General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

Is Howe sacked yet?

How long before more teams try to emulate Villas extreme offside trap? PL average for teams catching opponents offside is 29, villas is 74 (stat showed up on sky midgame V Arsenal)

I mean, it's the way to go surely? No grey areas with offsides now, you either are or not with VAR, and Villa are reaping the rewards due to Villas transfers and Emery's style.

Interestingly they're also the 2nd best team for being caught offside, with 17. Liverpool & United being the worst with 40, Nunez the worst offender with 11 and Luis Diaz with 10. Big numbers for lads not always starting.

Just a counter argument.

15th in the world they may well be, but there are 6 English clubs ahead of them, so following that logic 7th is their ceiling and that equates with the Conference competition.

I do agree with your squad analysis and no one has even mentioned Alvares, who I think was one of the buys of the summer. I wonder who they could get in to get them playing to their strengths?

Liverpool defend exactly the same way, highline with the hope of catching people offside. Its an extremely risky way of playing, you need to have lightening quick defenders, along with a keeper who's comfortable dealing with 1 on 1 and sweeping off his line. Also you need a midfield who can dominate the ball, or press the opposition aggressively without it, otherwise you will get exposed.

I'm not so sure its easiest or even best idea for other teams to try and emulate. There's a many con's as there's pro's to the system!

Dyche is, and always was, perfect for where Everton are at.

Solid foundations, gets the team running, a likeable team attitude, aggressive.

It wouldn’t shock me in the slightest if they were in the Europa places by next season.

The list of names you could put here is lengthy too. All the names I’ve spent years on here ranting about have become superstars under Emery.

Question for you lot.

What if a goal had been scored or a player been sent off in the period between the penalty incident and the actual penalty being given in the Crystal Palace / Liverpool match.

Ya good question.

When it happened I also said, they can stop a game and go back a few mins to give a penalty but they can't stop a game and award a goal which was incorrectly ruled out, in the Spurs/Liverpool game.

I can’t believe the referee wasn’t sent to review that Romero tackle. 100% deliberate.

Ridiculous tackle, 3-0 up and he does that....it would have been one of the more deserved red cards of the season, 1 for the tackle itself and 2 for the absolute stupidity of it!