General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

Stupid boy.

Milner did well you get him off

That's some goal from Diaz. Carved them open.

Lost count of the amount of times Eze has dribbled past TAA. Hope he can stay fit as he's fun to watch.

I know they have been decent most years but Palace under Viera are a real nice team to watch.

Relegation 6 pointer next Monday night. Sky will hype the shite out of it!!!

Any chance Nunez gets an extended ban? 3 games would seem lenient for a headbutt like that. Could have caused serious damage.

To be fair they where missing Konate, Matip, Gomez not fit enough to start

Also missing Thaigo, Jota & Firmino

They let Mane, Origi & Taki go in the summer and replaced them with just Nunez they need another attacker

Also there definitely short 1 world class midfielder, Jone, Milner Ox all not good enough now for various reasons & Thaigo & Keita can't stay fit

Starting 11 definitely not as good as last season with Nunez for Mane and either is the squad

Only 3 starter last night where over 30 ? City had 4 start the weekend over 30

VVD (31) who is fine, Salah (30 a month) who is fine , & Milner how shouldn't be needing to start games ,

Then you have Hendo (32) ,Thaigo (31) , Firmino (30) Matip (31) ,

We all know they need another 1 or 2 younger world class Midfielders , to replace Milner, OX & one of Jones or Ketia

Firmino last year of contract,

Matip in the process of being replaced by Konate & Gomez,

If these injuries are going to be as prevalent as a couple years ago, then Liverpool won't be challenging City again. We saw what happened the last time around.

Liverpool need a fully fit and firing squad to challenge. If they do stay fit, I give them every chance of winning it.

Firmino & Matip are behind Jota & Konate who are unfortunately injured too

Look at the finals last season Matip was benched for Konate ,Bobby was benched & Jota came on first ahead of him,

Both Matip & Firmino are being phased out,

No problem with Thaigo starting game when fit he's only 31 , for example KDB is 32 should he be replaced by City ?

Milner yes of course he shouldn't be starting games i agree 100%

also, a word on Joakim Andersen.

it's a matter of time before he's playing for a CL team, or even in a title winning team. he's that good. he tormented Nunez into that red card.

Honestly i don't think Anderson done anything new, every other CB does the same,

Nunez is clearly felling pressure of his big move, It started when he reacted to social media posts about his poor pre season game against United, he scored 4 in the next game and reacted to that on social media,

Every game he has tried to play at 100 miles an hour & isn't settling down,

Last night he snatched at a great chance at the end of the first half he knows he should have scored so the pressure ramped up again ,

Now go watch when Salah put him through & he fluffed a great chance with a shocking effort with his left foot, He went running after the ref for about 2 minutes looking for a peno for handball because he knew once again he missed a really good chance badly ,He never clamed down from that moment & only about 2 minutes later he head butts Anderson ,

He's not dealing with the pressure yet & he's nervous as hell and trying to hard & not playing his natural game ,

He needs to remain clam & focused

It's not right of course its not & it never will be but im not sure why people are shocked anymore,

I'd be absolutely shocked if there is any player playing for one of the traditional big teams who has not been threatened or abused on twitter its full of hate ,

Anderson played very well and didn't do anything every other CB does week in week out,