Haven't gone back to check, but the 2 I know I got badly wrong were Ipswich and Stoke.
Re: Aaron Ramsey at Cardiff (not a bad shout!)
Wrong about Cardiff too !
13 out of those 18 have come since NYD as well. We hadn’t won from behind for about 18 months before Middlesbrough and now we’ve done it 4 times in 2024.
And on grass??.....................nah not so good hahahaha
never mind, mate lots of us got sucked into the 'other teams signings are better than ours', mantra.
Why did Cardiff have to do so decent, make me look like a fool rather than Nostradamus. Your early thoughts on QPR may still come to fruition, but it's so tight now at the bottom half 5, 6, 8 teams still at serious risk. Going to be an interesting last few games I imagine.
after seeing the KDH decision, why are we surprised about this?
Be interesting to see data that shows whether Leicester are spending more time in the oppositions box with the ball, or whether there is just a biased towards Leicester. Because the gap between them and everyone else is unlikely as just a coincidence.
That table pretty closely follows the touches and penalty area possession table in terms of mostly the same teams from what I could find, but Leeds and Southampton both have more Pen box touches than Leicester (Southampton by quite a distance despite playing a game less). Bristol’s is skewed by the fact they’ve converted all 3 of their pens (a few teams have had more but missed some)
Even taken into account all penalties taken (Leicester figure above is skewed a little by the fact they have 100% conversion) they still have 5 more than the next team given with Leeds on 7.
Might be a case of Leicester players just being better at drawing fouls or conning refs and that wouldn’t surprise me watching them play this season. Also the standard of officiating can be really poor at times, especially getting the punished prem refs (Fadz pen against PNE) so might be a case of bottling it and just favouring the big side
Nearly 1 every 3 games or 12 pens in 37 games seems particularly high though unless it’s something you’re actively looking for/targeting, especially without VAR looking for every minor infraction to give a pen (VAR has led to about a 10% increase in PL pens given across season)
Just funny when you consider Enzo complains about shadowy figures trying to keep his team down.
Edit: just went back and watched them and they’ve had some dodgy ones this season that I don’t think anyone else gets at this level. Some are well worked and won by the likes of Mavididi and KDH by just being quicker and defenders struggling to keep up, or defences have been opened up. But some like a shocking one against Blackburn for “holding” and and out of the box one against Rotherham. Also think most teams dont get the one given against us either for the follow through.
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Add to that to another three more blatant ones we should have had; then again in the Cup Final, KDH shouldn’t have been given one IMO mi ducks
Add to that to another three more blatant ones we should have had; then again in the Cup Final, KDH shouldn’t have been given one IMO mi ducks
Still not sure about the penalty given against Thomas. I feel like it wasn't a foul, but had to be given because KDH ran into his studs. Irrelevant anyway I guess.
Agree with this, particularly when considering Doku's 'tackle' against Liverpool last weekend where he similarly went in recklessly, but won the ball first. This time though it was subject to VAR review and not given. A definite lack of consistency!
Our playoff rivals fixtures today.
Swansea v Cardiff
Stoke v Norwich
Middlesbrough v Blackburn
Plymouth v Preston
West Brom v Bristol City
Swansea v Cardiff
Stoke v Norwich
Middlesbrough v Blackburn
Plymouth v Preston
West Brom v Bristol City
Absolutely mad to think we could have had 2/3 of their back three starting for us this season, they’re shedding goals for fun
After today. I could not care less
Not the best results today but I'm gonna eliminate Cardiff now at least
Middlesbrough hanging on by a thread
Let's shake them off one week at a time I guess
Middlesbrough hanging on by a thread
Let's shake them off one week at a time I guess
Norwich appear the big threat. Hope we don't take our eye off the ball with Wembley coming up.
OK, you lot. You've done that vs. Wolves. That's the standard. Six performances like that out of the next nine and we'll probably make the playoffs. Let's see what you're really made of.
