Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[phillycavsfan]

Even though Liverpool would've still won, Emery should've started Lacazette and Torreira. You have to put your best XI in games like these

The floodgates would've opened sooner. Arsenal might've gotten a goal earlier, but Liverpool would've had 3 or 4 by halftime. Arsenal don't have the guns to go toe to toe, especially not at Anfield.

Emery had the right idea at the start. Flood the center and concede the wings to Liverpool's fullbacks. It means letting Liverpool cross over and over into the box, but that's better than letting Salah and Mane run riot in the middle of the park.

Where Emery fukked up was the halftime adjustment of pushing his fullbacks into Liverpool's half. Naturally 2 minutes into the 2nd half Luiz is forced into dealing with Salah 1v1 and hilarity ensues.

 

[analog]

I really don't like this style of football. We don't have a good enough defense to play this style.

And they're already becoming to reliant on quick attacks. This team needs to get back to consistent build up play.

We are becoming a team that really doesn't know how to create goals from just basic build up possession play.

From the 3rd goal

 

[ciubaca]

did madrid rly draw at home while being 1-0 up against valladolid

 

[analog]

VAR strikes again. Fiorentina just got gifted a penalty kick off ridiculous handball call :dafukk:

 

[BlackAchilles]

 

[phillycavsfan]

Dries

 

[analog]

Dries

Horrendous officiating

 

[African_brehda]

did madrid rly draw at home while being 1-0 up against valladolid

Zidane had no business taking that job again. Probably didn't realize "cross the ball to Ronaldo" doesn't work when Ronaldo isn't in the team

 

[analog]

This match wild, both teams going goal for goal

 

[Ukbrotha]

This Fiorentina v Napoli match.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

This entire video

 

[Roberto Firmino]

PHAROAH!!! What an absolute legend.

Scored a pen and and another when the game was already over, still disappears against the big teams

firmino

Firmino the wizard

Salah got the goals but firmino

Only saw the first half had to listen to the second, commentator was waxing lyrical about him, think this is the season everybody realises what we been knowing for time that Bobby F Baby is truly world class and the most important cog of the big red machine

I take great pleasure in knowing you made that username when you still had hope of Firmino being a great player.

Christ almighty he's bad.

This never gets old

 

[gho3st]

And to think there were years where all Arsenal needed was one player to seriously make a run at the title. Wenger never went and got that player. Whether it be a left back, defensive mid, striker or central defender. Arsenal was weak at either one of these positions at some point over the years....

Now City and Liverpool are strong so arsenal ain’t seeing a title anytime soon. Emery is not the one.

 

[African_brehda]

And to think there were years where all Arsenal needed was one player to seriously make a run at the title. Wenger never went and got that player. Whether it be a left back, defensive mid, striker or central defender. Arsenal was weak at either one of these positions at some point over the years....

Now City and Liverpool are strong so arsenal ain’t seeing a title anytime soon. Emery is not the one.

Wasted Ozil through passes on Giroud and em
If they had brought Suarez in from Liverpool, they'd have won the league

 

[WaveMolecules]

James Rodriguez the GOAT, back at the bernabeu