GWT: PL Matchweek 36

[Il Mediano]

Damn, your titles hopes are dependent on Leicester?

I've said it all along, I hope Liverpool wins the league, but that ain't overly promising.

Brendan has em' playing some pretty nice stuff, but I almost feel like you need to sh**-house City to beat them if you're a lesser side. A classic 2015-16 Leicester performance would be more ideal tactically speaking, imo.

Guess we'll find out.

 

[Machinehead]

That Newcastle game is going to be a ***** to get 3 points.

I'm not even expecting to break a sweat against Newcastle. It's Wolves that's under my bed.

 

[Machinehead]

Damn, your titles hopes are dependent on Leicester?

I've said it all along, I hope Liverpool wins the league, but that ain't overly promising.

Brendan has em' playing some pretty nice stuff, but I almost feel like you need to sh**-house City to beat them if you're a lesser side. A classic 2015-16 Leicester performance would be more ideal tactically speaking, imo.

Guess we'll find out.

Teams have been trying to shit-house City all season to the tune of 92 points.

Leicester will play football against them.

Granted, I don't feel good about that, but I feel better about it.

 

[Gecklund]

I'm not even expecting to break a sweat against Newcastle. It's Wolves that's under my bed.

That sounds like a huge problem.

Martial should have started so he could abuse Alonso. I think Rashford can but Martial would be better. You just gotta keep going at him and Luiz.

 

[hatterson]

I'm not even expecting to break a sweat against Newcastle. It's Wolves that's under my bed.

Wolves are a tough match. Less so away, but they’ve still caused a lot of issues for the top 6 and will likely need a result to finish 7th and get Europa league.

 

[phisherman]

Teams have been trying to ****-house City all season to the tune of 92 points.

Leicester will play football against them.

Granted, I don't feel good about that, but I feel better about it.

Man City have been beating teams that play football against them as well. I don't get why there's a need to try and discredit what they're achieving.

 

[Cassano]

Love arsenal.

f*** this shit. Even if we win Europa league, this season has been horrible. We aren't playing a positive style of football.

 

[Il Mediano]

Teams have been trying to ****-house City all season to the tune of 92 points.

Leicester will play football against them.

Granted, I don't feel good about that, but I feel better about it.

Teams suck at it. No offense to English sides, but they're not overly adept at sh**-housing, or at least not the type I'm speaking of. I don't mean bunkering the whole game like Burnley and awaiting the inevitable.

Pep's teams are designed to destroy teams that come at them. If you want to try just because Spurs and Liverpool provided a "blueprint", go ahead. Their pressing game is amongst the very best in Europe and they have a ton of talent. I don't think Leicester has the quality to do it.

Maybe it was a poor choice of words, but like I said, I'd feel more comfortable with a Ranieri-esque 2015-16 gameplan than I would Rodgers' attempt at champagne football.

You attempt to play open expansive football, and 9 times outta 10 you'll get murdered by City. Go re-watch Arsenal's attempts under Wenger.

 

[Machinehead]

Man City have been beating teams that play football against them as well. I don't get why there's a need to try and discredit what they're achieving.

Nobody is trying to discredit them. Just stating facts. If you come out and try to 0-0 City, you've already lost. They have too many weapons.

They've been shut out twice all season and one of those was Liverpool on a missed penalty.

To point out that they have 92 points isn't to suggest that they shouldn't. It's to suggest that the conventional way of approaching them hasn't at all been effective.

 

[Savant]

Millimeters

 

[Machinehead]

Teams suck at it. No offense to English sides, but they're not overly adept at sh**-housing, or at least not the type I'm speaking of. I don't mean bunkering the whole game like Burnley and awaiting the inevitable.

Pep's teams are designed to destroy teams that come at them. If you want to try just because Spurs and Liverpool provided a "blueprint", go ahead. Their pressing game is amongst the very best in Europe and they have a ton of talent. I don't think Leicester has the quality to do it.

Maybe it was a poor choice of words, but like I said, I'd feel more comfortable with a Ranieri-esque 2015-16 gameplan than I would Rodgers' attempt at champagne football.

You attempt to play open expansive football, and 9 times outta 10 you'll get murdered by City. Go re-watch Arsenal's attempts under Wenger.

There's a middle ground between expansive football and putting 11 corpses behind the bus and praying.

City are going to score goals. Money back guarantee. Ergo, you need goals to get a result.

 

[Machinehead]

Crystal Palace have done it. They scored three at Anfield and three at the Ethiad.

It can be done. It needs to be done. Nobody is clean-sheeting Manchester City.

 

[Cassano]

 

[Jussi]

That sounds like a huge problem.

Martial should have started so he could abuse Alonso. I think Rashford can but Martial would be better. You just gotta keep going at him and Luiz.

Not the way he's been playing lately.

 

[Machinehead]

He's right. Whatever magic we seem to have in Europe, it's the opposite in the league.

And it's reverse for City.

 

[Blender]

Sarri pissing me off already with this lineup.

 

[hatterson]

Oh Lukaku

 

[Jussi]

Lukaku the clinical finisher.

 

[I Eat Crow]

Lukaku the clinical finisher.

Oh Lukaku

Good run, poor execution. The story of his United career.

 

[Jussi]

Good run, poor execution. The story of his United career.

Kind of ironic that he's scored his last goals with his weaker right foot...

 

[I Eat Crow]

GET IN MATA!!!

 

[Stray Wasp]

That Newcastle game is going to be a ***** to get 3 points.

Almiron is gone for the season, and yesterday Perez limped off hurt. If Rondon finds himself supported by Atsu and a Kenedy who's been awful the entire season long he's going to struggle to register a shot, much less a goal.

A post-Champions League hangover is likely to be Liverpool's greatest danger.

 

[Jussi]

Mata!!!!

 

[Jussi]

Dat chip from Lukaku...

 

[Evilo]

Great move from Pogba-Lukaku-Shaw.