Match Week Feb 10-13: Shot through the heart & you’re to blame

67YAZ

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Nice run and square by Matip. He’s giving more attacking drive than Fab!
 

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Whatever it is, they think Marsch can fix it!

The club is great story - part of the EPL founding class, down to the third tier in 2009, back in the EPL in 2012. They'd built such a strong, productive academy that just seemed to churn out quality EPL players, recruit budding stars, and spot superb managers on the rise. Not sure what the relationship is, but the club was sold in 2017, their were fewer big hits in the transfer market, and the talent pipeline slowed down significantly. And then they were sold again last year, invested a ton in young players, and brought in Jones to manage. Jones was some combo of a bad fit and over his head, so now it's emergency time.
How quickly Marsch became an EPL retread! From the midlands down to the south coast would be quite the change for him.
 

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What a turn of events!!!!

Tarkowski hits the post! Liverpool barely clear and then they're away with a 4 on 2 break. Darwin easy enough to Salah to slot home first time.

BOOM.
 

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Nunez is electric....I get all the criticisms but my goodness, the speed and the pass. And what the heck was Pickford thinking there.
 

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How quickly Marsch became an EPL retread! From the midlands down to the south coast would be quite the change for him.
They've got a squad with four years of being used to RB Ball, so it makes sense in that he won't need to rewire it on the fly like he did Leeds. The downside is that they were playing RB Ball at a level which got Hasenhuttl sacked.
 

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On the replay you can see Coady stick out his foot, hesitate, and pull it back afraid of deflecting it on goal.

Not sure why Coady didn't use that as an opportunity to get red-faced at Pickford.
 

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Pickford and Robbo looked like they were having fun with each other, and the rest of the players decided they wanted to fight, specifically Conor Coady, Maupay and VVD
 

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Welp. - Everton were right there until Tarkowski's header got turned into that counter. That reminded Liverpool that they had the better attackers and that was that.

There were about a dozen balls that went awry off Everton feet - several in the attacking end, including a dreadful free kick from the most frequent culprit, McNeil - and some howlers from Tarkowski. Coady whiffed on clearing the ball that became the second goal. I don't think they kept their focus.

Dyche has them more solid. More than the lack of cutting edge in front of goal, it's just their inability to absorb any kind of mistake. They can't piss away possessions and expect to compete.

They will stay up, I think.
 

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Welp. - Everton were right there until Tarkowski's header got turned into that counter. That reminded Liverpool that they had the better attackers and that was that.

There were about a dozen balls that went awry off Everton feet - several in the attacking end, including a dreadful free kick from the most frequent culprit, McNeil - and some howlers from Tarkowski. Coady whiffed on clearing the ball that became the second goal. I don't think they kept their focus.

Dyche has them more solid. More than the lack of cutting edge in front of goal, it's just their inability to absorb any kind of mistake. They can't piss away possessions and expect to compete.

They will stay up, I think.
With DCL out, it's as if this was an actual Burnley roster that Dyche was used to without a real striker. All he needs is a Dave Fishwick stand!
 

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Simms looked the part physically and athletically, but he spent so much time as a lone wolf up top. It's hard to get a read on a kid in that situation, especially when he's just bedding in.
 

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The effort was lacking here. The midfield three that did so well against Arsenal, none of them really got stuck in. Far too passive. Mykolenko left isolated on Salah, for Dyches system to work the wings have to move quickly to double with the fullbacks to pin the ball out wide and that didn’t happen. Far too psssive snd naive in defending the counter, both of the attacks leading to goals should have been disrupted with Pep-style professional yellows.
 

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Simms looked the part physically and athletically, but he spent so much time as a lone wolf up top. It's hard to get a read on a kid in that situation, especially when he's just bedding in.
For the club not to bring in a striker in January is criminal neglect, especially after getting 40 for Gordon albeit late.

Maupay might work as a pest up front, running st goal, a poor man’s Richarlison *, but cannot be a target 9 in a low block system because he’s only 5’4”.

If DCL has really turned to glass it’s very bad.
 

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Since Leeds is so USMNT heavy, I wonder what kind of terms he’s on with those guys. I heard someone say the Leeds players haven’t had the kind of “thanks coach” reactions you usually see. Maybe they’re not that high on Marsch.
 

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It shouldn't take City that much effort to ruin Villa or Arsenal. All in all, this was a disappointing showing, given the circumstances.
Just wanted to make sure this didn't go unnoticed.. Given how much City has been struggling recently it's amazing how quick City fans (or at least this one) are to dismiss the rest of the league... while simultaneously trying to claim victim of the big bad premiere league coming to get them.
 

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Just wanted to make sure this didn't go unnoticed.. Given how much City has been struggling recently it's amazing how quick City fans (or at least this one) are to dismiss the rest of the league... while simultaneously trying to claim victim of the big bad premiere league coming to get them.
Actually, I'm wearing my Arsenal kit right now (as much as I've become more of a neutral since Wenger last days). Yet, I'm not blinded by their youth and inexperience
 

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Actually, I'm wearing my Arsenal kit right now (as much as I've become more of a neutral since Wenger last days). Yet, I'm not blinded by their youth and inexperience
Hm. Well I follow arsenal as well and last year I would have been more pessimistic and I thought they actually played City pretty well. And that was a better overall city team.

I think arsenal are much stronger than they were last year at the back and city aren’t as strong in mid and at the back compared to last year.. Haaland is a wild card.. and not having Gabriel in front ia unfortunate.. but I’d be surprised if it were easy for City. I guess we’ll see.

I think Arteta’s system has developed quite nicely.. although I think they’re a year ahead of where I expected. Would be nice to win the league.
 

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wait, was NBC Sports afraid of going up against UCL on CBS? Why not have Arsenal-City on USA?
Is it on peacock? NBC has been putting many of their big matches on peacock so everyone can see how bad their streaming service is… because why try to grow the soccer audience on regular cable channels?