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Today’s Football 2019/20 Season

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Keiran said:
Disagree with this, we've just had 4 English sides contesting the Champions League final and the Europa League final? As far as I can remember, that's about as good as it gets and doesn't happen to often.

If you include United winning it a couple of years ago, City reaching the latter stages of the CL the year before and Liverpool getting to another final too. Plus Wolves making a good stick of it this year in European competition too.

Prem is stronger than ever.
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Last season, lampard, arteta and mourinho weren't the respective managers then, all four of those teams are already out of Europe. They're a totally different kettle of fish this year, then you've got city who are going to lose about a quarter of their games this season and still finish 2nd comfortably.
 
toffeejack said:
Last season, lampard, arteta and mourinho weren't the respective managers then, all four of those teams are already out of Europe. They're a totally different kettle of fish this year, then you've got city who are going to lose about a quarter of their games this season and still finish 2nd comfortably.
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It's just one of those weird seasons, the league hasn't magically gone from being the best to crap within the space of half a season.
 
As much as I enjoyed it, Liverpool's own answer to Clownio Bravo as a cover keeper as much as anything else greatly contributed to their elimination.

They're matching or excelling City now in almost every aspect, even having a worse reserve keeper. The team hasn't suddenly got worse than last year.

Saying the prem is worse now is looking too much like fitting an agenda to results.

Even with Olé at the wheel United (or Wolves) could win the Europa while Champions League favourites City may realise Peps ambition despite being miles off domestically.

If a prem league team wins both for the second year running would the critics all do a u-turn again? - as last season when they prematurely wrote every team off in the group phases? The truth is probably that premier league sides will be prominent challengers for both competitions yet again.

UCL favourites City

Europa favourites Man United
 
Keiran said:
Disagree with this, we've just had 4 English sides contesting the Champions League final and the Europa League final? As far as I can remember, that's about as good as it gets and doesn't happen to often.

If you include United winning it a couple of years ago, City reaching the latter stages of the CL the year before and Liverpool getting to another final too. Plus Wolves making a good stick of it this year in European competition too.

Prem is stronger than ever.
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What's your fresh, alternative take on last night's game mate?
 

Keiran said:
Disagree with this, we've just had 4 English sides contesting the Champions League final and the Europa League final? As far as I can remember, that's about as good as it gets and doesn't happen to often.

If you include United winning it a couple of years ago, City reaching the latter stages of the CL the year before and Liverpool getting to another final too. Plus Wolves making a good stick of it this year in European competition too.

Prem is stronger than ever.
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maybe there is more depth in the bottom 10 than most leagues. However things change from year to year. Sure Liverpool is peaking. Plus LC + Wolves are benefiting from buying good players. Man City is spent after last year and a little older (they might pull out a CL victory as there is nothing to play for in the league, if there is a CL), MU, Spurs, Chelsea and Arsenal are all rebuilding. We are also rebuilding....albeit poorly.
 
Point still stands, if you're ranking leagues in terms of quality, the Premier League is by far at the top, it's not even in doubt.

Our best sides are better than their best sides and have outperformed them in the big continental competitions in recent years.

Might be an argument that the quality of Football as a whole has dropped, I don't agree with that but it's a plausible argument, but there is no credible argument at all that the Premier League is a poor league or that it's in some way inferior to other big European leagues.
 


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