Today’s Football 2021/22 Season

[Death]

Absolutely the worse side over two legs, but world class talent sometimes makes the difference. I'd bring Rafael back first.

Not really.

Benitez was the curse set upon us for a section of the fanbase having the neck to turn on Carlo Ancelotti.

 

[Saint Domingo]

The only time they had a relatively tough run was in 05 when a certain ex EFC manager had them beating top sides.

Since then they've been fed nothing but bums in every cup competition they've won.

West Ham
Cardiff
Spurs

ffs

Even then they got Leverkusen in the first knockout round, the easiest tie of the lot. Just amazing how often these draws go their way. They would have had Sporting Lisbon this time if the draw hadn’t have been botched.

 

[davek]

The only chance is that the second leg is at Villarreal. Liverpool have had some ropey Anfield performances against lower end prem teams. If they don’t put Villarreal out of site there’s a chance Emery could do them in the return but it’s clutching at straws. No one would have said they’d be in the last 4 at the start of the tournament, it’s an easy ride, just like Roma after they put Barca out, just like Spurs in a CL final ffs.

They don’t ever get a run like the one Madrid is on where it’s PSG Chelsea City then the final against Liverpool. They always seem to get the stars aligned run to the final.

Let's have it right though: the CL is a pony event now. What you have to do to win it these days is to edge through a group stage and then past maybe 1 really top team to get to the final. It's deteriorated to the old EC: a couple of KO games that mean anything and then the final.

No wonder the scab clubs who win it weren't that arsed about tearing the competition up to create their own competition last season.

 

[Martin Alvito]

Got zero to do with the rules. How can a sport, that takes several hours to view, be entertaining when most of the time you’re sat waiting for the next play? It’s like if 90% of a football game was waiting for someone to take a throw in. It is horrendous to watch.

The usual American take on football is that nothing ever happens. Ball gets kicked around a lot, no one scores, we have a dishwater dull 0-0 draw.

American football is interesting because it's physical chess, Move pieces around on board prior to snap, get result, 0-0 doesn't happen.

They're both flawed games.

 

[TheBigIguana]

Benitez was the curse set upon us for a section of the fanbase having the neck to turn on Carlo Ancelotti.

In all seriousness I wouldn't bring Carlo back now. Maybe Lampard isn't the answer but we're at least trying to play. Carlo wasn't doing that and we'd not have gone anywhere.

 

[Ron Swanson]

It's going to be a City-Liverpool final, isn't it?

 

[ToffeeDan]

The only chance is that the second leg is at Villarreal. Liverpool have had some ropey Anfield performances against lower end prem teams. If they don’t put Villarreal out of site there’s a chance Emery could do them in the return but it’s clutching at straws. No one would have said they’d be in the last 4 at the start of the tournament, it’s an easy ride, just like Roma after they put Barca out, just like Spurs in a CL final ffs.

They don’t ever get a run like the one Madrid is on where it’s PSG Chelsea City then the final against Liverpool. They always seem to get the stars aligned run to the final.

You don't seem to understand how it works..

No one is daring to say they aren't a very good side but here's the rub:

In their runs to the two CL finals they had an unfeasibly easy draw against some farmers from Slovenia and, even when they have the worst possible qualification they managed to get the easiest draw (Sevilla in pot 1 for example)

Granted they have (sometimes) earned the right to a 2nd leg at home (current rules, last 16 only) but, you couldn't make up the odds that they have been drawn 2nd leg at home well over 70% of the time since back in the day (when the advantage wasn't automatic) - to achieve this level of good fortune is like tossing coins and getting 70/100 right... so that's multiple 10s of thousands to 1 (statistical probability for the number of instances which is far greater than 100.

And, just touching on those two runs - given that they were seeded something like 22nd (squeezing into Pot 3 when the likes of Napoli messed up in the qualifiers) meant they basically reached the final and won the CL by being approximately as good as Bournemouth are now (22nd best team in English football) - it might be unlikely that Bournemouth could pull off an FA Cup run to Wembley... but not impossible if they draw Palace, Southampton, Coventry, Brighton, Arsenal (on an off day) and lose the final to City.

 

[bluetack]

Chelsea could nick the fa cup now,with nothing else they can win,looks almost certainly as if the RS and City will win the 2 main ones so a City win on Saturday could actually hinder them in the prem and CL.

 

[bluetack]

It's going to be a City-Liverpool final, isn't it?

Nailed on mate,hope City don't go out tomorrow or we might aswell say its number 7 for the RS.

 

[gazzaa2]

They shouldn't have even qualified this season. That BS goal from Alison in the last minute when west Brom had battered them. Leicester collapsing.

We were above them at the start of April.

 

[bluetack]

They shouldn't have even qualified this season. That BS goal from Alison in the last minute when west Brom had battered them. Leicester collapsing.

We were above them at the start of April.

Thats them all over, get through the back door and turn it into another fairytale.

 

[Nymzee]

Some blues really are just obsessed with them. Getting a bit embarrassing now.

 

[Death]

Let's have it right though: the CL is a pony event now. What you have to do to win it these days is to edge through a group stage and then past maybe 1 really top team to get to the final. It's deteriorated to the old EC: a couple of KO games that mean anything and then the final.

No wonder the scab clubs who win it weren't that arsed about tearing the competition up to create their own competition last season.

Jesus remember that. Nearly a full scale revolution over that. Was as organised as I've ever seen the working class in my life.

 

[summerisle]

lol

 

[R.Reddington]

lol

Winning mentality and all that…