General Football 23/24

[Buzzo]

I guess better is a vague term. They are a lot easier on the eye, they have loads of movement, always seem to have a runner and ping the ball around like we haven’t since before Covid. Their press is more aggressive and consistent, which is of course helped by squad depth and Covid resilience. The pricks.

Yeah, they are good. But boring. They just suffocate teams. Aesthetically pleasing but without any of the cut and thrust that creates good sporting contests.

And if it’s not working they can replace like for like.

It’s impressive and even with the resource I am sure not all that easy to create. But the whole thing leaves me cold. At least you could hate Man U, and despise Mourinho… this is all a bit ‘meh’.

[Fredo]

If you compare best XI with best XI and both teams on form, then I would agree with you, however based on actual form over the past couple months and on pitch results I think it would be fair to say they are currently the better team and, if points gained in that period are any guage, by some distance.

That's what I meant, on actual form it's clear, but they've had it easy over the past 2 months, played against teams heavily affected with Covid, destroyed some of them and got into a bit of a rhythm, while we've had the opposite in terms of circumstances. Before that, I thought we were the better team.

What City does though and this is down to the genius of Pep, is their absolute control of games, playing the percentages, keeping the ball and the economy they go on about their task. They grind out results and it's hard to combat that efficiency on the long run.

[Slinky Skills]

Haha!

https://twitter.com/ScouserChrisLFC/status/1482339744231182339?t=wFz_kTaClO-mk3ZhdxaMgQ&

[Doc_Piptorious]

That is pure funny

[Harv]

Agent Rafa

[S-RED]

[ame]https://twitter.com/jimbeglin/status/1482375323706605573[/ame]

[ChesterDave]

What was the error? Man ****ty?

[S-RED]

He called it Emptyhiad on commentary

[Doc_Piptorious]

What was the error? Man ****ty?

Called their ground the emptyhad whilst commentating on the game

[ChesterDave]

He called it Emptyhiad on commentary

Called their ground the emptyhad whilst commentating on the game

Ah. I thought he said he made an error?

[Tribute]

Lucas Digne showing everyone he’s no better than Mings here… Coutinho is out warming up his bad back on the touchline…

[Fredo]

United playing much better without Ronaldo. What a surprise.

[Kenneth]

Villa’s new tactic of ‘get the ball to Digne’ looks questionable.

And I don’t know who he is, but I’ve watched a few Villa games and the Ramsey guy is utter turd.

[Kenneth]

Utd look ****e but Villa are throwing this away from individual errors. Must be very frustrating for Gerrard.

[Tribute]

Another Villa mistake, United get a second. All very easy this football malarkey if the opposition keep gift wrapping everything…