GWT: PL Matchweek 10

[Savant]

@Jersey Fresh
https://twitter.com/primevideosport/status/1332708074746994690?s=21

 

[robertmac43]

Wow great finish from Mendy!

 

[Jersey Fresh]

On the broadcaster point, is it actually confirmed that the broadcasters are dictating (or at the least influencing) scheduling like that? If it is, you'd think this is an easy one that Klopp may actually succeed in changing. I'd imagine BT/Sky would rather avoid the controversy.

 

[AB13]

City have a ridiculously easy fixture list coming up, they will get back to being considered title challengers soon. Gotta pack the fantasy team with City players.

 

[Havre]

Hopefully Liverpool will never play in the EL again

Not that I don't agree that there are too many games. The League cup should be scrapped and the PL should be 18 teams. That is between 4 and 9/10 games less. Wouldn't solve the Wed-Sat or Thu-Sun issue, but it would give players a lot more time to recover and teams the possibility to have proper training sessions whenever there is a week between games.

 

[Savant]

 

[Savant]

On the broadcaster point, is it actually confirmed that the broadcasters are dictating (or at the least influencing) scheduling like that? If it is, you'd think this is an easy one that Klopp may actually succeed in changing. I'd imagine BT/Sky would rather avoid the controversy.

I don’t have all the pieces to the puzzle for that but it’s an interesting question. I’d assume the broadcasters have at least some say on what teams go to what time slot but I don’t know how the UK/PL/BT whoever does that. I do think it’s shortsighted that they can’t swap/flex games. There is no reason that WBA/Sheffield couldn’t have been the early game instead of the late game today. We’ve know what the CL fixtures have been for months.

 

[hatterson]

In fairness, one of those was Lallana which hardly even counts as an injury at this point.

 

[Burner Account]

In fairness, one of those was Lallana which hardly even counts as an injury at this point.

Lallana’s appearance today was Grampa Simpson.gif

 

[Havre]

Let's not forget that players got injured before as well. A bit like Covid-19 - people died before also.

And it is not a question of having "many" days before that one match. Clearly any player could play wed-sat once. Could play two days in a row once. It is the accumulation of games over time that is the main issue.

 

[Power Man]

Hat trick !

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Expect a huge corruption scandal about PL referees to be revealed in.m a few years.

Listen, I understand the hate towards PL referee's. But quoting a tweet from four years ago isn't too relevant.

 

[Savant]

Listen, I understand the hate towards PL referee's. But quoting a tweet from four years ago isn't too relevant.

I mean yeah, but there was also an example of this occurring a month and a half ago.

 

[AB13]

Listen, I understand the hate towards PL referee's. But quoting a tweet from four years ago isn't too relevant.

It is relevant, the referee bias is institutionalized and the main pieces behind the potential corruption are still there.

 

[YNWA14]

I'm going with the same opinion I had in the european game this week. Contact from Robertson on Wellbeck? Yes. Pen? No. He was taking the ball away from the net, he had no control of it, and it had no impact on the play (Wellbeck taking two steps and then flopping was pretty funny, too).

I really wish there was a bigger use of indirect free kicks in the box for obvious non-scoring opportunities. I'm not going to complain about the other things as that's how they've been implemented for everyone; if you are fractionally offside you are offside. Nothing really to complain about there; I am all for favouring the defensive players in these situations given how many rules have been introduced to favour the offensive side.

EDIT: I was wrong above, it was actually the Brighton game last week (MW9) where March made contact and I called it no pen, not a midweek game.

 

[Havre]

You can't kick someone. Unlucky? Yes. Penalty? Yes.

VAR for offside is in theory fine, but how can you know the exact moment the ball leaves someone's foot? And how can you know the exact place where a body part is offside or not? At least with the boot you can tell somewhat precisely. When an arm is out-stretched or something like that I have no idea how anyone can exactly tell where the part of the body that can be offside starts and where the arm ends. How we got medical doctors in the bus determining this?

 

[cgf]

One of those 'ball don't lie' moments

I miss Sheed :-(

The NBA did him dirty.

 

[Savant]

@robertmac43 to expand on what we discussed earlier


One shot on target in 4 years.

 

[Blender]

@robertmac43 to expand on what we discussed earlier


One shot on target in 4 years.

That's embarrassing.

 

[Savant]

 

[Blender]

I think he was still probably offside, but yes that made no sense to me either.

 

[Jussi]

The issue isn’t a Saturday game, Liverpool needs to play today, it’s the 12:30 local kickoff as opposed to 4:30 or 7pm.

Literally the same issue OGS was complaining about before the international break, although United even less rest. There is no logic in making teams that play in Europe in the midweek to play the early Saturday game.

 

[Blender]

Nice one by Raphinha.

 

[koyvoo]

Finally Leeds break through

 

[hatterson]

Good strike, but I think Pickford still should have got there. It wasn’t struck *that* hard, was a bit inside the post, and it still beat Pickford by several feet. Either he reacted way too late or was in a poor position.