. He maybe scores 5,6 goals per season if he is lucky. In the history of scoring defenders this is probably not even in the top 100. You talk about him like he is Koeman. But we concede more than 6 goals per season because of his individual mistakes. Tomori has papered over a lot of his fails now that Tomori was rested his incredible stupidity in tackling, passing and positioning was evident once more.

Absolutely useless once more. He offers nothing in attack, misplaced easy passes and even though was soft dafuq can such an experienced player be so stupid to make a challenge from behind in his own box. That foul was even more silly than the pen Zouma conceded. Emerson clearly was not fit otherwise Lamptey and Azpi would not have been on the bench. Alonso rode his luck that this is the first match he has cost us this season so some might have forgotten how shit he is. It is time he gets benched again.