The Rounded Keeper - FPL Pub Talk & Matchday Banter 2021/22

[forestfan]

And to think I was actually considering giving one or both CL nights a miss this week to finish Squid Game and catch up on Succession…

[Bob Newhart]

Have to say, it really is a very good game at OT.

Ronaldo 3:2

[murf]

2:2 Slabhead

Must be the great half time team talk.

#moldefingermuststay

[forestfan]

They do have bouncebackability, Ole’s side, I’ll give them that…

Will this be his City Ground 1990?

[Smurphy Paw]

Robbie Savage really does want to catch Ronaldo’s eye, doesn’t he? Talk about fan boy

[Mav3rick]

Well that was another great CL match in this week of great CL matches!

[forestfan]

Individual talent pulled them through, but if nothing else, Ole has a habit of pulling a result out when he needs it. I’ve got a feeling they’ll get something against Liverpool at the weekend now.

[eastcentral1]

Was genuinely concerned OGS might be moving closer to the exit door there. Phew.

[Stu255]

To me the problem is playing 4-2-3-1 with McFred.

The back six just don’t connect with the front four.

McTomminay drops into the back 4 too much and leaves Fred isolated, both of McFred lack the passing ability to quickly find Bruno in transition. So you end up with Luke Shaw carrying the ball being your only repeatable ball retaining transition.

Pogba can connect to the front four, not only to Bruno but he can find any of them with a one touch pass. Although the excessive McFred minutes leave the front four wrongly learning to hold their runs.

Utd do need a Kane/Viera/Kante type ‘orrible b’stard to play alongside Pogba and pour molten lava into his ear for 90minutes.

Rice, or Philips fit the role but Kante or Kimmich would be better.

But Ole doesn’t see any of this, he actually likes Fred.

[RuudTheDudeVanTheMan]

And breathe...oh and this

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[RuudTheDudeVanTheMan]

Utd do need a Kane/Viera/Kante type ‘orrible b’stard to play alongside Pogba and pour molten lava into his ear for 90minutes.

We've needed such a player for about 10 years if not more!

[Pirlo's Beard]

And breathe...

Another great win for Ole. He'll be at your club forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever.......

[Malrom]

Lukaku off injured.

do we know if it's long time or kind of precaution?

[Stu255]

Ole: “we played well in the first half”

Let that sink in.

[Oxford NZ]

Lukaku off injured.

do we know if it's long time or kind of precaution?

It did not look good but we will have to see what the scans show.

[Pirlo's Beard]

Well that was another great CL match in this week of great CL matches!

Mav, I'm a bit worried by the Kris_fisoesque quality of some of your recent posts.

[Lucky]

Lukaku off injured.

do we know if it's long time or kind of precaution?

It did not look good but we will have to see what the scans show.

Tuchel on injuries to Lukaku and Werner: "We have a twist of the ankle for Romelu, and muscle injury and hamstring for Timo, so they will be some days out I guess.

[RuudTheDudeVanTheMan]

Well that was another great CL match in this week of great CL matches!

Mav, I'm a bit worried by the Kris_fisoesque quality of some of your recent posts.

Sure isn't that the level of posting we should all be aspiring to?!!

[Oxford NZ]

Well that was another great CL match in this week of great CL matches!

Mav, I'm a bit worried by the Kris_fisoesque quality of some of your recent posts.

Sure isn't that the level of posting we should all be aspiring to?!!

To the best of my knowledge Kris has not used any punctuation marks in his posts, Mav's exclamation mark raises the bar a level.
Maybe Stevieste can get him to add some to spice up the evening posts!

[Smurphy Paw]

Detective ONZ to the rescue! ‘It couldn’t have been Kris posing as Mav, Your Honour. There was an exclamation mark at the end of the sentence!’

[murf]

To me the problem is playing 4-2-3-1 with McFred.

The back six just don’t connect with the front four.

McTomminay drops into the back 4 too much and leaves Fred isolated, both of McFred lack the passing ability to quickly find Bruno in transition. So you end up with Luke Shaw carrying the ball being your only repeatable ball retaining transition.

Pogba can connect to the front four, not only to Bruno but he can find any of them with a one touch pass. Although the excessive McFred minutes leave the front four wrongly learning to hold their runs.

Utd do need a Kane/Viera/Kante type ‘orrible b’stard to play alongside Pogba and pour molten lava into his ear for 90minutes.

Rice, or Philips fit the role but Kante or Kimmich would be better.

But Ole doesn’t see any of this, he actually likes Fred.

...at the weekend Moldefinger didn't pick McFred. They got beat 4-2.

[Stevieste]

Well that was another great CL match in this week of great CL matches!

Mav, I'm a bit worried by the Kris_fisoesque quality of some of your recent posts.

Sure isn't that the level of posting we should all be aspiring to?!!

To the best of my knowledge Kris has not used any punctuation marks in his posts, Mav's exclamation mark raises the bar a level.
Maybe Stevieste can get him to add some to spice up the evening posts!

He to predictable now, he will come on and say the Lukaku injury means Salah has to be captain this week.

The only way he could spice it up is to throw an exclamation mark in there

[Ruth_NZ]

Lukaku off injured.

Do we know if it's long time or kind of precaution?

TT: "Romelu twisted his ankle when he was fouled in the box and Timo has a hamstring injury, so it will take a while for both of them. We need more examinations to be more precise but they will be out for some matches".

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/ ... ting-malmo

[Stu255]

To me the problem is playing 4-2-3-1 with McFred.

...at the weekend Moldefinger didn't pick McFred. They got beat 4-2.

You still need a game plan and to give each player functional instructions.

Ole picks a formation, a predictable one, picks a list of 11 names and says to the players ‘go and express yourself’.

The players hated Mourinho’s strict instructions, as his transfer requests were ignored again and again so he sulked and shoehorned attacking players into a catenaccio style to cover Phil Jones et al and it soured the entire squad morale.

Ole fixed this, not with better instructions but by poo pooing instructions altogether and saying ‘go and express yourself’.

Morale recovered as players could play however they wanted, policing themselves the players were/are much happier, but that’s just not good enough to win titles these days. You can’t do tactics by committee when you have 11 players all wanting their own different ideas. So they settle on defaulting into their natural field positioning for the formation they make the runs they like to make, and all the players are basically working to indulge their own preferences on the pitch rather than sacrificing their own preferences for the greater team.

It makes Utd extremely predictable, easy to analyse and after watching them enough… easy to exploit.

Major clubs have figured them out, Brendon Rogers did this brilliantly with his 3-4-1-2 pinning the Utd back four really deep with Leicester’s pace and getting lots of decent shooting chances (2.8xG).

[TheRumourMill]

Having looked at the replay of the Lukaku injury and tuchels comments I'd estimate 3-5 weeks out. With the international break falling in that time, I think they'll be targeting a gw12 return. Which is exactly when I wanted to sell Lukaku to kane anyway...so potentially looking at bringing that move forward by a couple of weeks.

The "obvious" move is to vardy, which most Ronaldo owners were doing anyway. I'm still not completely sold on him though!

[Stu255]

Having looked at the replay of the Lukaku injury and tuchels comments I'd estimate 3-5 weeks out. With the international break falling in that time, I think they'll be targeting a gw12 return. Which is exactly when I wanted to sell Lukaku to kane anyway...so potentially looking at bringing that move forward by a couple of weeks.

The "obvious" move is to vardy, which most Ronaldo owners were doing anyway. I'm still not completely sold on him though!

Sounds sensible.
I don’t like Kane so I’m always biased against getting him in and Vardy is so streaky with his form seeming to last 7-10 games.

[TheRumourMill]

Having looked at the replay of the Lukaku injury and tuchels comments I'd estimate 3-5 weeks out. With the international break falling in that time, I think they'll be targeting a gw12 return. Which is exactly when I wanted to sell Lukaku to kane anyway...so potentially looking at bringing that move forward by a couple of weeks.

The "obvious" move is to vardy, which most Ronaldo owners were doing anyway. I'm still not completely sold on him though!

Sounds sensible.
I don’t like Kane so I’m always biased against getting him in and Vardy is so streaky with his form seeming to last 7-10 games.

Kane has been pretty bad this season but he has shown signs of life recently and has been helped I think by spurs switching to 4-2-3-1 for the last 2 games, which has significantly boosted the attack.

Vardy is streaky and for 10.6m I'd like to feel I could captain him if need be, and I emphatically feel like I couldn't.

[Ruth_NZ]

Having looked at the replay of the Lukaku injury and Tuchels comments I'd estimate 3-5 weeks out. With the international break falling in that time, I think they'll be targeting a gw12 return. Which is exactly when I wanted to sell Lukaku to Kane anyway...so potentially looking at bringing that move forward by a couple of weeks.
The "obvious" move is to Vardy, which most Ronaldo owners were doing anyway. I'm still not completely sold on him though!

Aubameyang?

Looks to me that the obvious move is to get Kane early actually. Obvious isn't always best though.

[TheRumourMill]

Having looked at the replay of the Lukaku injury and Tuchels comments I'd estimate 3-5 weeks out. With the international break falling in that time, I think they'll be targeting a gw12 return. Which is exactly when I wanted to sell Lukaku to Kane anyway...so potentially looking at bringing that move forward by a couple of weeks.
The "obvious" move is to Vardy, which most Ronaldo owners were doing anyway. I'm still not completely sold on him though!

Aubameyang?

Looks to me that the obvious move is to get Kane early actually. Obvious isn't always best though.

Haha! Aubameyang seems to operate in a blind spot of mine (apart from when discussing him with you Ruth), I can't say I've considered him for my team since August 2020

It was also entirely typical of Werner that with Lukaku out injured he suddenly had a run of fantastic games potentially open up in front of him as the number 9 for Chelsea. That lasted all of 10 minutes before his hamstring popped. I mean even the guys own body is rebelling against him having any good luck. My only surprise was that he didn't fall off the stretcher and also break his arm or something.

Go on then, what are you hinting at? broja, Toney, Wilson?

[Ruth_NZ]

If I'm hinting at anything I guess it's Havertz.

If I want a player and it's more convenient to get him early then that can often work out well. Lukaku Kane GW12 looked on the cards anyway so the most obvious move would just be to bring it forward. But there also has to be a big opportunity with Havertz because the great Chelsea fixtures are still there and depending on how your squad is that may be easier with a different Lukaku replacement.

For me it's a -8 to get Havertz and it would mean taking Vardy rather than an immediate Kane (which would be a -4). Though Iheanacho might interest me too and that might work out more streamlined in the long run.