Topic: Sportsbet.io's English Premier League Football Pool Discussion Thread - page 236. (Read 140812 times)

Man utd failures were sort of to be expected but.. LFC 2 draws, could this be considered worse with the opposition in mind?

That was disrespectful, and out of line.  I understand emotions run high in a cross town match with one of your fiercest rivals, but that was uncalled-for.

Just curious though, why did Conte get red-carded, and how will that affect the Spurs next match?  Was it for the celebration in Chelsea's box?  If so, why did the referee wait until the end of the game to book Conte?  I thought it might have something to do with the post-game exchange with Tuchel, but it was obviously Tuchel who was being the more aggressive one in that exchange.

Only 20% of the games end in draw, so it is always the most risky option. This week was a fluke with 4 draws so far and probabily another one since Liverpool is without one player.

But never pick draws is risky and it ruined my score this week, put one or two at least every round is the most balanced option in my opinion.

Liverpool are behind yet again with Crystal Palace having a 1-0 lead going back into the 2nd half, and one of the commentators said this is the 6th consecutive game in the EPL that Liverpool have gone behind first, playing an highline is really costing this goal they keep conceding, a number of which could have been easily avoided, It was as though Zaha caught them on pacey counter attack they were a great position to have stopped the through ball from Eze, but they were rather trying to keeping offside from barely passing the half way line.

Now they really need to dig deep to get a positive result here too, you really can't afford to start giving Man City this sort of advantage to build a gap ahead of you, while you're playing teams like Fulham and Crystal Palace.

I don't think 20 points is a really big problem now when there is a lot of weeks to come,and we are just ending the second week with the Liverpool game tonight.A lot of positions changes will happen during the first weeks,up until the 8th to 10th week we will see constant changes and only at that time we will start to see the true form of each participant.So nothing to worry even if you are in the last place.

Anthony Taylor despises Chelsea with all his heart!! It appears that the FA benefits greatly from match fixing, as I don't see why they won't investigate Anthony Taylor's biased officiating in every game. I'm not concerned with the red card, but that should have been a foul play. Anthony Taylor and Mark Dean are going to destroy the league.

This was comment from the legendary ref Mark Halsey





Did you see our game against Manchester United last season? When our goal was canceled due to a foul on Fred about 10 minutes before the goal, we had a quick throw in after the foul incident, but the goal was ruled out by VAR. Tottenham gained possession of the ball following that horrible tackle on Kai, which was clearly a foul and should have resulted in a yellow card for Bentancur because Kai was on a counter attack it was leg to leg tackle from behind.

What about the offside if the foul was overlooked? Richardson was a mile offside, blocking Mendy's view of the goal. It was a saveable ball, but Richardson made it impossible for the GK to save. The first goal was the result of two bad calls.

Lol. Conte have no right to celebrate a fraud goal in our manager's box, that was disrespectful and unprofessional thing to do.

Thanks for explaining that.  I was wondering why the VAR didn't seem to be too concerned about the tackle when reviewing the goal.  Regardless,  I saw Bentancur's tackle as 100% fair and legal even if only by a fraction of a second, and smaller fraction of a millimeter.  I was happy to see play continue after that without a whistle.


That's how I saw it too.  Conte had that shacked/painful look on his face like Tuchel was applying the iron grip, lol.  Tuchel obviously pulled Conte over to him as he had his hand in that deathgrip. then pointed to his eyes like "I'm watching you!"  Lol, football drama is way more fun than Bitcointalk drama.  Just sayin'.

Considering the fact that I'm dead last and can't get anything correctly, it's great to see this. Sometimes all you need is 1 round to go well for you and you're right back there.

I'm currently 20 points behind him - which is, well, an achievement by itself considering it means I'm 10 points worse per round on average. Fuck me, sounds impossible but I've made it.

Yes igehhh i think exactly the same, i was seeing the game and when i see that i cant belive they dont blow the whistle to collect a foul.

But what can i say this its football, sometimes you give, and sometimes you have to give, like the life, its a unfair with moments of fair and luck.

Come on Liverpool today i need at least that Slam point!

@LFC_Bitcoin really roasted all our asses this game week, I mean what the hell was that 21 points in just 9 fixtures, Man Utd being the only he missed, and 5 exact scores, I'm rooting for him tonight and really do hope he gets the 6th one tonight, I suppose there's a superbru prize for getting at least 6 exact right ? It would be really nice to have some from the pool here get that someday.

He's also got himself a potential highest yellow cap points, while we are just 2 weeks into the season

I manage to move up a couple of places myself, but I've got just 10.5 points so far... LFC_Bitcoin moved up by 48 places to rank first position in the pool right now.

Unfortunately, there are precedents of hair pulling not getting sanctioned with yellow/red cards, like Guendouzi, David Luiz, and Grealish in the last Champions League against Atletico, that's something the IFAB should fix.

IMO what happened yesterday should've been a foul, yellow card for Romero and free kick for Chelsea. I think VAR saw the same, a clear foul but they can't interve since they thought it wasn't a red card. Main culprit here is Taylor, the whole thing happened right in front of him.

the first goal was 100% legal.

If you're refering to the alleged foul on Havertz, Chelsea had ball possession right before Hojbjerg's goal, so the the foul on Havertz didn't lead to the Spurs goal, therefore, VAR can't intervene because both actions occured in different phases of play and VAR can only intervene if there was a foul in the phase of play that leads to a goal.

In this case, there were several phases of play. One phase of play leads to ball recovery for Spurs (Bentancur's tackle, the alleged foul mentioned which honestly looks like a clean tackle from Taylor's pov), there's another phase where there was a loss of ball possession by ball carrier (Jorginho), and this lead to another phase of play where the attacking team gained possession (heung min son) and then they score. VAR can't intervene since there were no offences by the attacking team in the phase of play that leads to the goal.

it was Tuchel who wouldn't let go of Conte's hand, it looked like the italian was doing a beeline straight to the stands with Spurs fans but Tuchel had other plans and it completely caught Conte off guard which is why we got that 'shocked' expression 😂 Tuchel even said he wanted Conte to look him in the eye.

Wow I need to catch up with all that nonsense haha but well done Tuchel and Conte for bringing some more nonsense fun into what was for a long time a boring derby

Like most of you, lost all points when Chelsea conceded that goal, that's what I get for betting on Spurs (as the underdog) and picking the fav to win in the pool, when the draw was always going to be the most likely outcome.

My score prediction was a 2-1 victory for Tottenham. I decided to give a chance to them against Chelsea here even though I knew that Chelsea were quite dominant against Tottenham in many head-to-heads recently. After Chelsea got 2-1 ahead everything ended for me.      It was a really interesting match indeed. Especially the second half was really tense and Tottenham somehow managed to keep one point before leaving Stamford Bridge. After the goal the things we saw weren't good I'm afraid. Conte and Tuchel shouldn't have had that quarrel there.

Wtf! What are you on about, man? That was never a corner kick decision; it was an obvious red card to Romeo for pulling Cucurrela down by his hair, a clear physical assault on the player, but the motherfucker Anthony Taylor and the fucking corrupt VAR ignored the decision with a blind eye, and people are still wondering why FIFA didn't pick a single Ref from the English league. Tottenham's first and second goals would never be allowed in any league in the world, as they were clearly fouls on goal.

And for the final incident, I'm not sure why Conte wouldn't let Tuchel's hand go. Conte will never go near the bridge again!!! He's a fucking scumbag.

The fact that Anthony Taylor is still officiating Chelsea games despite clear evidence of corrupt practice against Chelsea every season proved that Mourinho was correct when he stated that the FA is biased against Chelsea.

I knew the result of Chelsea would have been 2-2 as that happened last year and both teams are near the same quality as last year,yet I got and thought Chelsea to be the winner and put 2-1,damn that 96 minute goal from Kane that ruined my 3 points exact score,0 points for me today in the pool but still I see a lot of people with 19 points,we need a few more weeks until we see the real value of each one of us.

Of course I predict no surprises for tomorrow game of Liverpool which should win comfortably.

That was a strange occurrence with the referee giving both cards after the match and the final whistle have already blown.
So they both miss the next match behind the bench for these two cards?
Thought they were yellow but if they were reds then that is something else different.

There was yet another draw with this last match so that probably makes for a difficult weekend for many to get points...
Except for LFC_bitcoin as he has already grabbed the yellow cap with his team playing the last match of week two closing this out tomorrow.

same. Chelshit were awful in the air in those last few minutes.

But wth was that after the final whistle?



Tuchel super salty and fuming during the handshake and wouldn't let go LOL well deserved red card for both managers, but that was just childish from TuchLEL

I can only say...... fuckkkkkkk, that late minute goal of totenham blow up my exact score, shit.

And with that goal , LFC make more ashtonishing his round, one of the best rounds i ever seen in a player. And a real contender for the highest yellow cap i think.

Congrats to LFC_Bitcoin, he just climbed 47 slots from the bottom of the table to number 2.  It looks like the yellow cap is hanging by a thread.  It helped that he's the only one who got exact points for the Nottingham win over West Ham.  I'm 11 positions up from last week as of now, but I took a gamble on Tottenham @ Chelsea match.  Hopefully the Spurs pull through for me.

Alot of draws happened and even I had two but only got the one correct.
Not too many participants put in draws especially when there is a heavy favorite playing during match day.

Manchester united was the one that nobody really could see them getting beat 4-0 from Brentford.
Had seen some put 1-0 and 2-0 but those were long shots.
I watched the first half but couldn't watch the rest as it was already seen in the players faces that they were not just beat on the scoreboard but defeated mentally.