PL Games : Wk28 (24th Feb. thru 1st Mar. 2018)
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So of the three that really matter in the PL :
Liverpool vs West Ham : should beat West Ham comfortably and I'll go 2-0 or 3-0.
Palace vs Spurs : derby match and Palace at home so the crowd could be up for it. However Spurs are THE team in form and a Palace side with 12 players in the physio room shouldn't slow them down. I'll go 0-2 here.
United vs Chelsea : what a tough game to call. I thought Chelsea (who will be missing Luiz, Bakayoko and Barkley) played very well against Barca and United (Herrera will be missing but Jones and Roko expected to return) poorly against Sevilla, but CFC are now away from home and United have won all but 2 (draws) at OT. Conte vs. Mourinho means both managers will have their teams up for it and it really could go either way.
As the most interesting match here's the likely Chelsea line-up from Goal, it's a strong team :
Some stats:
N.B. Expect City to blow away Arsenal on Sunday, 3-0 or 4-1
Liverpool vs West Ham : should beat West Ham comfortably and I'll go 2-0 or 3-0.
Palace vs Spurs : derby match and Palace at home so the crowd could be up for it. However Spurs are THE team in form and a Palace side with 12 players in the physio room shouldn't slow them down. I'll go 0-2 here.
United vs Chelsea : what a tough game to call. I thought Chelsea (who will be missing Luiz, Bakayoko and Barkley) played very well against Barca and United (Herrera will be missing but Jones and Roko expected to return) poorly against Sevilla, but CFC are now away from home and United have won all but 2 (draws) at OT. Conte vs. Mourinho means both managers will have their teams up for it and it really could go either way.
As the most interesting match here's the likely Chelsea line-up from Goal, it's a strong team :
Some stats:
- Manchester United have won just one of their last 14 matches in all competitions against Chelsea (D5 L8) – winning this exact fixture last season in the Premier League (2-0).
- Manchester United have lost more Premier League games (18) and conceded more Premier League goals (67) against Chelsea than they have against any other side in the competition.
- Antonio Conte has won three of his four meetings in all competitions as Chelsea manager against Jose Mourinho (W3 L1) - twice in the Premier League and once in the FA Cup.
N.B. Expect City to blow away Arsenal on Sunday, 3-0 or 4-1
What result do people want at mancs v Chelsea?
Death.
All scores does us a favour if we manage to do our job first. Hopefully Chelsea wins it as it will sour the Mancs even more short time after Jose signed an extention.
Well it would be great to see Mourinho lose big face against Conte !
Whatever is best for us though .. and I'm not at all sure what that will be just yet !
I think a Chelsea win would be the most enjoyable but probably worst result.
I always want Utd to get beat, I can't help it.
But tbh a Chelsea win could do Conte a huge favour & get them playing well again.
Also they're both obv our rivals for top four so one point less on the board could help, so ideally a really shitty scrappy draw with red cards, loads of injuries & a fight between Mourinho & Conte on the touchline, so neither of them get any confidence at all.
If I was putting money on the game I'd have to go with Utd though, sadly.
A United win could give us a four point gap on Chelsea. We need a gap to start opening up at some point.
And Chelsea heading to Etihad next match. Though with City through two tough London trips the week before.
Shakiqri with a really nice goal, Schmeichel should probably have done better though.
Stoke 1 nil up a minute before half time.
Stoke 1 nil up a minute before half time.
Yeah, but it's Utd. And Mourinho. I just can't bring myself to want that.
It could, but a Chelsea win, and us beating united opens a 4 point gap over united
Butland fucks up majorly there & just watches a cross fly into the net. Fuck me.
1 all.
1 all.
If karius carries on like he is then we either buy a world beater at the silly cost it demands or we stick with him. The alternatives at 40m or less all seem to offer just as many mistakes.
Ha. Only saw it once then had to deal with the kids, missed the replay. Fucking hell.
Absolutely fucking scandalous from a keeper
Everytime I watch Leicester I get angry that we haven't tried to get Mahrez. He'd be perfect in our side, arguably a better fit than Coutinho was as he could fill in for Salah & Mane easily & do a job when Firmino was out too.
They were asking stupid money for him though - hence why City backed off.
I know, but getting in there may well have paid dividends with the player himself & got him thinking about his potential in our side.
That city side is ace, but they haven't taken players like salah & Mane & turned them into world beaters like we have.
The price they push for won't change whether we let it be known we wanted or not, it's up to the player to force them into a move & us to get the price right.
Theyve taken Sane and DeBruyne and turned them into world beaters though
ha! WBA lost
Ha, pardew, ha!
Ha, pardew, ha!
Really? He took the team up and went down with them. Took them back up and after a tough season last year they had a fantastic travel this season. He has performed ten times Mourinho and five times other managers based on assumptions and resources.... I like that but never considered him "great". I don't think he considered himself great either.
I thought his team was often lucky in that period where they were flying. I guess things even out themselves in the end.
Nothing against the man, he has done a good job no doubt but the way some were mentioning his "achievements" at every opportunity you would have thought he's the second coming.
Nah. He just did a good job with poor cards dealt in the first place. Plenty teams coming up and look lost. Even Wagner has had a good touch with Huddersfield, but they have looked out of their depth more often than Burnley.
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