Sport Club Greek Mega Thread - The Bear and Badger

Dinostar77

Spurs, it would be great if they can win the league.

Damn page turn

Minnesänger

They’ll never win the league with purchases like Højbjerg.

Funkstain

I’m just hoping for a good game. Nothing is decided by a single match but there’s a lot in this one:

Mourinho returns to bridge as league leader
Hasn’t beaten his most important player as manager in normal time
1,000th Abramovich game
Winner goes top
Two best attacks in terms of goals scored
London pride, IMO best London derby of recent years
Etc

So, dour 0-0 then?

afgavinstan

Absolutely. Our kick off is at 4pm against the might Falkirk in the prestigious Betfred Cup, come join us.

mistercrayon

Chelsea have the best front foot attack while spurs have the best counter attack. I think also Spurs have proved lethal vs (traditionally) better sides this year while Chelsea haven’t. So I think Spurs are the favourites.

Funkstain

Hmm I’m casting my mind back to the Man Utd game where we stifled their counter (at the expense of our attacking game). I’m expecting more of same. Cagey, don’t lose attitude from both

Armitage_Shankburn

If spurs win this one, I'll hate Mourinho a teeny bit less.

mistercrayon

Funkstain wrote:

Hmm I’m casting my mind back to the Man Utd game where we stifled their counter (at the expense of our attacking game). I’m expecting more of same. Cagey, don’t lose attitude from both

That’s true. I think Chelsea have gained more confidence since then. I think that game was just after you let three goals against West Brom.

Of course even though I think Spurs are more likely to win it just can easily click a couple of times early doors and the game could be dead.

g.man

afgavinstan wrote:

Absolutely. Our kick off is at 4pm against the might Falkirk in the prestigious Betfred Cup, come join us.

Think It’s 5pm mate. Was phoned at 9am this morning asking me to come and work on it.

afgavinstan

Well well well Michelle

Gonna be a long day.

Minnesänger

Prowsey with another good’un.

Moot_Geeza

Wonderfully placed free kick. Never understand why most keepers stand to the left, it just seems to be inviting a right footed set piece taker to put it exactly where they want.

mistercrayon

Here’s a paradoxical thought for you cint:

You can’t get to the top of the table unless you sell a player like Hojlberg!!

Prowse is in a magical form at free kicks. When Soton were beating villa 4-0 or whatever the difference purely seemed to be the amazing free kicks.

mistercrayon

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Wonderfully placed free kick. Never understand why most keepers stand to the left, it just seems to be inviting a right footed set piece taker to put it exactly where they want.

The wall is supposed to take care of one side and the goalie the other is the logic.

Moot_Geeza

But from that distance the best strikes go over the wall and dip under the crossbar.

Edit: if you look at Prowse lining up to hit it you know exactly where it'll go if it flies in. It just strikes me as a 'go on then', which is a dangerous game against one of the best in the league.

Minnesänger

mistercrayon wrote:

Here’s a paradoxical thought for you cint:

You can’t get to the top of the table unless you sell a player like Hojlberg!!

Prowse is in a magical form at free kicks. When Soton were beating villa 4-0 or whatever the difference purely seemed to be the amazing free kicks.

We would have kept Højbjerg in a heartbeat but he wanted to leave and we had the numbers there. Improvement has finally been having a really clear and effective tactical setup, a functional defence again, and improvement of certain players (Armstrong / Prowsey etc) under Ralph.

But yeah, I take the point.

Minnesänger

Worth noting that Prowsey has always been a great dead ball player, but for too many years he wasn’t worth playing from the start because his open play wasn’t the best. The team was generally weaker with him in it. That’s now changed, and his stats are starting to reflect that.

mistercrayon

I really think they need to give ole until Christmas.

Or just after Christmas.

Dinostar77

Pretty sure the backpages for tomorrows papers will be dominated by the crash in the f1 race just now (see f1 thread), rather than football headlines. It will be on the news as well no doubt. In 30 odd years of f1 ive never seen a car chopped in half and fuel tank explode. Grosjean the driver is lucky to have gotten out of that crash.

LivDiv

Ole is safe because he doesn't kick up a stink about Woodward.
Get someone else in and they will start making demands like signing appopriate, quality players.

mistercrayon

Man U deserved a goal imo.

Knight

The early kickoff time isn’t So much about the 2.5 hours less it’s about sleep. Given they play Wednesday every hour for recovery makes a difference and sleep is particularly important for recovery.

Minnesänger

mistercrayon wrote:

Man U deserved a goal imo.

Aye - Fernandes is absolute quality.

Diluted Dante

Knight wrote:

The early kickoff time isn’t So much about the 2.5 hours less it’s about sleep. Given they play Wednesday every hour for recovery makes a difference and sleep is particularly important for recovery.

Go to bed early. It's a nonsense excuse.

Eric

Nice reactions from Cavani there. He's been giving the ball away lots in this second half but that was decent.

mistercrayon

I dont think it’s as easy as “sleep earlier”. these players are up until 4am on late March days because they red bull them up to peak during the match plus the flight home and so on.

It’s a fairly consistent complaint (I think ole did the same last year) from the European playing teams. It’s not like there’s that much advantage gained from just playing the normal time games.

Eric

Comeback complete, another great header from Cavani!

mistercrayon

Oof.

acemuzzy

Phewf

Eric

I'd have taken a point away from home to Southampton so thats a decent result.

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