Premier League - Sat 27 Oct 2007 and Sun 28 Oct 2007 Thread

Saturday, 27 October 2007

Birmingham vs. Wigan, 15:00
Chelsea vs. Man City, 15:00
Man Utd vs. Middlesbrough, 15:00
Portsmouth vs. West Ham, 17:15
Reading vs. Newcastle, 15:00
Sunderland vs. Fulham, 15:00

Sunday, 28 October 2007

Bolton vs. Aston Villa, 13:30
Derby vs. Everton, 14:00
Liverpool vs. Arsenal, 16:00
Tottenham vs. Blackburn, 15:00




Top Shooter - Emmanuel Adebayor (Arsenal) - 29

Top Passer - Paul Scholes (Man Utd) - 790

Top Tackler - Nigel Reo-Coker (Aston Villa) - 46

Most Dribbles & Runs - El Hadji Diouf (Bolton) - 50

Most Crosses - El Hadji Diouf (Bolton) - 119

Most Offsides - Dimitar Berbatov (Tottenham) - 21

Most Fouls - George Boateng (Middlesbrough) - 26

Team with most fouls - Middlesbrough - 152

Team with most shots - Man Utd - 151

I don't understand those Sunday kickoff times...at least schedule a game after another one so that they don't all clash with each other.

Sunday's game is huge for the Premiership, Liverpool could go 3 points behind the leaders or fall 9 points behind, if it's the latter then it's going to be incredibly difficult to catch up. Of course it could also be a draw, in which case it's a bit $h!t.

Luis wrote:Sunday's game is huge for the Premiership, Liverpool could go 3 points behind the leaders or fall 9 points behind, if it's the latter then it's going to be incredibly difficult to catch up. Of course it could also be a draw, in which case it's a bit $h!t.

nice build-up but trailed off a bit at the end ...

No one talking about this weekends games?

This is Actims top performers so far this season:

Egyptian striker Ahmed Hossam "Mido" has been ruled out of Middlesbrough's clash against Manchester United on Saturday because of a groin injury.



Man Utd 4-0 Middlesbrough

Clichy.

No assists, no bonus points, yet 9th best overall in actim stat terms and the best defender. Fantasy robbery of the highest order.

As for this weekend.

Liverpool 0-4 Arsenal
Manchester United 4-0 Middlesbrough

No Mido or Tuncay for Middlesbrough. It could be a long and painful afternoon for them tomorrow.

Why isn't the LOL! moving anymore?

Tuncay is fit but i am not sure he will start.

Lets see how Anderson + Hargreaves play , i think Anderson would get forward more often his link up with Tevez , Rooney and Ronaldo in particular has been good. A Man United win against Boro and a Liverpool win over Arsenal will be ideal.

Dwarf wrote:Clichy.

No assists, no bonus points, yet 9th best overall in actim stat terms and the best defender. Fantasy robbery of the highest order.

As the graph says, it is based on six key factors. I can only imagine 'running quickly' is one of those factors, otherwise I can't understand how so many Arsenal players, particularly Clichy and Van Persie, have made it in there. Ronaldo, Rooney, Torres and Drogba have all been considerably better than Van Persie so far, and everyone knows it.

Rabbit wrote:

Dwarf wrote:Clichy.

No assists, no bonus points, yet 9th best overall in actim stat terms and the best defender. Fantasy robbery of the highest order.

As the graph says, it is based on six key factors. I can only imagine 'running quickly' is one of those factors, otherwise I can't understand how so many Arsenal players, particularly Clichy and Van Persie, have made it in there. Ronaldo, Rooney, Torres and Drogba have all been considerably better than Van Persie so far, and everyone knows it.

Torres?!

Maybe its based on goals, where he beats all of them

Tweedle wrote:
Torres?!

Yep.

Maybe its based on goals, where he beats all of them

As has been made abundantly clear, it is based on six key factors, i.e. it ignores 90% of a performance so that the people running this thing can manipulate the figures to get the players they want top of the list.

It means nothing. Even if it weren't full of Arsenal players who've done f@ck all of any note, it would mean nothing.

Hasn't van Persie had 2/3 penalties?

Parks lives wrote:Hasn't van Persie had 2/3 penalties?

Only one goal from a penalty (and one missed).


RVP hasn't been at his best yet this season, he is normally a bit of a slow starter, but his goals have been important. He scored winning goals against Sunderland, Steaua and West Ham and his goals against Fulham and Blackburn were important as well. Only his goal against Sevilla didn't have a big impact on the overall result.

Chelsea City will be interesting, it's time for City to really prove they are a force, a draw would be a good result for them I think, don't see why they can't get a win though

Luis wrote:Chelsea City will be interesting, it's time for City to really prove they are a force, a draw would be a good result for them I think, don't see why they can't get a win though

People keep saying that we can win today like its not that hard...Chelsea are an amazing force at home in the league and it would be an incredible acheivement if we can beat them, even a draw would be brilliant especially seen as they are on form. Its going to be very very tough.

Luis wrote:Chelsea City will be interesting, it's time for City to really prove they are a force, a draw would be a good result for them I think, don't see why they can't get a win though

I'm worried about this game. I don't think we'll lose because we're at home, but I don't think we'll win either. We really need a win if we're gonna get back into the top 4 .

Sheffield gunner wrote:

Parks lives wrote:Hasn't van Persie had 2/3 penalties?

Only one goal from a penalty (and one missed).


RVP hasn't been at his best yet this season, he is normally a bit of a slow starter, but his goals have been important. He scored winning goals against Sunderland, Steaua and West Ham and his goals against Fulham and Blackburn were important as well. Only his goal against Sevilla didn't have a big impact on the overall result.

van Persie started this season very disappointing imo. That's why I threatened to change my avatar. Unfotunately just when he was about to get in his groove, he got injured.

Him being ranked that high in those stats (& a few others mentioned) says you can't take them seriously.

He'll play better when he comes back, mark my words. He can be in shape as of his return, he did that a couple of times.

Anyway we're without him for a while. I'ld go for this line-up tomorrow:

----------------Almunia--------------------
Sagna----Touré----Gallas -----Clichy
Hleb-------Cesc---Flamster--Rosicky
-------------Walcott -------------------------
----------------Adebayor---------------------

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BBC - Live Premier League

1409: Ruud van Nistelrooy scored the only goal of the game the last time Manchester United picked up three points at home to Boro more than five years. Talking of the Dutch striker, it's the 25th anniversary of 'My Little Pony' this weekend.

1 Petr Cech
35 Juliano Belletti
33 Alex
6 Ricardo Carvalho
20 Paulo Ferreira
12 John Mikel Obi
5 Michael Essien
8 Frank Lampard (c)
10 Joe Cole
15 Didier Drogba
21 Salomon Kalou

Substitutes: 23 Carlo Cudicini, 22 Tal Ben-Haim, 4 Claude Makelele, 14 Claudio Pizarro, 7 Andriy Shevchenko.

--------------Cech
Belletti--Alex--Carvalho--Ferreira
-----------Mikel--Essien
-------------Lampard
J Cole---------------------Kalou
-------------Drogba

What is wrong with Malouda? I didn't realise he was injured.

He's being rested it seems (along with Bridge). Both Grant and Mourinho seem to have this fantasy about playing Kalou (who is very much like Ronaldo was in his first season in England i.e. all the talent in the world but not enough of an end product).

Batman wrote:

Man Utd Team:

Van der Sar

Brown . . . Ferdinand . . Vidic . . O'Shea .

Ronaldo . . Hargreaves . . Anderson . . Nani

Rooney . . . Tevez


Subs: Kuszczak, Pique, Simpson, Fletcher, Giggs.

Ferdinand is captain today then.

I think he should be the next captain after Neville ...

Batman wrote:

Man Utd Team:

Van der Sar

Brown . . . Ferdinand . . Vidic . . O'Shea .

Ronaldo . . Hargreaves . . Anderson . . Nani

Rooney . . . Tevez


Subs: Kuszczak, Pique, Simpson, Fletcher, Giggs.

Why has SAF gone off Pique again, he was doing well. I'd much rather have him play then Brown.

Lets see if we can play free flowing stuff with hargreaves. I have my doubts

Owen wrote:
Why has SAF gone off Pique again, he was doing well. I'd much rather have him play then Brown.

I would play Brown at RB instead of Pique because he is quicker and has played more games at RB.

Batman wrote:

Owen wrote:
Why has SAF gone off Pique again, he was doing well. I'd much rather have him play then Brown.

I would play Brown at RB instead of Pique because he is quicker and has played more games at RB.

I think he's been poor at RB personally.

Come on Citeh!