Clean sheet, set pieces;

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Originally Posted by Peter

We are becoming hugely unpopular as a result. I don't mind that of itself but I do worry that it feeds into the minds of refs.

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It's the Red Cartel, innit. Liverpool and Manchester United, I mean, of course.

Nothing to be done about that but win a few European Cups :-\

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Originally Posted by Peter

This is a very good point. For ever, defending sides have set up at corners to block, push, pull shirts, nudge etc. What we are doing is constructing scenarios where we can fo the same thing back to them. And suddenly they want a foul....

Some of these routines are genius. Very, very hard to defend against.

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Look at the delivery, they are literally all on the money, out of the 13 corners only once did we fail to beat the 1st man. I'd also like to have seen that short corner routine not been stopped. Saka and Odegaard looked really pissed off, as though they had something special up their sleeves.

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Originally Posted by PSRB

Look at the delivery, they are literally all on the money, out of the 13 corners only once did we fail to beat the 1st man. I'd also like to have seen that short corner routine not been stopped. Saka and Odegaard looked really pissed off, as though they had something special up their sleeves.

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The delivery is exceptional and, for the people who think it is easy, worth noting only Rice and Saka can do it to this level. When they don't play, the delivery isn't as good. It is NOT easy.

But the rest is more difficult still. Gabriel's goal at West Ham looks like a simple run and good delivery. It was actually orchestrated- Timber nudges Paqueta, the runs in front of Gabriel are designed purely to get in the way of the guy trying to mark him. There are no fouls, just coordinated runs that block space and move defenders. It is brilliant in design and performance.

You need to coach that and the fact is that most coaches aren't very good, most players can't retain information. We have excellent coaches and players who don't forget their jobs.

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Originally Posted by redgunamo

It's the Red Cartel, innit. Liverpool and Manchester United, I mean, of course.

Nothing to be done about that but win a few European Cups :-\

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I read a very interesting thing about our red cards which was saying our ration of reds in the Premier League is nearly four times higher than in Europe. I mean, the rules are the same......

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Originally Posted by Peter

I read a very interesting thing about our red cards which was saying our ration of reds in the Premier League is nearly four times higher than in Europe. I mean, the rules are the same......

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Same in the rugby too; our players, clubs and even the national team concede alot of penalties.

Explains Brexit, I suppose. Of course, UEFA would have its own "cartel" of most-favoured clubs. And again we ain't one of them.