Premier League Midweek Fixtures 29/30 January 2013

29 Jan 19:45 Aston Villa v Newcastle
29 Jan 19:45 QPR v Man City
29 Jan 19:45 Stoke City v Wigan
29 Jan 19:45 Sunderland v Swansea
30 Jan 19:45 Arsenal v Liverpool
30 Jan 19:45 Everton v West Brom
30 Jan 19:45 Norwich v Tottenham
30 Jan 20:00 Fulham v West Ham
30 Jan 20:00 Man Utd v Southampton
30 Jan 20:00 Reading v Chelsea

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Some good looking fixtures in there - Villa vs Newcastle, Arsenal vs Liverpool, QPR vs City and Everton vs West Brom are all very important games for different reasons.

Debbie - do you reckon Bentekkers will score? Thinking of putting him in my ff team.

I wonder what our team will be.


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Debuchy--Mbiwa--Colo--Santon

---------------Sissoko---------------
-------Cabaye-----------Anita-------

Gouffran-----------------Marveaux
----------------Cisse----------------

Benteke is our most likely scorer, but we have scored just 1 goal in last 6 home games in the league (none in the last 4), so I wouldn't be too confident.

That team is too good to go down to Ligue 2.

Kimbo wrote:I wonder what our team will be.


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Debuchy--Mbiwa--Colo--Santon

---------------Sissoko---------------
-------Cabaye-----------Anita-------

Gouffran-----------------Marveaux
----------------Cisse----------------

I'm sure we'll be lining up with all our new signings too

Good to see Newcastle's academy working wonders.

Chris 23* wrote:Good to see Newcastle's academy working wonders.

We've played plenty of academy products this season, talking of which, I wonder if Liverpool fancy buying Sammy Ameobi for £35m?

OMFG god haven`t realized that poldi is doing that well for arsenal, maybe i should watch more games, not just the big clashes

28 games played for arsenal

11 goals and 11 fecking assists

i am IMPRESSED, it this now a good or a bad sign for the EPL?

overall he is on 5th position in the scorer list (goals + assists combined)

Tomorrow is a massive game for Rodgers and us. I think the cup exit was a turning point for many who were on Rodgers' back. Personally, I like Rodgers and whilst he hasn't done an excellent job, he's not doing a terrible job either. We need to be tougher against the big sides and against teams that will rough us up like Stoke and Oldham.

Hopefully he fucks Borini off for the time being and just sticks with Suarez, Sturridge and one of Downing/Sterling. Obviously Coutinho looks set to sign so he could be the 3rd forward but the understanding between Suarez and Sturridge will be key if we are to win at the Emirates.

It will be a really tough game. Our record at the Emirates (1 win in 12) is dire. Couple that with the fact that Walcott and indeed Giroud seem to be high on confidence right now and it's going to take something big to win there.

The key to beating Arsenal is always to win the midfield battle. I don't feel like we have enough bottle in midfield at times. Lucas is struggling to regain fitness and form, Allen has been largely poor and there's still question marks about Henderson and Shelvey.

I'd definitely go with Lucas, Henderson and Gerrard and I'd go with Downing over Sterling as Downing seems to be better tactically lately.

Defensively we were a shambles at the weekend; I really don't think Skrtel is liking this fancy passing out the back all the time but he has to do better defending crosses, not that Arsenal will put in many. I'm not sure if Enrique is back but I'd be concerned if he started having only just come back and having to defend against Walcott.

A draw would be a good result but if we are to still have dreams of 4th we really do have to win.

Kroos wrote:OMFG god haven`t realized that poldi is doing that well for arsenal, maybe i should watch more games, not just the big clashes

28 games played for arsenal

11 goals and 11 fecking assists

i am IMPRESSED, it this now a good or a bad sign for the EPL?

overall he is on 5th position in the scorer list (goals + assists combined)

If you're making a statement about the EPL, use only the EPL stats,

He's scored 7 goals and 9 assists in 21 games.

General feeling is he has done ok but still capable of more given he is an established member of the world conquering mannschaft.

Compare with Walcott (10 goals 7 assists in 19 games) who is not even a regular member of the World comedic laughing stock that is the 3 lions (ROARRRR), and there is room for improvement.

To be fair, it's Poldi's first season in the land of beans on toast, while Walcott was born and bread in England and will probably replace Wenger one day, so close seem his ties to Arsenal. Furthermore, Poldi is playing on the left wing, while Walcott is usually used as a striker.

I wish he had those kind of stats playing for the NT ever since Löw moved him to the left. If he did, we'd be World and European Champions by now.

It's worth pointing out that Podolski makes decisive contributions as well. His goals tend to win us matches or draw us level, whereas Walcott's tend to be less vital. I think Podolski has done well so far. He sometimes seems a bit peripheral to play, and maybe that's something he needs to contribute more, but even still he tends to produce something of value in every game. His weakest period for us was when Gibbs was injured. They complement each other well on the left flank, whereas Santos tends to move into the same positions as Podolski, plus playing in front of Santos will make life hard for anyone! Hopefully he will continue shooting from range again. In his last two games he has scored a stunning effort against West Ham and hammered a free-kick against the bar against Brighton, so it's an added threat for us as Cazorla is the only other player prepared to have a go from range.

AVFC: Guzan; Bennett, Vlaar, Baker, Clark; Lowton, Westwood, Bannan, N’Zogbia; Benteke, Bent.
Subs: Given, Ireland, Lichaj, Holman, Agbonlahor, Weimann, Bowery.

NUFC: Krul; Debuchy, S.Taylor, Coloccini, Santon; Perch, Cabaye; Gouffran, Sissoko, Gutierrez; Cisse.
Subs: Harper, Yanga-Mbiwa, Williamson, Bigirimana, Anita, Sa.Ameobi, Sh.Ameobi.


Perch starts ahead of Anita.

dunno if we're back to the 532/352 or it'll be 442 with Bennett LW and Baker LB.

Bent better do something. Done nothing to be in the team over Weimann.

“It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. We have a young team at West Ham and we are proud to have so many Englishmen.”

Pardew in 2006.

Got to go with Weimann - he's the sort you'd want next to you in the trenches

Holman too should have started.

Pierre Littbarski wrote:Got to go with Weimann - he's the sort you'd want next to you in the trenches

Holman too should have started.

Agree on Weimann. Holman's pretty crap. even his grafting has gone downhill.

I probably would've gone:

Guzan
Lowton-Vlaar-Baker-Bennett
N'Zogbia-Westwood-Bannan-Gabby
Weimann-Benteke

Weimann would drop back when needed to make up 5 in midfield. Get Zog & Gabby to stay wider so the fullbacks have some help in front of them & don't get destroyed all match long as seems to happen lately.

blutgraetsche wrote:To be fair, it's Poldi's first season in the land of beans on toast, while Walcott was born and bread in England and will probably replace Wenger one day, so close seem his ties to Arsenal. Furthermore, Poldi is playing on the left wing, while Walcott is usually used as a striker.

I wish he had those kind of stats playing for the NT ever since Löw moved him to the left. If he did, we'd be World and European Champions by now.

True of course. But it's always fun to use Walcott as a comparison, given his (unwarranted) reputation of being a bit shit.

Poldi will undoubtedly improve playing infront of Gibbs and not Santos. Santos is quite easily the worst Arsenal player i've seen since Francis Jeffers

Luis wrote:“It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved. We have a young team at West Ham and we are proud to have so many Englishmen.”

Pardew in 2006.

If Pardew was the one that bought our players it would be worth 1000 numbskulls posting this all over the internet.

Kimbo wrote:I wonder what our team will be.


------------------Krul------------------

Debuchy--Mbiwa--Colo--Santon

---------------Sissoko---------------
-------Cabaye-----------Anita-------

Gouffran-----------------Marveaux
----------------Cisse----------------

This is a good team, and with the players to come back from injury,

Was very surprised to look at the table a weeks ago and see Newcastle near the bottom, what has gone wrong this season? Such a strong performance and potential from last year!

Pirlo wrote:This is a good team, and with the players to come back from injury,

Was very surprised to look at the table a weeks ago and see Newcastle near the bottom, what has gone wrong this season? Such a strong performance and potential from last year!

Partly injuries, partly a lack of signings in the summer, partly players under performing, but mostly it's because we have a horrible negative manager that doesn't know how to use technical players. Look at today, picking James Perch over Anita. If we go 1 up tonight he will probably start subbing creative players for defensive ones.

Sissoko through ball for Cisse

fucking hopeless defending. Now watch panic set in and floodgates open.

Cabaye pings one in from range

Villa are definitely going down

It is bonkers that they haven't they bought anybody this month

wow, lovely goal by Cabaye

Villa, how lose we them to?

City once again showing how average they are.

Kroos wrote:

Stupidity³ to move there this early. Still pisses me off to no end, as I always rated the kid.