***Official*** English Football Season 2019-20

[andruid]

Rangers Ftw

 

[Furball]

I Thought I held the monopoly for dumb predictions in this thread?

oooooh Andy Carroll

 

[DriveClub]

Bruno looks quality but I guess anyone would look like an improvement over lingard

 

[Uppercut]

Holy god Arsenal.

 

[Furball]

If Celtic go out tomorrow then I want Arsenal next round.

ffs

 

[sledger]

That was utterly terrible.

One of the worst displays I have seen in quite some time

None of the players looked interested at all. Nothing but lethargy

 

[DriveClub]

Anyone think away goal rule shouldn't extend to extra time? One team gets more than 90 mins away game time

 

[Cabinet96]

It balances out the home advantage you'd get in extra time though. Apparently in Europe about 50% of ETs go to penalties, and about 25% are won by the home and away teams each. So there doesn't seem to be a big advantage for either with the current set up.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

ΠΑΜΕ!

 

[duffer]

Holy god Arsenal.

I laughed.

Then cried myself to sleep.

 

[DriveClub]

Damn that was brutal, Auba fired a screamer then missed a sitter

 

[Furball]

Anyone think away goal rule shouldn't extend to extra time? One team gets more than 90 mins away game time

I've thought this in the past having been done by it a couple of times but it's a great leveller and compensates for one team getting 120 minutes of home advantage rather than 90.

 

[vcs]

The away goal rule results in some brutal outcomes when the team playing the 2nd leg away sneaks an equalizing goal towards the end after getting dominated. It's better than the other options which would lead to a lot of penalty shootouts though.

 

[sledger]

Away goals aside, Arsenal deserved to lose yesterday, it was an utterly cack performance

No movement, no intensity, no urgency, no ideas

Really disappointing

 

[harsh.ag]

There shouldn't be any extra time at all. There's already been 180 minutes of play. Straight to penalties.

 

[GIMH]

I'm not sure why away goals is deemed a better solution than penalties tbh.

 

[Uppercut]

How did we get from the peak footballing drama of last night to "something is wrong with this competition and must be fixed"?

 

[sledger]

I don't really have a problem with the away goals rule tbh. I can see the logic behind the arguments for binning it off, but I really just don't care strongly about it either way.

Arsenal really were wretched though.

 

[Uppercut]

It might not make as much sense as it used to but it's been around for years now and it definitely makes knockout games more exciting. By dropping it you lose a lot of entertainment value and I don't think you really gain anything.

 

[sledger]

It might not make as much sense as it used to but it's been around for years now and it definitely makes knockout games more exciting. By dropping it you lose a lot of entertainment value and I don't think you really gain anything.

Yeah, I largely agree. It sucks when you are on the wrong end of it, but honestly the knowledge that the rule was in play last night was basically the only exciting dimension of what was ultimately an absolute snooze-fest of a match.