Today’s Football 25/26 Season

[COYBL25]

I watched 5 games over the weekend and struggled to keep an interest in any of them,there's very little individuality or originality on show, the top teams are basically decided by who gets the most favorable decisions

I’d much rather watch lower league footy nowadays tbh.

The Premier League has eaten itself.

 

[jackyboy]

Poor weekend of opening fixtures that

 

[davek]

Sturridge - that's one clueless gob.

 

[Wizard]

True. But it’s a law that is never, ever implemented. Here’s a video of all of last seasons free-kick goals. All 3 of the first ones had at least one “attacking player within 1m of the wall”, which PMGOL are saying is the reason Palace’s goal was ruled out for.

And ironically, two of the first three goals scored in the video are by Chelsea, in the very goal that Palace had one ruled out for today. With the third being against Bournemouth, in the last minute of the game, even though two Chelsea players are leaning into the wall.

It’s true what people said, if today’s goal was scored by Chelsea, there is zero chance it would have been ruled out.

First goal the players are a metre away from the ball. The defender isn’t part of the wall. Second there are only two players in the wall which means you can be as close as you want as an attacker. Rule only comes in if there are 3 or more players in the wall. Third one I agree with you.

Really don’t know why people are getting so upset about it. It was the correct decision. It might be a stupid rule but they got it right here. If there are loads of examples of them getting it wrong then fair enough but from that video I’ve seen one.

 

[Gooner66789]

Arteta still taking lessons from Tom Riddle I see.

Master of the Dark Arts

 

[Nymzee]

Arteta still taking lessons from Tom Riddle I see.

Master of the Dark Arts

Master of making a team ridiculously boring to watch.

 

[Gooner66789]

Master of making a team ridiculously boring to watch.

No doubt, It was terribly boring.

But first game of the season at Old Trafford with hype around their new signings, I'm taking 3 points every day of the week, no matter how.

 

[jazzy]

Seems like I’m in the minority but I enjoyed that!

Welcome back, Barclays

Brett I thought it was an appalling game!

 

[jazzy]

No doubt, It was terribly boring.

But first game of the season at Old Trafford with hype around their new signings, I'm taking 3 points every day of the week, no matter how.

Quite right too but I'd be very worried if that's as good as Gyockeres gets.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Quite right too but I'd be very worried if that's as good as Gyockeres gets.

What's it been, three weeks? I expect some settling in time and learning the nuances of each of the players games will evolve the interplay.

 

[doyle57]

Ruben Amorim has now lost 15 of his 28 Premier League games (W7 D6) – this is the fastest a manager has reached 15 defeats in the competition, without taking charge of a newly promoted team in that period, since Paul Hart with Portsmouth in 2009 (27 games)"

 

[DualityNSNO]

Ruben Amorim has now lost 15 of his 28 Premier League games (W7 D6) – this is the fastest a manager has reached 15 defeats in the competition, without taking charge of a newly promoted team in that period, since Paul Hart with Portsmouth in 2009 (27 games)"

Long may it last

 

[DualityNSNO]

What's it been, three weeks? I expect some settling in time and learning the nuances of each of the players games will evolve the interplay.

No, if he’s not scoring at least a hat trick within the first 25 min of his first game - bin.
The Everton way

 

[Lee Smith]

First goal the players are a metre away from the ball. The defender isn’t part of the wall. Second there are only two players in the wall which means you can be as close as you want as an attacker. Rule only comes in if there are 3 or more players in the wall. Third one I agree with you.

Really don’t know why people are getting so upset about it. It was the correct decision. It might be a stupid rule but they got it right here. If there are loads of examples of them getting it wrong then fair enough but from that video I’ve seen one.

The first one? There are clearly 2 attacking players within 1m of what I would assume would be classified as the “wall”. It’s a 6 man wall, all defending players are standing next to each other in a defined line, and the 2 Man U players are leaning into it:


The second one yeah, only 2 defenders so not a wall.

But I’d argue that there are other examples in the video, hard to judge on some but Maguire clearly within 1m of the Everton wall also:



I don’t personally think it’s a “stupid” rule, I’d just want to see the law applied consistently. There may not be loads of examples, but I’m sure there are loads more free-kicks where there has been players within 1m when a goal has NOT been scored, but if there had, they wouldn’t have looked twice at it.

 

[Nymzee]

The first one? There are clearly 2 attacking players within 1m of what I would assume would be classified as the “wall”. It’s a 6 man wall, all defending players are standing next to each other in a defined line, and the 2 Man U players are leaning into it:
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The second one yeah, only 2 defenders so not a wall.

But I’d argue that there are other examples in the video, hard to judge on some but Maguire clearly within 1m of the Everton wall also:

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I don’t personally think it’s a “stupid” rule, I’d just want to see the law applied consistently. There may not be loads of examples, but I’m sure there are loads more free-kicks where there has been players within 1m when a goal has NOT been scored, but if there had, they wouldn’t have looked twice at it.

Is it a new rule? Think the games today were the first time I've seen the 1 metre spray put down before.