This Weekend's Fixtures (23/24 Sept).

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Saturday, 23rd September 2023
Crystal Palace v Fulham, 15:00
Luton Town v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 15:00
Manchester City v Nottingham Forest, 15:00
Brentford v Everton, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Burnley v Manchester United, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png

Sunday, 24th September 2023
Arsenal v Tottenham Hotspur, 14:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Brighton & Hove Albion v Bournemouth, 14:00
Chelsea v Aston Villa, 14:00
Liverpool v West Ham United, 14:00
Sheffield United v Newcastle United, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

[Mac76]

C'mon Arsenal ffs

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Man City 1-0 Forest, Foden.

:sleep:

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2-0 Haaland. :rolleyes:

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City down to ten men (Rodri sent off)

Ten man Wolves take lead at hapless Luton (Neto)

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Luton 0-1 Wolves, Neto.

[dostoy]

Is that a 3 match ban?

If it is then.......

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Yeh he misses the Arsenal game.

Bellegarde was sent off for Wolves also.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Is that a 3 match ban?

If it is then.......

Yes as it stands he will be banned when they play us

[dostoy]

That's what I thought.

Will they appeal it?

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Not much to appeal but who knows

Morris equalises for Luton from the spot

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Another VAR fuck up by the sounds of it.

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Another VAR fuck up by the sounds of it.

Yep

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Brentford 0-1 Everton, Doucoure

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Brentford equalise Matthias Jensen

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Being checked by VAR

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Goal stands

[Mac76]

Yeh he misses the Arsenal game.



You can thank me for this - he's in my FPL team so naturally he gets sent off... :rolleyes:

[Mac76]

Neverton back in front - ffs Brentford...

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Tarkowski with the Neverton goal.

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Burnley, Bournemouth, Everton, Luton, Sheffield United and Wolves are all terrible

I can see a new low points total being hit, as well as low points total for surviving side

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Calvert-Lewin makes it 3-1

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WTF Brentford.

Then again Raya, Henry and Toney not there for varying reasons is a lot for them to deal with.

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WTF Brentford.

Then again Raya, Henry and Toney not there for varying reasons is a lot for them to deal with.


Brentford been iffy all season. I did think they’d struggle without Toney, but as much as anything they are getting outfought in the middle of the park.

[Mac76]

Much as I dislike Bumley it will be very funny if they beat Man Ure ...

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Just seen the United back four. Hilariously tragic

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Burnley 0-1 Man Utd, Fernandes.

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Chelsea Sanchez, Gusto, Disasi, Thiago Silva, Colwill, Gallagher, Caicedo, Sterling, Fernandez, Mudryk, Jackson.
Subs: Bergstrom, Cucurella, Chilwell, Maatsen, Petrovic, Ugochukwu, Palmer, Broja, Washington.

Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne, Kamara, Douglas Luiz, Diaby, McGinn, Zaniolo, Watkins.
Subs: Olsen, Kellyman, Chambers, Lenglet, Bailey, Dendoncker, Ramsey, Tielemans, Duran.

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Liverpool: Alisson, Gomez, Van Dijk, Matip, Robertson, Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, Jones, Salah, Nunez, Diaz.
Subs: Kelleher, Endo, Konate, Gakpo, Elliott, Jota, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Quansah.

West Ham: Areola, Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson, Ward-Prowse, Alvarez, Soucek, Paqueta, Bowen, Antonio.
Subs: Fabianski, Fornals, Kudus, Mavropanos, Cornet, Ings, Ogbonna, Benrahma, Kehrer.

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Brighton: Verbruggen, Veltman, Webster, Dunk, Estupinan, Gilmour, Dahoud, Adingra, Buonanotte, Welbeck, Ferguson.
Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Julio, March, Joao Pedro, Lallana, Carlos Beleba, Mitoma, Fati.

Bournemouth: Neto, Aarons, Zabarnyi, Kelly, Kerkez, L Cook, Billing, Tavernier, Christie, Kluivert, Solanke.
Subs: Radu, Brooks, Rothwell, Ouattara, A Smith, Sinisterra, Traore, Semenya, Senesi.

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Liverpool 1-0 West Ham, Salah.

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Brighton 0-1 Bournemouth, Solanke.

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Brighon 1-1 Bournemouth, Kerkez own goal

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Liverpool 1-1 West Ham, Bowen.

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Brighton 2-1 Bournemouth, Mitoma!

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Liverpool 2-1 West Ham, Nunez.

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Chelsea 0-1 Villa, Watkins.

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Brighton 3-1 Bournemouth, Mitoma with his second.

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Chelsea 0-1 Villa, Watkins.

Poch gone before the Christmas lights go up?

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We'll probably keep him in a job.

Unlikely we'll win at Stamford Bridge for a fourth season in a row.

That obviously presumes he'll make it through the next international break!

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Sheffield United 0-1 Newcastle, Longstaff.

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3-0 to the magpies now. I think The blades have given up the ghost

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I'm not sure I necessarily agree Derby's points total record will be er broken but I think the bottom three will probably get the least between them ever.

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0-4 Wilson now.

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5 nil Gordon

Sheffield United have got bored of narrow defeats

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Almiron makes it 0-6.

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7 Guimares

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WTF. :haha:

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qfwTRVnO5No/hqdefault.jpg

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8-0 Isaak

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The record is in danger.

[Mac76]

What a massacre

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We still haven’t had double figures in the premier league have we? Couple of 9s but haven’t crossed that frontier quite yet

[Marc Overmars]

*Checks to see when we play Sheffield United*

[Letters]

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[Letters]

8 different goal scorers :lol:
Is that a record?

[Letters]

Chelsea 0-1 Villa, Watkins.

I only just saw this result :lol:

They are properly hopeless.

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I only just saw this result :lol:

They are properly hopeless.

It’s been the one positive in a so far dispiriting season.

[Letters]

It’s been the one positive in a so far dispiriting season.

:lol: We'd be below The Invincibles only on goal difference.

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:lol: We'd be below The Invincibles only on goal difference.

Utterly devoid of context. The invincibles played away at our biggest opponents within first six games. And only had the one dodgy performance at home to Portsmouth…(and even then we didn’t take the lead only to be pegged back by ten men like we did at home to Fulham)

We’d conceded three goals in those six games, rather than the six we have.


We’ve scored the same amount of goals (11) but we’ve had three penalties and an own goal compared to two penalties then


We are mid table in terms of chances created


The play is turgid and predictable. And we’ve lost five players to soft tissue injuries


So yeah dispiriting is an accurate term. No it’s not disastrous, we probably will get into the top four despite my earlier claims to the contrary but it’s not going to be pretty to watch, and it’s going to be a damp squib when considering the money we’ve spent.

[Marc Overmars]

I haven’t looked at the table and to be honest I don’t really look at it until new year. We haven’t got going this season and no amount of laboured results will tell me otherwise. I think a disastrous result is looming and it won’t really come as a shock when it happens.

[Letters]

it’s going to be a damp squib when considering the money we’ve spent.
This part is possibly true. The pressure is on given how the board have backed Arteta.
We're hardly looking like a well oiled machine. But results have been mostly good, we've had 2 "big games" and won one and drawn one. Both results could have gone a different way but there are fine lines in football. I think the City game will be telling. Pretty sure we'll lose but if we could sneak a win it would be very encouraging.

I still think it's early to be drawing conclusions.

[Letters]

The invincibles played away at our biggest opponents within first six games.
By the way. We did, but that was the one where Ruud Van Horseface smacked the bar with that late penalty.
That goes in and no Invincibles. Would we have still won the title? Who knows. Probably. But there are such fine lines in football.
That penalty goes in and it completely changes how we see that season, and 2003 you would probably have been moaning your tits off.

While we're here, that Bergkamp penalty goes in in '99 and no Utd treble and it might have propelled us to The Double. Fine lines.

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By the way. We did, but that was the one where Ruud Van Horseface smacked the bar with that late penalty.
That goes in and no Invincibles. Would we have still won the title? Who knows. Probably. But there are such fine lines in football.
That penalty goes in and it completely changes how we see that season, and 2003 you would probably have been moaning your tits off.

While we're here, that Bergkamp penalty goes in in '99 and no Utd treble and it might have propelled us to The Double. Fine lines.

And we played the last fifteen minutes with ten men, we went into that game and we played for a draw, we didn’t do much in an attacking sense but we absolutely nullified them…so you’re right I would have been moaning my tits off at Steve Bennett for awarding the penalty, on one hand wouldn’t have been overturned by VAR as wasn’t a clear and obvious error but it was ridiculously soft.

And had we lost that game I still think we’d have won the league.

[Letters]

And had we lost that game I still think we’d have won the league.
Certainly plausible. Utd won 12 or the next 14 in the league so it didn't exactly stop their momentum. Utd were ahead of us after that run.