Premier League week 6

Chelsea losing
Arsenal losing
Spurs losing
Liverpool drawing
ManYoo drawing

Welcome to the Twilight Zone

Villa:


Subs: Guzan, Davies, Lichaj, Bannan, Sidwell, Ireland, Agbonlahor

Heskeyllier

Heskey won the match midweek. Plus Gabby's carrying a knock and Carew's injured.

We'll see how you do today.

Houllier

Albrighton for England!

Stewie Downing

Good first half. Heskey's playing the Heskey role very well. Midfield looks stronger with Coker alongside Petrov. Albrighton doing well enough that the LB had to get himself subbed rather than take any more. And Downing is becoming prolific

Wolves have had their chances too though, and Doyle-Fletcher looks a good partnership up front. More goals in this methinks.

HAHAHAHA

I hate that type of goal

Subtly Beautiful wrote:

Sgoater1 wrote: Who are his bad signings ?

None are bad signings per se, but his best signing was also his cheapest. Johnson is better than Milner, but cost something like 1/4 of the price. More Johnsons, less Vieiras and you'd have a team that was not only better to watch, but a lot harder to take the piss out of.

Yeah but there arnt many 22 year old england internationals around at £7m it was a very good signing, the only other exceptionally good £7m signing is Bebe but U*d pounced.

Super Padrino wrote:Goater
Congrats to you.

I was very critical of Mancini and the defence but I think he has chosen the right way so far because that defence needs that protection. So that might be cost something in terms of entertainment but so be it. Still think it was a big mistake to rely on Toure/Kompany/Lescott but given that is what he has the defensive approach makes sense. Think Tevez-Adebayor-Johnson/Silva should be the attack but it might take time to find the right mix.

cheers yeah i think we will be more attacking once we have Ade fully fit and against lesser teams.

Sgoater1 wrote:

Subtly Beautiful wrote:

Sgoater1 wrote: Who are his bad signings ?

None are bad signings per se, but his best signing was also his cheapest. Johnson is better than Milner, but cost something like 1/4 of the price. More Johnsons, less Vieiras and you'd have a team that was not only better to watch, but a lot harder to take the piss out of.

Yeah but there arnt many 22 year old england internationals around at £7m it was a very good signing, the only other exceptionally good £7m signing is Bebe but U*d pounced.

No doubt other sides waste big money too, but most of your best players now were already there when Mancini arrived. He's got a long way to go to really impress me. There's only so often Tevez will save your asses.

Ade wrote:Chelsea losing
Arsenal losing
Spurs losing
Liverpool drawing
ManYoo drawing

Welcome to the Twilight Zone

City win !

Basically: Kompany and Johnson.

And its truly impressive how far off the pace Silva has looked.

I wonder who Stoke will target today? Carroll? Barton? Ben Arfa? I'm sure they will be throwing themselves into young Krul during corners. Dirty bastards.

Kimbo wrote:I wonder who Stoke will target today? Carroll? Barton? Ben Arfa? I'm sure they will be throwing themselves into young Krul during corners. Dirty bastards.

I hope you smash them today

Hlebagone wrote:Basically: Kompany and Johnson.

And its truly impressive how far off the pace Silva has looked.

He himself has said it will take a few months to get used to it and tbh he's done pretty well recently.

Noah and the Bale wrote:

Kimbo wrote:I wonder who Stoke will target today? Carroll? Barton? Ben Arfa? I'm sure they will be throwing themselves into young Krul during corners. Dirty bastards.

I hope you smash them today

The whole board can cheer for Newcastle. Think how happy Kimbo will be!

Kimbo wrote:I wonder who Stoke will target today? Carroll? Barton? Ben Arfa? I'm sure they will be throwing themselves into young Krul during corners. Dirty bastards.

You've changed your tune just to get your excuses in early pot belly

Deluded F*ck wrote:

Kimbo wrote:I wonder who Stoke will target today? Carroll? Barton? Ben Arfa? I'm sure they will be throwing themselves into young Krul during corners. Dirty bastards.

You've changed your tune just to get your excuses in early pot belly

Bullshit! I've never been in favour of it!

Heskey and Owen just cant stop scoring since Houllier got back.

For Mancio City read his Inter team;

defend, defend & defend and pray that your star forward can pull a rabbit out of the hat.

1st Zlatan, now Tevez....

Kimbo wrote:

Deluded F*ck wrote:

Kimbo wrote:I wonder who Stoke will target today? Carroll? Barton? Ben Arfa? I'm sure they will be throwing themselves into young Krul during corners. Dirty bastards.

You've changed your tune just to get your excuses in early pot belly

Bullshit! I've never been in favour of it!

It was fine with you when they were targeting Gomes though

Played shit for much of 2nd half, but nice to get in a sucker punch for once - they usually go against us.

Kudos to Heskey, had a good game and then won it from a half-chance.

Was frustrating after the break. It was obvious Wolves would be pushing forward at 1-0 down at home & we just failed to slow the pace down - whenever we got it, just tried to play stupidly ambitious counter-attacks with only one player forward, meaning they kept coming back until the goal.

Positive signs - Houllier actually subbing Petrov when he faded in the latter stages , Cuellar-Collins were very good, Coker had a good game too.
Bad - Warnock had a poor game. The aforementioned failure to just keep the ball when they were ramping up the pressure.

Great to get a win anyway. Got a tough run of fixtures now, so good to get points on the board. We should be confident going to Spurs, with them having had a European game beforehand and not looking too good in the league so far.

Hlebagone wrote:

Noah and the Bale wrote:

Kimbo wrote:I wonder who Stoke will target today? Carroll? Barton? Ben Arfa? I'm sure they will be throwing themselves into young Krul during corners. Dirty bastards.

I hope you smash them today

The whole board can cheer for Newcastle. Think how happy Kimbo will be!

Count me in

Huth

Pen to Newcastle...1-0

Nolan

Ade wrote:Huth

Nolan converts. 1 up now.

Ben Arfa...magnifique too

What a wally is Huth.

SJP = real atmosphere