General Premier League Thread 2025/2026

I don't think so.

They will bottle it as usual.

I saw at least 12 incidents in the Arsenal-Chelsea game that were all more severe than the one that saw Man Utd awarded a penalty earlier today. If its a penalty at one ground, then its the same everywhere. The inconsistency is the problem.

If I was Glasner, I'd lose the plot if I'd watched that game just now.

I think Arsenal would adapt to rule changes. It's not their only trick, it's just one that makes sense to do right now, something that Liverpool have only just discovered in the past few weeks. Arsenal had a top quality set piece coach working on it for years now and they've recruited excellently.

Hopefully they push on to win it from here and lose in the FA cup and Champions League!

Amorim playing him in a 2 man midfield was absolutely bizarre

Will Tottenham go down ??

Pretty funny reading the comments about the Palace red. Considering that's the rule and has been for a long time.

Otherwise a defender could start to challenge an attacking player and take him down in the penalty area pointing to the fact that he started his offence outside the box.

It's a penalty and a sending off all day

Forest and west ham won't both pass them by.

I wish he could pick up one of the big trophies at Utd before be goes but it looks pretty unlikely unfortunately

Next season might be too soon for Bruno and Utd to win the league, think they need to sort out both full back positions, a top drawer centre half and replace Casemiro with someone like Casemiro 2016. Depends on the finances available to them.

How many seasons does Bruno have left at United? It's only 1 more season on his contract right? His wage demands will likely be big to extend beyond though given world events right now Saudi and Qatar might lose their appeal a bit

Attack won’t be their problem, it will be their defence and central midfield. It’s unreal though how Amorin held them back. Like, what was he thinking playing a struggling Casemiro and Bruno as part of a midfield 2…

True and finished second and third. Disaster

United have 6 wins and 1 draw out of his 7 games in charge and United fans are quite rightly still unsure if Carrick is the right option for the long term. They will quite rightly note some of the things they think he might be doing wrong or that could be red flags.

Its quite the contrast to Amorim being completely absolved from having to meet any standards whatsoever.

What we are seeing now is simply United reverting to the mean. Ten Hag, Ole, Jose, Van Gaal, even Rangnick, all of them had United finishing top 6 or higher despite all the Glazier/Woodward mismanagement, because thats the level United were always at. Nowhere near to winning titles, but also not a goddamn bottom of the table side. All the interim manager had to do was the basics and they are right back up there again.

Why some United fans convinced themselves that Amorims nonsense was acceptable is difficult to explain.

Set piece kings!

Yes quite.

They need to improve that success rate from their feeble 60% to the Arsenal gold standard of 100%, as shown yesterday.