The English Football Thread

[Atomiswave 6,072]

7 minutes ago, Tomo said:

I'm not put off because he won nothing, i'm put off because he's shit in the market (arguably worse than Conte), his brand of football is nowhere near as amazing as people make out, he struggles to consistently beat the lesser sides (the main reason they lost out to us and especially Leicester) and there's huge question marks over his ability to keep his cool when it truly matters.

It might not be super amazing yes, but its efficient enough. Yes he must be better at transfers I agree but overall not a bad shout.

[communicate 2,703]

1 hour ago, prehuman said:

Training this season is aiming at the hands within the area.

Forget the goal.

This, it is absolutely mental, hearing some pundit defending this rule is mind boggling, penalty is the easiest way to score in football. There has to be a high standard before you can be given one otherwise, it is better to look for penalty rather than trying to score goals. 

 

[LAM09 6,547]

Clever finish from Vardy

[Vesper 27,310]

super goal by Vardy

1 2 Leicester

[LAM09 6,547]

Chance for Vardy to seal his hat-trick

[Vesper 27,310]

pen on shitty

could be 1 3

[Pizy 17,860]

City were as dominant as a team could be until Leicester scored. Then they collapsed as badly as a team could.

[Alabama 1,992]

Vardy hat trick...

[communicate 2,703]

That was more of a dive imo

[Special Juan 27,103]

Ruthless from Vardy.

[Milan 17,835]

I love Vardy's pens. His style over Jorginho's any time of the day.

[prehuman 119]

I fell asleep with the exercise of harmless passes from City in the first half, I wake up and they are losing by 1-3, a little divine justice.
Vardy's hat trick?
What a beast.

[Milan 17,835]

Oh look, City are not smashing someone by 4 goals or more and Foden is therefore done.

[Pizy 17,860]

There were a lot of comparisons stylistically between Vardy and Timo Werner. But what makes Vardy so effective and why Timo will find it harder is that teams don't park the bus against Leicester whilst they do against Chelsea. Vardy is able to exploit acres of space to run into and get the ball in the exact situations he loves all the time. 

Only the big teams will allow us space and as we saw with Liverpool that was Timo's most effective game so far. As we saw against WB yesterday, he's less effective when teams park the double decker. Was still unlucky not to score twice, though.

[DDA 9,570]

2 minutes ago, Pizy said:

There were a lot of comparisons stylistically between Vardy and Timo Werner. But what makes Vardy so effective and why Timo will find it harder is that teams don't park the bus against Leicester whilst they do against Chelsea. Vardy is able to exploit acres of space to run into and get the ball in the exact situations he loves all the time. 

Only the big teams will allow us space and as we saw with Liverpool that was Timo's most effective game so far. As we saw against WB yesterday, he's less effective when teams park the double decker. Was still unlucky not to score twice, though.

So surely we should sit back and play counter attacking football ?

[Jase 43,479]

If Leicester somehow manage to challenge for the Top 4 again, they could potentially put us, United, Arsenal, Spurs etc to shame if none of us get the act together...

[MoroccanBlue 5,198]

Finishing top 4 comfortably is probably the only requirement Lampard must accomplish imo

[prehuman 119]

4 minutes ago, Jason said:

If Leicester somehow manage to challenge for the Top 4 again, they could potentially put us, United, Arsenal, Spurs etc to shame if none of us get the act together...

Leicester, Arsenal and Spurs have Europa League.
Everton and Wolves have that advantage this year.