Weekend match discussion 9/10 December

Saturday, 09 December 2006
Blackburn v Newcastle, 15:00
Bolton v West Ham, 17:15
Liverpool v Fulham, 15:00
Man Utd v Man City, 12:45
Middlesbrough v Wigan, 15:00
Portsmouth v Everton, 15:00
Tottenham v Charlton, 15:00
Watford v Reading, 15:00

Sunday, 10 December 2006
Chelsea v Arsenal, 16:00

Decent games in there this weekend, obviously the big one comes on sunday.

come on city!

Tough game , in derbies form rarely counts.

Both Toure and Gallas are out for Arsenal, along with Henry and Rosicky. It looks likely that Arsenal will play Djourou-Senderos as their CB partnership.

Chelsea's only injury worry is Carlo Cudicini.

'S4P' of Orient Are wrote:Both Toure and Gallas are out for Arsenal, along with Henry and Rosicky. It looks likely that Arsenal will play Djourou-Senderos as their CB partnership.

Chelsea's only injury worry is Carlo Cudicini.

We WILL play Djourou and Senderos

They used to be our reserve pairing so they should know each other pretty well no the pitch.

I'm nervous, its almost like I already know we'll lose

I'm not so sure. Last year, I was pretty confident we would beat you (even at Highbury). This year, I don't have the same feeling.

I think we'll probably just about sneak a 1-0 win, but Hilario worries me. Fortunately the majority of Arsenal players do not shoot from distance, otherwise I could see you scoring 2-3.

'S4P' of Orient Are wrote:I'm not so sure. Last year, I was pretty confident we would beat you (even at Highbury). This year, I don't have the same feeling.

I think we'll probably just about sneak a 1-0 win, but Hilario worries me. Fortunately the majority of Arsenal players do not shoot from distance, otherwise I could see you scoring 2-3.

Cudicini's not back?

The thing is I worry that we can't score - I can maybe see us hold out for a draw... but to be honest, in my mind we've already lost

Tinseldum wrote:

'S4P' of Orient Are wrote:I'm not so sure. Last year, I was pretty confident we would beat you (even at Highbury). This year, I don't have the same feeling.

I think we'll probably just about sneak a 1-0 win, but Hilario worries me. Fortunately the majority of Arsenal players do not shoot from distance, otherwise I could see you scoring 2-3.

Cudicini's not back?

The thing is I worry that we can't score - I can maybe see us hold out for a draw... but to be honest, in my mind we've already lost

I think there is a 50-50 chance. He got a knock against Bolton (I think it was a knock anyway) and it looks likely that he won't be back for Sunday's game.

If you lose I'm going to give you shit for a minimum of two weeks

Ah, you're going to be doing a 'cooper' then?

If we lose, I think I will need to boycott the board for a couple of weeks.

I'll hunt you down like a mountain lion and maul you

Tinseldum wrote:I'll hunt you down and maul you

Gay.

chelsea 1-2 arsenal

Not going to call this one but the chances of us coming away with the three points look very slim. We are without two top class centre backs, a creative midfielder and our main hitman upfront.

Still backs against the wall stuff does bring out surprises.

Draw would be great.

Great avatar Bilal.

I am also not expecting us to win tbh but we have outplayed and defeated all big teams we've faced this season, hence the reason for my slight optimism.

Yep but Liverpool's away record is utter shite and we were missing 4 key players (5 if you include Rooney ).

This game is a whole different animal.

Tinseldum wrote:If you lose I'm going to give you shit for a minimum of two weeks

Ah, the twice-annual fixture where I support Arsenal has come around once again. Best of luck...

santagoingmarching wrote:

Tinseldum wrote:If you lose I'm going to give you shit for a minimum of two weeks

Ah, the twice-annual fixture where I support Arsenal has come around once again. Best of luck...

Thought this day would never happen

Team News

Blackburn

* 01 Friedel
* 02 Neill
* 20 Ooijer
* 16 Henchoz
* 33 Gray
* 11 Bentley
* 08 Savage
* 05 Kerimoglu
* 12 Pedersen
* 09 Nonda
* 10 McCarthy

Substitutes

* 23 Brown,
* 04 Todd,
* 15 Mokoena,
* 27 Derbyshire,
* 31 Peter

Newcastle

-------------Given-------------

Solano--Taylor--Ramage--Babayaro

Milner--Butt--Emre--N'Zogbia

------Martins--Sibierski------

Substitutes

* 24 Srnicek,
* 07 Luque,
* 15 Rossi,
* 32 Huntington,
* 35 Pattison

According to those Newcastle fans on that website I spoke about Kimbo, Butt's been in very good form.

Would he keep his place when Parker returns?

ParktheHeraldAngelsSing wrote:According to those Newcastle fans on that website I spoke about Kimbo, Butt's been in very good form.

Would he keep his place when Parker returns?

Probably not, Parker is the captain afterall and Emre is Glenn's favourite(and is in good form). I don't mind seeing him make way as long as Parker is told to sit and be the DM, Roeder seems to think Emre is best for that role out of the two. He's a strange man.

Liverpool 0-0 Fulham

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

Finnan - - Carragher - Agger - - Riise

Pennant - Gerrard - Alonso - Garcia

- - - - - - Kuyt - - Bellamy - - - - - -


- - - - - - - - - McBride - - - - - - - - -
Boa Morte - - - - - - - - - Radzinski

- - - Jensen - - Diop - - Brown - - -

Rosenior - - Knight - Pearce - - Volz

- - - - - - - - - Lastuvka - - - - - - - - -


Substitutes

* 01 Dudek,
* 04 Hyypia,
* 09 Fowler,
* 11 Gonzalez,
* 15 Crouch

Substitutes

* 31 Batista,
* 05 Christanval,
* 09 Helguson,
* 15 John,
* 22 Routledge

Yeah a few of the fans were saying drop Emre, rather than Parker when he comes back.

I've said before Emre is good on the ball but he hardly does any defensive work and his movement off the ball is poor.

Ahh, not bad at all. Glad to see Rafa's kept Agger in there. I'm guessing Hyypia's there to do with McBride's aerial threat.

Reina with a great save apparently. Funny that, isn't it...

Poor cooper...

Wigan 1-0 up.

MMMMMMAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNSSSSSSSSSSSSS

The "flop" scores another.

Spurs 2-0 up

34' Watford 0 - 0 Reading

34' Portsmouth 2 - 0 Everton

34' Blackburn Rovers 0 - 1 Newcastle United

34' Tottenham Hotspur 2 - 0 Charlton Athletic

34' Liverpool 0 - 0 Fulham

34' Middlesbrough 0 - 1 Wigan