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Leicester 0 West Ham 3, Man Utd 1 Spurs 6, Villa 7 Liverpool 2. An amazing day.

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There have been quite a few freak results across the divisions so far this season, It does make you wonder how much of it is down to the lack of a crowd.

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I reckon the lack of a crowd is the major factor. Home advantage has totally disappeared. Crowds can influence refereeing decisions, they can intimidate visiting teams and they can encourage their own players to greater efforts. All that has gone. Having said that, for all the goals that have been scored, I still find watching a crowdless football match to be a clinical, dispassionate and thoroughly dull affair!

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Know they were away yesterday but Sheff U playing at home with their crowd behind them are a daunting task.

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The lack of a crowd must be having some effect. I think in the Bundesliga which was the first major league to start back up they had some stats taken over a fair sample period that showed the percentage of away wins was much higher without crowds than it was with them. That doesnt explain Liverpool letting seven in at Villa though! At Dortmund Klopp won the title and soon afterwards for whatever reason was in a relegation battle with them although they recovered. Are Liverpool going to fall away, or was it just a freak result?  



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Last season most sides didn't find Bramall Lane that daunting. They only won four times at home, they won the same amount away . What they did do was to make themselves difficult to beat. They actually drew sixteen games in the season and relied heavily on their defence. This season as with last (fourth lowest scorers) they are struggling to find the back of the net. We are the same re scoring but the blades have just forked out many millions to sign a striker, something we cannot do.

The lack of crowds is having a major effect for most teams at home imo. I think having a strong home backing can influence referees decisions and as some players have said can lift them at crucial stages of the game.

I think that was a freak result last night for Liverpool. Take nothing away from Villa they played very well and in Watkins they look to have found a gem along with the astute loan signing of Barkley, could be pushing for a top ten finish. Liverpool missed Mane's work rate last night and also seemed to have a bit of bad luck with deflections. They also made schoolboy errors which is very rare for them. However, Liverpool had the best defence in the league last year, yet this season they have let ten goals in two games against Leeds and Villa. Only time will tell and the next game against Everton will see what they are made of.

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The Blades have forked out about £40m for the pair of McBurnie and Brewster. The former was a proven striker at Championship level who has struggled to make an impact in the top league. The latter is a kid who has also done it in the Championship but can't get near Liverpools first team. They are both very good players but to me they look like expensive gambles. I hope it pays off for them. Villa suddenly look potent with lots of pace and creativity, and our old loanee Martinez in goal for them might be one of the signings of the summer.

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Martinez really stood out at NYS and I suspect he will probably go on to be the most successful keeper ever associated with RUFC. The Liverpool v Villa game was extraordinary. I can never understand the need for non-footballing keepers trying to play clever stuff around their own box. It must be so dispiriting to concede a goal to such a basic error. Liverpool's situation was compounded by an some extreme bad fortune due to deflections. That said, Villa looked really good and I suspect Dean Smith's style is gradually being embraced by the team. It's good to see some of the big boys getting a thrashing - might make them realise that they're human after all!

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Nice to see Dean Smith doing well. He was a jobbing player who got a management chance at a smaller club (Walsall), learned his trade mostly in the lower leagues and got himself a good reputation. Now he is doing it in the Premier League. Not unlike Wilder and (whisper it) not unlike the trajectory Warne is on. Smith's name was linked to us when Evans left, but he wasn't 'big name' enough for some.

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