Shelvey's unrivalled stats and his peers in central midfield vs Arsenal (aka match thread drivel)

[Sonatine 11391]

2 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Has anyone survived after 13 games without a win?

 

Derby did in 2001

[OTF 7295]

Honestly commentators are a biased waste of space, if that's Salah going down under that contact they're sipping champagne championing his nous, Wilson gets hit from behind by a player who's nowhere near the ball and it's shoulder to shoulder. Horseshit.

Edited November 27, 2021 by OTF

[wykikitoon 20156]

Just now, ewerk said:

I hope Eddie has asked for four new defenders for Christmas.

I hope he's asked for abother 9 players! 

[toonotl 2980]

Derby stayed up in the early 2000s after going winless in their first 13 for those asking. Commentators on the Australian feed said earlier.

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

TOT nowhere near the danger but in a position to get involved.

[OTF 7295]

2 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Thats a nailed on pen too. A shoulder into the back. 

 

Bingo.

[Ayatollah Hermione 13873]

Player for player, this is clearly our worst back four ever, isn’t it? At least in reasonable memory. Even Schar, who can play a bit, is woefully slow and shit in the tackle.

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

7 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

Thank fuck that was TOTs 5th booking 

Every cloud,every cloud.

[Gemmill 44900]

2 minutes ago, wykikitoon said:

We are down. Sorry but we are fucked with the shite we have. Even Pep couldn't keep these up. 

 

Thats a nailed on pen too. A shoulder into the back. 

 

The Yorkshire piss fountain has sprung another leak. 

We are no more likely to go down now than we were this morning. We were always gonna lose this. We wanted 3 points from Brentford and Arsenal, and we've got 1. That's not gonna be the difference between relegation and survival. 

[toonotl 2980]

I feel like we're nailed on to get a penalty at 3-0 down in the 93rd minute here. The irony of it would fitting for the refs performance today.

[Ayatollah Hermione 13873]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

 

The Yorkshire piss fountain has sprung another leak. 

We are no more likely to go down now than we were this morning. We were always gonna lose this. We wanted 3 points from Brentford and Arsenal, and we've got 1. That's not gonna be the difference between relegation and survival. 

 

I wouldn’t look at the December fixtures if you want to keep this up btw  Even with a good January, we’re probably fucked here. Bruce has us well done on both sides, the fat cunt

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

Would a straight red for TOT improve our chances of survival? 

[toonotl 2980]

It's grim but it isn't over. It's November.

 

This defence is utter dogshit and needs replacing entirely. That's completely understood. But that could also be exactly what happens in January.

 

Also, Arteta is a little bitch. Appealing for our players to be carded at every opportunity. Wanker.

[wykikitoon 20156]

2 minutes ago, essembeeofsunderland said:

Would a straight red for TOT improve our chances of survival? 

Can't Dubravka give him an ACL at a corner or something? 

[OTF 7295]

1 minute ago, essembeeofsunderland said:

Would a straight red for TOT improve our chances of survival? 

 

If he gets it for a two footed tackle on the ref it would certainly help our villain status.

[Gemmill 44900]

1 minute ago, Ayatollah Hermione said:

I wouldn’t look at the December fixtures if you want to keep this up btw  Even with a good January, we’re probably fucked here. Bruce has us well done on both sides, the fat cunt

We play the same teams as everyone else over the course of the season though. I don't buy the "December will kill us" argument, it's just an unfortunate sequence of games. 

5 or 6 points adrift in November is not an insurmountable task. 

I can get Clarko in to explain it to you lads if I need to. 

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

Just now, OTF said:

 

If he gets it for a two footed tackle on the ref it would certainly help our villain status.

It would be for a late two footed tackle.

 

[Gemmill 44900]

Our collection of dwarves trying to combine in their own ox there ffs. 

[OTF 7295]

Shelvey has had a solid game, still running and tracking at the end there.

[Howay 12496]

We’ve been poor today, Krafth was pulled all over in the lead up to their second. 
 

I don’t understand how the daft cunt commentating is saying the pen shout was soft btw  it’s a total stone wall pen nowadays that, what else can the attacker do in the situation? He’s got goal side of his man running onto the ball and gets barged right over. That’s not ‘shoulder to shoulder’ where you’re contending for the ball ffs the defender had no chance of getting near the ball. 

[toonotl 2980]

Yep. Agreed. He's seemed reinvigorated by Howe's arrival. It was him with the throughball for Wilson's pen wasn't it? It was beautiful.

[essembeeofsunderland 811]

Just now, OTF said:

Shelvey has had a solid game, still running and tracking at the end there.

And Fraser.Willock lost interest early in the first half.Looking like £20m wasted.

[Ayatollah Hermione 13873]

1 minute ago, Gemmill said:

We play the same teams as everyone else over the course of the season though. I don't buy the "December will kill us" argument, it's just an unfortunate sequence of games. 

5 or 6 points adrift in November is not an insurmountable task. 

I can get Clarko in to explain it to you lads if I need to. 

I’m yet to be convinced there’s three worse teams than us. The damage those games in December can and will do to the already shit goal difference is essentially leaving us an extra point adrift and I can imagine that dealing in January is going to be harder than we think. 5 points adrift in November could easily be 10 points adrift by Christmas. This team is just not of the standard to win Premier League football matches. I can imagine Sheffield United fans saying the same this time last year and that was a wilful ignorance to the massive warning signs as well.

[Ayatollah Hermione 13873]

Plus Fish probably still thinks we’ll stay up so ask yourself if you want to be in that company

[Gemmill 44900]

No foul on Almiron now either.