Erikse

Chelsea firing on all cylinders this season

https://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/lawsandrules/laws/football-11-11/law-11---offside So the logic is that he didn't make a deliberate attempt at trying to play the ball, but rather tried to avoid the ball? And the keepers vision was not really obstructed?

Did they change the offside rules? They must have..

Archer with more goals than Watkins this season.

The saving grace for Everton could very well be the level of these newly promoted clubs. Burnley can probably do something, but Luton and Sheffield United are looking quite weak so far. Hopefully this is a jinx and Sheffield United turn the game around.

I really miss Bruno going forward more. He was incredible in the first 3 months of starting for us, scoring 5 goals.

The ball literally came directly from the corner. He had seconds to avoid putting his arm there. Unbelievable.

Apparrently because McTominay rejected them last minute.

PSG is just a magnet for players with a bad attitude

Bet those Liverpool fans can't wait

Dan Burn is waiting for him

It's most unfortunate for PSG and Dortmund. It was not really unlikely for us to face 2 good teams, but we got the best team from Pot 3. Meanwhile Dortmund and PSG has to face 3 great teams instead of just 1, drawing the best team from both pot 3 and 4. Anything can happen in this group.

Gordon or Botman for me

Pep has stated earlier that if any player wants to leave, they can just tell him and the club will try to sort it out. He doesn't want to have any players who doesn't want to be there 100%. Why did Liverpool let Mane go? Why did Arsenal let Xhaka go?

But loaning Lingard was priced at £15m

If it wasn't for Almirons purple patch last year, and we had the 2023 Almiron during that patch, we would definetly not have made top 4. Unfortunately it's probably unlikely that he will have that patch this season, but you never know. So basically we can't rely on that happening again, we need other players to step up this time around.

I think in situations like these, positioning relative to other defenders (and the goal) + chances of being able to control the ball is much more important to consider than what the guy who commited the foul could've done instead.. The opportunities of the player who commited the foul probably doesn't even count, we already know that he ended up making the error of commiting the foul instead of following Isak to pressure him.

With ASM we would never lose, any game that we lose would be perfect for ASM and we would win them with him in the team. We saw that last season when he scored 1 goal.

It's crazy that Molde has again created the most chances. Unfortunately Gala has the class to take advantage of the key moments.

He's definetly a bad loser, but atleast he's not a bad winner. That would've been even worse.

A bit late in the window for that tbh. If he doesn't improve, then maybe in january.

Yeah that's fair, hard to tell yet. Atleast we know he can be a threat if a game opens up. I'm also a bit uncertain about this, because I'm also still more convinced about Joelinton at left wing rather than CM (I said that at the end of last season aswell). Good to have options, but wish there was more competition on the right side. The obvious solution would be to try Gordon on the right, but maybe he's not as good there. I think Gordon is better suited for the right side than Barnes or Joelinton however.

If it's easy, why is it often him and not the other players?

To be fair to him he's very good at getting into these situations where he finds himself through the defence with the ball. He quick and makes some good runs. In just 90 minutes, hes had 3 or 4 of these chances. Probably more than any other player in our team the first 3 games.

Didn't see what happened, just saw him limping off. I feared it was an ACL. Glad to hear it was the ankle, and not the knee.