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Premier League 2025/26 Thread

By OntarioFox, in General Football and Sport

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StanSP

StanSP

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Seen so much stuff about set piece goals. 

 

Journalists, managers and pundits saying it's ruining the game and it needs to be eradicated. 

 

Sorry, but fvck right off. Whilst it's not the prettiest way to score a goal, teams that are good at it have exploited it. You can't coach that stuff out of the game. It shouldn't be chastised for something it isn't. There's a lot of things ruining the game right now and this isn't it. 

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Corky

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36 minutes ago, StanSP said:

Seen so much stuff about set piece goals. 

 

Journalists, managers and pundits saying it's ruining the game and it needs to be eradicated. 

 

Sorry, but fvck right off. Whilst it's not the prettiest way to score a goal, teams that are good at it have exploited it. You can't coach that stuff out of the game. It shouldn't be chastised for something it isn't. There's a lot of things ruining the game right now and this isn't it. 

Set piece goals are fine, the build up is tedious. How many times does a ref hold play to chat with the players, the endless grappling, blocking, pulling shirts? The Everton v Man United match last week was painful for this.

Super_horns

Super_horns

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1 hour ago, Corky said:

Set piece goals are fine, the build up is tedious. How many times does a ref hold play to chat with the players, the endless grappling, blocking, pulling shirts? The Everton v Man United match last week was painful for this.

Yes that is true and keepers aren’t protected now .

 

People complain about Arsenal’s style but apparently Liverpool have scored more from set plays .

RowlattsFox

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Nothing wrong with scoring from set pieces but the blocking, grappling and holding before a ball is even kicked is out of hand, and it was pretty bad before. Think it looks worse because they are all stood on the goal line too. Hard to give a decision because how do you decide who is fouling who.

Might be effective, and the delivery into the box is very good but it just looks shit. And you no grassroots coaches are going to be trying 'set pieces' rather than technical stuff from a young ages. 

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Super_horns

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Thing is people expect Arsenal to be easy on the eye playing great attacking football and scoring goals for fun so it’s all a surprise to see them being physical and strong in defence and from set plays .

Liverpool must have taken note as they sacked their set piece coach and since the new one came in scored the most goals from them .

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Fox92

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11 minutes ago, Super_horns said:

Thing is people expect Arsenal to be easy on the eye playing great attacking football and scoring goals for fun so it’s all a surprise to see them being physical and strong in defence and from set plays .

Liverpool must have taken note as they sacked their set piece coach and since the new one came in scored the most goals from them .

Also people moan about football nowadays, call it "boring" (yet still watch it..), but also moan about set piece goals from Arsenal.

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CosbehFox

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Forest twitter is ****ing hilarious tonight. 
 

So many sets of fans in the same mindset though pissed off by overpaid players, clubs charging too much while making their fan relations become so corporate 

Corky

Corky

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Interesting that the four winners of cups in the last five years from outside the London/ North West six are either unhappy with their manager, owners or both. Trophies are great moments, not the end of times. Usually cup winners are good sides so underperformance should not be excused.

Nalis

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Probably the insomnia talking but dont write off Wolves doing the greatest of greatest escapes yet, a lot of very winnable fixtures here they've been playing a lot better in the past month or so.

 

They would need to start winning away from home mind.

 

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AjcW

AjcW

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5 hours ago, Nalis said:

Probably the insomnia talking but dont write off Wolves doing the greatest of greatest escapes yet, a lot of very winnable fixtures here they've been playing a lot better in the past month or so.

 

They would need to start winning away from home mind.

 

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They're long gone really, but nice to see them showing some fight and desire to at least go into next season on a high.

 

I think they'd need 35 points minimum. 6 or 7 wins needed out of the above for your scenario. We could easily be here on the 17th looking at them being tonked by a resurgent Liverpool and a Brentford side chasing an unlikely top 5 spot. 

Super_horns

Super_horns

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10 hours ago, CosbehFox said:

Forest twitter is ****ing hilarious tonight. 
 

So many sets of fans in the same mindset though pissed off by overpaid players, clubs charging too much while making their fan relations become so corporate 

But they wanted the last two changes in management although the problems started with the fall out between Nuno and the owner - is the tide turning on him ?

The Bear

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We've got no chance. We'll get the occasional good result, but we're still far too poor defensively and offensively to have any kind of sustained good run of form. 

OntarioFox

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16 hours ago, Super_horns said:

Thing is people expect Arsenal to be easy on the eye playing great attacking football and scoring goals for fun so it’s all a surprise to see them being physical and strong in defence and from set plays .

Liverpool must have taken note as they sacked their set piece coach and since the new one came in scored the most goals from them .

My earliest memories of Arsenal are of them being full of hard bastards like Keown, Parlour, Adams, Winterburn, and big talented bastards up front (Bergkamp, Anelka spring to mind). The wider football world really has been brainwashed by pepball and tiki-taka, because their best years were built entirely on a solid structure, simple passages of play and a bit of flair in the final third. Oh, and shit-tons of set piece goals, funnily enough.

 

At least I think Bergkamp was big... he always looked big on the telly. Someone's going to tell me he was the Dutch Dickov now. lol

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StanSP

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Wolves. Anyone should be ashamed of finishing below them with the season they've had so far. Only 3 behind Burnley now. 

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