***Official*** English Football Season 2018-19

[Cabinet96]

Yeah the stat of him having as many goals as a sub in the last two games as Huddersfield all season was amusing.

 

[Cabinet96]

Before this season there had never been more than two sides who had won 7 of their first 9 matches in the English top flight (i.e. since 1888). This season four teams have done it.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Arsenal are having their own team-goal-of-the-season competition it seems. Third goal a thing of beauty.

 

[andruid]

Sucks to be Leicester

 

[andmark]

Yeah, it sounds like they should've had a penalty in the first half. The picture I saw made it look like Holding Maradona'd it. Incidentally, I thought yesterday that this smiley is a good illustration of Claudio Ranieri's time there.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Arsenal are having their own team-goal-of-the-season competition it seems. Third goal a thing of beauty.

Team goals by them and individual efforts by Sigurdsson at Everton have meant a fun start to the season.

 

[sledger]

Juve should sweep home easily here. Light years between them and Utd.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

United are just really poor aren't they?

All that money spent to be so bad is some achievement.

 

[Niall]

That should have been much more comfortable for Juve than it was, huge gulf to say the least.

United will qualify for the last 16, but finishing 3rd and qualifying through the Europa league might be there only route into the champions league next season.

 

[Furball]

That should have been much more comfortable for Juve than it was, huge gulf to say the least.

United will qualify for the last 16, but finishing 3rd and qualifying through the Europa league might be there only route into the champions league next season.

Pogba hitting the post otherwise, United didn't appear to create much.

 

[vcs]

First 30 minutes of the Man City match was brilliant, so many chances and some beautiful counter attacks.

 

[wpdavid]

Before this season there had never been more than two sides who had won 7 of their first 9 matches in the English top flight (i.e. since 1888). This season four teams have done it.

I wonder what that says about standards in the EPL this year. For instance, my lot (Palace) have been dire, but somehow there are five teams below us in the league.

 

[sledger]

Well, more teams winning more necessarily means there will be more teams losing more, so

 

[wpdavid]

Well, more teams winning more necessarily means there will be more teams losing more, so

Chickens and eggs, and all that. Time will tell how good the top 4 are. Whereas anyone who's seen the bottom 6 in action will have a fair idea how grim they are. Obviously there's always been a few duffers propping up the league, but I don't remember being struck by how many weak teams there have been as I've seen this year.

 

[Uppercut]

I think the City/Chelsea style more reliably dismantles weaker teams than anything that's been done before. Then Liverpool are just very good and Arsenal have been very lucky.

Huddersfield and Fulham are the only properly bad teams I've seen, and Fulham have the players to improve by a lot.

 

[wpdavid]

I think the City/Chelsea style more reliably dismantles weaker teams than anything that's been done before. Then Liverpool are just very good and Arsenal have been very lucky.

Huddersfield and Fulham are the only properly bad teams I've seen, and Fulham have the players to improve by a lot.

You're probably right to exclude Newcastle from that list. Not convinced about Cardiff though.
Interesting view of Arsenal. Out of interest, why do you reckon they've been lucky?

 

[Spark]

I think the City/Chelsea style more reliably dismantles weaker teams than anything that's been done before. Then Liverpool are just very good and Arsenal have been very lucky.

Huddersfield and Fulham are the only properly bad teams I've seen, and Fulham have the players to improve by a lot.

Surprised you rate Cardiff tbh.

 

[sledger]

Cardiff look like a team that could do noticeably better with a coach who wasn't a proven failure at the top level tbh.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Cardiff look like a team that could do noticeably better with a coach who wasn't a proven failure at the top level tbh.

they could hire Solskjaer to flop again

 

[sledger]

Ha, yeah, it's not an especially glamorous job, despite the money that is no doubt in the club tbh.

Warnock teams are always the same though. Highly motivated but tactically inferior to almost every other team in the top division.