Fear Of The Fox

I've said it many months ago here. Greece has one of the most impressive, talented national teams alongside the English one in Europe. It's simply down to the managers in both teams to utilise this talent and also find some defensive balance.

Spot on mate. Fans don't care, they just want their team to do well. Right now there are several PL teams run by criminals. This is a fact. The whole sport, gov bodies and regulators are promoting the corruption. It's disgusting.

I know some of you are arguing how lucky or not Forest are this season or whatever, it's pointless really, who cares. The question is if PL will do anything about their ownership or they'll continue to protect corrupt owners like they did for years with the Russian oligarchs and the Saudi butchers. Here's an update from today: https://en.protothema.gr/2025/03/23/lyggeridis-family-more-than-mere-indications-exist-that-a-powerful-figure-and-a-mayor-financed-a-gang-of-thugs-leading-to-our-childs-murder/ I'll keep on posting updates about this as it seems PL and the government here don't have a clue about the case.

https://en.protothema.gr/2025/03/22/watch-skais-report-on-the-prosecutors-recommendation-to-bring-marinakis-to-trial/ Oops.

The only positive thing is that the team is moving the ball quicker and there's kinda more intensity. That's it. Everything else is again Spursy-esque. Any other opposition would have scored between the 60-75min as the defense was all over the place. First occasion, Albania finds 3 vs 2. Second one, 3 players are losing a header and there's suddenly a 1vs1. Dont let the 2-0 score fool you. Any other team from the big 4 European football nations will punish us right away in these situations.

Look at the bright side: Ryan Reynolds will be in Leicester next season with Blake. I'm sure they'll get a clapping standing ovation...

If I'm not mistaken the player already said it was a double touch. Do I agree with the rule? Ofc not. I also don't agree with the offside, handball and simulation ones and all these have made the sport kinda unwatchable for me. It's been an awful football season with our Leicester team failing big time also. Can't wait for MLB to start now to enjoy at least a sport I like.

I don't disagree with what you're saying. I'm just saying they have the evidence of the double touch because of the specific tech. We're the ones assuming regarding the incident because we only have 2 replays which aren't clear and tbf we can't see a double touch. Don't forget that this offside tech uses around 25 sensor cams. Initially these sensors check when the ball touch/pass occurred. It's not something revolutionary, it's just the tech football videogames use for decades implemented in real life. The sensors picked up a second ball touch and this is displayed as a graph.

There isn't one. We can only assume there was a double touch because the ball rises quite strangely. Either way VAR used the ball touch technology which is integrated into the semi automatic offside tech. This means some of the sensors picked up a double touch.

These replay angles aren't the best. The fact is that the ball elevates in a non natural way after the kick though. Impressed again by the CBS coverage. It's depressing how bad is the Sky coverage in general compared to CBS.

Either me or Slot were watching a different game.

So one win was enough for PSG to take them from Round 16 straight to Semi Finals...

Let the Anfield diving games begin! No contact at all and he dives like he's been shot in Sniper Elite. These incidents should be a straight red card and a 5 games ban.

Just switched to stadium FX on the Prime broadcast. I'll experience the "amazing" Anfield atmosphere when this is 0-3 or 0-4. It should have been 0-3 already tbf.

It's good old style football with focus on through balls. Quite sililar to how Atletico Madrid plays but there's obviously more quality here.

Spot on. It's unbearable. Liverpool are lucky they're still not out of this. It should have been 8-1 on aggregate already for PSG. Every attack has been a clear goal chance for PSG in both games so far.

I just love these advanced maths.

Ofc it was passive. You just can't stick 2 strikers upfront and expect to be more competitive without creative support from the midfield and a CAM. RVN tries to do damage control, he knows 2 strikers will keep the opponent more alert and then puts 6-7 defense oriented players and walks away with a 1-0 or at worse a 2-0. Oh yeah, that's an improvement. He thinks me or other fans have no clue about football. Guess what RVN, we know football better than you and when it comes to tactics you can't even touch our knowledge. A fan of this forum would have been now at 28-30pts at least earning the minimum wage as a manager in this team. This is a fact.

Over coached means that we have an actual coach. I can't see any coach in this team unless you mean the mascot.

It's unlikely we'll get a point today (1 in a million chance) but it's obvious the 2 strikers formation is more suitable for this team as many of us were posting for nearly 6+ months now. RVN again have chosen the worse of the 2 strikers formation variations with no creative midfielders or a CAM (Buonanotte) that can pose a threat but this is normal as RVN isn't a football manager, he's a former good striker with no knowledge of tactics.

BBC can't even report actual news right. Do you expect them to know anything about football?

He's worse than a PE teacher and idk what makes you think he's a PL manager. He's not a football manager. He's appointed as a manager because of his name. Like Rooney.

Some of us were calling for a formation change with 2 upfront since September. I'm more into 3-4-1-2 or 4 at the back on a diamond midfield with Ndidi as DMF. RVN is changing now the formation but again this selection looks very unstable on paper.

The new Assyrtiko Greek white there is better and a steal at £9.00 right now.

Exactly. Some of the football we played even when we finished 5th was sublime. There's no comparison.