Weekend Premiership fixtures ( may contain scores )

blu_sonic

it will wait for the replay

mike65

Boro - Bolton

Boros recent pick up in form continues as they lead Bolton 2-1 going towards half time.

Mike.

mike65

Boro 3-1 up another from Hasselbaink

Mike.

mike65

Charlton 1 - 1 Newcastle

D Bent and Parker

er Charlton 2 -1 Newcastle.

Mike.

mike65

Bolton peno

boro 3 2 Bolton.

Mike.

mike65

Good grief, Bolton have equalised.

Mike.

mike65

Holy Crap! Boro in added time. Boltons chance of finishing 4th has just taken a big knock.

Mike.

PHB

This was just an incredible game, really impressive attacking from both sides

Lemlin

Can't wait to see it tonight. Fair play to Boro. Bolton have a tough trip to United next weekend too. Today's loss is a big dent in their hopes for fourth.

andrewie

Brilliant game between boro and bolton. saw parkers goal on sky, great strike.

besty

Great free kick from Giggsy after 2 minutes against Birmingham.
I can't help but feel for Brucey.

Aquos76

2-0 to man u now. Giggs again

fade2black

A brilliant goal it was too.

besty

What a move for that second goal. Brilliant pass and run. There are buckets of goals in this for United if they are clinical on the break!

Aquos76

Rooney is woeful sell sell sell:D

besty

Ruud on for Saha.
Let's hope he can convert some of the chances. The game is really peetering (Sp?) out.

mike65

Rooney scores.

Mike.

besty

mike65 wrote:

Rooney scores.

Mike.

Should have been his hat trick.

mike65

Brum are as good as gone, Chelsea next.


1 Chelsea----31

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78
2 Man Utd----30----66
3 Liverpool---32

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64
4 Tottenham-30

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52
5 Blackburn---31----52
6 Arsenal

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30----50
7 Bolton

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29----48
8 Wigan

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31----46
9 West Ham--30

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45
10 Everton

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31----43
11 Charlton

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31----42
12 Man City----31

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40
13 Newcastle---31----39
14 Middlrough---30----37
15 Fulham

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32

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36
16 Aston Villa---31

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35
17 West Brom---30

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27
18 Birmingham---30----24
19 Portsmouth--30

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24
20 Sunderland--31

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10

Mike.

Lemlin

I wouldn't mind if Blackburn signed one or two of their players. Jermain Pennant is a good winger and I'd love to see David Dunn back at Ewood on a pay-as-you-play deal.

besty

Pennant was very good today in fairness to him. He looked frustrated though as there was very little movement ahead of him after he would beat a man/hold up the ball etc. He could have been decent if he stayed at Arsenal.

wheres me jumpa

First half United were fantastic. Second half they were terrible. Giggs played well and good goals too. Saha was awful, I really hope RVN is back mid week.

mike65

I just realised the gap between top and bottom is 68 points!! :eek:

Mike.

PHB

Saha didn't play well today at all. Park was quite poor, was confusing. Richardson didn't play well at all.
Ronaldo I thought had a ok game, it coulda been much better if Saha had given it to him at the right times. Good to see him get an assist at the end, I think he deserved it.

Overall, United played well in the first half, didn't finish better, and in the second half they were crap

MrJoeSoap

andrewie wrote:

Brilliant game between boro and bolton. saw parkers goal on sky, great strike.

It was a wonderful goal, vintage Parker. I'll upload it in a bit.

smemon

rooney should have had a hatrick, a couple of decent chances were flagged off side, so all in all we could have scored 7 had everything gone for us

and we didnt even play great. first 20mins was nice and crisp, triangles and off the ball runs. just faded after that.

a 3-0 win, "with gears in hand" as gray called it, ain't a bad result.

you gotta wonder what happened to birmingham of 2 years ago.

Necronomicon

I just saw Drogba's interview.
"Yes, sometimes I dive, sometimes I go down."
"No, I don't dive, I just play my game."

Also, Rob Styles' love of brandishing a red card never ceases to amaze me. It didn't look like Distin was exactly hurling abuse at him, and as captain he is allowed to speak to the referee. Really harsh.

Lemlin

Spures are losing at home to West Brom. Come on WBA. A loss for Spurs tonight would put a huge dent in their hopes for fourth. Mido's on the bench again.

They had a very bad run when he went to the African Cup of Nations and whatever is going on at White Hart Lane they need to try and get him on the pitch, whether there are problems or not.

Pighead

Equalizer for spurs Robbie Keane with a cheeky lob. They're playing 3-4-3 now and are going all out for the win. COME ON YOU SPURS!

Lemlin

Pighead wrote:

Equalizer for spurs Robbie Keane with a cheeky lob. They're playing 3-4-3 now and are going all out for the win. COME ON YOU SPURS!

How's Mido doing since he came on?

Pepe LeFrits

Mido nearly scored with his first touch and has done okay since. Spurs were playing some really good stuff up until the goal (which was a peach) but then stepped off the gas and WBA have started to try and play again.

Pighead

Lemlin wrote:

How's Mido doing since he came on?

Don't know to be honest. At work so I'm following it on BBCs website. Hasn't got too involved according to that.

KdjaCL

Ahhh god no , let the goal stand the keeper has had a bloody cracking game.


West brom keeper made a boo boo let defoe in on open goal dragged him down, Mido tapped in.


peno and red card has to be if it s peno


kdjac

KdjaCL

No red card and peno scored by keane.

If it was a peno had to be red.

kdjac

Pighead

Yeeeessssssss.keane You Beauty.if Your Name Was Roberta I'd Ride You Sideways.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

therecklessone

Christ on a bike, that was tough viewing!

West Brom deserved something from that game, no question. My blood pressure can't take another seven games like that until the end of the season.

Chardee MacDennis

felt gutted for west brom, very unfortunate considering all the chances they had after keanes first.

MrJoeSoap

Keane's first goal was brilliant, can't believe people still question him.

Lemlin

therecklessone wrote:

Christ on a bike, that was tough viewing!

West Brom deserved something from that game, no question. My blood pressure can't take another seven games like that until the end of the season.

What's the deal with Mido? Is he going to be on the bench for the last 7 games? If he is, I definitely can't see Spurs making the CL.

Playboy

Lemlin wrote:

What's the deal with Mido? Is he going to be on the bench for the last 7 games? If he is, I definitely can't see Spurs making the CL.

Jol said b4 the game that he was ill during the week and that since we had a good win against Brum he didnt see the need to risk Mido. But I agree the team is weaker w/o him ... we continued to play long balls to the front even though we had no one to win the ball in the air thus putting ourselves under constant pressure for the first 30 minutes.

WhiteWashMan

i agree. we are much better with mido in the squad. but as much as i think defoe is a great player, i feel that he goes missing for too long in the game. his work rate is not near robbies work rate, but then he goes and pops up with a crucial goal, or creates a goal like he did last night, and against birmingham.

but id prefer to have the bigger player like mido than defoe. if we are looking for a new striker, id like to see defoe sold over anyone else, and mido signed premanently and another good strong forward. torres will do nicely

defoe just goes missing for far too long. and its hard to play with 10 men for half a game.

apart form that, my sympathies to wst brom. i thought they out played us for much of the first half. matched us in the second, and again were the architects of their own destruction.
but i thought while spurs didnt look spectacular, they played well, looked pretty solid and its good to churn out a win when you really dont deserve it. we find ourselves doing that more often than not at the moment. when we are on fire, its fabulous, but when we need to get the head down, we do it. weve become a hard team to beat. and most of our defeats this year have come from bloody marvelous goals (and im thinking of kevin nolan for bolton, kanu for west brom and gallas for chelsea here)

but christ, the run into the end of the season is becoming very stressful! i love it. i think who ever goes through now is definately going to deserve it.
eh lemlin, even blackburn

Rikand

WhiteWashMan wrote:

but christ, the run into the end of the season is becoming very stressful! i love it. i think who ever goes through now is definately going to deserve it.
eh lemlin, even blackburn

nice of you to admit that, because Blackburn are definately going to take it from ye

mike65

nah its Arsenal with the last game!

Mike.

WhiteWashMan

Rickylovesuall wrote:

nice of you to admit that, because Blackburn are definately going to take it from ye

if they do, then fair dues. like i said, its a very exciting run in.

now if only there could be some *freak*accidents a ta few training grounds aroun bolton, highbury, and bolton....

Rikand

WhiteWashMan wrote:

if they do, then fair dues. like i said, its a very exciting run in.

now if only there could be some *freak*accidents a ta few training grounds aroun bolton, highbury, and bolton....

true, because bolton are double the danger

nah i know what you meant, hehe

therecklessone

WhiteWashMan wrote:

i agree. we are much better with mido in the squad. but as much as i think defoe is a great player, i feel that he goes missing for too long in the game. his work rate is not near robbies work rate, but then he goes and pops up with a crucial goal, or creates a goal like he did last night, and against birmingham.

I thought the same until quite recently but not any more. We don't "need" a big man for knock downs, we are over-reliant on Mido. Keane and Defoe work as a partnership but only if we play to their strengths. Knocking longs balls up to the two of them for the 1st 30 minutes against WBA was nonsense, more so because we had Davids on the left side of midfield and Lennon out of position on the right. When we put Lennon on the left he linked with Lee to good effect, we had a much better shape and caused WBA a lot of problems.

The problem with long balls to Mido is that 9 times out of 10 we lose possession and put ourselves under more pressure. We get pushed back, defend too deep and conceed late goals as a result. West Ham @ WHL, away to Fulham, Sunderland and Chelsea all spring to mind.

Our other problems on Monday night were a poor showing from the CBs, Carrick having another bad game (By his standards) and Davids should not have been on the pitch. He's a liability, hasn't returned to his pre-Xmas form, he's off pace and his tackling is suffering.

therecklessone

mike65 wrote:

nah its Arsenal with the last game!

Mike.

Don't think it will matter, after last night I've a sinking feeling they'll win the CL and qualify anyway...:(

PHB

You know what'd be really really funny, if Arsenal won the CL, but Spurs came 3rd, Liverpool 4th, and Liverpool went to the UEFA cup

Dont be at yourself

Yeah and Man Utd WIN THE LEAGUE!!!!! LOL!!!!!1111

:):D

WhiteWashMan

therecklessone wrote:

I thought the same until quite recently but not any more. We don't "need" a big man for knock downs, we are over-reliant on Mido. Keane and Defoe work as a partnership but only if we play to their strengths. Knocking longs balls up to the two of them for the 1st 30 minutes against WBA was nonsense, more so because we had Davids on the left side of midfield and Lennon out of position on the right. When we put Lennon on the left he linked with Lee to good effect, we had a much better shape and caused WBA a lot of problems.

The problem with long balls to Mido is that 9 times out of 10 we lose possession and put ourselves under more pressure. We get pushed back, defend too deep and conceed late goals as a result. West Ham @ WHL, away to Fulham, Sunderland and Chelsea all spring to mind..

oh, i dont think we need another bog man to knock balls down. i think mido can do that, but i also think he is a very talented individual regardless of how he gets the ball. however, you can pick a little fella like defoe to do a knock down roll. you can get him to play a wide role. you cant ask him to do anything that means he will be needed as a constant presense on the pitch for 90 minutes.
all you can ask him to is be a target man. and he is very very very good at it.

on the other hand, robbie keane is excellent in all of those areas (except being the big man of course). i think my point was really id like to see a better all round forward in the club over defoe. so that we can play any combintation of this player, keane and mido.

maybe rooney wants to join

therecklessone wrote:

Our other problems on Monday night were a poor showing from the CBs, Carrick having another bad game (By his standards) and Davids should not have been on the pitch. He's a liability, hasn't returned to his pre-Xmas form, he's off pace and his tackling is suffering.

and i said exactly the same thing during the game. we got some really big showings from davids in the first half of the season. dont know whats happened, but we arent getting them anymore. and i think it means that carrick is getting pulled out of position to do additional tracking an tackling. i dont think that carrick has been having bad play per se, just that he has additional responsibilities with davids not playing up to his usual standards.

personally, id prefer to have lennon, carrick, jenas and tainio in midfield. i think its our most effective middle and we play some incredible freeflowing football. murphy, reid and huddlestone can play there as well as davids. although, from ewhat ive been hearing, huddlestone has grown in the centre of the park this season.

by the way, we are only 1 point from winning the southern reserve leagues.
looks like we get to play man utd

but until davids is back to his tenacious form, id rather not have him in the side.