Arena "The Beautiful Game" - The Official JCC Football (Soccer) Thread.

Typical Liverpool making a meal of a 4-1 lead but happy to see City lose. The high press needs to be used against them more often, Pep has no plan B, never has.

Liverpool need to buy a damn keeper though.

 

It must be sickening for Manchester Untied fans to watch a game like that and have sit through their own teams **** on a stick football.

 

Yarmolenko terribly wasteful in the box, two dropped points squarely on him

 

They miss Reus horribly.

 

Not true. He beat Klopp‘s Dortmund side once by chipping long balls over the defense.

Incidentally, that‘s Klopp‘s 5th win over Guardiola, the most of any coach.

 

High tempo pressing is great, if you win.

It's not good to be too defensive either if you can't score.
Few managers seem to be able to strike the right balance.

 

Problems for Qatar building the venues for 2022:

They are running out of sand. No, seriously:
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/fe...-as-it-runs-out-of-an-unlikely-commodity.html

 

Dortmund miss Tuchel the most, I think.

But, hard to be too harsh on the attack yesterday, with Auba suspended, Reus injured, and Pulisic out injured as well.

Still, Yarmolenko missed three chances and if he converts even one of those, it's three points and not one to start the new year. Dropping points at home is not a good way to start the year, especially because Wolfsburg are a side Dortmund should expect to beat at home. Yarmolenko is an easy scapegoat, too, because he was signed with the first portion of the Dembele money.

Still, some bright signs from Isak. He made some great runs, and had a fantastic chance after one such run, just didn't have the composure to finish it. I look forward to two years of his development and then eventual sale to Bayern/PSG/City.

 

Arsenal really are daft bastards thinking they can get Martial in a swap deal for Sanchez. I mean ffs

 

Manchester Untied aren’t going to use him, so why not?

More classic Mourinho planning for the future with this one.

 

Martial has been decent this season, it’s Rashford who has been crap. Martial will start left and Sanchez right/interchange with Lingard centrally.

 

Nah, he’s done.

 

Who’s done

 

Martial at Untied.

 

lol

Salah will leave Liverpool before Martial leaves United.

 

Martial will leave Manchester Untied before they win the league again.

 

Martial will leave Manchester United before Liverpool win the league again.

 

Yes, I think he’ll leave this summer also

And I’d have him! He’d be phenomenal under Kloppo. Such a waste under the Special Once.

 

already matched his goal tally of last year under Jose this season

 

actually, now he's beaten it

 

Pogba with 2 more assists. but you and heels keep thinking he's a waste of money

 

A whole three more than Salah? Definitely worth three times as much!

(We’ll ignore the 15 goals less )

 

Justice done. Ridiculous refereeing, apart from the Pedro yellow cards. Both fully deserved. But everything else was pathetic.