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Taxi for Ole must be warming up.

They’ll thump us next week and he’ll stay on.

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Was catching up some Eredivisie football, Danilo (not that Danilo) on loan from Ajax at Twente is looking like some player. 6 goals and 4 assists in 7 matches.

yes love Zouma some times he worries me as i think he has a mistake in him but playing along side Silva will be great for him.
@jaw MOTM from sat Ziyech. he has a real edge and strut about him which has been lacking through out the whole team and i think that feeds to other players to take risks and express themselves.
Kante being kante. this was his best game in a while and was great to see.

Distinct lack of anger here at Harry Kane's antics, backing in to Lallana and throwing himself over Bissouma in an attempt to con another spot kick out of the ref.
Typical London-centric, anti-Scouse bias rearing its head again.

I was wondering yesterday when they gave up on booking players for "simulation".

Solskjaer’s United have a better overall win ratio over their first 100 games than Klopp’s Liverpool, but Klopp’s side earned more Premier League points within that period of time. If United were to win their next four league matches, Solskjaer would actually match Klopp’s number of league wins from 69 games.
Solskjaer’s men scored four more goals and conceded four fewer than Klopp’s in each manager’s first 100 games in charge.
Klopp’s Premier League win percentage in his first 100 matches in charge is marginally better than Solskjaer’s – 50.7% versus 49.2%.
Neither manager won a trophy in their first 100 games. While Solskjaer has been more consistent in cup competitions, he has never taken United into a final, having been beaten at the semi-final stage in the FA Cup, League Cup and Europa League. Klopp took Liverpool to two finals – the League Cup and Europa League – at the end of his first season in charge, but they lost both
https://www.football365.com/news/feature-man-utd-solskjaer-100-games-klopp-liverpool

#kloppout

Solid work confirming the massive media bias towards Liverpool and the dentures with a personality.

One reason why Zouma is playing so regularly is that he and Tiago Silva are the only two central defenders who speak French. It is necessary to have at least one French speaker and ideally two as the keeper doesn't speak sufficient English yet.

All amateur (non-elite) footy cancelled for the duration of lockdown. https://www.thefa.com/news/2020/nov/03/non-elite-football-statement-031120

This has got to be one of the worst excuses I've ever heard.

"KEEPERS!"
"LEAVE IT!"
"CLEAR IT!"

How fluent does a goalie need to be? He can just shout his name when he wants to come for a cross and if he's lining up a wall for a free kick then he just uses hand signals... Shirley?

It was inevitable. I find it weird that professional team youth academies can carry on even at school age level, but other school age football can't, even when the kids have been mixing with their peers at school.

The sheer amount of footy that took place on the school field opposite my house after lockdown was lifted was phenomenal. 2-3 games every weeknight and 5-6 every saturday/sunday. Bit of a shame, but hopefully will be back in time for games to be called off because of frozen ground or snow.

Gutted for my son, he trains 3 times a week and plays every week, sometimes twice. He really missed it in the spring. There is minimal COVID risk in my humble opinion

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As much as he is a detestable character (racist (before BLM) and his 'chat shit get banged' moniker) got to hand it to Vardy, keeps banging them in! No opposition is spared.

Can't begin to understand opposition team analysis as part of playing against Leicester but is he that much of an unstoppable player as are Messi, Ronaldo? Can you not mark him out of games, man mark, tactical fouls etc etc? Baffles me that a simple plan can't be adopted by so called top managers. Really surprised Bielsa and his 'research' couldn't contain yesterday night despite highlighting the threat.

Must have some sort of shout for England due to form.

Biesla stubbornly refused to adapt his tactics to take account of Vardy, which was incredibly stupid.

Vardy is a much cleverer player than he is given credit for and the way he is now linking up with Barnes and Under, as opposed to Maddison and Tielemans before, makes him very hard to play. Focus to much on Vardy and it will create space for one of the others, and he will become a provider. He's very good, but the one thing he can't do well is hold the ball up, but he's rarely asked to.

I'd agree he's a very clever player, and the fact Liecester have goal threats all over the place makes him so much ore dangerous. However if I was forced to put money on one premier league player taking performance enhancing drugs, it would be Vardy.

Barnes

I miss him so much. Great player.

Always fun scrabbling around for players for a 5-a-side league game.

Tonight it's supposed to be S vs W but due to lack of players it's going to be:-

3 players from S and 2 players from B vs 2 players from W, 2 from P and 1 from B

P (my team) didn't even enter the league this 14 week season as we knew we'd struggle for players (due to injury, relocation and procreation) so the remainders have been pimping ourselves out as 5-a-side guns for hire (and some are desperate enough to take us up on that offer).

This is one part of 5-a-side I won't miss for the next "4" weeks.

S vs W?

whatever happened to Tops v Skins ?

Ha, abbreviated team names to preserve some level of anonymity.

(Also shit 5-a-side team names...)

Although one of the days of the classic "Inter MyNan vs Inter MyGran" derby.

Sausages v Wieners?

Plus 2 players from Bangers on the Sausage team and 2 from Pepperoni and 1 from Bangers on the Wiener team?

I don't know about that...

Klopp clearly had past success and a philosophy, and seemed to know what he wanted from the team. Solskjaer seems to have neither.

One of the reasons Solskjaer looks particularly bad now is due to the comparison with Liverpool - it's hard to imagine United making rapid progress towards reaching Liverpool's current (or last season) level within a similar timeframe.

I don't really like Klopp and I did always like Solskjaer - but I don't think they're at the same level, or anywhere near.