Today's Football
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Dublin_Flyer
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Kellehers most important clean sheet so far I think, he's been getting a bit of abuse but he was brilliant today.
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Dublin_Flyer
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Will take a week to process all this after dust settles, what a remarkably bizarre game of football, and markets weren't too shabby either
Been on it from early on well into extra time and seen these lineups coming but not this end result! Will have to watch it again without the ladder distraction.
Glad it didn't go to pens but as a trader would have loved a crack at the penalty markets under these circumstances to see how Chelsea players react to this amount of pressure that Klopp kept piling on with every youth sub he made, absolute stroke of genius by him btw, playing the percentages perfectly and after seeing how the 2nd half started slipping away deciding to save his players and playing one last Trump card with the youngsters, he's done something similar before from memory against Arsenal, Everton, Leicester(?) but never at this scale.
Thought Chelsea had a decent gameplan but executed it poorly obviously, plenty of things I didn't like from them. Starting from Poch mindgames early on about the refs, which may have played a role since refs put in a bizarre dogshit performance overall, then with the tragedy chanting and captain Chilwell trying to bully two of the kids hoping they do something stupid, Bradley in particular whose head is still raw after losing his father, absolutely shameless. Caicedo injuring two players and his stamp on Gravenberch's ankle wasn't even a foul somehow.
No doubt one of the greatest matches in club's history, but again at what cost. The injured 11 was already much stronger than the fit 11 before this match, and with no time for rest in the schedule the trend surely has to end. The March international break can't come soon enough.
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wearthefoxhat
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Doesn't make sense to me when the chairman/board do this sort of thing, unless there's a behind the scenes bust up that then spills over into the public domain.
Ok, survival is paramount for sure, but, managing your expections when you get promoted is the key. I've always held the view, if a chairman/board have a reputation for continually hiring/firing in a short space of time, then they should be held accountable due to poor decision making and lack of vision.
Sheff Utd/Burnley/Luton will more than likely drop but have a strong chance of promotion the following year with the parachute payments. It's just the way it seems to go each season.