FA Cup/Premier League 7th - 11th March Discussion Thread

what's your point?

boring weekend.

Essien on the bench for Chelsea today.

Cesc Soler wrote:
Coventry City vs. Chelsea (Live on ITV1 12:30)
Fulham vs. Manchester United (Live on ITV1 17:15)

Fascinating choice of games.

Hmmm... quaresma seems to be playing well for Chelsea.... why couldn't he provide those kind of passes at Inter????

Chelsea are through and Essien's return probably means that Mikel can reacquaint himself with the bench. Good to see Essien playing again.

EMP wrote:Chelsea are through and Essien's return probably means that Mikel can reacquaint himself with the bench. Good to see Essien playing again.

I still think that when Chelsea play the big boys it should be...

...Essien......Mikel...

..Lampard/Ballack..


...rather than...


........Essien/Mikel.........

Lampard........Ballack

Sunderland are winning by a Richardson goal I think.

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

EMP wrote:Chelsea are through and Essien's return probably means that Mikel can reacquaint himself with the bench. Good to see Essien playing again.

I still think that when Chelsea play the big boys it should be...

...Essien......Mikel...

..Lampard/Ballack..


...rather than...


........Essien/Mikel.........

Lampard........Ballack

On current form:

Essien--Mikel
----Lampard

What "current form" does Essien have

bluenine wrote:Hmmm... quaresma seems to be playing well for Chelsea.... why couldn't he provide those kind of passes at Inter????

It was Coventry.

In the EPL he's been shite whenever I've seen him

So if Sunderland win. it's 3 from these 6
15 Stoke 28 -17 29
16 Newcastle 28 -11 28
17 Portsmouth 27 -15 28
18 Blackburn 27 -13 27
19 Middlesbrough 28 -20 26
20 West Brom

Brom are gown so 2 from 5. Hopefully Portsmouth, the other is anyone's guess.

How much you got on pompey to go down? I think it will be boro joining them sadly.

Sunderland-Spurs is an interesting game right now - Sunderland are getting some space to run directly at Spurs' back 4, with Jones always a threat but generally being dealt with well by Woodgate-King. And Spurs are basing their moves on some beautiful touches by Keane and/or Modric each time they go up the field...but Bent is really poor when he gets the ball. Just produced one of the most horrible finishes I've ever seen, and he was through 1 v 1 against the keeper

Rosicky wrote:How much you got on pompey to go down? I think it will be boro joining them sadly.

A lot kept putting more every week Adams was in charge, odds range from 5/1 to 7/4 mostly 3/1 5/2ish though.

38:25 Substitution Tamas Priskin is caught offside. Grzegorz Rasiak comes on in place of Tommy Smith.



55:34 GOAL - Grzegorz Rasiak
Charlton 2 - Watford 2

A fantastic goal is scored by Grzegorz Rasiak from just outside the penalty box to the top left corner of the goal. Charlton 2-2 Watford.Assist by Jobi McAnuff.





* Seeing as there are no games at the moment and I can't be arsed to find Championship thread.

Hull can still go down. I really wouldn't be surprised if they only picked up a couple of draws in their remaining games.

Kimbo wrote:Hull can still go down. I really wouldn't be surprised if they only picked up a couple of draws in their remaining games.

I agree.

Palacios' honeymoon is definitely over, I wonder if TS is watching this game.

Another pointless performance from N'Gog.

Glennathinaikos wrote:Palacios' honeymoon is definitely over, I wonder if TS is watching this game.

Another pointless performance from N'Gog.

TS is a good poster but he really lets himself down with his insistence that Robbie Keane is a half decent player - he's getting as bad as Motty

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

Kimbo wrote:Hull can still go down. I really wouldn't be surprised if they only picked up a couple of draws in their remaining games.

I agree.

Everyone's been saying that and they still pick up good draws home or away then get the odd win. They're 5 points clear and will surely get 1-2 more wins and that's all they need.

Keane equalises, doesn't change the fact that he's had a shit game.

Contentious goal.

Keane equalises for Spurs. No suspense about which way the goal had gone when watching Final Score with the two ex-Spurs players in the studio looking rather gleeful.

L-r d wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

Kimbo wrote:Hull can still go down. I really wouldn't be surprised if they only picked up a couple of draws in their remaining games.

I agree.

Everyone's been saying that and they still pick up good draws home or away then get the odd win. They're 5 points clear and will surely get 1-2 more wins and that's all they need.

Their win against Fulham was one of the jammiest of the season. Prior to that game they got 2 draws in 10 games, that could very well heppen to them again.

82:46 GOAL - Tamas Priskin

Charlton 2 - Watford 3

Tamas Priskin fires in a goal from deep inside the penalty box to the bottom right corner of the goal. Charlton 2-3 Watford.




I'd probably accept £5m + Bendtner for him though.

Probably should have been a pen on Jones, and Spurs score on the break.

Sunderland 1-1 Tottenham

Last 10 minutes or so were great and Spurs can count themselves lucky that Sunderland continued to attack as though they were a goal down, and the referee ignored a penalty appeal after King appeared to foul Ken Jones, the equaliser coming from a counter attack with a very good finisher from the best player in the league. Palacios went off after about an hour after a gutless performance, Keane was poor too and Bent Darren had a game that will see Sheila Redknapp restored to the starting XI.

Fergle fielding the kids in the cup again

Fulham
01 Schwarzer
04 Pantsil
05 Hangeland
18 Hughes
03 Konchesky
25 Davies
20 Etuhu
13 Murphy
23 Dempsey
09 Zamora
08 Johnson

Substitutes
19 Zuberbuhler, 10 Nevland, 11 Gera, 15 Kamara, 16 Dacourt, 22 Stoor, 33 Kallio

Man Utd
01 Van der Sar
22 O'Shea
05 Ferdinand
15 Vidic
03 Evra
24 Fletcher
16 Carrick
08 Anderson
13 Park
10 Rooney
32 Tevez

Substitutes
12 Foster, 09 Berbatov, 11 Giggs, 18 Scholes, 19 Welbeck, 23 Evans, 42 Eckersley

Ref: Mike Dean

1-0 Tevez