This Weekend's Fixtures (28/29/30 Sept).

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Saturday, 28th September 2024
Newcastle United v Manchester City, 12:30 TNT Sports https://i.imgur.com/tM2pRxb.png
Arsenal v Leicester, 15:00
Brentford v West Ham United 15:00
Chelsea v Brighton & Hove Albion, 15:00
Everton v Crystal Palace, 15:00
Nottingham Forest v Fulham, 15:00
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Liverpool, 17:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Sunday, 29th September 2024
Ipswich Town v Aston Villa, 14:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg
Manchester United v Tottenham Hotspur, 16:30 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

Monday, 30th September 2024
Bournemouth v Southampton, 20:00 https://i.imgur.com/htwHZ0c.jpg

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Newcastle United Pope; Trippier, Schar, Burn, Hall; Joelinton, Guimaraes, Tonali; Gordon, Murphy, Barnes.
Subs: Dubravka, Krafth, Osula, Livramento, Almiron, Kelly, Willock, Longstaff. Murphy

Manchester City: Ederson; Walker, Dias, Akanji, Gvardiol; Kovacic, Lewis, Gundogan; Silva, Haaland, Grealish.
Subs: Ortega, Carson, Stones, Doku, Savinho, Nunes, Foden, McAtee

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Man City so often win here and no Isak. :rose:

[HCZ_Reborn]

No Rodri and No De Bruyne is a game changer, or at least it should be for any side that has the balls to take the game to City (although granted no Isaak is sub optimal).

Also why is Foden on the bench, has he displeased Ming the Merciless

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Ederson backheel.

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Should have loaned Gabriel to Newcastle for that corner.

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Well done Trippier at the back post.

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Guimaraes gets a booking. Was terrible all round from him.

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0-1 Man City, Gvardiol.

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Pope. :haha:

WTF was that.

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0-1 HT.

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Pelanty to Newcastle, yellow for Ederson!

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1-1 Gordon!

[HCZ_Reborn]

I’m not watching the game. Sky sports say it’s not a pel, they also say Grealish VAR check for elbow was nothing. Fair comment or rimming City?

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Kovacic with studs out again.

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I’m not watching the game. Sky sports say it’s not a pel, they also say Grealish VAR check for elbow was nothing. Fair comment or rimming City?

One of those classic player falls in to the goalkeeper with the ball gone and it'll be given.

Don't think it should have been given really. :lol:

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Joe Linton falls over in the box.

Grealish and Tonali going at it.

[HCZ_Reborn]

One of those classic player falls in to the goalkeeper with the ball gone and it'll be given.

Don't think it should have been given really. :lol:

Fair enough

[McNamara That Ghost...]

Chelsea: Sanchez; Gusto, Fofana, Colwill, Cucurella; Fernandez, Caicedo; Madueke, Palmer, Sancho; Jackson.
Subs: Jorgensen, Disasi, Tosin, Neto, Mudryk, Felix, Nkunku, Veiga, Lavia

Brighton: Verbruggen; Kadioglu, Webster, Dunk, Estupinan; Hinshelwood, Baleba; Wieffer, Rutter, Mitoma; Welbeck.
Subs: Steele, Lamptey, Igor, Enciso, Moder, Minteh, Ayari, Ferguson, Samuels.

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Foden shot, right at Pope!

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Nottingham Forest: Sels, Moreno, Murillo, Milenkovic, Aina, Anderson, Ward-Prowse, Yates, Awoniyi, Dominguez, Wood
Subs: Miguel, Morato, Williams, Hudson-Odoi, Toffolo, Silva, Elanga, Sosa, Boly

Fulham: Leno, Robinson, Bassey, Andersen, Tete, Lukic, Pereira, Iwobi, Smith Rowe, Traore, Jimenez
Subs: Benda, Reed, Wilson, Muniz, Cairney, Berge, Nelson, Castagne, Diop

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Brentford: Flekken, Van den Berg, Collins, Pinnock, Ajer, Janelt, Damsgaard, Carvalho, Lewis-Potter, Mbeumo, Schade.
Subs: Valdimarsson, Mee, Yarmolyuk, Meghoma, Konak, Trevitt, Roerslev, Kim, Yogane.

West Ham: Areola, Wan-Bissaka, Todibo, Kilman, Emerson, Rodriguez, Soucek, Paqueta, Kudus, Bowen, Antonio.
Subs: Fabianski, Cresswell, Soler, Coufal, Summerville, Mavropanos, Guilherme, Ings, Irving.

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Everton: Pickford; Young, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Mangala, Doucoure; Lindstrom, McNeil, Ndiaye; Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Armstrong, Garner, Beto, Guete, Harrison, Iroegbunam, Keane, Virginia, O'Brien

Crystal Palace: Henderson; Munoz, Lacroix, Guehi, Mitchell; Lerma, Wharton, Kamada; Nketiah, Eze; Mateta.
Subs: Turner, Chalobah, Clyne, Hughes, Hughes, Agbinone, Sarr, Schlupp, Umeh, Ward.

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Haaland header but easy for Pope.

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Newcastle 1-1 Man City, FT! Not bad.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Don’t get me wrong, whilst I still expect City to be too good for the majority of premier league teams they play. I think games like this where they struggle to create chances may be more commonplace than they have been in recent years.

I’d say after five games, If we get our front six firing (and that’s by no means a certainty) we are the best placed team to profit from this.

I have a lot of differences with Arteta, but I’m happy to concede that he’s given us some steel

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Brentford 1-0 West Ham, Mbeumo!

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Chelsea 0-1 Brighton, Rutter!

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Everton 0-1 Palace, Guehi.

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Chelsea 1-1 Brighton, Palmer.

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Chelsea 2-1 Brighton, Palmer pelanty.

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3-1 Palmer hat-trick. :blink:

[dazthegooner]

Brilliant free kick

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3-2, Baleba. :lol:

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Chelsea 4-2 Brighton, fourth for Palmer.

[Marc Overmars]

Palmers output is mental. He’s pretty much the sole reason I think Chelsea will get back into the top 4 this year.

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Everton 1-1 Palace, McNeil. Whoa, Everton coming back from losing in a game.

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Forest 0-1 Fulham, Jimenez pelanty.

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Brentford 1-1 West Ham, Soucek.

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Everton 2-1 Palace, McNeil with his second!

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Wolves: Johnstone, Semedo, Gomes, Bueno, Ait-Nouri, Andre, Joao Gomes, Lemina, Cunha, Strand Larsen, Bellegarde.
Subs: Pond, Hee-Chan, Rodrigo Gomes, Doyle, Sarabia, Forbs, Guedes, Doherty, Sa.

Liverpool: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson, Mac Allister, Gravenberch, Szoboszlai, Salah, Jota, Diaz.
Subs: Tsimikas, Quansah, Gomez, Bradley, Chiesa, Jones, Gakpo, Endo, Kelleher

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Chelsea 5-2 Brighton, Cucurella.

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Oh it's disallowed.

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AA booked for delaying the restart.

[HCZ_Reborn]

AA booked for delaying the restart.

Next the lame will walk and the blind will see

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Why didn't Diaz shoot?

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What a save to deny Szoboszlai!

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Should be a yellow for Lemina but Taylor doesn't bother because he feigned injury

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Salah's first touch is ridiculous

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0-1 Konate

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0-1 Konate

Balls

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1-2 in the end.

[Marc Overmars]

Damn. Though Liverpool have definitely had the kindest fixtures to start so not fussed at this stage.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Damn. Though Liverpool have definitely had the kindest fixtures to start so not fussed at this stage.

Exactly. I think they will finish top four reasonably easily, but beyond that…not seen anything that makes me think they’ll start making any waves


Chelsea are the ones worrying me, not because I think they will be title challengers but because they are a scumbag club and I want to see them rot in mid table or better still be relegated

[Marc Overmars]

Chelsea is a circus but their squad is actually pretty stacked. Which is the least you’d expect after spending a billion. I can see them finishing 4th and in Palmer they have a serious talent.

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Ipswich Town: Muric, Tuanzebe, O'Shea, Greaves, Davis, Morsy, Phillips, Ogbene, Hutchinson, Clarke, Delap.
Subs: Walton, Johnson, Townsend, Luongo, Taylor, Burns, Chaplin, Szmodics, Hirst.

Aston Villa: Martinez, Konsa, Carlos, Torres, Digne, Tielemans, Onana, Bailey, Ramsey, Rogers, Watkins.
Subs: Gauci, Nedeljkovic, Maatsen, Bogarde, Philogene, Swinkels, Barkley, Buendia, Duran.

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Ipswich 1-0 Villa, Delap!

Martinez chucked it in a bit.

[dazthegooner]

He can be good like that.

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1-1 Rogers.

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Ipswich 1-2 Villa, Watkins.

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2-2 Delap!

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Villa are so open.

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Ipswich 2-2 Villa, FT!

Emery keeps up his run of failing to win at least one game against the newly promoted sides. :lol:

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Man Utd: Onana, Mazraoui, De Ligt, Martinez, Dalot, Mainoo, Ugarte, Fernandes, Garnacho, Zirkzee, Rashford.
Subs: Bayindir, Lindelof, Evans, Casemiro, Mount, Eriksen, Antony, Diallo, Hojlund

Tottenham: Vicario, Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie, Kulusevski, Bentancur, Maddison, Johnson, Solanke, Werner.
Subs: Forster, Spence, Dragusin, Gray, Bissouma, Bergvall, Sarr, Moore, Lankshear.

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0-1 Johnson.

Wow VDV.

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Vicario saves off Rashford but offside anyway.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Spurs all over United

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Johnson hits the post!

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Injury for Udogie

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Zirkzee shot and falling down whilst striking it, Vicario stretches out for rit.

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Garnacho smacks the post!

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Werner. :haha:

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Fernandes sent off!

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It's not that bad bat he lunges for it.

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0-1 HT. Tottenham were good, Man Utd should be five down.

[Shaqiri Is Boss]

That red was harsh, the slip definitely makes it look worse than it is.

Still, Fernandes :pal:

Decent player, dreadful captain.

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0-2 Kulusevski.

This could be an all time battering for Ten Hag.

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I’m last person to be charitable to Bruno Fernandes but that’s never a red card

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Martinez booked.

He's a psychopath.

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Werner. :haha:

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0-3 Solanke.

Ten Hag. :rose:

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We might even get to see the waterfall at Old Trafford tonight.

[Letters]

:lol: the hilarity is tempered by it being Spurs but how hopeless are Utd?! :haha:

[HCZ_Reborn]

:lol: the hilarity is tempered by it being Spurs but how hopeless are Utd?! :haha:

I look at it this way, Spurs are no threat. So to use a South Park analogy…this is a cripple fight

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Man Utd's talent ID season after season has been atrocious.

They wanted us to believe they won the transfer window. :doh:

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Man Utd 0-3 Spuds, FT.

Will Ten Hag survive this one?

[Marc Overmars]

Ten Hag is such a bum.

[Letters]

Ten Hag is such a bum.

They literally only kept him because he won the FA Cup.
And they were good in the final but they were a VAR call away from utter humiliation in the semifinal and given all the other awful results last season, it was a strange decision

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There's only one man who can sort this out.


https://youtu.be/jSu2vsh4rFQ?si=TaoussNh97MII04V

[Marc Overmars]

They literally only kept him because he won the FA Cup.
And they were good in the final but they were a VAR call away from utter humiliation in the semifinal and given all the other awful results last season, it was a strange decision

Shows that domestic cups aren’t worth a dime if you’re bombing in Europe and setting all kind of records for being shit in the league.

[HCZ_Reborn]

They literally only kept him because he won the FA Cup.
And they were good in the final but they were a VAR call away from utter humiliation in the semifinal and given all the other awful results last season, it was a strange decision

I think there’s this stubborn streak in United where they don’t want to be like Chelsea, sacking their coach at the drop of a hat. In terms of transfers they’ve mirrored us, in that when Wenger first went the object was to bring in that one marquee player that would get them into the champions league. Now it’s a mixture of trying to bring in young unknown players and rebuild the defence.

With Ten Haag the problem is, there’s no philosophy. Two years he’s been there and there isn’t a style of football that the team has adopted. I don’t think the squad they’ve got is terrible…it doesn’t help that their attacking players are all youngsters who are not going to be consistent goalscorers…I think Garnacho, Hojlund and Zirkzee are all decent players but a lot being put on them to get goals.

I don’t think Mazraoui or De Ligt were bad signings either and even Onana has begun to settle and looks more assured between the sticks. But it’s not a team, there’s no identity there…and that falls on Ten Haag’s shoulders

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Bournemouth 1-0 Southampton, Evanilson!

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2-0 Outtara.

God if we fuck it up against Southampton next weekend again. :doh:

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3-0. :haha:

Semenyo.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Southampton trying to emulate Derby County in 07/08

My theory is that FSR has created a massive gap between the premier league and the championship, and it’s going to be more commonplace to see all three promoted sides go back down again

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3-1 Harwood-Bellis.

[Mac76]

it’s going to be more commonplace to see all three promoted sides go back down again

Given the general accuracy of your predictions, that will provide huge reassurance to Saints, Ipswich and Leicester

[HCZ_Reborn]

Given the general accuracy of your predictions, that will provide huge reassurance to Saints, Ipswich and Leicester

Fishing for engagement? Tricky work email that you don’t want to be bothered with?

We’ve all been there

[Mac76]

Fishing for engagement? Tricky work email that you don’t want to be bothered with?

We’ve all been there

haha, just seeing how long it would take you

at ease

it's true though your predictions are notoriously askew with reality

[HCZ_Reborn]

haha, just seeing how long it would take you

at ease

it's true though your predictions are notoriously askew with reality

You mean last season where I made scoreline predictions which turned out to be wrong….and actually only did it for the first four or five games

I should be charitable though….theres so little else for you to dine out on.

[HCZ_Reborn]

Plus it’s a bit of projection on my part, the reason I’m responding is because there are boring emails I can’t be bothered with. Although given that’s largely what my job entails, it wouldn’t do to take that attitude all the time

But It comes to something, in demonstrating how unfulfilling I find my job that even talking to you is preferable :lol: