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Man City's lineup today is weirdly negative, relative to a standard Man City lineup, of course. Villa might have a puncher's chance at a draw.
I agree, that's why I said relative. That is near the least amount of firepower I can imagine Man City having on the pitch at one time. It's not like I'm going to put money on Villa getting any kind of result, but it may make the game a little more intriguing. #graspingatstraws
JSosa, regarding LFC's financials, I can't provide any great insight either, but I'd just note the timeframe is the ten months preceding June 1 2012. So that calculation:
- contains the severance payments to Dalglish.
- doesn't include the new kit deal, payments from the new TV deal (starts next year, I think?) or any of the wage-bill cleansing that's occurred since then (admittedly the effect of this last one is going to be more noticeable over a number of periods, as opposed to any one section of time).
I'm hoping to have some time tonight to actually look through the financials (The Echo has a copy).
edit: On replay it was a great save by Guzan to get enough of a touch to push the goal against the post.
Entertaining, absolutely. Quality? Debatable. Though Diego Valeri's goal was pretty nice.
Dzeko got away with one there.
Yes it was. And I left out the game tying own goal! It wasn't a clownshoes own goal but it was fitting for that game.
Was too busy watching the CONCACAF U-20 final. That was pretty entertaining as well. I'm not sure if that helps or hurts the hipster cred vis-a-vis MLS.
I hope I'm treading the line on racial stereotyping and not crossing it .... I found it really nice to see what a large percentage of our (the US) team was composed of Hispanics of relatively diminutive stature. So typically the roster ends up being composed of a bunch of privileged white suburban kids that hit their growth spurt at an early age and have developed the muscles of an American Football player. Gives me hope that we are identifying talent and not just a bunch of physical specimens.
It helps, but if the US wasn't in it, it would be an even bigger factor. "Panama was all style, no substance this year. Pfft."
I saw on Twitter that there were something like 15 dual citizens on the field.
Let's call this the anti-Piers Morgan post game analysis.
That chart* (times opponents caught offside) at the beginning is pretty interesting. Did Rodgers play with a high line at Swansea? If he did he didn't force it on Liverpool the way AVB forced it on Chelsea.
* The chart is number of times opposing team caught offside:
1. Arsenal - 99
2. Spurs - 88
3. West Ham - 82
4. Villa - 80
19. Liverpool - 36
20. Man U - 31
No Rooney. Much more defensive look than the first game. Interesting starting XI.
Yeah not sure how the first one was on Monreal. Looked like a Mertesacker issues with the high line to me. The second one was squarely on Monreal/Verm (more Monreal IMO).
I would have dropped one of Carrick, Cleverly or Giggs for Rooney.
The look of those subs tells me how defensive the starting XI is. SAF trying to a 0-0 draw?
I was thinking of taking United at +165 but I do not like that lineup at all. I don't see them winning in pre-extended time with that lineup.
Subs: Adan, Pepe, Kaka, Benzema, Albiol, Modric, Callejon.
No surprises here.
Wow, that lineup of SAF is negative. He usually knows what he's doing, but it does some a little too clever by half.
I presume that is the plan. Just an incredibly defensive stance to take when at home and standing on 1-1. He doesn't think he can keep them scoreless does he?
edit: Also, it really annoys me the Dortmund-Shakhtar game is on at the same time.
That is my thought as well. Just bet under 3 -120. Of course, last time I expected a wide open game and took the over only to see a bunch of missed chances and both teams shut it down at half. Who knows?
And Gus "What's a block?" Johnson has been terrible.
I can't get a good stream for this game but I feel less bad about it now, no way Dortmund fail to go through.
Bringing on a certain former Tottenham player might not be the worst idea in the world.
EDIT: Terrible decision, BTW. Not even close to intentional.
Well, it was basically a flying kick to the chest. The ref must have thought he knew Arbeloa was there.
Sure, but it's very rare to have a red card given to a player who had no idea the other guy was anywhere near him.
The de Jong red wasn't just on the wrong side of red, it was so far on the wrong side of red that if you could give two reds you would. Everybody in the bar I was watching was astonished he stayed on the pitch - and this bar was in Amsterdam.
You don't go studs up over the waist with a player anywhere near you and expect to stay on the pitch.
As I was saying...
Continental refs (I'm counting Turkey as continental) tend to take an extremely harsh stance on incidents like this. It will be interesting to see the European, non-Spanish, non-British reaction to this tomorrow. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the Germans, Italians, French, etc. all think it was an obvious red.
Jeez.
Not every official is Howard Webb. You go flying with your spikes high you can't complain too much. I thought it was a solid yellow even though I'm not sure Nani was innocent. He pushed off with his spikes. Yeah, I don't think he saw him, but he did push off and his spikes were high. It was very much at a minimum a yellow, and as high spikes are such a dangerous play, and its a fool's game to judge intent, I had no problem with the red. You let your fate out of your hands when you go high with your spikes, no sympathy from me.
Wynalda's commentary was also typically ridiculous.
Clear evidence that that's an impostor and the real Roy Keane is bound and gagged in a basement somewhere.
This is pretty much how I see it. I probably would have given a yellow, but I don't really have a problem with the red; at the very least, to me it's defensible.
For the record, I thought de Jong should have been sent off as well but also that he was unfairly pilloried for that challenge. He's a nasty player, but I don't think in that instance he intended to kung-fu kick Alonso in the chest.
I think of myself as pretty European in my preferred style of calling the game. I think many more fouls should be called in the EPL than actually are. However, I don't see the comparison to De Jong at all. Nani clearly was focused on the ball and didn't see Arbeloa at all. Nani just did what all players do when going for the ball and his foot certainly wasn't chest high. That's yellow IMO. De Jong was so bad that the Dutch should have had 2 players sent off.
An excellent performance, but I think ridiculous is a better term than you meant, between punching Vidic in the head then falling down after he saw Vidic down, wasting several minutes off a shoulder check from Van Persie that was nothing, and spending 3 years before every goal kick.
It'd be nice if there was a penalty between worthless loss of possession and a card for illegal plays in the outfield. I suggest laps.
The call is defensible, but I still wish that it hadn't been made. To me, it's also extremely different than the De Jong kick (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJwFA0P7oaM). In the De Jong case, the ball was coming toward him from the front, and the player was right in his line of sight, and the boot catches him straight in the chest. De Jong seems to raise his leg clearly after when he should have seen the other player.
In Nani's case, he's tracking the ball over his shoulder, jumps to try to take it down with his leg, Arbeloa comes in from the side (from behind Nani's head) and jumps in a path that intersects with Nani's path. In real time, I thought Arbeloa took off after Nani did, but looking at the replays it looks more like a 50/50.
Nah he kicks him in the abdomen. Check out the still at the 6 second mark. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuv8QK98I4M
I don't think it was a red, but it is a bit closer than people are making it to be, especially when you consider the location of the official and the assistant. He's well behind the play and has no chance of seeing where Nani's head is before making that call. That's why Wynalda's "Look at his eyes!" plea is pretty silly; how the #### is he supposed to see his eyes from 30 yards away when he is looking the other direction?
As #192 it was defensible, but probably not the correct decision. I've seen much worse though. And given that I took the under I was rooting for it to be anything but red.
Yeah that was horseshit. He claimed there was a handball in the 84th minute or so when it wasn't even close. Seemed like a ridiculously sore loser. That announcing team is just awful.
Surely NBC can get better talking heads than Fox, right?
De Gea would have done the same as would nearly every keeper Europe. It's simple to fix but until they do time wasting is always going to occur.
It's not an egregious call either way, though I'm perfectly confident saying that it wasn't *really* a red (whatever that means).
Well, they employ this guy as their main analyst, so no, probably not. The actual announcing team is usually pretty good though.
If they do soccer as they do hockey, they'll pull in guys to split time from their regular gigs, rather than have a dedicated team, which works pretty well.
Lewandowski's work on the second goal was amazing.
I'm just hoping Dortmund can stay healthy because they don't have much depth outside the starting 11.
And I'm not really used to homer announcers but Martin Tyler and whomever his partner was today were ridiculous. The amount of crying and whining was obnoxious.
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