PL 2020/21 Season.

[SB]

Id always have Matip in over Gomez

Yep I agree

[dom9]

I've just spent 5 odd minutes watching this.

[ame]https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1394063380189700096[/ame]

Among many beautiful things about this, I think my favourite is Salah's celebrating. Pure unbridled joy.

Love it.

[Kenneth]

The lack of reaction from Gini was also noteworthy.

[Buzzo]

I've just spent 5 odd minutes watching this.

https://twitter.com/sportingintel/status/1394063380189700096

Among many beautiful things about this, I think my favourite is Salah's celebrating. Pure unbridled joy.

Love it.

Something has definitely happened with Salah. Klopp eulogising about him, and his demeanour language and team engagement all seem to have been enhanced. I guess knowing where you are likely to be living for the next 3-4 years makes for a more settled mind. He has been so good recently.

[Buzzo]

The lack of reaction from Gini was also noteworthy.

Not sure where Robbo went either, though he was back on the half way having gone back to let Ali go up.

Edit: watched it, Robbo heads for the bench!

[frank the tank]

What a ****in header!!!

[Buzzo]

Proper Centre Forwards goal isn’t it?

He does so well to guide it with Nat Phillips crashing past him.

[Pablo]

I was impressed by how calm he was. Most keepers go a bit crazy when they come up for a corner, aim to cause chaos and normally end up committing a foul. Not Ali, he was just calmly standing there, then a well timed leap, and he steered it perfectly into the far corner. Unreal!

[Shaggy]

Still buzzing and can't stop watching all the content.

[Exiled_red]

Came across the Home and Away league tables yesterday, I didn't realise that as well as ourselves most of the other top sides have lost a relatively large number of home games as well this season.

https://www.soccerstats.com/homeaway.asp?league=england

City and Chelsea have lost 4 at home, Spurs and West Ham 5, us and Man Utd 6, Leicester 8, considering that those are the sides making up the top 7 that seems quite remarkable. Shows how much of a freak season this has been without fans and everything else.

[S-RED]

Ignore me talking ****e

[S-RED]

So only Spuds, WHam, Wolves, Southampton, Newcastle, Palace, West Brom & Sheff U have gained more points at home than away.

8/20

[Doc_Piptorious]

Oh there's no doubt the injury's have been catastrophic but it can't fully explain why we've been so poor this season.

Mo and Jota aside we have literally no consistent goal scoring threat.

Big summer ahead. We surely can't go into next season playing 4 - 3 - 3 with Bobby, Mo and Mane with Jota rotating.

Not really been poor all season though. We were top of the league on 1st January so were were doing more right than wrong to that point.

League games only

From 4th January to the 7th March we were bloody awful when we had 8 losses from 12 games but prior to that 12 game run we had 1 loss from 16 games, and since that 12 game run we have had 0 losses from 8 games.


That two month collapse in form is what did for us this season. The rest of the league season reads as 24 games played - 15 wins - 8 draws - 1 loss or 2.20 ppg.

To put that 2.2 ppg into context, City have won the league with a 2.30 PPG over 36 games.

So outside of that really crap two month spell our actual form in terms of building up a points tally has been pretty decent.

Granted we have not been fluent on the pitch but being disjointed is not difficult to explain given the high number of injuries to key positions along with the lack of supporters.

Think if we start the new season with the majority of those injured players fully fit, along with some reinforcements, that we will be back making a challenge for the title again.

[Pablo]

Not really been poor all season though. We were top of the league on 1st January so were were doing more right than wrong to that point.

League games only

From 4th January to the 7th March we were bloody awful when we had 8 losses from 12 games but prior to that 12 game run we had 1 loss from 16 games, and since that 12 game run we have had 0 losses from 8 games.


That two month collapse in form is what did for us this season. The rest of the league season reads as 24 games played - 15 wins - 8 draws - 1 loss or 2.20 ppg.

To put that 2.2 ppg into context, City have won the league with a 2.30 PPG over 36 games.

So outside of that really crap two month spell our actual form in terms of building up a points tally has been pretty decent.

Granted we have not been fluent on the pitch but being disjointed is not difficult to explain given the high number of injuries to key positions along with the lack of supporters.

Think if we start the new season with the majority of those injured players fully fit, along with some reinforcements, that we will be back making a challenge for the title again.

At Xmas time I honestly thought we were going to be runaway league winners

We were top, City weren't scoring, it looked like our injury crisis was improving (it wasn't).

Then come January it all went spectacularly wrong for a few months

[spud_gun]

That two and a bit month spell between January - March was historically bad.