GWT: PL Matchweek (mostly) 32 & 33 - not the Ndombele thread

[Savant]

Friday 16 April

Everton x Tottenham

Saturday 17 April

Newcastle x West Ham
Wolverhampton x Sheffield Utd

Sunday 18 April

Arsenal x Fulham
Man Utd x Burnley

Monday 19 April

Leeds x Liverpool

Tuesday 20 April

Chelsea x Brighton

Wednesday 21 April

Tottenham x Southampton
Aston Villa x Man City

Thursday 22 April

Leicester x WBA

Friday 23 April

Arsenal x Everton

Saturday 24 April

Liverpool x Newcastle
West Ham x Chelsea
Sheffield Utd x Brighton

Sunday 25 April

Wolverhampton x Burnley
Leeds x Man Utd
Aston Villa x WBA

Monday 26 April

Leicester x Crystal Palace

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[Savant]

Interesting match today with Everton and Tottenham. Might be a bit of a top four eliminator. Both teams are not at their best at the moment either.

 

[robertmac43]

Hoping for a Brighton point against Chelsea on Tuesday. A loss would make these coming weeks extremely stressful.

 

[Savant]

Hoping for a Brighton point against Chelsea on Tuesday. A loss would make these coming weeks extremely stressful.

Would settle for a draw

 

[S E P H]

I am wondering which player gets injured to screw our Europa chances this week...

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Such a stupid error from Keane and Holgate

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Close to a worldie header from Kane

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Perfect result to start the weekend

 

[Savant]

Not saying I agree but:

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

World class own goal from Diop and a red card for Dawson, here we frickin go

 

[AB13]

West Ham a man down and Noble on the pitch. That's 9 men.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Joelintonnnnnn

 

[Jersey Fresh]

What a shitshow.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Comedy of errors aside, this is the product of nearly half of the first team being out. Nothing created in possession, despite controlling the ball before the OG/red card.

Cresswell, Masuaku, Rice, Antonio...all out. That's a huge defensive and offensive presence out of action.

 

[hatterson]

Announcers seem confused why this is a penalty, but it seems really obvious to me. When your arm is above shoulder height it's basically a guaranteed penalty.

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Man, what can you say about this one. The less the better actually.

Just makes Chelsea a must win.

 

[AB13]

Joe Willock is 2 years of PL football away from being an unplayable gamebreaker. Very raw but with an incredible skillset. Real and Bayern were intrested for a reason.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Thank you Newcastle!

 

[Jersey Fresh]

Newcastle wasted two minutes of that eight, got a yellow, and made a sub, and the ref adds zero time lol

 

[Savant]

Announcers seem confused why this is a penalty, but it seems really obvious to me. When your arm is above shoulder height it's basically a guaranteed penalty.

Here is my question on this though. Not saying you are wrong but Clark’s on is on top of the West Ham player’s head. The body parts are touching. At that stage what can he really do? If Clark moves his arm to get off of the West Ham player’s head and hits the ball it’s obviously a PK, but he kept it pretty still and the ball found his arm. What’s he supposed to do there?

 

[S E P H]

What a mega horrible loss for West Ham, at least come away out of there with a draw, but a loss there is huge for the Hammers. Wow!

 

[hatterson]

Here is my question on this though. Not saying you are wrong but Clark’s on is on top of the West Ham player’s head. The body parts are touching. At that stage what can he really do? If Clark moves his arm to get off of the West Ham player’s head and hits the ball it’s obviously a PK, but he kept it pretty still and the ball found his arm. What’s he supposed to do there?

Not put his arm on top of a players head is the easy answer.

 

[Rob]

Newcastle should be safe now

 

[Savant]

Not put his arm on top of a players head is the easy answer.

That’s way too simple an answer in my opinion. It wasn’t unnatural and it’s a very rare occurrence. Was all in the phase of play. Didn’t give an advantage. Clark actually got hurt himself on that play.

 

[hatterson]

That’s way too simple an answer in my opinion. It wasn’t unnatural and it’s a very rare occurrence. Was all in the phase of play. Didn’t give an advantage. Clark actually got hurt himself on that play.

The rules consider it an unnatural position essentially any time your arm is above shoulder height.

Sure it got bumped up a bit by the attacker, but it was in what the rules consider an unnatural position before that. When your arm is in an unnatural position it’s your responsibility to move it. Not leave it there and use it as leverage to try to win a header.