This Weekend's Fixtures (02/03/04 Mar).

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Saturday, 2nd March 2024
Brentford v Chelsea, 15:00
Everton v West Ham United, 15:00
Fulham v Brighton & Hove Albion, 15:00
Newcastle United v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 15:00
Nottingham Forest v Liverpool, 15:00
Tottenham Hotspur v Crystal Palace, 15:00
Luton Town v Aston Villa, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday, 3rd March 2024
Burnley v Bournemouth, 13:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Manchester City v Manchester United, 15:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Monday, 4th March 2024
Sheffield United v Arsenal, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

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Saturday, 2nd March 2024
Brentford v Chelsea, 15:00
Everton v West Ham United, 15:00
Fulham v Brighton & Hove Albion, 15:00
Newcastle United v Wolverhampton Wanderers, 15:00
Nottingham Forest v Liverpool, 15:00
Tottenham Hotspur v Crystal Palace, 15:00
Luton Town v Aston Villa, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday, 3rd March 2024
Burnley v Bournemouth, 13:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Manchester City v Manchester United, 15:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Monday, 4th March 2024
Sheffield United v Arsenal, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg


I’m working today, so utterly incensed that there’s not a lunchtime fixture that I can have on in the background

Just completely and totally selfish of Sky/TNT.

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Fulham: Leno, Robinson, Bassey, Adarabioyo, Castagne, Lukic, Reed, Iwobi, Pereira, Wilson, Muniz.
Subs: Rodak, Tete, Broja, Cairney, Traore, Ballo-Toure, Ream, De Cordova-Reid, Willian.

Brighton: Steele, Van Hecke, Dunk, Webster, Veltman, Lamptey, Lallana, Baleba, Enciso, Estupinan, Ferguson.
Subs: Verbruggen, Igor, Gross, Moder, Welbeck, Barco, Adingra, Fati, Buonanotte.

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Newcastle: Dubravka, Trippier, Botman, Schar, Burn, Longstaff, Guimaraes, Willock, Murphy, Isak, Gordon
Subs: Karius, Lascelles, Barnes, Krafth, Hall, Livramento, Almiron, Anderson, Miley

Wolves: Sa, Kilman, Dawson, Toti, Semedo, M Lemina, Doyle, Ait-Nouri, Sarabia, Neto, Bellegarde
Subs: Bentley, Doherty, S Bueno, Traore, N Lemina, H Bueno, Okoduwa, Chirewa, Fraser

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Everton: Pickford, Godfrey, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Harrison, Onana, Garner, McNeil, Doucoure, Beto.
Subs: Virginia, Patterson, Keane, Calvert-Lewin, Young, Gomes, Coleman, Chermiti, Dobbin

West Ham: Areola, Coufal, Mavropanos, Zouma, Emerson, Soucek, Alvarez, Kudus, Ward-Prowse, Paqueta, Bowen
Subs: Fabianski, Johnson, Cresswell, Antonio, Phillips, Ings, Ogbonna, Aguerd, Mubama

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Brentford: Flekken, Collins, Ajer, Zanka, Reguilon, Janelt, Norgaard, Onyeka, Roerslev, Wissa, Toney.
Subs: Strakosha, Maupay, Jensen, Ghoddos, Lewis Potter, Damsgaard, Baptiste, Yarmoliuk, Kim Ji-Soo.

Chelsea: Petrovic, Gusto, Disasi, Chalobah, Chilwell, Colwill, Caicedo, Fernandez, Palmer, Gallagher, Jackson.
Subs: Sanchez, Cucurella, Silva, Sterling, Mudryk, Madueke, Casadei, Gilchrist, Tauriainen.

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Tottenham: Vicario, Royal, Van de Ven, Romero, Udogie, Bissouma, Bentancur, Maddison, Son, Werner, Kulusevski
Subs: Austin, Skipp, Højbjerg, Dragusin, Lo Celso, Johnson, Sarr, Davies, Scarlett

Crystal Palace: Johnstone, Ward, Andersen, Richards, Munoz, Wharton, Lerma, Mitchell, Ayew, Eze, Mateta.
Subs: Henderson , Tomkins, Franca, Clyne, Hughes, Edouard, Ahamada, Plange, Ozoh

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Nottingham Forest: Sels, N Williams, Omobamidele, Murillo, Toffolo, Yates, Dominguez, Elanga, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Origi.
Subs: Turner, Sangare, Kouyate, Awoniyi, Felipe, Niakhate, Danilo, Ribeiro, Gardner.

Liverpool: Kelleher, Bradley, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Gomez, Clark, Mac Allister, Elliott, Diaz, Gakpo.
Subs: Adrian, Endo, Szoboszlai, Nunez, Tsimikas, McConnell, Koumas, Danns, Quansah.

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Newcastle 1-0 Wolves, Isak!

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Fulham 1-0 Brighton, Wilson!

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Wilson!


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Newcastle 2-0 Wolves, Gordon!

Fulham 2-0 Brighton, Muniz!

Fulham look really good currently. Keep it up against Citeh and Liverpool. :pray:

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Brentford 0-1 Chelsea, Jackson!

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Pelanty to Everton after VAR

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Areola saves it off Beto!

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Brentford 1-1 Chelsea, Roerslev!

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Eze Scores for Palace at Spurs :haha:

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Spuds 0-1 Palace, Eze. :haha:

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Cat kicker equalises for the Ammers

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Everton 1-1 West Ham, Zouma!

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Brentford 2-1 Chelsea, Wissa! :haha:

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Tottenham 1-1 Palace, Werner. :sick:

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2-1 Tottenham now. Oh Palace.

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Desmond between Brentford and Chelsea

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Brentford 2-2 Chelsea, Disasi.

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Tottenham 3-1 Palace, Son

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Incredible save to deny Darwin Nunez

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Soucek gets late winner at Everton for Ammers

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Fulham 3-0 Brighton, Traore!

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Pelanty to Forest?

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Not given it seems.

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Newcastle 3-0 Wolves, Livramento!

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Forest 0-1 Liverpool, Nunez.

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Nunez scores in 99th minute. Sickened

[Marc Overmars]

Nunez wins it for Liverpool at 90+9 :sick:

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Everton 1-3 West Ham, Alvarez.

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Everything went to shit in last twenty minutes <_<

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Think all the coaching staff for Forest got red cards, chairman was on the pitch

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Hopefully we can gain on the GD. :bow:

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Luton 0-1 Villa, Watkins!

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0-2, Watkins again!

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2-2 Morris!!

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Lucas Digne makes it 3-2 Villa

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Luton 2-3 Villa, Digne!

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Luton 2-3 Villa, FT!

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Nunez scores in 99th minute. Sickened

It was 0-0 when I went to bed (I’m in Hong Kong now, the second and final leg of my work trip).
I couldn’t be arsed staying up to see the final scores and I’m glad I didn’t now
:doh:

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Burnley 0-1 Bournemouth, Kluivert with it. HT there, or soon will be.

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Burnley 0-1 Bournemouth, Kluivert with it. HT there, or soon will be.

I can’t remember there ever being more inept promoted teams than these three. Burnley looked ok when they played us but just nothing by way of firepower or ability to prevent goals

Luton if nothing else have been entertaining I guess


The last time all three promoted teams went straight back down was when we won the double in 98. Barnsley, Palace and Bolton. All three had more about them. Sheffield United well we know they’ve got financial troubles, Luton and Burnley don’t have a pot to piss in either. If Ipswich who managed to claw their way back into second, come up I can see it being the same story for them. In fact I see this being the start of a broadening trend where unless a championship side has a rich benefactor like Fulham or Forest, they won’t be able to lay a glove on the rest of the league


In some ways you have to attribute this to FFP, in the way that it has solidified the financial disparity between clubs, when its intention was to level the playing field

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Man City: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Dias, Ake, Rodri, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden, Doku, Haaland.
Subs: Ortega Moreno, Kovacic, Alvarez, Gomez, Gvardiol, Akanji, Nunes, Bobb, Lewis.

Man Utd: Onana, Dalot, Varane, Evans, Lindelof, Mainoo, Casemiro, McTominay, Fernandes, Rashford, Garnacho.
Subs: Bayindir, Kambwala, Ogunneye, Amad, Amrabat, Collyer, Eriksen, Forson, Antony.

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I can’t remember there ever being more inept promoted teams than these three. Burnley looked ok when they played us but just nothing by way of firepower or ability to prevent goals

Luton if nothing else have been entertaining I guess


The last time all three promoted teams went straight back down was when we won the double in 98. Barnsley, Palace and Bolton. All three had more about them. Sheffield United well we know they’ve got financial troubles, Luton and Burnley don’t have a pot to piss in either. If Ipswich who managed to claw their way back into second, come up I can see it being the same story for them. In fact I see this being the start of a broadening trend where unless a championship side has a rich benefactor like Fulham or Forest, they won’t be able to lay a glove on the rest of the league


In some ways you have to attribute this to FFP, in the way that it has solidified the financial disparity between clubs, when its intention was to level the playing field

Not only that but the same three could be coming straight back up again.

I like Luton though, they give everything in every game.

Burnley and Sheffield United have been appalling.

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Man City: Ederson, Walker, Stones, Dias, Ake, Rodri, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Foden, Doku, Haaland.
Subs: Ortega Moreno, Kovacic, Alvarez, Gomez, Gvardiol, Akanji, Nunes, Bobb, Lewis.

Man Utd: Onana, Dalot, Varane, Evans, Lindelof, Mainoo, Casemiro, McTominay, Fernandes, Rashford, Garnacho.
Subs: Bayindir, Kambwala, Ogunneye, Amad, Amrabat, Collyer, Eriksen, Forson, Antony.

Sigh.

Come on, Utd, you useless berks

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Evans is at centre back. If United get something from this game, I’m going to want a full investigation into match fixing linked to betting syndicates

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Burnley 0-2 Bournemouth, Semenyo

[Mac76]

Mainoo is definitely Welbeck's long lost younger brother

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Counter attacking is all Man Utd will have this in game.

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Rashford!

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Man City 0-1 Man Utd, Rashford!!!

Holy shit what a strike!!

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Foden shot, Onana saves.

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That was better than the one he smashed in against us. And the one before that.

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Foden should have scored!

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Another chance for Rashford. Fucking hell.

[Marc Overmars]

Come on United. :popcorn:

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Doku. :haha:

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Great save from Onana off Rodri.

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City’s next league game is at Anfield. If they lose this they’ll have a lot to do. Especially as our next 2 fixtures are kind on paper as well.

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Haaland WTF?!

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Man Utd need to get one more counter attack right.

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Important touch from Onana

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1-1 Foden whoa what a strike

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Evans off, Kambwala on.

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Rashford off, Antony on.

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Ederson did well.

[Marc Overmars]

2-1 Foden again

Oh well. Fun while it lasted.

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2-1 Foden. That was brilliant.

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3-1 Haaland :rolleyes:

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Man Utd. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

At least we’ve got the opportunity to gain on at least one of City or Liverpool next weekend.

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Imagine fucking it up tomorrow. :rose:

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Imagine fucking it up tomorrow. :rose:

It’s definitely a wrap for us then if we can’t beat Sheff Utd. :lol:

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Man City 3-1 Man Utd, FT.

We've got to perform against Sheffield United tomorrow.

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Rashford goal aside, that was every inch City playing a mid table team. No one really played badly but they are years away from ever challenging for anything.

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I think Man Ure were worse than mid-table and tbh i think even a bottom of the league club like Luton will put up more of a fight against City, they were awful except close to their own goal where they were reasonably well organised, overall thiugh they were embarrasing apart from Rashford and then he went off injured

Garnacho in particular was dreadful, I'd struggle to think of a more ineffectual performance i've seen in recent times

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I think Man Ure were worse than mid-table and tbh i think even a bottom of the league club like Luton will put up more of a fight against City, they were awful except close to their own goal where they were reasonably well organised, overall thiugh they were embarrasing apart from Rashford and then he went off injured

Garnacho in particular was dreadful, I'd struggle to think of a more ineffectual performance i've seen in recent times

Tbh it was just a case of them trying to hold onto what they had but lacking the players to take pressure off in terms of wave after wave of city attack.

For what it’s worth they certainly weren’t any worse than we were last April

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Sigh.

Come on, Utd, you useless berks

Alright. Don’t then! <_<

[Marc Overmars]

I don’t think City and Liverpool will lose another game. Well, unless there’s a winner from their fixture but otherwise I don’t see where else they lose. Just have to pray they draw here and there which did almost happen this weekend, all while remaining near perfect ourselves.

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It's hard to make a case for us winning the league. We are flying but as you say we're up against two teams who are looking basically perfect so we have to keep pace with that and hope they slip up.
And of course we have to go to Old Trafford at the end and as terrible as they are I wouldn't fancy us having to go there and get a win to win the title.

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It's hard to make a case for us winning the league. We are flying but as you say we're up against two teams who are looking basically perfect so we have to keep pace with that and hope they slip up.
And of course we have to go to Old Trafford at the end and as terrible as they are I wouldn't fancy us having to go there and get a win to win the title.

I think going to OT will be far less of an issue than playing away at City or Spurs.

It’s only because we have a bit of a psychological block that i think it’s our third hardest remaining fixture ahead of Brighton


Ultimately I don’t think we can afford to drop any more than five points. And even then that’s dependent on City and Liverpool dropping points. They aren’t both going to win every game till the end of the season. Yes City could but I just don’t think they will. They don’t look like the same team as last season even with KDB back. I fancy Liverpool may win at Anfield next weekend but will drop points in other games - spurs at home, United away.


But yeah either way I think we will drop more than five points. In fact I think we will finish comfortably behind Liverpool in second and City in first.

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I think going to OT will be far less of an issue than playing away at City or Spurs.

It’s only because we have a bit of a psychological block that i think it’s our third hardest remaining fixture ahead of Brighton


Ultimately I don’t think we can afford to drop any more than five points. And even then that’s dependent on City and Liverpool dropping points. They aren’t both going to win every game till the end of the season. Yes City could but I just don’t think they will. They don’t look like the same team as last season even with KDB back. I fancy Liverpool may win at Anfield next weekend but will drop points in other games - spurs at home, United away.


But yeah either way I think we will drop more than five points. In fact I think we will finish comfortably behind Liverpool in second and City in first.

we really need the Liverpool - Citeh game to be a draw, it would be ideal, but even then it will be a very uphill struggle

that said, it's kind of irrititating to hear some commentators etc only refer to Liverpool and Citeh as contenders, we are at least in with a shout and that needs to be recognised - anyone would think most of those people don't like us ;)

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Well I think we’re third favourites for a good reason and that’s because we don’t have an elite coach nor do we have a history of relentless winning and going deep into the final hurdles of a season.

We’ll probably lose at City anyway which would kill any remaining hope.

My main worry is turning around the Porto game. If we don’t do that then it would be difficult to look at this season with much joy.

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Well I think we’re third favourites for a good reason and that’s because we don’t have an elite coach nor do we have a history of relentless winning and going deep into the final hurdles of a season.

We’ll probably lose at City anyway which would kill any remaining hope.

My main worry is turning around the Porto game. If we don’t do that then it would be difficult to look at this season with much joy.

I think we will, the last time we played Porto we had a deficit from the away leg. They were better than they are now and we were worse than we are now. And we won 5-0 in the second leg

Losing any game is frustrating and disappointing. Especially the manner in which we did. And yeah I get that we have a habit of exiting at the last 16 but I’m reasonably confident



Though results like Porto away don’t give me great faith that we will go much further than the quarters


I think we are in an age where the difference a coach makes is marginal. We didn’t beat Liverpool because Arteta is better than Klopp. We beat them because take away up front, we have a better team than them. I think we’d finish above them if not for the fact that they have the easiest fixtures remaining