This Weekend's Fixtures (06/07 April)

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Saturday, 6th April 2024
Crystal Palace v Manchester City, 12:30 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png
Aston Villa v Brentford, 15:00
Everton v Burnley, 15:00
Fulham v Newcastle, 15:00
Luton v Bournemouth, 15:00
Wolverhampton Wanderers v West Ham United, 15:00
Brighton & Hove Albion, v Arsenal, 17:30https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday, 7th April 2024
Manchester United v Liverpool, 15:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Sheffield United v Chelsea, 17:30
Tottenham Hotspur v Nottingham Forest, 18:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

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Crystal Palace: Henderson, Ward, Mitchell, Anderson, Hughes, Lerma, Ayew, Munoz, Wharton, Mateta, Eze.
Subs: Matthews, Tomkins, Olise, Schlupp, Clyne, Edouard, Ahamada, Ozoh, Umeh-Chibueze.

Manchester City: Ortega, Lewis, Dias, Stones, Gvardiol, Grealish, Rodri, De Bruyne, Alvarez, Bobb, Haaland
Subs: Ederson, Kovacic, Doku, Silva, Gomez, Akanji, Nunes, Foden, Susoho.

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Supporting Palace two weekends in a row. :bow:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Supporting Palace two weekends in a row. :bow:

Didn’t Palace play Forest last weekend.

I’m totally indifferent to Forest to be honest. They’ve only themselves to blame for their current predicament but it is nauseating to me to see palace and Everton being punished and city and Chelsea getting off Scot free

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Next weekend too.

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1-0 Mateta!!

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This is ending 6-1 City then...

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Terrible pass from Wharton.

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This is ending 6-1 City then...

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I just don't see that from them this season.

They keep conceding and it's going to do them in eventually.

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What a shot from Rodri and what a save!

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1-1 De Bruyne.

Holy shit.

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Ayew shoots but over.

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Henderson saves from Haaland!

[Letters]

1-1 De Bruyne.

Holy shit.

It was fun while it lasted. Which was never going to be for long.

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Why didn't Lewis go for goal?

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Ayew hits the woodwork!

Pass it across goal you berk.

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Amazing from Ortega.

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Pelanty?

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Not given. Weird.

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Yellow for Gvardiol.

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Palace 1-1 Citeh, HT.

Good game.

[HCZ_Reborn]

A good game we know will invariably swing in City’s favour unfortunately. Palace don’t have the luxury of being as wasteful as they have been

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1-2 Lewis.

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Alvarez shot blocked somehow.

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1-3 Haaland.

Booo.

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1-4 De Bruyne again.

Me. :lol:

[Mac76]

Palace bringing on Olise in a game thay've already lost - sound familiar...? :doh:

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Nearly 2-4.

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2-4 Edouard!

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Palace 2-4 Man City, FT.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Palace 2-4 Man City, FT.

Well that was a bum drizzle

Oh well, can’t control the results of other teams

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Pelanty to Wolves.

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Wolves 1-0 West Ham, Sarabia.

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Villa 1-0 Brentford, Watkins!

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Everton 1-0 Burnley, Calvert-Lewin!

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Villa 2-0 Brentford, Rogers!

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Luton 0-1 Bournemouth, Tavernier!

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Villa 2-2 Brentford. :haha:

Jorgensen and Mbuemo.

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O'Shea sent off for Burnley.

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Villa 2-3 Brentford, Wissa.

WTF Emery.

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Pelanty to West Ham

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1-1

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Wolves 1-1 West Ham, Paqueta.

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Fulham 0-1 Newcastle, Schar

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Villa 3-3 Brentford, Watkins with his second

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Ok that was disallowed but now Newcastle are leading through Guimaraes

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Wolves 1-2 West Ham, Ward-Prowse

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Luton 1-1 Bournemouth, Clark

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Luton 2-1 Bournemouth, Morris!

Go on Luton!

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Everton 1-0 Burnley, FT!

13 league games without a win and they finally get one.

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Wolves 2-2 West Ham

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Wolves 2-2 West Ham, Kilman.

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Villa 3-3 Brentford, FT.

Toney and Collins arguing.

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Luton 2-1 Bournemouth, FT! :bow:

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Wolves' second goal was disallowed.

Wolves 1-2 West Ham, FT.

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Fulham 0-1 Newcastle, FT

[HCZ_Reborn]

Merits mentioning on here that Bayern lost today 3-2 from being 2-0 up away at Heidenheim

Not exactly coming to us on the best of form

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And also Douglas Luiz is suspended for our game next weekend.

[HCZ_Reborn]

And also Douglas Luiz is suspended for our game next weekend.

Sweet

[Letters]

Merits mentioning on here that Bayern lost today 3-2 from being 2-0 up away at Heidenheim

Not exactly coming to us on the best of form

Or, they’ve thrown in the towel in terms of the title and are saving themselves for us.
But they’re certainly beatable this season.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Whilst they have jacked in the title, they also played their strongest team…Davies, Kimmich, Gnabry, Goretzka, Musiala and Kane all started

[Marc Overmars]

I don’t anticipate us winning the tie away from home, so I think we really need to try and kill them off in the first leg.

[Letters]

Whilst they have jacked in the title, they also played their strongest team…Davies, Kimmich, Gnabry, Goretzka, Musiala and Kane all started

I’d be surprised if Kane doesn’t score against us. He loves doing that.
Meh, we’ll see. I don’t regard us as underdogs or favourites really, quite hard to call.

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Going to be so strange with officially no Bayern fans in the stadium and I think again, officially, filled with Arsenal fans.

Can only help.

In the 1st leg that is.

[Mac76]

We need a 3-goal margin from the firat leg ideally

[HCZ_Reborn]

Old firm Derby a bit tasty 3-3 at the moment

I can’t stand either team, I dislike Rangers slightly less than Celtic but that’s about it

Fans on both sides are sectarian filth

[Marc Overmars]

Firmly expecting a Liverpool win but nonetheless, come on United. :pray:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Firmly expecting a Liverpool win but nonetheless, come on United. :pray:

Maybe I’m delusional but I’m not firmly expecting a Liverpool win at all.

Liverpool don’t impress me, especially not away from home.

They’ve won one game from seven against the other teams currently in the top six. I get that United are poor but they got a draw at Anfield earlier in the season and they knocked Liverpool out of the cup. So why anyone would think this game is a foregone conclusion is beyond me.

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Manchester United: Onana; Wan-Bissaka, Maguire, Kambwala, Dalot; Casemiro, Mainoo; Garnacho, Fernandes, Rashford; Hojlund.
Subs: Bayindir, Amrabat, Mount, Eriksen, Diallo, Antony, Forson, Amass, Ogunneye.

Liverpool: Kelleher; Bradley, Quansah, Van Dijk, Robertson; Mac Allister, Endo, Szoboszlai; Salah, Nunez, Diaz.
Subs: Adrián, Gomez, Konaté, Jones, Gakpo, Elliott, Tsimikas, Gravenberch, Danns.

Disallowed goal for Garnacho.

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Onana saves from Szoboszlai.

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Well done Dalot, Liverpool were nearly in then.

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Man Utd 0-1 Liverpool, Diaz.

[Marc Overmars]

0-1 Diaz :lol:

[Mac76]

Damn

[HCZ_Reborn]

What annoys me if Liverpool win this, is you’ll get the media ream job which will focus not on how shit United are and how Ten Haag is a complete joke but that Liverpool are this brilliant side who are title favourites. Well they aren’t this brilliant side, rode their luck massively in games this season. Weren’t great in either match against us, or against city for that matter.
Not just for our sake but I really hope someone puts the stick in these over achieving fuckers spokes

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How has nobody bundled that in?

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Salah shot, Onana saves.

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And again!

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Nunez shot over.

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Salah. :haha:

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Man Utd 0-1 Liverpool, HT.

Not sure how. :lol:

Man Utd are being pummeled.

[Mac76]

Liverpool should be 2 or 3 up, Man U's defence is so porous and going forward they've been really wasteful, Fernandes' passing has been dreadful at times

We just need to hope they get their act together

[Marc Overmars]

Absolute garbage from United. Come on you useless shits.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Liverpool should be 2 or 3 up, Man U's defence is so porous and going forward they've been really wasteful, Fernandes' passing has been dreadful at times

We just need to hope they get their act together

Fortunately for us, Liverpool have been just as wasteful

[Mac76]

Fortunately for us, Liverpool have been just as wasteful

Except they're winning, you know that right?

[HCZ_Reborn]

Except they're winning, you know that right?

Did you set yourself to Bell End mode today

Are you seriously being that obtuse as to pretend you don’t know what I’m saying

I’m saying the game should be dead, but fortunately because of Liverpool’s finishing it isn’t

Didn’t you say once you were married?…if you’re anything like this around her, id be forever on the look out for “accidental” trip hazards on the top of the stairs if I were you :haha:

[Mac76]

Big Sam at the game in the director's box - next Man Ure manager? :pray: :lol:

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Big Sam at the game in the director's box - next Man Ure manager? :pray: :lol:

That might spark the revival of the Not Big Sam Twitter page. Guy even had his own Paddy Power column and published a book

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I've never seen a team with no midfield before.

[Letters]

My neighbour is yelling. 1-1?

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1-1 Fernandes!

WTF!!

[Mac76]

Bruno!!!!! :haha:

[HCZ_Reborn]

My neighbour is yelling. 1-1?

Yes Bruno Fernandes

Of course your neighbour could be someone who likes to yell :lol:

I have people round the back from me who seem to notionally be Arsenal fans and because I tend to watch games online (now tv app) it tends to be slightly slower by about five ten seconds and it’s really offputting

I’ve taken to putting earphones in

[Letters]

It’s a sad day when my neighbour is giving quicker updates than Maccy :(

[Marc Overmars]

Get in! :haha:

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So poor from Quansah.

[Letters]

Yes Bruno Fernandes

Of course your neighbour could be someone who likes to yell

Well, he does have to live next to me, so…

But that are a noisy family, not very…middle class.

But he is also a Gooner so therefore wants Utd to win today

[Mac76]

And now the Man U fans actually start singing - they've been pathetic until now

[Mac76]

Casemiro :doh:

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Oof went through right to Kelleher!

[Marc Overmars]

Nunez is a clown

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What the hell Nunez.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Darwin Nunez Do Do Do Do :haha:

[Marc Overmars]

United’s lack of a midfield is shocking

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How are Liverpool not winning.

This has been ridiculous.

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Fernandes scuffer.

[Marc Overmars]

Liverpool are literally strolling through every attack unopposed and United are just praying for an opportunity to counter.

Bizarre game.

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Rashford has an injury

Huge blow for Liverpool.

[Mac76]

Antony coming on to get the winner

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Bradley and Szobozslai off, Gomez and Jones on.

Rashford off, Antony on.

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MAINOO!!!!! OH SHIT!!!

[Marc Overmars]

MAINOOOOO

Wow.

[Mac76]

Mainoooooooo!!!!!!

[Letters]

My neighbour’s goal update service :bow:

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Kelleher saves from Garnacho.

[Mac76]

Bit harsh on Kambwala, not a yellow

[Mac76]

Salah :lol:

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Diaz shot, Salah sents it in to the stands!

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Well that makes no sense from me. I'm too excited.

[Mac76]

Casemiro is so shite

[Marc Overmars]

Liverpool penalty

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Pelanty to Liverpool. Oh dear.

[Mac76]

Oh FFS pel to Liverpool

Wan Bissaka :doh:

[Marc Overmars]

2-2 Salah

Hang on United

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2-2 Salah.

[Marc Overmars]

7 mins added :sick:

[Mac76]

Man U have become really crap again

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7 added.

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92 minutes in and Man Utd finally stop Liverpool running through.

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Wow Diaz just dropped the Ashes.

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Antony. :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

FT 2-2

That will do! :popcorn:

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2-2 FT. Hell yes!

[Mac76]

Result!

Utd :bow:

It's in our hands now :faint:

[Letters]

Result!

Utd :bow:

It's in our hands now :faint:
Our slippery, slippery hands :lol:

We have the harder fixtures so I still lean towards Liverpool but you can’t ask for much more than it being in our hands at this stage. That GD building run of thumping runs could yet be important

[HCZ_Reborn]

If Arteta was coaching that Liverpool side, would be struggling to stay in the top six. Testament to what a job Klopp has done really

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Sheffield United 0-1 Chelsea, Thiago Silva.

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Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bissouma, Sarr; Johnson, Maddison, Werner; Heung-min.
Subs: Austin, Hojbjerg, Dragusin, Royal, Lo Celso, Kulusevski, Bentancur, Davies, Scarlett.

Nottingham Forest: Sels; Williams, Omobamidele, Murillo, Aina; Yates, Danilo; Elanga, Gibbs-Whites, Hudson-Odoi; Wood.
Subs: Turner, Sangare, Toffolo, Dominguez, Niakhate, Reyna, Origi, Montiel, Ribeiro.

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Tottenham Hotspur: Vicario; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Bissouma, Sarr; Johnson, Maddison, Werner; Heung-min.
Subs: Austin, Hojbjerg, Dragusin, Royal, Lo Celso, Kulusevski, Bentancur, Davies, Scarlett.

Nottingham Forest: Sels; Williams, Omobamidele, Murillo, Aina; Yates, Danilo; Elanga, Gibbs-Whites, Hudson-Odoi; Wood.
Subs: Turner, Sangare, Toffolo, Dominguez, Niakhate, Reyna, Origi, Montiel, Ribeiro.

Wonder what money you’d get on Spurs to win but Forest to score first

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Where's Ivan Toney when you need him.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Bogle equalises for the blades :lol:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Where's Ivan Toney when you need him.

Probably in a Gamblers Anonymous meeting

He’s not going to be so Anonymous

“Hi I’m Ivan”

“Yes we know”

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What an effort from Murillo!

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Bogle equalises for the blades :lol:

:haha:

[HCZ_Reborn]

Oh well I’d have lost my money anyway

1-0 Spurs - OG

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Murilo. :lol:

[Letters]

Bogle equalises for the blades :lol:

And that’s how it ended

Chelsea :haha:

[Letters]

My neighbour seems to think Forest equalised.
Unless he’s yelling about something else

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1-1 Wood!

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And that’s how it ended

Chelsea :haha:

It's HT.

[LDG]

It's HT.

:haha:

[Letters]

It's HT.

Oh yeah.

My inability to read :bow:

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Stuart Broad. :bow:

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How the fuck has Wood missed? Well I know because he smashed the post but jesus wept.

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Spuds 1-1 Forest, HT.

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1-1 Wood!

And that’s how it ended.

Spurs :haha:


Oh shut yer faces <_<

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Sheffield United 1-2 Chelsea, Madueke.

Disgusting from Chelsea playing on after the match finished.

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2-1 Spuds Van Der Ven

[Letters]

Sheffield United 1-2 Chelsea, Madueke.

Disgusting from Chelsea playing on after the match finished.
<_<

Starting to think Sheffield Utd might go down, you know

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3-1 Porro.

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2-2 McBurnie :lol:

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:haha:

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Sheffield United 2-2 Chelsea, FT!

Letters got the right result in the end!

[Mac76]

Chelsea can't even beat Sheff U :lol:

:pal:

[Letters]

Sheffield United 2-2 Chelsea, FT!

Letters got the right result in the end!
:lol:

Us if we don’t beat Chelsea :pal:

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Spuds 3-1 Forest, FT.

They're back in to fourth with Emery doing an Emery.

[Marc Overmars]

Don’t see Villa getting 4th but it seems like 5th could be a CL spot too at this rate anyway.

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Jamie Redknapp is really agitated Arsenal are top. :lol:

Van De Ven is as good as Saliba, Arsenal won't win at Tottenham because Tottenham are much better than Man Utd.

Lost his mind.

[Letters]

FT 2-2

That will do! :popcorn:

Just seen the highlights. How did Liverpool not win that?! :lol:
We bemoan the lack of a clinical striker but Liverpool missed some absolute sitters yesterday.

This is why calling this title race is impossible, there are such fine lines in football.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Just seen the highlights. How did Liverpool not win that?! :lol:
We bemoan the lack of a clinical striker but Liverpool missed some absolute sitters yesterday.

This is why calling this title race is impossible, there are such fine lines in football.

I’ve been watching Liverpool a lot this season and they are an incredibly wasteful team, they must massively underperform their XG
This match was very much in keeping with their game at Anfield against United where they had chance after chance after chance but spurned them.
This is why I said I thought it was folly for them to be considered title favourites. It’s technically ours to lose, but in reality it’s City who for me remain favourites and who I’d put money on for a fourth consecutive title.

[Letters]

This is why I said I thought it was folly for them to be considered title favourites. It’s technically ours to lose, but in reality it’s City who for me remain favourites and who I’d put money on for a fourth consecutive title.
It's really hard to call.
I keep hearing people say that Liverpool aren't that good, but there they are on the same points as us at the top of the table. That's not dumb luck at this stage of the season. We are ahead of them because of GD but we have the harder games, Liverpool just played theirs. And they have Klopp, who knows how to get a team over the line. But Pep does too and City are a machine at this stage of the season so while I actually regard them as 3rd favourites, it would be folly to write them off.

[HCZ_Reborn]

It's really hard to call.
I keep hearing people say that Liverpool aren't that good, but there they are on the same points as us at the top of the table. That's not dumb luck at this stage of the season. We are ahead of them because of GD but we have the harder games, Liverpool just played theirs. And they have Klopp, who knows how to get a team over the line. But Pep does too and City are a machine at this stage of the season so while I actually regard them as 3rd favourites, it would be folly to write them off.

Klopp is an excellent coach, but in many ways they are benefitting from City having an off season

Liverpool have only lost twice, but they’ve won only 8 out of 15 away games. And only one win against teams in the current top six from eight games (home to Villa)

If City were firing on all cylinders neither us or Liverpool would be in the title race. Liverpool because they lack the quality they had, us because we lack options up front and our coach is vastly inferior to both Klopp and Guardiola

[Letters]

City are only 3 points down on where they were at this stage last year.
Interestingly, so are we. :unsure:

[HCZ_Reborn]

City are only 3 points down on where they were at this stage last year.
Interestingly, so are we. :unsure:

I think you do have a tendency to make the grand folly of comparing seasons by points totals. Unfortunately you simply can’t do that because there is always a differential in the standard of opposition. Teams drop off, Teams show massive improvement and this season despite Everton and Forest being hit with points deductions you are likely going to see all three promoted teams go straight back down.

The fact that we are three points behind where we were last season, especially when you consider that Brentford, Brighton, Newcastle were far stronger opponents last season, we may be three points worse off but actually it’s a far more considerable drop off when considering relative quality

And that applies to us and City. Guardiola has done a shocking job this season considering. The quality of our players is no where near theirs, with the exception of centre back they are superior to us in every area of the pitch.

[Marc Overmars]

City are clear favourites now.

We will need to end the season with a run of 17 wins out 18 to do it. It’s a huge task unless City drop some very silly points somewhere.

[Letters]

I think you do have a tendency to make the grand folly of comparing seasons by points totals
I disagree it's a folly. What other objective measure of where you are is there?
I remember Wenger noting in '99 when we just missed out he commended our consistency as we got the same points as the year before when we'd been champions.


there is always a differential in the standard of opposition.
Some other teams get stronger, others get worse. Overall I doubt it hugely changes season on season.
And if you think it does how do you measure that?

[Letters]

City are clear favourites now.

We will need to end the season with a run of 17 wins out 18 to do it. It’s a huge task unless City drop some very silly points somewhere.

Why do you say that? They've still got to go to WHL, Spurs have a good record against them.
They have to go to Brighton, our win there was impressive but Brighton overall have a good home record.
And West Ham...I'm not expecting much from them, but a mate of mine who supports them noted they've been known to disrupt a title run in.

I'd never discount City, but I wouldn't say they're clear favourites. Still Liverpool for me.

[HCZ_Reborn]

I would expect City to win their remaining home fixtures

West Ham, Luton and Wolves

Away from home

Fulham, Forest, Brighton and Spurs


I think there’s the possibility of them dropping four-fives points from those games. Spurs depends when they play them, could possibly be before the last week of the season.

What I will say now, is I don’t think any of us, Liverpool, city are going to win our remaining seven league games

Liverpool I think will finish third. The matches that will kill off their title hopes will be having to play three games back to back away from home. Fulham, Everton and West Ham. Maximum of six points for me that they’ll get…more likely four

Then they will I think also draw at home to Spurs which will finish things off for them

[HCZ_Reborn]

Why do you say that? They've still got to go to WHL, Spurs have a good record against them.
They have to go to Brighton, our win there was impressive but Brighton overall have a good home record.
And West Ham...I'm not expecting much from them, but a mate of mine who supports them noted they've been known to disrupt a title run in.

I'd never discount City, but I wouldn't say they're clear favourites. Still Liverpool for me.

West Ham’s record at the Etihad is as bad as ours

They are more likely to be spoilers to Liverpool who have to go to the London Stadium, a few days after the Merseyside Derby.

[Marc Overmars]

Why do you say that? They've still got to go to WHL, Spurs have a good record against them.
They have to go to Brighton, our win there was impressive but Brighton overall have a good home record.
And West Ham...I'm not expecting much from them, but a mate of mine who supports them noted they've been known to disrupt a title run in.

I'd never discount City, but I wouldn't say they're clear favourites. Still Liverpool for me.

They’ve been too dominant for so long now to think they will drop uncharacteristic points at this stage. Will they win all the remaining 7 games? Probably not but then if they did I don’t think anyone would be particularly surprised.

Spurs away is the one for us both where it could blow up.

[Letters]

West Ham’s record at the Etihad is as bad as ours

They are more likely to be spoilers to Liverpool who have to go to the London Stadium, a few days after the Merseyside Derby.
I raised an eyebrow when my West Ham supporting mate claimed they may be able to help us out.
Spurs have a better chance of helping us, although we have to play them too of course. A draw is usually acceptable there but probably won’t be enough this year

[dostoy]

How did Maddison the Spud avoid a red card for his punch on the NF player ?

It wasn't a hard punch but it was a punch and according to the VAR man, there was no violent conduct.

He must have been a Spud.

[Mac76]

I raised an eyebrow when my West Ham supporting mate claimed they may be able to help us out.
Spurs have a better chance of helping us, although we have to play them too of course. A draw is usually acceptable there but probably won’t be enough this year

Yes, we need to work on the assumption that we need to win all our games, which I'm more hopeful that we could do than I was, but Spuds and Moan U away will be real tests, just because both are such unpredictable games