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I started watching The Expanse last night. First episode was pretty confusing, but I'm interested to see what's going on. I imagine more of it will make more sense as I watch more of it.

Apparently this bit of skill and getting fouled got you the free kick for the goal. And I’d never have expected that. Because while Messi sometimes plays in the false 9, Lingard has truly mastered playing as a false footballer. Seeing him do something actually impressive looking is strange

It's not the howlers that are the problem for Kepa. It's that he doesn't fucking save anything.

Stick with it mate it's quality

He's still very young for a keeper. You've got a young side with a young manager, I feel like howlers are a given this season.

Indeed… looks very interesting... I would comment on the trailer you posted but I know in about 8 months time you will be making me feel bad for something I didn't do wrong... not falling for that twice

This looks great. Based on the comic series right? Also I don't know if I already posted this or not but I watched Season 1 of The Passage recently. Thought you might enjoy it too.

That approach of the right players at the right price at the right time has been Klopp's approach. Sometimes though, when a club knows you're exclusively in for your player... they can squeeze a bit more out of you, as we found with Virgil (granted, getting caught tapping him up probably hurt our case ). Assuming pressure doesn't mount on Lampard, which I fear it will because it's Chelsea, but assuming pressure doesn't start piling up with Chelsea's issues and the lack of investment... I think this is the correct approach. Those specifically chosen players (although there should always be backups - Salah was a B option for Klopp... but what a second choice, because he was still identified as a particular player that'd take us up) are the players that'll improve Chelsea pretty massively as they're bedded into the squad. But there's always little overall tweaks and improvements that can be made with the current crop of players, who aren't bad, they just need to have errors coached out of them. And fixing those errors and the whole squad getting good at consistently doing the basics right means that overall there's more consistency in that side and that little tweak translates to a bit of steady gradual improvement. I think overall that's better for Chelsea's long term prospects of success and it's more sustainable (and a better use of Chelsea's enormous resources) to only spend big on the players the club has spent a long time identifying and making sure they fit in with the more positive approach Lampard is trying to instill at Chelsea. I just hope they give him a fair shake, considering how he's still pretty new to management - especially at this level. I fear one bad transfer window from Lampard and the Chelsea board will go back to their instinct of sacking the manager.

Yea, Alonso has weaknesses too, not being a team player and being an insufferable bitter cunt for example.

Pretty sure it’s just a cold, a bit run down. The Tories are sending the British people from China to be be quarantined on the wirral. They really do want to wipe everyone out here don’t they.

Yeah but not recently I'd say, right ? Odd when people say stuff like that - something could happen in a city like a terrorist attack. Someone then says 'oh no I was there last year too'

Prefabricated building elements + manpower. Those buildings aren't meant to stand forever. They built a similar one during the SARS outbreak and then demolished it a few years later.

That second group stage was shit. There's a reason it was fucked off

Looking forward to this coming up on 7th Feb on Netflix