Premier league discussion 22nd/23rd December

Saturday, 22 December 2007

Arsenal v Tottenham, 12:45
Aston Villa v Man City, 15:00
Bolton v Birmingham, 15:00
Fulham v Wigan, 15:00
Liverpool v Portsmouth, 15:00
Middlesbrough v West Ham, 15:00
Reading v Sunderland, 15:00


Sunday, 23 December 2007

Blackburn v Chelsea, 16:10
Man Utd v Everton, 12:00
Newcastle v Derby, 14:00

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Big games for the 'big 4' All potentially dangerous games, the Arsenal-Spurs game is the biggest of the weekend of course, I think Arsenal will win as they're at home and have a great record against Spurs.

Liverpool desperately need 3 points to get out of this depressing blip and I think if we play to what we're capeable of then we can beat them.

Chelsea will have a very tough game without Drogba and Terry with Blackburn being so good at defending, they're really going to have to grind out a result you feel.

Everton are in great form and can cause United a few peoblems but once agin home advantage is the key factor for me, if it was at Goodison I'd fancy Everton to get the win but they may escape OT with a draw.

Pompey are in the rather strange situation of being amazing away from home and poor from home, so this weekend's game against Liverpool is really tough to predict. I think I've predicted a slim Pool win.

The Chelsea game is likewise difficult. Chelsea missing key players, but Blackburn haveonly one once in 6 now I think! And their defence seems to be falling apart

God I have no idea or not much confidence for tommorow.

L'pool = shocking at home this season for our standards.
Pompey = Excellent away from home.

Still go for a 'pool win as always, though a draw wouldn't suprise me.

I'm rooting (of course) for a home win, but i'm not entirely confident, i've been very impressed with Pompey this season.

I'd go with

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

--Arbeloa------Carra------Hyypia----------Riise-----------------

-----------------Masch----------Alonso------------------------------

--------Gerrard--------------------------------Kewell/Lucas-----------

------------------------Kuyt--------Torres-------------------------------

I wouldn't play Kuyt ever again, i'd sell him / give away on free in January, and buy a decent fucking striker.

Voronin can go aswell, hes shown nothing upfront that a blind man couldn't do (run around alot not doing very much)

Bring in Anelka (proven premiership goalscorer) and possibly someone like Alves would be nice.

Its a shame Rafa is a fucking tool, when it comes to transfers... we really need somebody overlooking our purchases, Rafa is a liability!

With the money hes spent we *could* have a much better squad IMO.

16:10? Strange kick-off time.

S4P wrote:16:10? Strange kick-off time.

I know theres been a lot of disruption with trains recently, perhaps they've allowed another 10minutes due to train times?

Villa away for us, a very tough game and id be very happy wiht a point.

I reckon 2-2 for our game

I'm gonna go for a 2-1 away win for us here

About three weeks ago, I'd have been sure of a West Ham win, but I honestly think boro might win again!

5-1 West Ham. 2 for Ashton, 1 for Cole, 1 for Etherington and a Downing OG.

Spankeltoe wrote:5-1 West Ham. 2 for Ashton, 1 for Cole, 1 for Etherington and a Downing OG.

Your jealousy due to our success is just wrong.

Christmas Genius wrote:I wouldn't play Kuyt ever again, i'd sell him / give away on free in January, and buy a decent fucking striker.

But, he works hard.

Sgoater1 wrote:Villa away for us, a very tough game and id be very happy wiht a point.

With an attitude like that you'll never with the league .

We are doing a similar thing to Portsmouth tbh...poor at home, but doing well away.

I think we could get a result here...Boro have confidence, and we need to pick ourselves up from the double loss to Everton. We have a terrible record at the Riverside...but I have a feeling we may get something.

Honourable C*nt™ wrote:

Christmas Genius wrote:I wouldn't play Kuyt ever again, i'd sell him / give away on free in January, and buy a decent fucking striker.

But, he works hard.

Methinks he's working too hard.

Come on City, Pompey, Everton & Blackburn!

Big win from Bolton today please.

I have a bad feeling we're going to draw 0-0, hopefully that wont be the case

22 Scott Carson : Joe Hart 25

4 Olof Mellberg : Nedum Onuoha 4

16 Zat Knight : Richard Dunne 22

5 Martin Laursen : Micah Richards 2

3 Wilfred Bouma : Michael Ball 3

28 Shaun Maloney : Darius Vassell 12

20 Nigel Reo-Coker : Dietmar Hamann 21

6 Gareth Barry : Fernandes Gelson 28

7 Ashley Young : Martin Petrov 15

11 Gabriel Agbonlahor : Blumer Elano 11

10 John Carew : Rolando Bianchi 10

Subs

26 Craig Gardner : Deiberson Geovanni 8

15 Curtis Davies : Vedran Corluka 16

9 Marlon Harewood : Andreas Isaksson 1

13 Stuart Taylor : Kelvin Etuhu 37

19 Stiliyan Petrov : Javier Garrido 24



for us, maloney is the only real change, ahead of gardner. deserves a start, makes it quite an attacking line-up.

for city, i'm surprised corluka and garrido are both on the bench. vassell usually scores against us. bastard.

Middlesbrough
* 01 Schwarzer
* 02 Young
* 08 Woodgate
* 31 Wheater
* 06 Pogatetz
* 28 Johnson
* 07 Boateng
* 03 Arca
* 19 Downing
* 11 Aliadiere
* 17 Sanli

Substitutes

* 21 Turnbull,
* 14 Huth,
* 27 Cattermole,
* 15 Shawky,
* 18 Lee

West Ham United
West Ham

* 01 Green
* 02 Neill
* 06 Upson
* 03 McCartney
* 18 Spector
* 15 Solano
* 08 Parker
* 17 Mullins
* 07 Ljungberg
* 33 Camara
* 09 Ashton

Substitutes

* 21 Wright,
* 14 Pantsil,
* 16 Noble,
* 24 Dailly,
* 31 Ephraim

Hogan Ephraim England u19...what a player!

Dirk Kuyt had a great chance and what do you know, didn't score

Bianchi scores again. Can not understand why he hasn't been starting.

YOSSI!

fuckity. 1-0 down. bianchi. motherfucker.

pool leading 1-0

great goal by the underrated benayoun.

yeah torres is useless when he doesn't score

awesome. 1-1. carew. god.