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

Didn’t journalists question Pep about that exact topic after they hammered Watford in the FA Cup final? He shut them down along the lines “we have just won a great victory and you choose to talk abide that…”

Shell corporations indeed! Not a chance Haaland isn’t on double what Salah is on or more than Ronaldo

Leicester are all over the shop

They ll be delighted to make. Half time at 1 down

So many needless yellows for Utd.

Harvey Barnes has so many tools to be very good.

But he's really shít.

I thought that Ten Hag might have got United flowing in attack first, and then worked on defence. But he seems to have done it the other way around. They look a lot better at the back the last couple weeks.

Could be coindence but they've looked more solid since Maguire has been taken out of the starting 11.

IMO defence had to be first. The attack is misfiring and needs work, but so many of the goals being conceded were due to bad defending or players absolutely panicking under pressure.

This is some absolutely world class skying of shots from Leicester tonight.

4 mins of added time and the ball was in play for 1:52.

What is the purpose of added time?

What Leicester need is a manager who isn’t a total spoofer.

Rodgers is a spoofer. A complete and utter one too at that. He has zero tactical awareness, never had a plan B if hoof it to vardy doesn't work. He got lucky at Liverpool when he had one of the best attacks in Europe who were on fire but he couldn't set up a team to hold a lead or defend. His dealings in the transfer market are pretty poor too

The bar isn't very high to get somebody in that's better.

They have been horrible in the transfer market for about 4 seasons now

They have needed new CB's for 3 seasons now & instead of getting one let there best CB go , 2 decent CB's & Ndidi back into midfield really transforms them .

Vardy is finished,

Really looking forward to Super Sunday now - two sides who think they have something going on getting to test each other's 2022-23 ambitions.

I think Arsenal have had an almost perfect fixture list up to now, and haven't been really tested yet, whereas United may well believe that they have turned a corner in terms of where the team are going. A draw wouldn't surprise me, but this is a real opportunity for one of them to damage the others top 4 credentials. Of the two teams I would slightly favour Arsenal, but hearing injury rumours around Odegaard, Zinchenko and Ramsdale would make me think that Man Utd would fancy themselves against a team missing those 3 players.

Were Arsenal to win, they would go 9 points clear of United and keep themselves ahead of Man City, who look relentless at this stage. If United win, then City can go top and the league would be over, but United would be right in the mix for Champions League spots.

Jesus will certainly fancy himself to try stop United getting a third consecutive clean sheet, but not without Odegaard creating chances for him.

This should be a game where we won't be left talking about teams time-wasting for the entire second half anyway!