Wednesday Match Thread

Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Aston Villa v Man City, 19:45
Bolton v Chelsea, 20:00
Fulham v Arsenal, 19:45
Liverpool v Portsmouth, 20:00
Man Utd v Everton, 20:00

Highlights are on the BBC at 11:40pm tonight, so bit late for the Dutchies

The Big 4 are playing so should at least be worht a watch

Us v Pompey shoudl be interesting, they will be hoping to get something from the game I'd expect. Plus we have only 1 central midfielder and his best position is on the right

5 point lead after tonight.

Nah, Chelsea will get a win at Bolton I feel

Roger_Hunt wrote:Us v Pompey shoudl be interesting, they will be hoping to get something from the game I'd expect. Plus we have only 1 central midfielder and his best position is on the right

So who's going to play there?

Also isn't Bellamy not allowed to play because of his court case.

We had a long debate in the Liverpool thread - I'm surprised you don't remember Parks as it's your new hangout kidding

options seem to be Carragher (Agger+Hyypia CBs), Agger (Carra+Hyypia CBs), Paletta, or Riise (Palleta LB).

Bellamy is allowed to play, in this country we have a tradition of 'presumed innocence' and he's not on remand. He's just been in court not at training so Rafa's declared he's not match-fit.

Can't you just have 5 - 3 - 2 and allow Agger to roam forward, seeing as his most likely the best footballer of the three centre backs.

That's my preference (probably a 4-1-3-2 if I'm being picky) but Obispo thinks Rafa thinks (and I can see the point) that it's a bit much to ask Agger to start playing out of position so soon. So he's prefer Carra. So probably our attacking strategy is 5-yard pass from Hyypia to Carragher, 5-yard pass to Gerrard, 60-yard pass to Pennant/ Garcia. Hmmm.

Is Paletta actually good enough though? He seems to be getting a lot of hype from you lot merely because hes Argentinian!

Obispo is the main culprit! hes done nothing so far that makes me think hes actually going to be a top class player

Not proven yet Tweedle.

Not wanting to rehash old comments, but none of the new boys can be judged yet imo.

Agger and Kuyt have settled in the best, Pennant, Palletta, Bellamy and Gonzalez aren't there yet. But imo we need at least a season to judge all of them. And as I said all along, 3 successes out of 6 buys would be a pretty good average.

Bellend can't play, I thought.

He could play for the prison team to keep himself fit?

I'm sure they'll be playing him a fair bit. Ol' no neck would make a fine sandwich with two negros.

Only news from our team so far is that Kalou misses another game with his medial ligament injury.

Other than that, a full squad.

its too late for me the highlights as ive got school tomorrow!!

i'm going to our match so will miss the other games.

No doubt i'll see them tomorrow somehow

Tweedledum wrote:Wednesday, 29 November 2006
Aston Villa v Man City, 19:45
Bolton v Chelsea, 20:00
Fulham v Arsenal, 19:45
Liverpool v Portsmouth, 20:00
Man Utd v Everton, 20:00

Highlights are on the BBC at 11:40pm tonight, so bit late for the Dutchies

The Big 4 are playing so should at least be worht a watch

Cheers for that Tweeds all that i wanted to know in one post

Luis wrote:its too late for me the highlights as ive got school tomorrow!!

i'm going to our match so will miss the other games.

No doubt i'll see them tomorrow somehow

ha ha ha ha

Tweedledum wrote:Is Paletta actually good enough though? He seems to be getting a lot of hype from you lot merely because hes Argentinian!

Obispo is the main culprit! hes done nothing so far that makes me think hes actually going to be a top class player

I haven't hyped Paletta at all ('cept the usual 'in jest' types). He was good against Birmingham though and he's played in the centre of midfield before according to Barliette so he's one of the few options we have at present

I'm no worse than the Arsenal fans with Djorou

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBqG4XOkQwk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ZWAsq-cB0

Liverpool should beat Pompy easily they have a dismal away record.

Tonight is the night Drogba gets back to scoring ways mark my words

yours truly wrote:
Tonight is the night Drogba gets back to scoring ways mark my words

3 games now for the Did. I'm surprised nobody has made more of it (on this board)

If he doesn't score we can blame it on the injury although I'm sure he will.

I thought Drogba was quite liked on this board!

Man Utd v Everton

- - - - - - - - Van der Sar - - - - - - - -

Neville - - Ferdinand - Silvestre - - Evra

Fletcher - Carrick - O'Shea - Richardson

- - - - - - Ronaldo - - Rooney - - - - - -


- - - - - McFadden - - Beattie - - - - -

Osman - - Arteta - Carsley - - Neville

Valente - - Lescott - Stubbs - - Yobo

- - - - - - - - - - Wright - - - - - - - - -


Man Utd Subs: Kuszczak, Brown, Heinze, Scholes, Saha.

Everton Subs: Anichebe, Vaughan, Weir, Ruddy, Van der Meyde.

You must be pretty confident of the 3 points!

Todays gonna be the turning point of the season, Man U will get a draw today against Everton and Chelsea will win against Bolton and this will be the turning point of the whole season unfortunetly.....mark my words...

Batman wrote:

- - - - - McFadden - - Beattie - - - - -

Osman - - Arteta - Carsley - - Neville

Valente - - Lescott - Stubbs - - Yobo

- - - - - - - - - - Wright - - - - - - - - -

You're naive if you think Everton won't play with 10 men behind the ball. Guarenteed that McFadden spends 85 minutes of that match on one of the wings.

I thought Ronaldo was doubtful and Giggs would play?

Liverpool v Portsmouth

- - - - - - - - - - Reina - - - - - - - - - -

. Finnan - - Hyypia - - Agger - - Riise

Pennant - Gerrard - Carragher - Garcia

- - - - - - - Kuyt - - Crouch - - - - - - -


- - - - - - - - - - - Mwaruwari - - - - - - - - - - -

Kranjcar - Hughes - O'Neil - Mendes - Thompson

Taylor - - - Campbell - - Primus - - - Pamarot

- - - - - - - - - - - - - James - - - - - - - - - - - - -


Liverpool Subs: Guthrie, Fowler, Dudek, Paletta, El Zhar.

Portsmouth Subs: Fernandes, Kanu, O'Brien, Koroman, Ashdown.

Up the toffees

Batman wrote:Liverpool v Portsmouth

- - - - - - - - - - Reina - - - - - - - - - -

. Finnan - - Hyypia - - Agger - - Riise

Pennant - Gerrard - Carragher - Garcia

- - - - - - - Kuyt - - Crouch - - - - - - -


- - - - - - - - - - - Mwaruwari - - - - - - - - - - -

Kranjcar - Hughes - O'Neil - Mendes - Thompson

Taylor - - - Campbell - - Primus - - - Pamarot

- - - - - - - - - - - - - James - - - - - - - - - - - - -


Liverpool Subs: Guthrie, Fowler, Dudek, Paletta, El Zhar.

Portsmouth Subs: Fernandes, Kanu, O'Brien, Koroman, Ashdown.

Desperate times call for desperate measures