Weekend PL games

therecklessone

I can't be arsed with anything else.

Arsenal v Spurs 12.45.

Spurs missing King, Gardner, Jenas and possibly Mido.

Expected team:

Robbo
Stalteri Dawson Davenport Lee
Lennon Carrick Davids Murphy
Keane Defoe

subs:

Cerny, Kelly, Naybet, Huddlestone, Barnard.

Can't see past 3 points for Arsenal.

WhiteWashMan

balls.

but i would think davids will play on the left with murphy playing high in the centre.

personally, id love to see bernard play instead of defoe.

if were going to go down, hell, do it kciking and screaming!

but i will still say it here and now, if we lose, i dont think its all over, but i would have been happy with a uefa cup place at the start of the season, and i am now. the better teams always finish the season ahead of you.

KdjaCL

Saturday, 22 April 2006
Arsenal v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Bolton v Charlton, 15:00 Away
Everton v Birmingham, 15:00 Draw
Newcastle v West Brom, 15:00 Home
Portsmouth v Sunderland, 15:00 Home

Monday, 24 April 2006
Fulham v Wigan, 20:00 Cba

Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Aston Villa v Man City, 19:45 Cba

Wednesday, 26 April 2006
West Ham v Liverpool, 19:45 Home

There are other games, but your right bugger all interest in them this weekend.


kdjac

Rikand

Saturday, 22 April 2006
Arsenal v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Bolton v Charlton, 15:00 Home
Everton v Birmingham, 15:00 Away
Newcastle v West Brom, 15:00 Home
Portsmouth v Sunderland, 15:00 Home

Monday, 24 April 2006
Fulham v Wigan, 20:00 Away

Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Aston Villa v Man City, 19:45 Away

Wednesday, 26 April 2006
West Ham v Liverpool, 19:45 Away

Hmmm, no blackburn games for a while...good, might give them some time to get their **** together

ronbyrne2005

Arsenal v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Bolton v Charlton, 15:00 home
Everton v Birmingham, 15:00 home
Newcastle v West Brom, 15:00 draw
Portsmouth v Sunderland, 15:00 Home


Fulham v Wigan, 20:00 draw
Aston Villa v Man City, 19:45 draw
West Ham v Liverpool, 19:45 draw

Triton

Defoe is definitely out for Spurs according to BBC and ITV texts.

Pepe LeFrits

Lehmann

Eboue     Toure     Senderos     Flamini

Pires     Diaby     Gilberto      Reyes

        Adebayor     Henry

Would be my team. I'm expecting a draw, unless Davenport (who I don't rate) has a nightmare. Arsenal are looking tired lately, and Spurs can play deep.

WhiteWashMan

davenport is a cracking player.
id rather him than gardner anyday.

i just hope dawson can lead from the back!

im actually going for an arsenal win

county

Arsenal v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Bolton v Charlton, 15:00 home
Everton v Birmingham, 15:00 draw
Newcastle v West Brom, 15:00 draw
Portsmouth v Sunderland, 15:00 Home


Fulham v Wigan, 20:00 draw
Aston Villa v Man City, 19:45 away
West Ham v Liverpool, 19:45 draw

Limerick Dude

Arsenal v Tottenham, 12:45 Draw
Bolton v Charlton, 15:00 Draw
Everton v Birmingham, 15:00 away
Newcastle v West Brom, 15:00 Home
Portsmouth v Sunderland, 15:00 Home


Fulham v Wigan, 20:00 draw
Aston Villa v Man City, 19:45 away
West Ham v Liverpool, 19:45 away

cournioni

Is Arsenal vs. Spurs a live Sky Sports match or Prem Plus?

county

sky sports 1

cournioni

Sound. Will check that out, should be a good match.

county

hopefully lots of goals and a few slaps

KdjaCL

http://www.paddypower.com/bet?action=GoCoupons&category=SOCCER&ev_class_id=49&id=294


Spurs are 4-1 to win on paddy power, even tho football sense says Arsenal will win, you be mad not to have a little bet on Spurs.


Spurs to win 1st half , Ars 2nd 22-1


kdjac

county

is pires playing,he always scores against spurs

edit he is and good value to score first at 15-2

PHB

Saturday, 22 April 2006
Arsenal v Tottenham, 12:45 Draw
Bolton v Charlton, 15:00 Home
Everton v Birmingham, 15:00 Home
Newcastle v West Brom, 15:00 Home
Portsmouth v Sunderland, 15:00 Home

Monday, 24 April 2006
Fulham v Wigan, 20:00 Fulham

Tuesday, 25 April 2006
Aston Villa v Man City, 19:45 Draw

Wednesday, 26 April 2006
West Ham v Liverpool, 19:45 Draw

KdjaCL

Spurs 1-0 and fully deserved.


Of course there has to be controversy, 2 Arsenal players collided and were on ground when ball broke to Davids who squared to Keane for a tap in.


Good game 30 mins left.

kdjac

ZENER

What are the odds on Wenger thumping Jol ???:D He was squaring up to thump Jol after the goal !!

ZEN

Pacifico

F**king BS goal tbh

The Muppet

ZENER wrote:

What are the odds on Wenger thumping Jol ???:D He was squaring up to thump Jol after the goal !!

ZEN

Wenger appears to be a tad irate all right, Bless!

Good Goal , The Arsenal players were behind play when they collided so had very little bearing on the goal IMHO. That wont stop the bitching though.


On play up to then Tottenham deserved to be in front. Arsenal are only really getting into it now.

Pacifico

Get in!!!

Brian017

The play on and goal rigthly stood in my opinion.

KdjaCL

Henry 1-1 thats just magic, stunning finish of power and pace.



/me applauds.

kdjac

Shaque attack

how long were the two players down for, was it during the build up to the goal or were they down for a good while before the goal?

ZENER

Superb - sublime - wonderous - running out of superlatives here. Great goal by Henry, well done.

ZEN

KdjaCL

Shaque attack wrote:

how long were the two players down for, was it during the build up to the goal or were they down for a good while before the goal?

few seconds, they both ran into each other but the ball wasnt near them, they both got back up without treatment so hardly hampered. No need to stop play imo.



kdjac

mike65

Ah come on Spurs hang on in there.

Mike.

Shaque attack

KdjaC wrote:

few seconds, they both ran into each other but the ball wasnt near them, they both got back up without treatment so hardly hampered. No need to stop play imo.



kdjac

cheers for that, if it stays like this its going to be a very interesting last few games indeed

KdjaCL

Anyone esle finding it weird watching Arsenal hump the ball into the box?


Game over 1-1.


kdjac

The Muppet

Tottenham have to be happy with that, 4th is still in their own hands.

Good game.

Davei141

No handshake? petty.

mike65

Sounds like Spurs should have won that game in the first half, Wenger did'nt do himself any favours.

Mike.

therecklessone

Thank f*ck thats over!

Stalteri does it again, the guy has cost us at least 7 points this year, and as for Davids...:rolleyes: I hope that's his last game for us, he's supposed to be the experienced one for us and gets himself sent off in our biggest game in years? Prat. We sat too deep after scoring, and Jol should be asking himself why he didn't take Davids off for Murphy, but other than that I'm delighted with the result and the performance.

Wenger walked off after the game without shaking Jol's hand. Looking forward to his post-game interview.

Davids did nothing wrong for the goal btw.

And I'd a €10 on the draw!

The Muppet

therecklessone wrote:

Wenger walked off after the game without shaking Jol's hand.

He probably couldn't see him .;)

eirebhoy

I think both goals were perfectly fair. Sky Sports trying to create controversy out of nothing for Keane's goal. 2 Arsenal players ran into each other and Spurs are expected to put the ball out? Maybe if it was their 2 centre halfs but Spurs would have scored whether the players clashed or not.

It's in Spurs' hands now and it will no doubt go down to the last game. If Arsenal win the CL it will make this match meaningless tbh.

KdjaCL

Hmmm Stalteri may have been fouled in the lead up to the goal, didnt notice it during the match so wouldnt expect the ref to either.


kdjac

therecklessone

KdjaC wrote:

Hmmm Stalteri may have been fouled in the lead up to the goal, didnt notice it during the match so wouldnt expect the ref to either.


kdjac

Wasn't a foul.

ZENER

The Muppet wrote:

He probably couldn't see him .;)

Very good !!

ZEN

therecklessone

Usual from Wenger, no class or grace. Lucky there wasn't any pizza lying around.

MrJoeSoap

If anyone is interested, Juventus are 0-1 down at home to Lazio and Milan have come from 1-0 down to lead 1-2 away to Messina.

Looking like a great finish to the Serie A now.

Kingp35

IMO Keanes goal was fine. Spurs were perfectly within their rights to play on. Carrick stopped and looked at the two players on the ground and saw that it wasnt a serious injury for either and saw one of them get up as well. I dont know why Davids was getting the stick from the Arsenal players because if it was anyones fault for not putting it out then it was Carricks. Perfectly good goal if you ask me and Wengers actions after the match were just Childish.

Wenger got it totally wrong with his team selection. I can understand why he did it because some of the players looked very tired near the end of the midweek game but I really should have started Henry. Spurs dominated the game all the way up to the point where they scored. This is what finally woke Arsenal up although Spurs dropping off definitely helped them.

I think Spurs should have won the game with teh amount of chances they had. Carricks run was brilliant and what a pity he couldnt finish it off. I think they will be happy witha draw though because their destiny is still within their own hands.

What a finish by Henry as well. Sheer magic.

mike65

The bbc 606 message boards are pretty ugly this afternoon. This place is nicer than Julie Andrews.

Mike.

therecklessone

Kingp35 wrote:

I think Spurs should have won the game with teh amount of chances they had. Carricks run was brilliant and what a pity he couldnt finish it off.

All I could think was "Ricky Villa..."

Jonny Arson

I don't know WTF Arsenal were complaining about Spurs perfectly good goal. It was two Arsenal players who clashed with each other and Spurs gained no advantage whatsover from the injured players misfortune. Wasn't exactly surprising to see Lehmann and Wenger being the two main moans. :rolleyes:

Good game anyway. Spurs the better side and they probably should have won it. I personally thought it was a clear foul by Adebayor on Stalteri for which Arsenal got very lucky for their equaliser. In saying that I thought the referee was poor overall. David's second yellow card was harsh considering he was clearly fouled before his lunge and the lunge was out of reaction to that. Bennett isn't a consistent referee and he certainly isn't a good one either.

It's gonna be tight for fourth place. Spurs showed enough to me today that they'll take it. Fourth place/Champions League final or not Arsenal are a pale shadow of the team they were 3/4 years ago.

okidoki987

But the point Wenger I'm sure was trying to make was that most of the Arsenal players had stopped, Carrick should have put it out at that stage.
Bit silly of Wenger not to shake hands with Jol after the match.
All in all though, draw was a fair result for both teams, Arsenal only came alive when Henry/Fabergas came on. Reyes is useless and the sooner we get rid of him the better, spends far too much time on the floor moaning.
Spurs will finish 4th if they win their last 2 games.
Home to Bolton and away to West Ham.
They should do it.......but....wouldn't it be funny if Arsenal win the Champions league, finish 5th and then knock Spurs into the UEFA cup

astrofool

Nootice how Sky didn't really replay the two arsenal players running into each other during the match (they replayed lots of other bits over and over and over...), and kept commenting on the "controversy" of the Tottenham goal?

PHB

I hate the rule that you need to put the ball out, but I accept it in terms of serious injuries, but this was nothing.

Two Arsenal players ran into each other, were not even seriously injured, but stayed on the ground.

Heres the real question to ask, would most players, especially those in the lower divisions, have jsut gotten back up instantly? Anwser is probably yes, but even if it isn't,
Arsenal lost the goal because of poor defending, it wasn't to do with those players, and evne if it was, Arsenal would do the exact same

Limerick Dude

2-0 to newcastle half time.

therecklessone

okidoki987 wrote:

But the point Wenger I'm sure was trying to make was that most of the Arsenal players had stopped, Carrick should have put it out at that stage.

The point he should be making is in training next week...play to the whistle.

therecklessone

Zane from MTV2 wrote:

Fourth place/Champions League final or not Arsenal are a pale shadow of the team they were 3/4 years ago.

Wouldn't go that far, but they're seriously dependant on Henry, and that showed today. I was stunned to see that their 2nd highest goalscorer is Pires on 6, I mean Spurs have Keane/Mido/Defoe/Jenas all on 6 or better.