Live Match Discussion 2023/24

[Jack Regan]

No idea what Alisson was doing there.

 

[AndyWolves]

What a massive favour Beale did us by not joining us.

 

[Dire Wolf]

How the fuck was that not a handball by Odegaard? These referees just make up the rules from 1 game to the next and they are always wrong.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

The pace of the Liverpool Arsenal game is incredible. Really good watch.

 

[jd1981]

Good watch this Arsenal the better side

 

[White Wolf]

You can really see the difference that Rice makes to Arsenal in these kind of games. Exactly the type of situation they would have crumbled in previously, he adds so much drive to their game and I lost count of how many times he won the ball back for Arsenal. Having Saliba fit isn't bad either, thought he was excellent.

 

[Tredman]

Saliba is a great player. Exactly what we need.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Saliba is a great player. Exactly what we need.

I think he might be out of our reach.

 

[1986]

A fit and firing DCL is way better than both IMO

Fit and Firing . . .that will take a while

 

[Wilf Wolf]

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You can really see the difference that Rice makes to Arsenal in these kind of games. Exactly the type of situation they would have crumbled in previously, he adds so much drive to their game and I lost count of how many times he won the ball back for Arsenal. Having Saliba fit isn't bad either, thought he was excellent.

Used to amaze me when many Wolves fans thought Neves was worth more than Rice. I love Neves but Rice is both quicker and stronger and exactly what Arsenal needed. Just wish Southgate would trust him and stop playing another deep midfielder alongside him as he really doesn’t need it.

 

[Kenny]

At the start of his time with West Ham he wasn't all that.
Don't think West Ham fully knew what to do with him. He played at Molineux and looked confused if he got within 40 yards of the goal. Every pass was backwards or possession lost. There was a lot of hype around him but at that point could just not see it. A lot of Wolves fans views would have been based on that.

He progression since then though and certainly last season and now with Arsenal has been rapid.

 

[Wilf Wolf]

At the start of his time with West Ham he wasn't all that.
Don't think West Ham fully knew what to do with him. He played at Molineux and looked confused if he got within 40 yards of the goal. Every pass was backwards or possession lost. There was a lot of hype around him but at that point could just not see it. A lot of Wolves fans views would have been based on that.

He progression since then though and certainly last season and now with Arsenal has been rapid

Agree that game at Molineux probably influenced many opinions but every player has off days. Even last summer you’d hear the claim he wasn’t worth any more than Neves despite being outstanding for three seasons for both WH and England.

 

[Templeton Peck]

Based on how Watkins performs for England, I'd have Solanke over him currently as the backup.

Mate is a Villa STH and he loves him but says he needs plenty of chances to score.

 

[Kenny]

Agree that game at Molineux probably influenced many opinions but every player has off days.

I would say that season he was pretty much like that all the time. He was caught between being a DM and a CB at that point.

The Neves stuff...just the old gold tinted specs innit.

 

[Tony Towner]

At that point Neves was the better PL player. Rice made a lot of mistakes in his early career and as Kenny said looked like a ch playing in midfield, he's also a couple of years younger. Clearly he's the better of the two now and has evolved into an all round midfielder.

 

[sycophantia]

Rice suffered with the young English (Irish?) up and coming tag, was way over rated initially. The guy has done fantastically since. The comparison to Neves is daft, they're different kinds of player for a start and Neves was better straight out the box, Rice's development has been meteoric.

 

[Jack Regan]

Forest unable to get out of their own half, but that is a completely soft as shite penalty and should be overturned. The fact VAR looked at it for nearly two minutes says as much.

It's also an atrocious penalty, yet Michael Brown waxing lyrical like it's Panenka for Czechoslovakia in the 1976 Euros Final.

 

[YoungWolf]

Yeah I knew they wouldn’t over turn it but is a soft penalty that

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

No penalty for me, if there's a touch it's so minimal and doesn't cause him to go down like that. Softer than the two against us at Fulham.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

That is dire from Elanga