This Weekend's & Next Weekend's Fixtures and 1 other (13/14/20/21/22 Jan)

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Saturday, 13 January 2024
Chelsea v Fulham, 12:30 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png
Newcastle United v Manchester City, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png

Sunday, 14th January 2024
Everton v Aston Villa, 14:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Saturday, 20th January 2023
Arsenal v Crystal Palace, 12:30 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png
Brentford v Nottingham Forest, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday 21st January 2024
Sheffield United v West Ham United, 14:00 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png
Bournemouth v Liverpool, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Monday, 22nd January 2024
Brighton & Hove Albion v Wolves, 19:45 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png

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Burnley v Luton was last night, finished 1-1.

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Chelsea 1-0 Fulham, Palmer pelanty.

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And 1-0 FT.

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Newcastle United: Dubravka, Trippier, Schar, Botman, Burn, Guimaraes, Longstaff, Miley, Almiron, Gordon, Isak.
Subs: Karius, Gillespie, Dummett, Lascelles, Ritchie, Krafth, Hall, A Murphy, Parkinson.

Man City: Ederson, Walker, Dias, Ake, Gvardiol, Rodrigo, Kovacic, Bernardo, Foden, Doku, Alvarez
Subs: Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Grealish, De Bruyne, Gomez, Nunes, Bobb, Susoho, Lewis.

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Ederson injured early on.

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0-1 Bernardo Silva.

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1-1 Isak!

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2-1 Gordon! holy shit!

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Barcodes cease to be Barcodes if they see this through?

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Nearly 3-1 so maybe.

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Bernardo Silva off, De Bruyne on.

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What a miss for Alvarez!

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Foden. :haha:

Fletcher and McCoist have been drooling over him all game.

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2-2 De Bruyne. FFS.

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2-3 Bobb, that was brilliant.

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And 2-3 FT.

Barcodes. :lol:

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:doh:

Well. At least Liverpool probably won’t have it all their way this season

[Marc Overmars]

De Bruyne still elite.

City gearing up to win the next 15 in a row and leave everyone in the dust.

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De Bruyne still elite.

City gearing up to win the next 15 in a row and leave everyone in the dust.

And if they do I bet no one will say Liverpool “bottled it”. And sure, we did crumble at the end last season and we made it easier for them than we should have, but when the other team are just winning every game they’re going to mow you down.

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And if they do I bet no one will say Liverpool “bottled it”. And sure, we did crumble at the end last season and we made it easier for them than we should have, but when the other team are just winning every game they’re going to mow you down.

I also bet Liverpool won’t go on a run where they shed 15 points in 8 games.

That’s why people accused us of bottling it

[Marc Overmars]

Liverpool would definitely have won the title from the position we were in. Having an elite coach tends to make the difference in those moments.

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I think Liverpool did in one of the seasons but it was much earlier on and then they did take it right to the end tbf.

[Mac76]

And if they do I bet no one will say Liverpool “bottled it”. And sure, we did crumble at the end last season and we made it easier for them than we should have, but when the other team are just winning every game they’re going to mow you down.

it's not mutually exclusive, City are a juggernaut but also i think maybe the team lost their nerve a bit but ultimately that was down to Arteta a) not managing the players well enough b) his not rotating enough and tiring out the players, plus his slavish adherence to one set of tactics

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Everton 0-1 Villa, Moreno.

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Or not. :lol:

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What a chance for Calvert-Lewin.

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Tarkowski's 'no nonsense' challenge sure sprung a lot of nonsense.

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Everton 0-0 Aston Villa, FT.

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Man Utd: Onana, Wan-Bissaka, Varane, Evans, Dalot, Eriksen, Mainoo, Garnacho, Bruno Fernandes, Rashford, Hojlund.
Subs: Bayindir, Martinez, Casemiro, Antony, Heaton, Pellistri, McTominay, Kambwala, Forson.

Tottenham: Vicario, Porro, Skipp, Romero, Udogie, van de Ven, Bentancur, Hojbjerg, Johnson, Richarlison, Werner.
Subs: Dragusin, Gil Salvatierra, Emerson, Forster, Austin, Alonso, Donley, Dorrington.

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1-0 Hojlund!

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1-0 Hojlund!

Excellent stuff

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Man Utd 1-1 Tottenham, Richarlison.

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Liverpool would definitely have won the title from the position we were in. Having an elite coach tends to make the difference in those moments.

https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/premier-league/01-january-2019/

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Rashford makes it 2-1. let's hope they hang onto the lead this time

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2-1 Rashford!

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I also bet Liverpool won’t go on a run where they shed 15 points in 8 games.

That’s why people accused us of bottling it

They dropped 8 from 18 in 2018/2019 and lost the 6 pointer against City before that. That took them from 7 points ahead of City at the turn of the year to a point behind. They did admittedly win every game after that but...so did City. When they go into beast mode they're basically impossible to stop. The only year anyone did was Liverpool when they themselves basically won every game till they'd all but wrapped up the title by Feb.

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Romero heads on to the bar!

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United constantly look all at sea from set pieces. Timid goalkeeper doesn’t help

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2-2 Bentancur.

Ten Hag. :doh:

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Richarlison shot, easy even for Onana.

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Don't think that's a foul on Rashford at all.

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Antony. :lol:

What's he going to do?

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What a chance for McTominay!

Man Utd 2-2 Tottenham, FT. :lol:

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What a chance for McTominay!

Man Utd 2-2 Tottenham, FT. :lol:

I guess that’ll do.

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Given this was a side that lost 3-0 at home to Bournemouth, probably not a terrible result for them

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https://www.11v11.com/league-tables/premier-league/01-january-2019/

Yeah thats not really “bottling it” with half the games to play. They accumulated 97 points that year and didn’t win it, it’s not even remotely close to how we threw it away last season after being 7 or 8 points ahead with 10 games to play. In the end City won it with games to spare and only spent something like 25 days at the top of the league compared to our 250 or whatever it was.

Klopp has delivered 3 90+ point seasons and won it all, I repeat he absolutely would have got Liverpool over the line if in the same position as us last year.

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being 7 or 8 points ahead with 10 games to play.
That's a bit of a distortion. City always had a game in hand. And we still had games away at Liverpool and City to play. We always knew the tougher run in, combined with our inexperience and lack of squad depth could cost us.


In the end City won it with games to spare.
That, I agree, was completely unacceptable. We should have pushed them to the line and we didn't. But they were a bloody jugganaut last season for the second half of the season, not for nothing did they win the treble.


Klopp has delivered 3 90+ point seasons and won it all, I repeat he absolutely would have got Liverpool over the line if in the same position as us last year.
You can repeat it if you like, but that doesn't make it true. Doesn't make you wrong either, it's just speculation which is a bit pointless to debate.
EDIT: As you say, he's had multiple 90+ seasons and won...one title. Which is kinda my point. When City are in the mood they are very hard to stop.
Which doesn't mean he wouldn't have at least got us closer last season, I'm happy to believe that. We certainly made their lives easier than we should have, I'll always be a bit annoyed that we didn't push them to the last day.

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Brentford 0-1 Forest, Danilo! What a goal.

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Brentford 1-1 Forest, Toney freekick!

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Currently 3-2

Ben Mee put the Bees in front, Wood equalised from Forest and Maupay retakes the lead for Brentford

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And 3-2 FT.

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Sheffield United 0-1 West Ham, Cornet.

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Sheffield United 1-1 West Ham, Brereton with it. :lol:

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Shows how out of touch I am, thought Brereton was still at Blackburn…and thinking that’s a weird move to go from a championship club to a soon to be championship club. But on loan from Villarreal where hasn’t exactly worked out for him

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Sheffield United 1-2 West Ham Ward-Prowse pelanty. Brewster and Coufal sent off.

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2-2 McBurnie pelanty in fact!

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Bournemouth: Neto, Mepham, Hill, Zabarnyi, Aarons, Cook, Christie, Sinisterra, Kluivert, Tavernier, Solanke.
Subs: Travers, Kelly, Brooks, Marcondes, Scott, Moore, Kilkenny, Billing, Greenwood.

Liverpool: Alisson, Bradley, Konate, van Dijk, Gomez, Mac Allister, Jones, Elliot, Jota, Nunez, Diaz.
Subs: Adrian, Kelleher, Gakpo, Gravenberch, Clark, Gordon, McConnell, Beck, Quansah.

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That should be a red for Bournemouth surely?

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Bournemouth 0-1 Liverpool, Nunez.

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0-2 Jota.

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0-3 Jota again.

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Sigh.

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0-4 Nunez again. Oof.

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Two horse races :bow:

Us :pal: