The English Football Thread

[prehuman 119]

i am interested to see this new version of aston villa

[Vesper 27,282]

2020-21 English Premier League

Aston Villa
Sheffield United 

http://www.sportnews.to/sports/2020/premier-league-aston-villa-vs-sheffield-united-s1/

https://www.totalsportek.com/aston-villa/

[Atomiswave 6,072]

3 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

Gundogan becomes the 3rd city player to test positive for covid. Will go into a 10 day quarantine immediately.

With rising infection rates, this season will be a real test of how disciplined players are. Carelessness would mean that they could potentially jeopardize a club.

It's an absolute disgrace that international matches are being allowed to go ahead though.

It just increases the risk factor.

 

Its BS, hate these national games, serves no purpose imo other than players getting injured, greedy cunts.

[Special Juan 27,093]

It will be interesting to see how Martinez does for Villa and compare him to Mendy when he comes in.

[Vesper 27,282]

red card on Sheffield

denial of goalscoring chance

[Special Juan 27,093]

Egan gone...work to do now for United.

[Vesper 27,282]

on Egan, their best CB

[prehuman 119]

rugby team with 10 men.

[Vesper 27,282]

English Premier League clubs rarely field young players

 

Issue number 305 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post ranks 80 top divisions worldwide according to the percentage of minutes by 21-year-old or younger players since the 2015/16 (or 2015) season. The lowest percentage among the five major European leagues was recorded in the English Premier League (7.1% of minutes), while the highest was measured in the French Ligue 1 (15.4%).

Two Baltic countries are at the top of the overall rankings: Estonia (31.1%) and Latvia (27.2%). The Slovenian top division complete the podium: 26.4%. The Dutch Eredivisie is the most competitive championship in the top 10 (8th, 23.8%). The highest figures for leagues in non-UEFA associations were observed in Panama (7th, 23.9%), Venezuela (13th, 22.0%) and Uruguay (20th, 18.0%).

Since 2015, Chinese Super League clubs fielded 21-year-old or younger players for the fewest percentage of minutes among all of the competitions surveyed: 3.9%. This very low proportion indicates that China is not yet ready to become a football power as local talents struggle to gain experience. The second lowest figure was recorded in the Turkish Süper Lig (4.1%).

All data here

[Special Juan 27,093]

Ampadu on.

[Special Juan 27,093]

Penalty United here.

[Special Juan 27,093]

Martinez what a penalty save that was.

[prehuman 119]

what a debut for Martinez.

Great save

[Vesper 27,282]

2 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Martinez what a penalty save that was.

I would have felt more comfortable buying him tbh

and he is a giant too

1.95m, only 1 centimetre shorter than Cech

[Special Juan 27,093]

Arsenal have kept the wrong keeper at the club for me.

[prehuman 119]

Villa.
This is nothing.
Another club with decent players but without a coach.
Very poor football.

[Special Juan 27,093]

1-0 Villa Konsa.

[Jype 6,398]

Rory Delap's son on the bench for Man City tonight. I feel old now.