Topic: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 169. (Read 140643 times)

Yeah, if you aren't a team capable of playing free flowing football, get a coach who can milk the max from your team.
I dislike Dyche, of course - his playstyle is extremely reactive. But he's more than a 'hoof it forward and jump for it' manager - and he's always portrayed as such.
I also feel he'll do well at Everton.


It was about time and I'm really glad that they are investigating it. It will probably end up with some insignificant fine and a player registration temporary ban, but this actually does look serious.
Chelsea should start paying attention

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If Man City is found guilty on 50% of the charges, they could face a 15-point deduction or even expulsion from the Premier League. The funniest thing is that even if they lose 15 points, they will still be ahead of Livarpool..

 Never seen anything like it. Pep to Chelsea?

Dyche is really a decent manager.  I prolly should've paid more attention before making these parlays as I honestly really didn't know he was coming to replace Lampard.  I just found out when the match started.  Lolol. 

Sean Dyche could just be the manager to bring back Everton to consistently finish midtable every season just as the genius Moyes did back in the day.

Anyway, another potentially good manager to look out for is Vincent Kompany who is doing well at Burnley rn.

This was one strange game week and unpredictable too, Chelsea started off by failing to beat fulham, Liverpool was whitewashed by wolves, league leaders Arsenal dropped a few points thanks to a determined Everton side, and title chasers City could not capitalize on Arsenals mishap... Could this get any better, I don't think so and the way the top 6 is building up I see a very unfamiliar top 4 finish this time around. I guess bookies have made bank with such results  

I was shocked when 2 minutes before the end of regular time due to a red card, the odds of Tottenham went up to 1.48! LOL! In fact, it was the easiest money (but I passed by). The ending turned out to be adrenaline but Tottenham survived.
It's funny, but it turns out that despite their defeat, Arsenal strengthened their leadership 

Yeah seems a bit strange especially when City is not playing well and Pep is doing his best to loose. First he started with De Bruyne on the bench, granted he is not in some great form but still much better than any other City mid on that position. Then Pep decides to bring him on and of course he pulls Mahrez out of the game, arguably best City player after the restart and person that just hit a post which is more than anybody else did. I did not see Alvarez whole game for instance and he would be my first sub.

1-0 in favor of Tottenham after the first half and bookmakers see this game like this:

2.02 - 3.25 - 4.10

Pretty disrespectful to Tottenham lol, but given how their previous meeting went, it's probably fair. I'm very tempted to bet on Tottenham, but I know that if I do, it definitely won't win - it will be too good to be realized: profit + pleasure from City's defeat 

Chelsea will always carry the headlines. The media hate us.

I'd say milking out Van Dijk without a suitable replacement and letting go of Mane, the team's pivot, without a suitable replacement have contributed to more than 60% of the team's current poor form.

With Arsenal dropping points yesterday to Everton , I see Manchester city throwing everything they have in the last 16 matches as their title hopes are kept alive, and this journey starts with a Spurs team who are unpredictable but I see City winning easy as they have built some good form of late. Inplay prediction City 2-0 win.

Totally agree, and I think with less rotations going around this team, it could actually be an element of fatigue and the lads having nothing more to offer on the pitch until they get some rest. For now they remain to be underdogs in disguise.

Liverpool does have a very decent squad and as you've also pointed out that most of them are of very high standards. however, from my perspective the problem right now lies with Jurgen Klopp's tactics and ideology, the connection between the midfield and the forward line looks rather miserable, but Klopp still doesn't find it reasonable to tweak his team and formation, I'd rather he plays a 3 man defense and absolving TAA of all defensive duties, TAA is better off playing in the midfield and upfront helping in the attack and have 2 CDM to protect the defense line. He should just switch away from his conventional 4-3-3 and try out something entirely different, even if that requires having a couple of the seemingly untouchable players on the bench.

I don't agree that Liverpool is not a good team. Klopp aside - this is the team that broke records in all areas, it is not possible to do that only with good coaching.
Some LFC players are world class, and most of them are of a really high quality.

I can understand the argument if we compare that team to City's or Real Madrid's, but we're getting bullied by Wolves, Brighton and Brentford.
This team surely has enough quality to walk over teams like these, the problem is elsewhere.

Told you, didn't I? Chelsea and every other badly-performing team will not need to worry about the headlines as long as Liverpool continue our slump and bump you all off the pages.

I'm not sure I can ever blame Klopp for this, despite what it seems.

I'm with Welsh here -- Klopp bought's a lot of time and goodwill. We are here because of Klopp, Benitez was a Rafalution but Klopp brought back belief and healed broken bridges.

I know you'll say you pushed Tuchel out because it was untenable but look where you are now? Tuchel didn't get enough goodwill for bringing a trophy, but I'm still fresh off a failed quadruple memory and I can't think of anyone who can take our limping squad across the line.

Anyway, less said about it the better. Just feel like it's the ownership uncertainty and the recruitment staff we let go off that needs fixed first before field personnel... but I don't know where to start.


Yep! I said it before, this was an overperforming team, a sum so much greater than its parts. And such a careful balance that Klopp requires is a team that becomes psychic with its components. Take away a few and we're in trouble, take out many parts, leave the rest in that never recovered physically from last season, and this is the team that plays. Lost at sea and unable to hold the oars.

Too be fair I don't think Liverpool has a team that is really good. I think it was more a masterclass from Klopp to hide all the weakness and achieve what he did. His strongest point was pressing and taking the ball early, if you have only one a player that can't physically or mentally play that game, you look like Liverpool this season. Liverpool is very thin in midfield positions and opponents are now not afraid to attack Liverpool a bit more since they smelled blood in the waters

There is also a case of several unfortunate things combining into this disaster. First there were injuries and defensive frailties and then even attack stopped working. Salah and Nunez are the worst pair in whole league by missed chances. If they scored half of them, things wouldn't be peachy but they would look much better.

I just read that even Alisson is now scolding his teammates, something I've never seen before in recent times. This is not even the criticising this is outright telling them off.

He's right too, as with most times teams go down. Players are letting down their coaches. This are not different people, these are different mental positions.

Everton just got off Arsenal, this will be dangerous!

Thankful for that default rule saving me at least a point since I wasn't aware that I missed my prediction for the Man United game. Initially, I was a bit salty as I thought I didn't have any default but after a refresh, it came to the rescue.

And please no more upsets, I still need at least two more correct outcomes for a slam point.  

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Imagine how many betters have gone broke this season betting on Liverpool. Moreover, what is interesting is that bookmakers continue to evaluate Liverpool as if we are now in the previous season and “nothing happened”. For example, recently Liverpool was the favorite paired with Real Madrid. I just checked the quotes and I see that the odds are already equal, but doesn't Liverpool look much worse than Real Madrid?

You must come to terms with the fact that Klopp's time at Liverpool is done; it appears that he has already lost the dressing room, and if that is the case, no new players would be able to fix the issue if the old players are tired of his influence and want him gone. we sacked our club legendary coaches Mourinho, Ancelloti, Conte, and Tuchel not because they were poor managers; rather, it was clear that their time at Chelsea had come to an end, and the players and fans accepted this reality and moved on. Kloop's ability to save them from disaster will forever make him a Livarpool legend.

Benitez was considered as Mr. Liverpool, I believe he had a greater impact on the team and culture of Liverpool than Klopp.

At the end of the day, the club would always come first, and no manager is bigger than it. Zidane was one of the finest and won everything with Real Madrid, but when the squad started to struggle, he understood it was time to step down and let another coach take over. The outcome was better.

Disgraceful behavior on the part of Manchester United and Crystal Palace players. squabbling like children

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LFC_Bitcoin, how low is life that we both picked Everton to win and that was our surest thing today? Such exquisite pain, I stopped feeling nervous or even bad since a couple of games ago. Matip own goal to kick it off was just, how do you say, that's where we are now.

Of course, I still don't have the heart to predict against Liverpool (never mind to bet against them) but there are days I wish I could be objective here, would have made a lot of money this season!

Liverpool will put me to my grave this year. I really can't comprehend how can we be this bad with the team that we've got.

Wolves are really a horrible team, before today they scored 12 goals in 20 games. To concede 3 goals against them just shows that the crisis is real.

We've got Dyche's Everton next, it will be a proper derby. They will be all over us, I just hope we don't embarrass ourselves against a never worse Everton team.

I watched United today and was really suprised to see Liverpool lost 3:0. Seems like they are going from bad to worse and this season is basically already lost. Even European qualification looks though at the moment.

Arseanal also lost today, they had a day off and Everton looked much more feisty with Dyche on helm. This could work out well for them.

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