English Premier League 2024-25
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Man City have set another record with 115 charges of financial shenanigans and also managed to win a 4th PL title in a row becoming the first team to do so narrowly beating out arsenal who took it to the last day this year. They accomplished this by rattling off an absurd 33 games unbeaten in all competitions making it 6 titles in 7 years for the Citizens.
Some pictures from the aftermath:
Golden boot winner:
Erling Haaland
Golden Glove:
David Raya
Player of the Season:
Phil Foden
PFA Young Player of the Season:
Cole Palmer
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Man City and Arsenal have distanced themselves as the clear favorites for the title. With Arsenal closing the gap and beating Man City on xG could this be the year that they get over the line? There are some large error bars on Liverpool with klopp retiring and Salah getting older, will they be able to insert themselves in the title race again like they did last year?
For top 4/5 can Aston Villa repeat last years feat thanks to the normal culprits being completely incompetent or will one of Chelsea/United get their **** together finally (hopefully not)? Spurs went full Spurs throwing the match vs City to stop arsenal from winning the title while costing themselves top 4 in the process, will they be in the race again despite doing no business at all in the summer to address squad needs?
The relegation fight as usual has the 3 promoted teams as favorites to go back down, but with PSR looming in the background could we see a surprise team relegated?
[QUOTE=]WILL SOMEBODY STOP THE DAMN MATCH[/QUOTE]
Nah we're good thanks
Southampton 2 3 Leicester City
Southampton
C. Archer (8')Goal 8 minutes
J. Aribo (28')Goal 28 minutes
R. Fraser (73')Red Card 73 minutes
Leicester City
F. Buonanotte (64')Goal 64 minutes
J. Vardy (74' pen)Penalty 74 minutes
J. Ayew (90'+8)
Another correct decision against Arsenal
webb sent the text F&&& Arsenal
lol
That’s a tough one. He probably doesn’t score but also can’t let people cynically take the attacker down there. Yellow not enough and red too much but he knew the risk he was taking there.
Arse getting a red card every other game. Dirty bastards
Did Sky just show Webb texting Stockley Park?
If he calls a red then fair game there. But to look at that over and over and decide there’s clear evidence of a mistake is pretty stupid.
Really starting to think it needs to just go to a coaches challenge for anything subjective. Interventions seem to just be formalities more than letting the ref really look without bias.
If he calls a red then fair game there. But to look at that over and over and decide there’s clear evidence of a mistake is pretty stupid.
So if he decides in real time that it isn't quite (knowing that he has the backstop of VAR) then when he gets to see the evidence in full, in slow motion, including stuff that isn't even in his field of vision, he changes his mind, that's stupid?
It's a clear red, not even close
Course I have Saliba in FPL though ffs
So he decides in real time that it isn't quite (knowing that he has the backstop of VAR) but then if when he gets to see the evidence in full, in slow motion, including stuff that isn't even in his field of vision, he changes his mind, that's stupid?
I guess it depends on what you think “clear and obvious error” means.
Refs have set a really high bar as precedent for overturning calls on the field. I don’t think this particular instance meets that metric.
Yeah, no way. He probably thought there was a covering defender with a credible chance of pressuring him, but on VAR saw that it was not the case. It is not like he can keep track of all 22 players all at the same moment. We act like it is so easy from a view they don't have with 14 replays.
Oh look another correct decision against Arsenal
Saka is a pretty massive miss for them, take him out and the Arsenal attack looks pretty ordinary.
We know their defensive unit is probably the best in football at the moment but think if they were to lose Saka for 8+ games they'd need a lot of luck to get through that period with a decent record and would probably be out of a title race.
Any Arsenal tears going spare?
Saka is a pretty massive miss for them, take him out and the Arsenal attack looks pretty ordinary.
We know their defensive unit is probably the best in football at the moment but think if they were to lose Saka for 8+ games they'd need a lot of luck to get through that period with a decent record and would probably be out of a title race.
when saka is out farteta should just free the second best forward in the league who has been warming the bench lately. its kinda weird that he has only 1 goal in 2024 when he is so so increbible.
Lol nice to see Saliba bringing his international form. What the **** was he thinking there.
Deserved win, cant go for the title of we get moronic red cards every other game
Saka is a pretty massive miss for them, take him out and the Arsenal attack looks pretty ordinary.
We know their defensive unit is probably the best in football at the moment but think if they were to lose Saka for 8+ games they'd need a lot of luck to get through that period with a decent record and would probably be out of a title race.
I'd be interested to know how this distribution of chance creation compares to other teams....
Wonder how extreme we are for example
Seems like there was enough uncertainty where it wasn't a clear and obvious error from the on field call. Probably lean towards red even though I think theres a reasonable chance white can get in position to defend.
Took me all of 3 seconds to find the exact same play not get called for arsenal which is the annoying part.
That aside we were kind of **** before the red anyway. Had a feeling going into this game we were gonna drop points.
i didn't start following the EPL closely until several yrs ago
i've learned that ARS fans are the worst during this short time frame
Seems like there was enough uncertainty where it wasn't a clear and obvious error from the on field call.
The man who literally made both decisions disagrees with you here.
Imagine if fans of other teams went round finding an example from years ago of a similar decision going the other way against their team every time anything happened.
