Premier Lg EPL Matchday 2 - On Optus Sport
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Premier League Football
- Apr 2, 2000
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Newcastle v City should be interesting.
Newcastle started so strongly on the weekend but City are City though.
Newcastle started so strongly on the weekend but City are City though.
Hopefully Newcastle can do us a favour.
- Sep 7, 2008
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Why is Burnley/Luton postponed?
Sucks not having an early game on the Saturday.
Sucks not having an early game on the Saturday.
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Their ground isn't ready
- Sep 7, 2008
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Whoops. That's got to be pretty unique. Can't remember the last delay for that in the PL? Cov had it in the championship last season due to the turf I believe.
Magma
TheBrownDog
rumour that kdb needs surgery on his hamstring and that he'll miss the rest of 2023.
hawkman
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Probably lose to a dodgy United penalty in the 14th minute of 12 minutes of injury time
moomba
TheBrownDog
Bought him back too early I think. Few minutes at the end of the community shield was the only pre-season he had.
What crap news.
Bradesmaen
TheBrownDog
Casemiro and Eric Dier can have a traffic cone-off in the CDM spot
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Sucks for Kev but opens up the season for everyone else.
- Aug 21, 2016
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Sometimes with a hamstring injury the only way to properly test it is to play in a full blooded game. It's a real shame for KDB but hopefully he can get himself right for the second half of the season.
Grealish could take over the KDB role like he played at Villa but Pep seems to limit him to left wing.
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No doubt he'll be missed but expect it'll only be a small blip for the Citizens.
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Might just be he is getting on a bit.
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I'd say the lack of pre season was a bigger factor. Hard to go from 0-100 for any athlete. There's a good reason why clubs do pre season games.
SM
Bigfooty Legend
It's why I didn't understand the big push to scrap pre-season AFL games. The spate of injuries this year surely puts paid to that.
TheGreatBarryB
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Nah two practice games is plenty for AFL. They do a shed load of running pre Jan and then heap of match sims through to March. Just bad luck with KDB
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That was down to the players as much as the AFL.
Injuries in the AFL are tricky - at this point of the season, some clubs are going through heavier training loads in the lead up to finals etc. We just had 3 players go down with a hamstring, 2 of which who'd never suffered the injury before. It's not coincidence. No amount of pre season games would help that.
Theoretically I don't imagine football clubs go through a heavier training load through the season (although could be wrong).
SM
Bigfooty Legend
Yeah don't mean injuries now, I mean how many we saw at the start of the year.
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No thanks. Eric can stay the * away from any team sheet
That's because Pep knows his limitations.
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Grealish was Villa's player of the season in 2019-20, often playing in a central midfield role.
moomba
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A central midfielder in a Pep team plays a very different role to the role Grealish played at Villa.
moomba
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Top footballers are pretty adaptable. De Bruyne used to cover a lot of ground between the two penalty areas, often picking up the ball deep and breaking the lines. A bit like Grealish used to do with Villa. Since Haaland arrived De Bruyne's role has been to set up the big Norwegian with goal chances mostly from inside right. At Villa Grealish showed he can play in a number of positions but Pep clearly has him earmarked for left wing only.
