29th-30th August Matchday Thread

Saturday, 29 August 2009
Barclays Premier League
Blackburn v West Ham, 15:00
Bolton v Liverpool, 15:00
Chelsea v Burnley, 12:45
Man Utd v Arsenal, 17:15
Stoke v Sunderland, 15:00
Tottenham v Birmingham, 15:00
Wolverhampton v Hull, 15:00

Sunday, 30 August 2009
Barclays Premier League
Aston Villa v Fulham, 16:00
Everton v Wigan, 15:00
Portsmouth v Man City, 13:30

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa, Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Essien, Ballack, Deco, Lampard, Anelka, Drogba.

Subs: Hilario, Ivanovic, Mikel, Malouda, Kalou, Sturridge, Belletti.

Burnley: Jensen, Mears, Carlisle, Bikey, Jordan, Alexander, Blake, Elliott, McCann, Paterson, Steven Fletcher.

Subs: Penny, Kalvenes, McDonald, Gudjonsson, Thompson, Guerrero, Eagles.

My prediction, a comfortable 4-0 home win to Chelsea.

Goals from Drogba, Lampard (2) and Essien

I expect Burnley to be very poor away from home this season

This should have been my first game of the season, but my brother going instead.

Anyway...we need a early goal against birmingham or else they may sneak a draw/victory. Theses were the kinda games we struggled at times last season. But this season we are playing more patiently and not losing our composure as we were last season...

Team will be the same as the WH game. (Although I would swap Keane with Pav)

Mark Hughes should bid for Brian Jensen

Ditto on the Pav-Keane thing.

Did you watch Football Focus earlier?

They were saying that they're basically sticking with the pre-season partnerships.

King-Bassong
Huddlestone-Palacios
Keane-Defoe.

Keane simply isn't good enough though. Pav if given the confidence of the managers support could be a far better player.

Glenn Johnnsonn wrote:Mark Hughes should bid for Brian Jensen

Can you reduce your Fritzl Glenn. Its fucking the page up.

Burnley have missed a brilliant chance to score. Awful miss.

Glenn Johnnsonn wrote:Mark Hughes should bid for Brian Jensen

Goes without saying really.

GERMANY

Great goal by Ashley Cole.

Riera and Kyrioifdshfgogpsfggos in for Benyanoon and Sktrel who drop to the bench.

Skrtel is better than Carragher and I'm willing to bet he's better than this Greek pensioner, seems strange to leave him on the bench. Other than that I'm happy, i think we've been missing Riera, I really do, he keeps the ball well and can be dangerous on his day. Benayoun is a great impact player to bring off the bench if needs be and good to see Babel nowhere near the squad.

Srtel has a jaw injury, how long would he last against Bolton?

Kryfdlkgfdshgakfdgos is 9 metres tall, he's a good selection for this game.

He's shite though so watch out

WATCH OUT

Chelsea starting to look formidable.

Calidad wrote:Chelsea starting to look formidable.

Was at the Fulham game last week and in the 2nd half, Fulham couldn't get close to them!

They started like this with Scolari though. Lets see how they're doing in January.

Home to Burnley and they were fortunate in the first half not to concede a couple.

1448: Massive day for Liverpool, they desperately need a win at Bolton to reignite their title challenge. Rafa benitez has endured his worst start to a season in 11 years - back then, he was relegated from La Liga with Extremadura.

Going down

L r dd wrote:Home to Burnley and they were fortunate in the first half not to concede a couple.

You're worried aren't you LRD ?

Geovanni scores for Hull vs Wolves.

L r dd wrote:Home to Burnley :

Too obvious...

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

L r dd wrote:Home to Burnley and they were fortunate in the first half not to concede a couple.

You're worried aren't you LRD ?

Ive been more than right the last few years can you say the same?

Im sure we'll beat Burnley by a similar amount at home.

L r dd wrote:

Pierre Littbarski wrote:

L r dd wrote:Home to Burnley and they were fortunate in the first half not to concede a couple.

You're worried aren't you LRD ?

Ive been more than right the last few years can you say the same?

Im sure we'll beat Burnley by a similar amount at home.

...but will Chelsea lose at Turf Moor ? Unlikely.

People who say "its just like it was under Scolari" are morons - the players are talking far more glowingly about Ancelotti and he is proven as a club manager in Europe unlike Scolari.

They are a much better squad than you, you were jammy to beat them in CL final and you've won titles by default.

How is it relevant that you were right the last few years if you had ronaldo in those years ?

Bolton are beating Liverpool! Davies with the goal.

Bolton 1-0 Liverpool

Davies

We've been controlling the whole game as well, just a fucking joke, we're shit this season.

Glenn Johnnsonn wrote:Bolton 1-0 Liverpool

Davies

hahahahahahahahahahaha u shit bastards hahahahahahaha

You bumped THE THREAD 10mins ago Glenn

Rafa


Top man - best manager in EPL, robbed by refs of last season's title and can't recover from Alonso sale.

I wish him the best wherever he ends up