The Football Thread - 17/18 Season

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ArchangelMadzz on 14 May 2018

ArchangelMadzz said:

Premier league table predictions anyone? Will be bookmarking and see how I did at the end of the season.

1. Manchester United
2. Manchester City
3. Arsenal
4. Liverpool
5. Chelsea
6.Everton
7. Spurs
8. Leicester
9. Stoke
10. Southampton
11. Watford
12. West Brom
13. Crystal Palace
14. Bournemouth
15. Burnley
16. West Ham
17. Huddersfield
18. Newcastle
19. Swansea
20. Brighton

Way off on some, only 1/2 positions off on quite a few of them.

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drbunnig on 16 May 2018

Glad Villa got through. Couldn't be doing with a trip to the North East to face a Pulis side. Urgh. Villa has been a decent enough hunting ground for us though.

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pastro243 on 16 May 2018

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drbunnig on 20 May 2018

Just seen that Lazio lost 3-2 to Inter, who snatched the final Champions League place from them on head to head record (Inter's goal difference is worse). Always felt GD should be the deciding factor as it represents how well you've done over the season rather than two games. Gutted for Lucas Leiva there.

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Wyrdness on 22 May 2018

mZuzek said:

Ka-pi96 said:

Goal difference doesn't exactly reward consistency either though, it rewards attacking play. A team that's very consistent but also plays very defensively could have a large points total but a low goal difference.

Yes but it's still consistency in attacking play if anything, because it's something that's affected by the entire outcome of 38 matches rather than 2.

That's a contradiction because going into the match the teams would essentially have the same type of record across all 38 games as far as wins/loss/draws go if the defensive team wins then they should go through on head to head goal difference should only factor if the head to head is even as well, the's a good reason for this as well as FIFA realised that GD was favouring offensive tactics so even if the team lost they'd go through because they beat some pub team 5-0 earlier in the season hence why head to head was introduced.