Weekend games (24th September onwards)
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Gregoire Defrel, the Sassuolo striker who we have recently been linked with scored his 4th goal in 5 league matches to give Sassuolo the lead vs Udinese
Nicolai Jorgensen's 4th goal in 7 league matches giving Feyenoord the lead against Roda. Looks like they will be extending their lead at the top to 5 points.
Quite enjoying seeing West Ham get beat again.
Oliver Burke scores five minutes into his full debut for RB Leipzig.
The hammers looks like they are on their way to another defeat. I remembered some here were having an early meltdown when they managed to secure their new stadium cheap.
They look really shit. Poyet and Lanzini doesn't look interested. That Zaza fella is just bad at football.
They look really shit. Poyet and Lanzini doesn't look interested. That Zaza fella is just bad at football.
Disgraceful dive earlier from him.
After winning the lottery with Payet (and a free stadium) their new signings look utterly fucking shit.
0-3. That stadium with the fans far removed from the big pitch looks a world away from the raucous and claustrophobic Upton park. I'm looking forward to our game down there.
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With 3 points from the opening 6 games West Ham United have their worst EPL start since 2002/03 (2 from 6 games before relegating)
With 3 points from the opening 6 games West Ham United have their worst EPL start since 2002/03 (2 from 6 games before relegating)
I know a lot of them are quite thick, but at least some of them would have known the first part?
Meanwhile, Lucien Favre's rebuilding his reputation with Nice, taking them to the top of Ligue 1 after today's 1-0 away to Nancy.
Didn't watch the match but read that Hojbjerg had a good game for Saints?
He is actually a really good manager - he took Gladbach over when they were bottom of the league and transformed them into one of the best counter-attacking sides in Europe. Before that he took permanently underachieving Hertha to 4th place. One of the best managers in the Bundesliga in the recent years and his teams are very hard to beat - we are lucky he chose Nice over Everton.
I have a feeling he'll replace Wenger at Arsenal at some point.
They've got Spurs & Everton next. Two teams they've traditionally dropped points against. Will be interesting to see how Pep Guardiola sets them up without de Bruyne.
Pione Sisto (one of the lads to watch out for in the future) scored his first goal for Celta after his Summer move from FC Midtjylland (£5M).
First of all we can all agree that the defense is not doing their very best to stop him here, but this goal still highlights some of his key attributes.
He can skip past players for fun, he can run with the ball at very high pace (a friend of mine who's played with him believes he's never played with or against anyone capable of running as fast with the ball at his feet as Sisto is) and finally he's got a great eye for goal. Also notice that this goal was scored in the 93rd minute so he's also got quite decent stamina (having played the full game, doing a lot of defensive work too).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="es" dir="ltr">Pelé? Maradona? Ronaldo? Cristiano? Messi?... Sisto! Pione Sisto!!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Celta?src=hash">#Celta</a> <a href="https://t.co/V0eSbcd6M6">pic.twitter.com/V0eSbcd6M6</a></p>— Preferencia Celeste (@PrefCeleste) <a href="">September 26, 2016</a></blockquote>
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First of all we can all agree that the defense is not doing their very best to stop him here, but this goal still highlights some of his key attributes.
He can skip past players for fun, he can run with the ball at very high pace (a friend of mine who's played with him believes he's never played with or against anyone capable of running as fast with the ball at his feet as Sisto is) and finally he's got a great eye for goal. Also notice that this goal was scored in the 93rd minute so he's also got quite decent stamina (having played the full game, doing a lot of defensive work too).
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="es" dir="ltr">Pelé? Maradona? Ronaldo? Cristiano? Messi?... Sisto! Pione Sisto!!! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Celta?src=hash">#Celta</a> <a href="https://t.co/V0eSbcd6M6">pic.twitter.com/V0eSbcd6M6</a></p>— Preferencia Celeste (@PrefCeleste) <a href="">September 26, 2016</a></blockquote>
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...okay that looks a bit messed up that quoting of the tweet there.. what did I do wrong?
Didn't watch the game myself but could see that twitter really loved his performance too and I also noticed a while back that he won their Player of the Month award of August (his first month there) by the fans.. chuffed to see him get off to a good start, as it obviously increases his chances of being promoted to Soton's first team, Liverpool FC.
PS I have been immensely impressed by Soton's central defender Van Dijk, anyone else noticed him?
Elegant, strong, commanding, clever, fast. Really looks a marvelous prospect.
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I also like his first of the night, it's no easy feat to keep two defenders at bay like that and still manage to find the net in so stylish fashion.
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