Men's Soccer (Football) Thread (Archived) Soccer • Page 541

Very sad

 

I did finish Oathbringer during the CL final

 

Been enjoying the tears all day

 

The reaction from United fans has been embarrassing to be honest. Especially coming from a fanbase that is begging for a single corner to make it past the first man for the past 8 years.

 

Ah that’s desperately sad. She will be missed.

 

As a very casual NFL viewer, it's funny to see our corners being treated contentiously like the tush push lol.

Teams should just get better at defending/ taking their own set pieces imo.

 

I’m not really sure there is a clear good way of defending Arsenal corners? Like they’re obviously obstructing players, but not to the point where it actually stands out head and shoulders above other teams. All teams do it, Arsenal perfected it.

Additionally if they had two shit corner takers they wouldn’t score so many. You add the jostling and obstructing that Arsenal do better than anyone to them having the two best corner takers in the league and it would be a struggle for anyone. That’s not even considering that the whole team are either tall or have a powerful leap. There’s not many teams where 5 players are an attacking weapon in the air during a corner.

Just one of those things you have to hope they’re slightly off boil and you defend well.

 

100%. If it's within the laws of the game, it's fair play. Either start doing it yourself if it's such a game changer, or get better at countering it.

Same as when teams get abused for playing successful long ball tactics. If you don't want teams lumping it upfield against you, it's on you to counter it.

The beauty of professional sport is that there's more than one way to play and be successful. How boring would it be if every team played exactly the same way?

 

My favourite thing about it is everyone else’s reactions to it. At the stadium, the fans are starting to do the “ooohhhHHHHHHHH” build up to corners, while opposition fans genuinely look sick with worry.

Even better, the Spanish commentators on TV were doing the jaws theme music everytime we got a corner haha.

 

Whoever made the tweet knew what they were doing using a pic of Martinez. Waste time against Arsenal at your peril!

 

I hate the tush push. But I have no argument against it.

 

WHERE IS WELLBECK?!

 

what a lovely way to find out I’m getting 9 points off the fantasy bench

 

Hahah. I wish I could say that your delight brings me solace but alas…it makes it worse!

 

Two very competitive-looking games. No idea which to watch, but inevitably I'll watch a dull 0-0 while the other ends 5-4.

 

gotta imagine bournemouth-spurs is gonna be electric

 

Love both Craven Cottage and the Vitality under the lights so either is a win/win for me.

 

ESR needs to have a haul today. For me and me alone.

 

I’d love a João Pedro hat trick

 

but now that I’ve said that, he’s going to get a hat trick of own goals and a red card

 

wish the schedule wasn’t so congested because I do like the idea of the club world cup in theory

 

Iwobi doing bits this season.

 

Another goalkeeper playing a ridiculous straight pass to an on-the-move midfielder in his own area.

 

Wow, Dragusin was poor there.

 

Spurs conceding from another set piece, but as long as Ange doesn’t think it’s a problem lmao