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

Something like this but North V South

He was excellent against City. One of the few things in Gerrard’s selections I won’t rant about.

Gerrard has pretty much himself in ‘win or be sacked’ territory with that lineup.

I haven't watched enough of Villa this season to know enough, but out of curiousity what are the bad selection choices he's making?

Leaving out Ings, Luiz & Buendia while starting Watkins & Coutinho is it?

Not Ings. Its Coutinho over Buendia, and the continued insistence on playing McGinn and Ramsey together, despite neither of them being able to pass a football. I've not seen a manager look more out of his depth tactically than Gerrard at this level to be honest. It isn't so much a matter of if he goes, its more when. He is basically universally despised and given almost all of our internationals have lost their squad spots during his reign, I'd be surprised if they're happy with him either.

He may be creeping into the Tim Sherwood realm of never getting near another top level job after this role. Its as bad as I've seen.

But he only came on when Cash had to go off injured? Not like he dropped an underperforming cash and selected him?

Two dire teams playing dire football. At least southampton have a load of kids playing so its understandable. Have no idea how city didnt thrash this villa team there woeful

We were ok until around Christmas. Since then we’ve been absolutely horrible and change our system nearly every game and continue to select players who have been playing terribly (or proceed to make them captain). I’m all for tactical flexibility but it’s usually because we were cr*p in the previous game. There are genuinely no pros to speak of. Increasing the age profile of the squad, while decreasing the quality of output is about as toxic a situation as you can find.

It took Martinez 47 seconds to hit that kickout. Ref blew up on the button of added time. What a joke.

Good win for Villa but the way they played doesn’t fill you with confidence that they have any plan or direction.

Forest not looking great after spending the guts of £170m during the summer

Listening to Collins in the tunnel getting the Wolves players up for the game is some going for a new kid in the team.

A born leader right there.

Only took 40 seconds for City

So easy for City Haaland makes it 0-2

This is gonna be another demolition.

Shocking tackle from collins deserved red

Shocking one that.