GWT: PL Matchweek 10

[Savant]

Saturday 30 October

Leicester x Arsenal
Burnley x Brentford
Liverpool x Brighton
Man City x Crystal Palace
Newcastle x Chelsea
Watford x Southampton
Tottenham x Man Utd

Sunday 31 October

Norwich x Leeds
Aston Villa x West Ham

Monday 1 November

Wolverhampton x Everton

Midweek - Champions League & Europa stuff

Click to read more...

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Aston Villa with eight days off and West Ham having played three in nine. Going to be a difficult away match.

 

[AB13]

Arsenal’s away record with Michael Oliver is 3 wins, 6 draws and 10 losses (which is insane considering our average win percentage in the PL is like 65%). Leicester's 12th man on Saturday. Leicester's Home record with Oliver is 9 wins, 3 draws, 3 losses. Vardy diving against Arsenal always leads to a penalty, and Leicester had 12 penalties last season, of which maybe 2 at best were correctly given. I don’t fear Leicester, but I fear Michael Oliver.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Maybe you just suck… otherwise arsenal should bring in their own refs

 

[hatterson]

I love how on AB13s world every team deserves maybe 20% of the penalties they actually get but Arsenal is robbed of a couple dozen every year.

 

[robertmac43]

Maybe you just suck… otherwise arsenal should bring in their own refs

Mean.

 

[AB13]

I love how on AB13s world every team deserves maybe 20% of the penalties they actually get but Arsenal is robbed of a couple dozen every year.

Not every team gets 80% more penalties than they should. Leicester and Manchester United are the two teams who have profited from 10-15 more penalties than they should have had the past couple seasons. Less penalties this year is the main reason behind both teams "declining" this season so far. I think the PL have decided to cut down on the penalties to make the corruption less obvious.

United in the last two seasons have had penalties at a rate of 0.46 per game vs 0.12 for Arsenal in that same time period. The historical bias extends for years and years in favour of specific teams. If you look at individual incidents, certain teams get certain decisions in their favour more frequently than other teams. That's undeniable. Prime Barcelona from 2010-12 who everyone said had referees on their side managed 16 pens in 76 league games (0.21 per game). In the 14/15 season with Messi, Suarez and Neymar, they managed 7 in 38 (0.18 per game). This is high by their own historical standards. United under Ole have over double the rate.

 

[robertmac43]

Liverpool x Brighton

Also, I sense a bromance between Klopp and Potter.

 

[Savant]

Also, I sense a bromance between Klopp and Potter.

I feel like Potter and Thomas Frank are Klopp’s favorites right now. You could tell he loves Frank when he started with the Mainz comps.

Brighton has been a tough matchup for LFC recently. It’ll be a good game. Brighton took four points from LFC last season but they had a lot of VAR luck in those games. Should be a fun game.

 

[robertmac43]

I feel like Potter and Thomas Frank are Klopp’s favorites right now. You could tell he loves Frank when he started with the Mainz comps.

Brighton has been a tough matchup for LFC recently. It’ll be a good game. Brighton took four points from LFC last season but they had a lot of VAR luck in those games. Should be a fun game.

Var luck and the huge bonus of being able to play at an empty Anfield. Obviously, those 4 points were still a huge accomplishment for the club, but yeah, the circumstances were right.

 

[Chimaera]

I think Henderson playing central defender with Nat Phillips, and then Phillips and Fabinho for each match did as much.

I certainly respect them, and they've done a lot. Could possibly get all three this weekend. But VVD playing makes a massive difference.

Salah being unplayable right now does as well.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

I feel like Potter and Thomas Frank are Klopp’s favorites right now. You could tell he loves Frank when he started with the Mainz comps.

Brighton has been a tough matchup for LFC recently. It’ll be a good game. Brighton took four points from LFC last season but they had a lot of VAR luck in those games. Should be a fun game.

Thomas Frank is an amazing coach. I really like his passion and intensity for a coach. He has a Klopp vibe and I really like his tactics too.

 

[Jussi]

Varane and Martial fit again.

 

[AB13]

Thomas Frank is an amazing coach. I really like his passion and intensity for a coach. He has a Klopp vibe and I really like his tactics too.

His Brentford team has some elements of Klopp’s Liverpool too. Frank is a mix of Klopp, Tuchel and Wilder. High pressing, fluid rotations with CBs overlapping, some positional play elements but also a will to be direct and play physical.

 

[AB13]

Straight up back pass on the goal line from Leicester

 

[AB13]

Nice heading technique with the back of your head there Gabriel. Deserved lead.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Partey muffin of a shot

 

[AB13]

I love ESR. We should score 5. Brilliant from Partey to start the attack.

 

[hatterson]

Leicester is atrocious defensively.

 

[Brunkmeister]

Toying with them!

 

[AB13]

Not a f***ing injury to a key player when we are in good form, again. f***.

 

[King Makar19]

Tavares been excellent. Lokonga has been nice.

 

[Duchene2MacKinnon]

Leicester is atrocious defensively.

Atrocious everything really. Feels like they haven’t woken up

 

[Evilo]

No Fofana, no defense.

 

[hatterson]

Atrocious everything really. Feels like they haven’t woken up

Yea the giveaway that led to the second goal was like a masters course in how to bottle a rush.