This Weekend's Fixtures & Chelsea v Spuds (27/28 Apr & 02 May).

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Saturday, 27th April 2024
West Ham United v Liverpool, 12:30 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png
Fulham v Crystal Palace, 15:00
Manchester United v Burnley, 15:00
Newcastle United v Sheffield United, 15:00
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Luton Town, 15:00
Everton v Brentford, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Aston Vila v Chelsea, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png

Sunday, 28th April 2024
Bournemouth v Brighton & Hove Albion, 14:00
Tottenham Hotspur v Arsenal, 14:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Nottingham Forest v Manchester City, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Thursday, 2nd May 2024
Chelsea v Tottenham Hotspur, 19:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

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

Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Van Dijk, Quansah, Robertson, MacAllister, Gravenberch, Endo, Elliott, Gakpo, Diaz
Subs: Kelleher, Gomez, Konate, Szoboszlai, Nunez, Salah, Jones, Tsimikas, Bajcetic

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Come on Moyes, more Everton alumni to finish them off.

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That is nasty from Paqueta, very much like Jackson at the Emirates.

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What is Elliott doing there.

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Diaz missing again, offside or not.

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AA freekick over.

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Wow offside saves West Ham there.

Diaz's finishing though. Jesus.

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Diaz hits the post!

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Alisson saves from Bowen's deflected shot!

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West Ham 1-0 Liverpool, Bowen!!

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1-0 HT. :popcorn:

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Cult of Personality ringing out!

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Gravenberch absolutely hammered that.

Unfortunately for him miles high.

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West Ham 1-1 Liverpool, Robertson.

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What a block from Ogbonna.

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1-2 Areola OG.

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Diaz. :lol:

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West Ham 2-2 Liverpool, Antonio!

[Mac76]

C'mon u Irons :pray:

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Elliott smacks the bar!

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West Ham 2-2 Liverpool, FT!

They're definitely out of it now.

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Klopp and Salah arguing on the side of the pitch was funny.

[Letters]

:lol: Flopp

What a collapse

[Mac76]

:lol:

Bottlers ;)

[HCZ_Reborn]

I decided to go to the game, fuck me this cunt behind me every other word was cunt….rotated seamlessly between slagging off Moyes and the players for not pushing up enough (yeah because that would be a good idea against Liverpool) and calling Anthony Taylor every name under the sun.

On another day Liverpool would have turned them over. Yet he’s screaming about Ammers players showing Liverpool too much respect, even starts a row with a guy a few rows in front. No mate they are just better on the ball than your side. Wasn’t super impressed with Kudus or Paqueta truth be told…the latter always needed to take two touches to control the ball.

[Letters]

:lol:

Bottlers ;)
Maybe I’m being overly sensitive, and obviously I notice stuff about Arsenal more, but I haven’t heard anyone talking about Liverpool “bottling it” or collapsing.
But they bloody have. It’s a run of 10 or so games in which they’ve gone out of both cups and fallen out of a title race they had in their hands.

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Newcastle 0-1 Sheffield United :blink:

Revenge for the 0-8?

[Letters]

Newcastle 0-1 Sheffield United :blink:

Revenge for the 0-8?
This game is definitely not going to end like that :lol:

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Newcastle 1-1 Sheffield United, Isak!

[Letters]

See? :lol:

Although it wasn't the most impressive prediction. Sheffield Utd are properly awful. They must be close to mathematically relegated.

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They're seven goals away from 100 conceded.

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Wolves 1-0 Luton, Hwang!

[Letters]

They're seven goals away from 100 conceded.

They've got the games left to get there! :lol:
They've only won 3 league games all season :haha:
Surely one of the worst PL sides ever.

[Mac76]

Maybe I’m being overly sensitive, and obviously I notice stuff about Arsenal more, but I haven’t heard anyone talking about Liverpool “bottling it” or collapsing.
But they bloody have. It’s a run of 10 or so games in which they’ve gone out of both cups and fallen out of a title race they had in their hands.

Indeed, though given they've won a few things with Klopp I guess it's harder to make the bottler tag stick, though I get they've a few younger players in there

Much easier to aim that word at a mainly young team and inexperienced manager, even if the truth was much less about lack of spirit and much more about Arteta running them into the ground

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Wolves 2-0 Luton, Toti.

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Fulham 1-0 Palace, Muniz!

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Newcastle 2-1 Sheffield United, Guimaraes!

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Newcastle 3-1 Sheffield United, Isak with his second! Pelanty.

Five to go for 100. :bow:

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4-1 Osborn OG. :lol:

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:lol: Holy shit they're awful.

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5-1, Wilson.

Three to go. :bow:

[Mac76]

Sheff U have been a complete embarrassment

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Man Utd 1-0 Burnley, Antony!

[Letters]

:lol: 13-1 aggregate score against Newcastle this season (so far)
"Can we play you every week?"

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Wolves 2-1 Luton, Morris. :popcorn:

[HCZ_Reborn]

1-1 Amdouni Pel

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:lol:

Fulham 1-1 Palace, Schlupp.

[Letters]

5-1 FT.
Sheffield Utd down

13-1 aggregate against Newcastle :haha:

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Everton 1-0 Brentford, FT.

Gueye with the goal, they're safe for another season.

Aston Villa: Martinez, Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne, Luiz, McGinn, Tielemans, Rogers, Bailey, Watkins.
Subs: Olsen, Diego Carlos, Chambers, Lenglet, Diaby, Duran, Kesler-Hayden, Iroegbunam, Kellyman.

Chelsea: Petrovic, Chalobah, Thiago Silva, Badiashile, Cucurella, Caicedo, Gallagher, Madueke, Palmer, Mudryk, Jackson.
Subs: Bettinelli, Curd, Disasi, Casadei, Deivid, Gilchrist, Acheampong, George, Dyer.

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Villa 1-0 Chelsea, McGinn. :lol:

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Cucurella OG actually.

[Mac76]

Cucurella OG actually.

:haha:

That guy is such a clown

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Villa 1-1 Chelsea, Jackson!

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Or not. :lol:

Offside.

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Villa 2-0 Chelsea, Rogers. :lol:

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Villa 2-1 Chelsea, Madueke!

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Come on, Villa!

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Villa 2-2 Chelsea, Gallagher. What a strike.

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Classic Emery Champions League position collapse coming at the end of the season?

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What a miss from Watkins.

[Letters]

Come on, Villa!

Alright. Don't then :doh:

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Olsen denies Palmer!

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Villa 2-3 Chelsea, Disasi! Holy shit.

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VAR disallows it. :lol:

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2-2 FT

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Bournemouth 3-0 Brighton, FT.

Iraola has been outstanding for them.

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Forest: Sels, Williams, Niakhate, Murillo, Aina, Danilo, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Boly, Wood, Elanga
Subs: Turner, Sangare, Toffolo, Reyna, Yates, Origi, Montiel, Omobamidele, Ribeiro

Man City: Ederson, Walker, Akanji, Ake, Gvardiol, Rodri, Silva, De Bruyne, Alarez, Doku, Grealish
Subs: Ortega, Carson, Stones, Kovacic, Haaland, Gomez, Nunes, Bobb, Lewis

[Letters]

Come on, Forest!

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Fucking love trees me.

[Marc Overmars]

I imagine City will blitz them but you live in hope I guess.

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I want Forest to win but not enough to get me singing Mull of Kintyre.

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I imagine City will blitz them but you live in hope I guess.

Nuno has done them twice before I think.

Once at least.

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De Bruyne shot just deflects wide.

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Wood. :doh:

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0-1 Gvardiol.

[Marc Overmars]

On to next week then. :rose:

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Wood. :haha:

What a miss.

[Letters]

I want Forest to win but not enough to get me singing Mull of Kintyre.

Macca :bow:

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Murillo how?

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0-1 HT.

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Wood. :haha:

Donkey.

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Murillo is fucked.

[HCZ_Reborn]

2-0 Haaland

Le sigh

Oh well

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0-2 Haaland.

[Niall_Quinn]

Fuck, the big girly has finished it. Lucky escapes for both Arsenal and the gypos today. Both were pure shite.

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Wood. :haha:

Horrendous.

[Niall_Quinn]

Feel sorry for Wood today. It's not like he's not working his guts out. It's not like he's Nunez. Just having a very bad day.

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Origi has to be a better option than this lump though when you need quality.

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0-2 FT.

Still +7 GD. :bow:

[Marc Overmars]

Got to win at Old Trafford to ensure City have to go to Spurs and win. That’s the only shot and even then I’m fairly certain City will trample on Spurs if they need to.

[Letters]

Never seemed likely that City would slip. My main thing is if they’re going to win it then make the fuckers win it this year. Don’t just hand it to them like we did last year. They’ve passed that test so far.

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Tottenham do play in a way Man City probably don't like.

However also, it's Tottenham. Relying on them. :lol:

I remember 98-99 well.

[Mac76]

My concern is that Spuds mightn't be able to catch Villa by the time they play Citeh, in which case it's unlikely they'll die in a ditch to help us

[HCZ_Reborn]

My concern is that Spuds mightn't be able to catch Villa by the time they play Citeh, in which case it's unlikely they'll die in a ditch to help us

It’s a valid concern given they’ve got to play Chelsea and Liverpool back to back in a three day period

[Letters]

Spurs run in :lol:

They have no chance of finishing 4th.

[Mac76]

Spurs run in :lol:

They have no chance of finishing 4th.

Which as I say isn't remotely funny as they'll be on the beach for the Citeh game

[Marc Overmars]

Yeah I don’t think they’ll be playing for 4th by the time they face City.

Anyway, we’ve still got 2 games to win before we bother ourselves with that match.

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I think they have more than a decent chance against Chelsea and Liverpool tbf.

It's all falling apart for Liverpool and in the case of Chelsea, can anyone predict what they will do?

The issue with me saying it is falling apart for them though is that Villa also have to play Liverpool.

[Letters]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce96wzkgzpgo

:haha:

[Marc Overmars]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ce96wzkgzpgo

:haha:

Get Rashford in on the cheap.

[Letters]

Dunno. At times he looks quality but he’s a bit patchy.
Only 7 PL goals this season.
He did better last year with 17, obviously this year Utd have been pretty poor, in a better team I guess he would get more

[Mac76]

Dunno. At times he looks quality but he’s a bit patchy.
Only 7 PL goals this season.
He did better last year with 17, obviously this year Utd have been pretty poor, in a better team I guess he would get more

I wouldn't mind, if you look at what we've done with Kai, I think we could get the best out of him, even though he's at Moan U he seems a decent bloke too

He'd be a great additional option at RW or CF and if I say he'd be an upgrade on Eddie, it's the understatement of the decade

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Chelsea: Petrovic, Gilchrist, Chalobah, Badiashile, Cucurella, Caicedo, Gallagher, Madueke, Palmer, Mudryk, Jackson
Subs: Bettenelli, Casadei, Deivid, Sturge, Tauriainen, Castledine, Acheampong, George, Dyer

Tottenham: Vicario, Porro, Romero, Van de ven, Royal, Sarr, Bissouma, Johnson, Kulusveski, Son Heung-Min, Richarlison
Subs: Austin, Skipp, Hojbjerg, Dragusin, Maddison, Gil, Lo Celso, Bentancur, Moore

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4-4 I reckon.

[dostoy]

Come on Chelseeeeeeeeeeeeea.

[Mac76]

Come on Chelseeeeeeeeeeeeea.

Err, no I'm afraid it's come on Spuds, :sick:

We need them to stay in the race for fourth

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Laugh at the loser for me.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Err, no I'm afraid it's come on Spuds, :sick:

We need them to stay in the race for fourth

You’ve been making sense lately

Stop it, it’s not right

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Van De Ven clears off the line!

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1-0 Chalobah. :lol:

Set piece again.

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Mudryk combs it wide.

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Poor header from Romero.

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Porro. :haha:

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I like Madueke, think he's good.

Not many Chelsea players I think that about.

[Marc Overmars]

Come on Spurs you useless morons.

[dostoy]

Spuds will be useless against Man City.

You can't count on them.

The quicker they are out of the race for fourth the better. I hope they end up in the Europa Conference League.

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Palmer. :haha:

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Sarr off, Maddison on.Richarlison off, Bentancur on. Bissouma off, Hojbjerg on.

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Obvious yellow for Van De Ven.

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Great move from Spuds tbf.

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2-0 :lol:

Oh Spurs, you are adorably hopeless

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2-0 Jackson.
Off the bar from Palmer

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This has been woeful from Tottenham overall.

Remember when they were title contenders earlier in the season? :lol:

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Everywhere they go. :lol:

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Awful from Maddison.

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Chelsea 2-0 Spuds, FT. On to Anfield it is then.

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Chelsea 2-0 Spuds, FT. On to Anfield it is then.

:haha:

[dostoy]

Great result.

I still want Spuds in the EC League though, because that is Thursday night extra shit.

[Letters]

Spurs will be fine against City.
So long as City don’t have any set pieces at any point

:doh:

[Mac76]

Bad result for us, Spuds will almost certainly be on the beach by the time they play Citeh

I think Citeh's game at Fulham is our best hope but that's not saying much

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I wouldn't want to be relying on them in what would be a must win game for them anyway.

It's probably better if they have no pressure on it in case of the Spuds.

Though we still need to win two games to even make it relevant.

[LDG]

Spurs will be fine against City.
So long as City don’t have any set pieces at any point

:doh:

“Listen mate, thats not the way we play”

[dostoy]

Man City will beat Spuds comfortably.

The last thing Spuds will ever do is help Arsenal, even if it harms themselves.

[Letters]

I always said the funniest possible outcome is they lose to us and then get a result against City which results in us being Champions :d


But yeah, it's hard to make a case for that. They've got the flip flops on, City are miles better than them.