The English Football Thread

[didierforever 7,349]

The main differences between the two games were: Aguero played amazingly and Costa had a bad game, Coates played instead of Wes Brown against City and made some pretty big mistakes unlike Brown in our game, and City made much better use of their FBs than we did. You can't just put it down to effort and say Sunderland tried harder against us because there were much bigger factors at play.

fair enough. the only difference was aguero. the first goal was a bad touch made into a goal by an amazing shot, then their was a clip pass by aguero for another goal. but except for that one person i dont think there was much differencr between us and city. the fbs were not a major factor in deciding the match which was pretty much done once they took the lead and made sunderland impotent in their counter attack game plan.

[Fernando 6,499]

Oh this game now got interested, red on giroud.

[Pizy 18,519]

Christ, QPR are fucking SHIT. Each time I watch them I wonder if they've ever even worked on defending in training. Embarrassingly poor.

[zolayes 14,489]

Christ, QPR are fucking SHIT. Each time I watch them I wonder if they've ever even worked on defending in training. Embarrassingly poor.

both goals through having no left back

[Pizy 18,519]

both goals through having no left back

Even with a man advantage you just knew they wouldn't do anything. Arse are a better side with 10 men. QPR can't win away from home.

[Fernando 6,499]

2 to 1. Sets up for a nice finish.

[zolayes 14,489]

cmon austin

[kobematabryant 400]

YESS Austin!! Can't believe people compare him to Kane. Austin's got 12 goals now opposed to Kane's only 5 goals in PL. Austin has now managed to score against us, City & Arsenal. All Kane's been doing is scoring against shitty Europa League/League cup pub sides.

[Fernando 6,499]

Men this QPR is the most frustrating team to watch.

Austin might be better then he actually is, scoring all those goals in such a horrible team.

[Kieran. 6,317]

Charlie Austin is a great story, regardless who he plays for

[Fernando 6,499]

We should buy Charlie Austin for our English quota. ?

Good enough to be our second striker.

[Bir_CFC 3,455]

QPR are pathetic. Seems like they had no idea what to do once the onus was on them to do anything during the match. The only gameplan was to give it to Hoilett, who did win a pen but then immediately went back to looking like the worst footballer on the planet. He overhit like 5-6 easy crosses from the wing, and the rest of them passed the ball out of bounds like 10 times trying to play "football"

Embarrassing display against 10 men tbh.

[Madmax 9,219]

Don't know who's more pathetic, QPR or Martin Atkinson. How does he miss that foul on Zamora at the end?

[LAB 1,030]

QPR are pathetic. Seems like they had no idea what to do once the onus was on them to do anything during the match. The only gameplan was to give it to Hoilett, who did win a pen but then immediately went back to looking like the worst footballer on the planet. He overhit like 5-6 easy crosses from the wing, and the rest of them passed the ball out of bounds like 10 times trying to play "football"

Embarrassing display against 10 men tbh.

Hoilett still did better than Traore who was totally horrible and to blame for the first goal.

[zolayes 14,489]

just rewatched for about the 100th time one of my favourite matches

carling cup final ,, each time that goal from Stevie God looks better ,,, up against two in Red he stll managed a perfect

header to get us back level ,,,, much better even than his famous slip

[lucio 5,418]

just rewatched for about the 100th time one of my favourite matches

carling cup final ,, each time that goal from Stevie God looks better ,,, up against two in Red he stll managed a perfect

header to get us back level ,,,, much better even than his famous slip

and this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GprcTAFLQCw

great too, but nothing at stake for liverpool

[Laylabelle 9,406]

So he scored a og,did the back pass and slipped last year.He does like helping us out

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

WBA's performance vs ManCity was not even a capitulation, it was a Christmas gift. Amazing how poor they were. No wonder they only won 4 matches at home the entire year. But still not worthy of an EPL side, not even in the Bundesliga you would see such a forfeit. I would call that competitive distortion. Anyway, City did not play particularly well IMO. Their offensive moves are always the same, Fernando or Toure drives through the middle, passes to Silva, who distributes it to the flank, then there is a cross or a cutback and a cross.

TBF esp Silva and Toure are good at what they do. Their individual class + the fact that teams roll over by the mere sight of those fuckin ugly light blue shirts will probably mean they'll probably miss out on 12 points max in 2015. Which makes it all the more important that we stay on our toes and smash them at home. Though, the way they had their squad shuffled by injury and also their opponent's evel of play has made them prone to defensive errors all season. Most teams are either too shit or too corrupted to take advantage of that, but against WBA they allowed at least 5 clear cut chances (not counting the goal). If those had fallen to a player with better aiming than Saido "I think the goal is 10 yards wide" Berahino , they would have conceded at least 3.