Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

In MLS if you slip in the box because you are bad at football lose your footing they point to the spot.

Explains why we see fewer tackles in the box than in EPL and because they're bad at football

Gagging for Villa vs Sheffield Unitard to be a truly wretched 0-0 with no shots on target or incidents of note

i'll take that for our game tbh

no, ignore me, it's just worse pressure after last season somehow

You've got to build on last season and beat them by at least a three goal margin imo, nothing less

So many teams seem surprised that the season has started.

Also very few team playing archetypal 4-5-1 Allardycian clogger ball any more. Even Palace have a hint of joie-de-vivre under Hodgosaurus.

Sheffield United already down to 10 after Egan's slightly-more-innocuous restaging of the Chelsea red card

This is going to be a grindingly inevitable attacking masterclass isn't it

what an idiotic challenge

classic Saiss ffs

Small mercy that they didn't VAR it til 9pm

yeah i can't argue that one at all. the elongated slide made it even more comical

thought we were just starting to find our way into the game before that

I genuinely can’t remember the last time Wolves had possession in the City half.

City's press has been savage, this could be bad

that was some exemplary staying onside from Sterling

Delighted but also a little apprehentious to discover the existence of Liam Delap

feeling less bad about not being able to watch this now.

but....remember last year, we were down 2-0 and came back 3-2. though that was with 10-men Man City.

not been in it at all that half, need to change things around but i'm not sure how or who tbh

City very good, we haven't tactically got an answer, ok we haven't got a first choice wing back either side but that was nothing like good enough

Honestly I saw the City back four and assumed this would be 2-0 to Wolves, but I'm not sure the midfield has let them get anywhere near them.

i like Ake, think he was a reasonable signing, but as you say it hasn't mattered

maybe bring Donk on to play at RWB so Traore can get forward but i dunno, there's a problem with the shape, the energy, the lack of ideas

aw shit i thought that was in

the fake crowd were all over the shop on that one

This is unbelievable.

twice Podence has tried to be too clever

lol fuck's sake lads

Excellent from Podence.

oh man that nutmeg :D

Award Wolves the win for that IMO. Nutmegging KDB is just outrageous.

One more goal to break the record.

Have faith in Jesus.

at half time i was on the verge of saying i'd take not getting gubbed, which we weren't in the end

still plenty of room for improvement, i'm wondering what our first eleven will look like in a couple of months

welp at least going forward i'll be able to see the damn games rather than yelling at students.

sad to see we didn't pull off the same magic from last year, but hey....last year we hadn't even won a game until when? lol

Sent this tweet out to Emiliano Martinez today:

"Bienvenidos a su nuevo hogar, Sr. Martinez. Muchos gracias por ser un miembro de nuestra familia. #UTV #AVFC"

this is on the borderline of unacceptable but fuck it he makes me laugh

Wolves 1-3 Manchester City- Alternative Commentary pic.twitter.com/MbaRSfFixF

— cameron🇵🇹 (@wwfccameron) September 22, 2020

We have someone who does exactly that. Can't lie I do enjoy it. Ours has the voice at about double speed, fitting in much more verbiage and coming off as twice as pissed off

Semedo deal finally done, been biting my nails. Next phase is coming together.

Moyes has the rona.

i saw three West Ham lads have tested positive, looks like our game on Saturday might be off

also there's a lot of footballers starting to test positive, i doubt this is specifically cos of football, tho it's surely part of it, but also reflects the situation across the country?

more time for us to bring in Douglas Costa tho ffs, my head isn't used to this, i can still remember Gillingham at home

Football is testing very heavily and routinely, at the top level at least, so it's probably identifying more asymptomatic carriers than most other areas of society. Moyes and the other players don't appear to be ill (yet).

They're also going through airports a lot.

Misread that as Diego Costa and tried to ponder it for a while; couldn't lol

xp

it's probably identifying more asymptomatic carriers than most other areas of society

this is my main thought tho obv there are the other factors involved

Is Semedo good?

Barca first teamer, he's quick, strong, good feet. Don't know how many modern full backs are the full package attacking and defending but our system mitigates the defensive side a bit. I've enough trust in our scouting set-up at this point that Nuno sees him as somebody who meets the requirements and i'm absolutely certain he's at least a step up from Doc, and i rated Doc.

you may remember him from such games as

"He's just turned Nelson Semedo inside out! An experienced right-back... Whoops!"

Wow, Alphonso Davies is just so difficult to stop 🔥

A magnificent assist from Bayern's rising star at left-back 🙌#Club2020 pic.twitter.com/NCbOrOyaJS

— Football on BT Sport (@btsportfootball) August 14, 2020

i'm aware of the Davies thing but by that rubric Podence just killed De Bruyne's career Monday night

anyway, looking forward to watching teams quadruple up on Adama/Semedo

I jest

Pretty jealous of any team making signings at the moment tbh!

nah i know :D also Davies is potentially pretty special himself

The Premier League and EFL banging the drum about how terrible it is the government won't let them get supporters back in is doing my head in

Like I get that the impact of this on the lower tiers of English football will be catastrophic but fuckin hell read the room lads what did you think was going to happen