Lillehamring

I believe the term you are looking for is recency bias.

I woudn't go that far - neither was exactly MVP quality - and had greenlaw been on the field things would have been very different - kelce had 1 catch for 1 yard before his departure. The difference was not the QB level, this was a game won in the trenches and in the playcalling.

Not technically a fumble, but a live ball, but yeah, totally shifted the momentum - far more than the missed PAT.

Nonsense - i could list you a dozen things that were as costly as the missed PAT, even if he's made it, it would still have been a one score game, slightly harder, but then had they got it it wouldn't have even gone to OT.

Now, now... He hit two of the three longest FGs in superbowl history. You have to expect the OL to protect him on a PAT.

This is based on opta rankings from the 9-11th, so basically our game v watford - our best two players were ricardo and fatawu, and all the players in their positions ranked higher....

Never going to happen - Enzo has made it clear that neither doyle nor JJ can play the inverted role - if ricardo doesn't play, hamza gets the nod.

Piss. Had plenty of chances to finish that off, but just came up short on offence too many times.

My god, KC get away with so much holding!

That's just really bad luck.

Gipson should have been all over that pass. still, turnover came.

Fumble fest!

or 16 total yards for KC

penalties and turnovers ruining some good work.

made up for it on D

And the award for 'worst tattoos every' goes to this tool.

The game last year, SF had most of their starting D out - and it was early days for purdy and CMC, so i'd read little into that game. Also, the ravens didn't really turn up against KC, so i don't know if that reveals much. I'm optimistic, the niners at their best are unstoppable (as you say like against dallas) - but the nerves have truly kicked in

You had a fair point, we are good at pumping up the % stats with little in-game training drills!

Sure, but all three teams are on fire, all have just come down from the prem, all are a bench mark for stellar football of the highest level - i don't see teams differentiating and setting us up as a specifically more desirable scalp anymore than the other two. If one of the other teams are playing Leeds or southampton, they're going to want to win that game just as much as if it were us - just by virtue of the fact that we are top - in fact, they might even try harder against those two as they still represent a huge scalp but might be perceived as a better chance to sink one of the big three? I'm sure there's less in it than you imagine.

What those stats don't show though is the amount of progressive passes that that inculdes - vestergard has almost twice the progressive distance of winks and 2nd most in the league behind viktor johannsen, but winks ranks 8th overall for number of progressive passes; Winks is ranked #1 for passes into the final third, with 242, closest to that is 227. So they are playing a lot of easy balls, sure, but they still rank high in productive passing

It's possible but no one has better figures under pressure than Purdy, so i don't see that being an issue. If the chiefs win, it'll be because the niner D isn't on point - If Warner has a great game, niners will win.

I was just thinking i'm strangely subdued about this - i do think we'll (niners) will win, but it's anybodies guess really. Just not sure why i'm not a nervous wreck.

Midfielder, yes, but....

Clearly not - i think you're overthinking this - all i'm trying to say is that VAR provides an opportunity to prevent an injustice if a second yellow is wrongly given. Surely that makes sense, as no game is ever the same with a player sent off. It's not about which card is wrong it's about the fact that a second yellow sends a player off, that can be simply checked - so we should be checking them. It's not about absolute justice but preventing something at the final possible moment to do so. I understand that both yellows contribute to a red, of course - the issue is not to get everything perfect to have zero errors by double checking every decision but to seize the opportunity when a second yellow is given to make sure it is correct - i'm thinking about situations where a player knows his opponent is on a yellow and deliberately fakes being fouled to get him a second yellow - not to question weather every yellow is correct.

Why? because we're a few points further ahead, had more success recently? If you raise your game, you raise your game - you don't sit there and think 'ooh, this is a huge scalp, i'm going to give 110%, but it's not leicester, that's my 120% game!'