Owls-Fan Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Man Utd still the only team to hold LiVARpool to a draw this season, and that was a late equaliser from the scousers. Hopefully another team can step up and cause an upset between now and May as the thought of them going unbeaten is effing annoying Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Who outside of Liverpool would get in team of the season (based of what we have seen so far)? Actually struggling to think of too many. De Bruyne? Aguero? Vardy? Only two to three at most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southportdc Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Was talking about this when that Liverpool/United joint team video was on Twitter before the game. I think there are quite a few players who are 'better' than their equivalents at Liverpool, viewed in isolation. I'm not sure many players at all would get into the Liverpool team. e.g. Aguero is scoring more than a goal a game at the moment, absolutely miles ahead of Firmino's record. But not at all sure Aguero would fit into Klopp's team better than Firmino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belfast owl lad Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 John Stones cost £50M. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Batman Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Liverpool are a fantastic team right now. But would they be unbeaten if Man City weren't in the situation of losing key players to injury? Their defence is shocking. Or the likes of Man Utd, Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal just aren't competitive right now. There's similar circumstances this year as there was when Leicester won the league. Obviously Liverpool are now way beyond what Leicester were, so aren't just gonna win it, they're wiping the floor with everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SallyCinnamon Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 I love watching Liverpool. Their fullbacks are unbelievable going forward and the front three is electric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sMacLean Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 22 minutes ago, The Batman said: Liverpool are a fantastic team right now. But would they be unbeaten if Man City weren't in the situation of losing key players to injury? Their defence is shocking. Or the likes of Man Utd, Chelsea, Spurs and Arsenal just aren't competitive right now. There's similar circumstances this year as there was when Leicester won the league. Obviously Liverpool are now way beyond what Leicester were, so aren't just gonna win it, they're wiping the floor with everyone else. The league being so weak removes the feel of dominance for me. Let's see if they can keep this up when Utd, Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal and a few others are back near the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southportdc Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 It's a bit of a letdown after last year. Liverpool dropped 11 points total in the last 26 games and got overtaken by City in the process. Ludicrous season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 It is just a bit dull really. They're so much better than everyone this season. Apparently, they can get the title wrapped up as early as March? Would take Leicester and City pretty much dropping points in every game, but still. Perfect storm for Liverpool. A top team playing when a lot of their traditional rivals are either in transition and/or gone off the boil. Get the feeling that holding them off last season (plus the losses of Kompany, Laporte) have done for City. Leicester are a good team having a very good season. The rest are very hit and miss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owls-Fan Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 16 hours ago, sMacLean said: The league being so weak removes the feel of dominance for me. Let's see if they can keep this up when Utd, Spurs, Chelsea, Arsenal and a few others are back near the top. It’s a bit like in F1 where Hamilton and Mercedes won the title by May and the rest of the season made F1 even more dull than it already has become. Or like a boxing fight you look forward to watching only for it be a knockout in the 1st round. As someone posted I don’t feel Liverpool will dominate again next season, with the resurgence of other big clubs, and players going to the African cup of nations in January. Hopefully it will be more competitive anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skyline Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 2 hours ago, southportdc said: It's a bit of a letdown after last year. Liverpool dropped 11 points total in the last 26 games and got overtaken by City in the process. Ludicrous season. Didn't Liverpool get more points last season that SAF ever did at Man Utd, and still didn't win the title? it was incredible really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Socialist_Owl Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Bruce with the ultimate smash n grab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonofbert2 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Some good games tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night-Owl Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 (edited) Awful season. Title was over before Christmas. Majority of teams can still get relegated. Liverpool's and Man City's reserves/youngsters could probably get top 7. Edited January 21, 2020 by The Night-Owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiJ Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 It really does feel like everyone outside the top 3 or so are just mid to bottom half teams. Bizarre season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 12 minutes ago, SiJ said: It really does feel like everyone outside the top 3 or so are just mid to bottom half teams. Bizarre season. Utd have 1 win in 6 and are still only 1 point off 5th place and 7 points behind 4th place Chelsea who seem to let themselves down every other game. Conversely Utd are now only 3 points ahead of 13th place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sMacLean Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Arsenal narrowly avoided being 13th by full time tonight. Near the end of January that'd be crazy if suggested start of season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmontonowl Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Another good result for Southampton. They've really sorted themselves since that Leicester game 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night-Owl Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Anyone else see VAR being better used abroad? Saw recently a Sevilla player falling over and handling in a build up to a go against Real Madrid. VAR checked it and said there was no way the player could avoid it and the goal stood. Over here goals like that have been disallowed or penalties given when players couldn't avoid handling. Also, they seem to go to the monitors more in other top European leagues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Night-Owl Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, SiJ said: It really does feel like everyone outside the top 3 or so are just mid to bottom half teams. Bizarre season. Yeah, have you noticed 4th are closer to the drop than the top? All the talk of top 4 over the years, yet Liverpool are running away with it. Them and Man City are in a different league to the rest of the top flight. Arguably Liverpool were unfortunate last season and Man City would have been nearer to them this season if they had strengthened their defence. The likes of Arsenal and Spurs are under 9 points away from the drop, yet slightly further away from 4th spot. Man United in 5th who have looked very poor under Solskjaer are only 11 points above the drop zone yet 30 points behind the league leaders and played a game more than them too. Can't help feeling, that years of Champions League and TV money as diluted the competition. Not only does it distort the transfer market but the top couple of teams are further away in quality than the rest of the top flight than ever before. The top flight over here is becoming as boring and dominated by a couple of clubs like most of the other top European leagues have been for the past decade or so. There were dominant sides in the past but the top flight never seemed this boring and weak to me back when I still loved football in the 90s/early 2000s. Back then the majority of the top Leagues were exciting. Edited January 22, 2020 by The Night-Owl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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