Stanley 2 up at Gillingham with over an hour gone. As it stands 6th with gameS in hand. This could be bigger than Leicester winning the PL.

Strange that VAR didn’t draw any lines on the pitch in this build up to Chelsea’s goal.
Looks tight to me. Pass went to Werner at bottom of photo.

Just taken my seat at the Abbey Stadium in my first socially distanced post COVID league footy match. Big East Angular derby tonight with Colchester.

Stanley win 0-2. Amazing that a small East Lancs town with an 80k population could be in the Championship.
Oh! Hang on a minute.

Wolves 2-1 up with 20secs left of added time. Neto.
Forget that tight offside now. 0 points from 6 for the Chelsea pretenders.
Final score.

Looks as if the Last Man Standing could be over this week! Just shows how difficult it is to predict results. Maybe this season especially so.

Typically Neto gets the winner having had his penalty rightly taken off him by VAR

West Brom should have been 1-0 up with a fantastic chance!

Rumoured that Tom Heaton will be in the Villa squad against us this week,cant see him dislodging the guy Villa got from Arsenal,but it will be good to see Tom fit and playing again...good luck Tom!

West Brom making a better fist of it than us. I think we were 2 down by this time.

City 1 Boingers 0

huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:10 pm

Strange that VAR didn’t draw any lines on the pitch in this build up to Chelsea’s goal.
Looks tight to me. Pass went to Werner at bottom of photo.

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Man in the middle plays him on quite easily. But even if he wasn’t there and the right back was the one to look at I’d prefer it if we allowed that. Give the advantage to the attacker like they used to.

cricketfieldclarets wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:34 pm

Man in the middle plays him on quite easily. But even if he wasn’t there and the right back was the one to look at I’d prefer it if we allowed that. Give the advantage to the attacker like they used to.

Wouldn’t argue with your final point but with the way reviews have been used I think it is close enough for a look.

City 1 Boingers 1

Thank heavens City have finally woken up, we could do without the Baggies doing any bonging tonight.

Accy's 6th win in 9 games, John Coleman is working the oracle once more this season. I wouldn't rule them out of claiming at least a play-off berth, they've got the winning habit, and as we've seen before once a team gets on a roll they're tough to halt.

It's not been a great few days for Chelsea, but a vital win for Wolves to get them back up and running again.

I can see a very low points total winning the PL this season, nobody can seem to be able to string a run of wins together.

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:44 pm

City 1 Boingers 1

Rats.

1-1

You'd still expect Man City to come good in the second half and win it.

Our performances against City are even more disappointing when you see how West Brom are doing tonight. We seem to get the whole thing wrong from how our team is set up to our mental attitude.

Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:50 pm

Our performances against City are even more disappointing when you see how West Brom are doing tonight. We seem to get the whole thing wrong from how our team is set up to our mental attitude.

I have yet to see us since the first couple of games against City in the Premier a Burnley team that did not enter the field a beaten side. Absolutely no belief that we can beat them... so it is no shock to the system when we get thrashed. Whether that same mindset is given to the players in order to be able to raise them quicker for the next match or just in the players minds for themselves is anyone’s guess. But, the fact we don’t even start the games like we intend to expend any more energy than is absolutely required suggests to me it might be coached.

Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:50 pm

Our performances against City are even more disappointing when you see how West Brom are doing tonight. We seem to get the whole thing wrong from how our team is set up to our mental attitude.

Westwood says we havent cracked that one yet

After all them PL years of ManU, Arsenal, Chelsea & Man C. Wouldn't it be refreshing if in 6 seasons we could have 3 first time winners in Leicester, Liverpool & Spurs.
Obviously I’m not writing us off yet.

Junior bags again to give B'mouth the lead. He’s having a hell of a season.

huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:15 pm

Junior bags again to give B'mouth the lead. He’s having a hell of a season.

Top player. Id have him here.

WBA
are working City hard - 6 at back then 3 and 1 all within 20 yards front to back constantly swapping and covering.

They are doing a real damage limitation job and working so hard.

WBA
are working City hard - 6 at back then 3 and 1 all within 20 yards front to back constantly swapping and covering.

They are doing a real damage limitation job and working so hard.

WBA
are working City hard - 6 at back then 3 and 1 all within 20 yards front to back constantly swapping and covering.

They are doing a real damage limitation job and working so hard.

Wonderful dive there by City

Expecting a rubbish penalty any minute! I know i should want WBA to lose but i HATE city

why aren't City this crap when we play them ?

huw.Y.WattfromWare wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 7:10 pm

Strange that VAR didn’t draw any lines on the pitch in this build up to Chelsea’s goal.
Looks tight to me. Pass went to Werner at bottom of photo.

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My semi-scientific attempt.
Tight but right call probably

Taffy on the wing wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:36 pm

Wonderful dive there by City

And another

I've a fiver on WBA to draw @9/1 and a fiver to win @22/1 so the last few mins should be interesting. City will win, no doubt, a soft penalty, a missed offside or sheer class. We'll see.

Vegas Claret wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:39 pm

why aren't City this crap when we play them ?

Because West Brom are playing better than we do.

Gladioli not taking it well!

Are we the only side that give up before kick off when we play city?

dougcollins wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:50 pm

Are we the only side that give up before kick off when we play city?

Certainly looks like it.

Steve1956 wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 8:18 pm

Rumoured that Tom Heaton will be in the Villa squad against us this week,cant see him dislodging the guy Villa got from Arsenal,but it will be good to see Tom fit and playing again...good luck Tom!

He got injured last time he played us Steve ... I like Tom and yes its good to see him back in contention

Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:43 pm

Because West Brom are playing better than we do.

agree 100% but I've never seen De Bruyne give the ball away as much, City have been really really poor by their standards

Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:43 pm

Because West Brom are playing better than we do.

And because there is no manager in the EPL whose tactics vs Man City are worse than ours, sorry but true.

Well played, WBA, nice surprise - they did to City what we can't do to City. A bit lucky at times but we can't begrudge them that point.

Unwelcome bonus point for WBA. Worthless unless they back it up in the games they *need* to get results in. That 5-0 at the Etihad has ultimately had no impact on either City or Burnley.

City are a shambles. All that money Pep has spent and they’ve gone backwards. Never replaced Kompany at the back and now they haven’t replaced Silva. They’ve always bored me with their passing game but now they are passing for the sake of counting passes.
On the plus side it keeps Bilic in work for a month.

True, SGr.

They have pace in forward positions. We don’t do that because we simply just can’t get support to our front two quick enough from wide areas

boatshed bill wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:51 pm

And because there is no manager in the EPL whose tactics vs Man City are worse than ours, sorry but true.

Agreed. Our 4-4-2 plays straight into City’s hands.

A great point for West Brom, it's a good job we got the 3 points at the Emirates, because Fulham & West Brom are picking up results as well.

The big losers from these games is Sheff Utd, they are in real danger of getting cut adrift unless they can put a win or 2 on the board very soon.

Something is not well in the City camp, they've looked lethargic all season, and I can't see them mounting a title challenge on their present form.

SGr wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 15, 2020 9:53 pm

Unwelcome bonus point for WBA. Worthless unless they back it up in the games they *need* to get results in. That 5-0 at the Etihad has ultimately had no impact on either City or Burnley.

And that's why we can produce the performances we did against Everton and Arsenal.

After beating Wolves on the first day of their season, City have only won 4 games out of 11- versus Sheffield Utd, Fulham, Arsenal and us. What’s happened to them??!

Not sure why we have to bang on about how bad we are against City whenever they play poorly or another team grabs a result against them. If they’d have played anything like they can it would have been a similar result to when they played us.

What matters is we get points from the teams around us with the odd surprise points like this week at the Emirates. As far as I’m concerned we can get smashed twice by City every season if we get the other points we always seem to manage. It’s not like we haven’t made it hard for City a couple of times at the turf.....