EPL Discussion 26 27 28 29 30 December

Saturday, 26 December 2009
Birmingham v Chelsea, 12:45
Burnley v Bolton, 14:00
Fulham v Tottenham, 13:00
Liverpool v Wolverhampton, 17:30
Man City v Stoke, 15:00
Sunderland v Everton, 15:00
West Ham v Portsmouth, 13:00
Wigan v Blackburn, 15:00

Sunday, 27 December 2009
Arsenal v Aston Villa, 13:30
Hull v Man Utd, 16:00

Monday, 28 December 2009
Blackburn v Sunderland, 15:00
Chelsea v Fulham, 15:00
Everton v Burnley, 15:00
Stoke v Birmingham, 15:00
Tottenham v West Ham, 12:45
Wolverhampton v Man City, 19:45

Tuesday, 29 December 2009
Aston Villa v Liverpool, 19:45
Bolton v Hull, 20:00

Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Man Utd v Wigan, 20:00
Portsmouth v Arsenal, 19:45


Birmingham: Hart, Carr, Roger Johnson, Dann, Ridgewell, Larsson, Ferguson, Bowyer, McFadden, Jerome, Benitez.
Subs: Maik Taylor, Phillips, Fahey, McSheffrey, Damien Johnson, Carsley, Vignal.

Chelsea: Cech, Ivanovic, Terry, Alex, Ashley Cole, Belletti, Mikel, Malouda, Lampard, Drogba, Sturridge.
Subs: Hilario, Carvalho, Joe Cole, Ballack, Zhirkov, Paulo Ferreira, Kalou.


West Ham: Green, Faubert, Tomkins, Upson, Ilunga, Collison, Kovac, Parker, Diamanti, Noble, Franco.
Subs: Stech, Jimenez, Spector, Behrami, Da Costa, Nouble, Stanislas.

Portsmouth: Begovic, Finnan, Kaboul, Ben-Haim, Hreidarsson, O'Hara, Brown, Mullins, Belhadj, Piquionne, Dindane.
Subs: Ashdown, Diop, Utaka, Boateng, Kanu, Yebda, Wilson.


Fulham: Schwarzer, Pantsil, Hughes, Hangeland, Konchesky, Duff, Murphy, Baird, Gera, Dempsey, Zamora.
Subs: Stockdale, Andrew Johnson, Nevland, Etuhu, Smalling, Greening, Kallio.

Tottenham: Gomes, Corluka, Dawson, Bassong, Assou-Ekotto, Lennon, Jenas, Palacios, Kranjcar, Keane, Crouch.
Subs: Alnwick, Bale, Huddlestone, Pavlyuchenko, Modric, Defoe, King.

Birmingham have a goal ruled out for offside. Would have been a controversial goal because Drogba was lying 'injured' in his own six yard box for some time leading up to the incident. He probably wasn't offside either.

OMG is Drogba alright?

Sturridge misses a good chance, set up wonderfully by Drogba.

Chelsea's away from is horrendous. Overated and terrible without the comfort of their small pitch where they can bully teams superior to them.

FT at Chelsea 0-0

Poor show from Chelsea, more dropped points. No one wants to win this league, except maybe Arsenal. And I'm pretty sure they are going to end up battling for the CL spots rather than the title.

Tomorrow will be a really tough game for us, we've been absolutely horrendous against Villa since moving to the Emirates. We've had two late equalisers and a comprehensive defeat in the previous three games.

City Cant believe Bellers was dropped, Mancini is a disgrace!

GOMES

Luis wrote:City Cant believe Bellers was dropped, Mancini is a disgrace!

He's not as good as Robinho so it's hardly a big issue IMO.

Good to see City winning

Chelsea will walk the league.

L r dd wrote:

Luis wrote:City Cant believe Bellers was dropped, Mancini is a disgrace!

He's not as good as Robinho so it's hardly a big issue IMO.

Good to see City winning

Robinho is undoubtedly the more talented player but Bellamy is playing far better at the moment.

The Professor wrote:Chelsea will walk the league.

What a bizarre post. They're just about to lose their best player....and they've been shite struggling to win against portsmouth and scraping draws v west ham and brum...not title winning stuff AT ALL.

Bellamy's been playing well but Robinho hasnt been playing so cant really compare.

Brilliant clearance there from Shay Given.

L r dd wrote:

The Professor wrote:Chelsea will walk the league.

What a bizarre post. They're just about to lose their best player....and they've been shite struggling to win against portsmouth and scraping draws v west ham and brum...not title winning stuff AT ALL.

Well that's what COTR and everyone told me. You either believe in this gospel or u are not living in the real world.

Come on Lrd, join me and sing, Chelsea will walk the league.

L r dd wrote:Bellamy's been playing well but Robinho hasnt been playing so cant really compare.

Fair point, although i haven't really been impressed with Robinho on the occasions he's played(including the match against Stoke so far).

A routine save at the near post by Given is being praised to high heaven by the commentators.

Birmingham are one of the form teams in the EPL at the moment. A 0-0 draw there isn't the end of the world. Despite their indifferent form Chelsea have extended their lead at the top of the Premiership. They're also the only side capable of competing in the transfer market in January and signing a first team player.

Great control there from the £33M man.

Wolves are playing their A-team

Aquilani starts

Kuyt dropped

Given comes off his line VERY late to make a crap punch and is praised to high heaven by the commentators.

The Professor wrote:

L r dd wrote:

The Professor wrote:Chelsea will walk the league.

What a bizarre post. They're just about to lose their best player....and they've been shite struggling to win against portsmouth and scraping draws v west ham and brum...not title winning stuff AT ALL.

Well that's what COTR and everyone told me. You either believe in this gospel or u are not living in the real world.

Come on Lrd, join me and sing, Chelsea will walk the league.

L r dd wrote:Bellamy's been playing well but Robinho hasnt been playing so cant really compare.

Fair point, although i haven't really been impressed with Robinho on the occasions he's played(including the match against Stoke so far).

Fair enough i didn't understand your first posts meaning. 1 win in their last 5 they deffo aint all that.

yeah Robinho was shite but i think he should be starting regular he clearly will come good, he's a bit of a confidence player as well. Petrov was excellent.

@ Boro another team with Bent in it doing SHITE....coincedence? i think not.

Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Carragher, Agger, Insua, Aquilani, Lucas, Benayoun, Gerrard, Aurelio, Torres.
Subs: Cavalieri, Kuyt, Ngog, Spearing, Darby, Skrtel, Pacheco.

Wolverhampton: Hahnemann, Stearman, Craddock, Berra, Ward, Foley, Henry, Milijas, Jarvis, Ebanks-Blake, Doyle.
Subs: Hennessey, Elokobi, Surman, Iwelumo, Mancienne, Maierhofer, Castillo.

Xmas Package wrote:Given comes off his line VERY late to make a crap punch and is praised to high heaven by the commentators.

If Given was to make a mistake you'd talk about him like he was Gomes or something, so as ever..things are balanced out.

You'd probably suck Essien off after a bad game too. Dirty.

borocooper wrote:

Xmas Package wrote:Given comes off his line VERY late to make a crap punch and is praised to high heaven by the commentators.

If Given was to make a mistake you'd talk about him like he was Gomes or something, so as ever..things are balanced out.

Not really. I think Given is better than TS and Pierre give him credit for being, but he's still a pretty limited keeper. Commentators lauding him for routine, or even bad work is partly what motivates the anti-Givens, and I can sympathise.

Compared to Schwarzer, a player I'm sure you have a lot of respect for, Given gets a lot of fucking hype despite being inferior.

Schwarzer is immense. Gets credit now he plays in London.

Given is a brilliant keeper though.

He really isn't. A brilliant keeper marshals his defence. Given undermines his.

Incorrect.

You are wrong.