Weekend Premiership Matches (will contain scores)

Aquos76

Saturday, 25 November 2006

Charlton v Everton, 12:45 AWAY
Aston Villa v Middlesbrough, 15:00 HOME
Fulham v Reading, 15:00 DRAW
Liverpool v Man City, 15:00 HOME
West Ham v Sheff Utd, 15:00 HOME
Bolton v Arsenal, 17:15 HOME

Sunday, 26 November 2006

Newcastle v Portsmouth, 13:30 DRAW
Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00 HOME
Man Utd v Chelsea, 16:00 HOME hopefully

county

Charlton v Everton, 12:45 AWAY
Aston Villa v Middlesbrough, 15:00 HOME
Fulham v Reading, 15:00 HOME
Liverpool v Man City, 15:00 HOME
West Ham v Sheff Utd, 15:00 HOME
Bolton v Arsenal, 17:15 AWAY
Newcastle v Portsmouth, 13:30 HOME
Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00 HOME
Man Utd v Chelsea, 16:00 HOME

bucks73

Charlton v Everton, 12:45 HOME
Aston Villa v Middlesbrough, 15:00 HOME
Fulham v Reading, 15:00 DRAW
Liverpool v Man City, 15:00 HOME
West Ham v Sheff Utd, 15:00 HOME
Bolton v Arsenal, 17:15 DRAW
Newcastle v Portsmouth, 13:30 AWAY
Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00 HOME
Man Utd v Chelsea, 16:00 HOME

mike65

Saturday, 25 November 2006

Charlton v Everton, 12:45 AWAY
Aston Villa v Middlesbrough, 15:00 HOME
Fulham v Reading, 15:00 HOME
Liverpool v Man City, 15:00 HOME Setanta 3pm
West Ham v Sheff Utd, 15:00 HOME
Bolton v Arsenal, 17:15 DRAW

Sunday, 26 November 2006

Newcastle v Portsmouth, 13:30 HOME
Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00 HOME
Man Utd v Chelsea, 16:00 HOME

Mike.

~Rebel~

Saturday, 25 November 2006

Charlton v Everton, 12:45 AWAY
Aston Villa v Middlesbrough, 15:00 HOME
Fulham v Reading, 15:00 HOME
Liverpool v Man City, 15:00 HOME
West Ham v Sheff Utd, 15:00 HOME
Bolton v Arsenal, 17:15 AWAY

Sunday, 26 November 2006

Newcastle v Portsmouth, 13:30 HOME
Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00 DRAW
Man Utd v Chelsea, 16:00 DRAW

Villain

Charlton v Everton, 12:45 Draw
Aston Villa v Middlesbrough, 15:00 HOME
Fulham v Reading, 15:00 Home
Liverpool v Man City, 15:00 Draw
West Ham v Sheff Utd, 15:00 HOME
Bolton v Arsenal, 17:15 Away

Sunday, 26 November 2006

Newcastle v Portsmouth, 13:30 Home
Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00 HOME
Man Utd v Chelsea, 16:00 Away

kinaldo

Saturday, 25 November 2006

Charlton v Everton, 12:45 AWAY
Aston Villa v Middlesbrough, 15:00 HOME
Fulham v Reading, 15:00 HOME
Liverpool v Man City, 15:00 HOME
West Ham v Sheff Utd, 15:00 HOME
Bolton v Arsenal, 17:15 AWAY

Sunday, 26 November 2006

Newcastle v Portsmouth, 13:30 HOME
Tottenham v Wigan, 15:00 HOME
Man Utd v Chelsea, 16:00 AWAY

off topic but still probably the most exciting game this weekend...

Valencia v Real Madrid 18:00 AWAY

Mad Dog

Saturday, 25 November 2006

Charlton v Everton ................................. Draw

Aston Villa v Middlesbrough ...................... Home

Fulham v Reading ................................... Home

Liverpool v Man City ............................... Home

West Ham v Sheff Utd ............................ Home

Bolton v Arsenal .................................... Away

Sunday, 26 November 2006

Newcastle v Portsmouth .......................... Home

Tottenham v Wigan ................................ Away

Man Utd v Chelsea ................................. Draw/Away

county

charlton 0-0 everton HT

Attractive Nun

^^Surprise surprise.

MrJoeSoap

1-1 now in the Everton game, an Arteta free-kick deflected by Hreidarsson and then a lovely strike by Andy Reid. He's having a very good game.

eirebhoy

MrJoeSoap wrote:

1-1 now in the Everton game, an Arteta free-kick deflected by Hreidarsson and then a lovely strike by Andy Reid. He's having a very good game.

Excellent. What position is he in? Judging by the lineup he's back playing behind the striker?

MrJoeSoap

eirebhoy wrote:

Excellent. What position is he in? Judging by the lineup he's back playing behind the striker?

Yeah Charlton are playing with 5 in midfield, Faye and Holland in the centre and Reid pushed further on, behind Bent. He set up Rommedahl beautifully after the goal, and he has had another shot from outside the box parried by Howard. Ten minutes left and I'd be surprised if he wasn't man of the match.

Was just about to post this and he won a nice tackle in his own half. Has to be MOTM.

eirebhoy

My weekly off topic post.

GOAL: Motherwell 0-1 Falkirk: A Stokes (36)

MrJoeSoap

0-1 Reading, who else?

eirebhoy

MrJoeSoap wrote:

0-1 Reading, who else?

And he was fouled for the peno too.

mike65

Villa juts equalised with a dive peno.

Liverpool - City is hard work! Gerrard is playing way too deep for my liking and with City playing 4-5-1 Pool are not getting much joy through the middle while the wide play lacks quality.

Mike.

aidan24326

mike65 wrote:

Liverpool - City is hard work! Gerrard is playing way too deep for my liking and with City playing 4-5-1 Pool are not getting much joy through the middle while the wide play lacks quality.

Sorry Mike but Liverpool are playing sh1t again today. Haven't been impressed with Gerrard lately at all, though some of the dross around him aren't helping. Think ye're missing Xabi Alonso badly, personally I wouldn't rate Zenden and Luis Garcia is talented but must be very frustrating to watch for Pool fans.

Raskolnikov

eirebhoy wrote:

My weekly off topic post.

GOAL: Motherwell 0-1 Falkirk: A Stokes (36)

1-1

The Motherwell equalizer scored by Richie Foran incidently. Seems to have found a home with Motherwell.

Raskolnikov

Raskolnikov wrote:

1-1

The Motherwell equalizer scored by Richie Foran incidently. Seems to have found a home with Motherwell.

2-1, Richie Foran again! Who needs Stokes?

eirebhoy

Foran has 3 SPL goals this season so far and 2 of them penos, on a role.

Collie D

Liverpool 1 City 0, as a United fan I have never been so delighted to see Gerrard score. Last Man Standing money is mine ;o)

Dont be at yourself

I read Liverpool were playing with wing backs today? What was the line-up?

kinaldo

Just flicked on Bolton v Arsenal what a game! Anelka hit a screamer to make it 2-0 and seconds later Gilberto pulled it back to 2-1.

kinaldo

Aaarrrrhhhhh I hate Botlon!

Fair play to them though this has been a terrific game played at an incredibly high pace.

Typical Anelka to finally score, twice no less, against one of his former clubs - brilliant finishing.

I think I've overrated Arsenal again this season. They're still a class side, just a bit too fragile.

Royale with Cheese

God damn I hate Bolton

A Dub in Glasgo

Well done to Bolton

Xavi6

Once again City lose away from home. It's Pearce's neagativity that's killing us. Every away game is 4-5-1 and sit deep. We're bound to concede eventually and then are left chasing the game. So frustrating as a fan and I can't understand why he changed the line up from last week's win.

Aquos76

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

I read Liverpool were playing with wing backs today? What was the line-up?

Liverpool: Reina, Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia, Agger, Luis Garcia (Pennant 59), Gerrard, Zenden, Riise, Crouch (Fowler 65), Kuyt (Bellamy 89).
Subs Not Used: Dudek, Paletta.

kinaldo

RTE panel salivating over Woodgate's performance again for Boro today.

I knew this would happen when he turned down Newcastle, he's only missed one game and that was a dead leg!

Already this season he's kept Anelka, Henry, Bellamy and Martins amongst others tucked away in his back pocket.

Middlesbrough are sooooooo lucky he supports them.

wheres me jumpa

Arsenals defeat today leaves a big gap between 2nd and 3rd. Makes great reading for United and Chelsea.

mike65

Great result for Liverpool (Arsenal loosing that is).

The top two are, I think off and away from the rest.

1 Man Utd 13 23 34
2 Chelsea 13 16 31
3 Bolton Wand 14 2 24
4 Portsmouth 13 8 23
5 Aston Villa 14 6 23
6 Arsenal 13 11 22
7 Reading 14 -2 22
8 Everton 14 6 21
9 Liverpool 14 0 21
10 Wigan Athlet12 3 18
11 Fulham 14 -6 17
12 Tottenham 13 -5 16
13 Middrough 14 -6 16
14 Man City 14 -6 16
15 West Ham 14 -6 14
16 Blackburn 13 -6 13
17 Newcastle 13 -7 10
18 Sheff Utd 14 -11 10
19 Watford 13 -9 9
20 Charlton 14 -11 9

Mike.

wheres me jumpa

Just looking at that, I cant see Villa, Bolton, Reading or Portsmouth keeping up for much longer, looks like the usual top 4 for me.

KdjaCL

wheres me jumpa wrote:

Just looking at that, I cant see Villa, Bolton, Reading or Portsmouth keeping up for much longer, looks like the usual top 4 for me.

Dunno about that with the way Pool and Arse playing away can see that little group staying as is till end of season when Pool and Arse have to win X games to make CL.

Reading are 6th and good for it , tbh shaping up to a decent year for the PL everyone beatable.

kdjac

Savman

wheres me jumpa wrote:

Just looking at that, I cant see Villa, Bolton, Reading or Portsmouth keeping up for much longer, looks like the usual top 4 for me.

I have to be optimistic about the Villa, O' Neill has a considerable transfer kitty if he can get the players he wants. That said, right now I'd take anything

Savman

Xavi6 wrote:

Once again City lose away from home. It's Pearce's neagativity that's killing us. Every away game is 4-5-1 and sit deep. We're bound to concede eventually and then are left chasing the game. So frustrating as a fan and I can't understand why he changed the line up from last week's win.

Feel yer pain, I was watching it with 2 mates both City die hards, I've almost developed an affinity for the club at this stage.

Barton is a super wee player, but there seems to be real lack of quality there, I'm not so sure Pearce is fully to blame. Personally I never rated Vassell, even when he was at Villa, runs around like a headless chicken with no end product. Samoras good player but on the bench??

Pains me to say it, but I don't see City climbing out of mid table mediocrity anytime soon, unless they get some serious investment. You'd be amazed how many Premiership club chairmen are happy to let their club hover around 16th place and as long as they don't get relegated they're content. Such was the case for 15 years at Villa Park under that old coot Doug Ellis. Like I said, I feel yer pain!

Guy:Incognito

Just watching motd there, and again i have to say how terrible it is to see how one footed certain players are. Adebyour(sp?) has such good skill and turn a bolton player brilliantly on the edge of the area and ended up a couple of yards outside the post with the ball nice for a left foot shot, but instead he brings his right across his left and pokes a dribbly backpass to the keeper.

It pains me to see players doing that when even a wild thrash with your left will do a better job. There are so many players doing that nowadays, it's just so bad to see. Anyway , rant over. 3 much needed points for Liverpool today.

redspider

Whilst I'm glad that Liverpool won today, and for Gerrard to score as well, I am not happy at all. And the reason was how the win was achieved. A poor performance from Liverpool really as we found it very difficult to create good chances. This was mainly down to the formation.

NekkidBibleMan wrote:

I read Liverpool were playing with wing backs today? What was the line-up?

I'm glad you asked. I have a bone to pick with Rafa.

He played something like this:

---

Reina

---

---

Carra - Hyypia - Agger ----
Finnan

---

Riise

---

Zenden

---

-- Kuyt --- Gerrard

---

Garcia --

---

Crouch

---

It was hard to describe and baffled the pundits to be honest. MOTD completely missed it and Setanta knew it wasnt what was on the pre-match sheets (ie: Agger was not at left back) but still couldnt describe it properly.

To me, this was a new formation and one that Benitez has not played to date, or if so not in a long time. I thought we had gone through all that formation tinkering last season and had now settled on a 4-4-2. All the players know 4-4-2. Whilst a home game v Man City is an easy match to play on paper and affords us an opportunity to change things around, and given that we do have injuries to Alonso, Sissoko and Gonzalez, that affect us, nevertheless this was to me was Rafa tinkering just a step too far. And it nearly cost us 2 pts, or dare I say 3. I'm all for Benitez being adventurous in formations, etc, at times, and that has worked for us, no more than the CL final itself. But I think perhaps maybe that sometimes he has too much time during the week to think and tries to do things overly complex.

Carragher, Hyypia and Agger were the 3 central backs. Carra would go out wide into the full back position at times, and also allow Finnan to go forward. The same for Agger, so it was like a wing-back situation, although not the classis 5-3-2. I'm not sure what I would call this formation.

Zenden was the player deep, although at times he was in line with Carra and Hyypia and Agger. Kuyt played more wide, as did Garcia, although both got into the middle at times up front with Crouch, eg: the chance that Garcia missed from a long over the top ball from Hyypia. Gerrard played at the top of a quasi diamond, although he was back helping Zenden on plenty of occasions as well. However, Garcia and Kuyt didnt track back far.

So you could call it 5-2-3, or 3-2-1-1-2-1 ..... yeah ... that rolls off the tongue and is 100% intuitive .... not!

Whatever Bentiez was calling it, it was clear that the formation created very little. The players were not used to it and not much was coming off. Indeed, there was a lack of urgency as well wihch compounded its lack of effectivemess. Only for Man C being incompetent and the sheer brilliance of Stevie G, this could have easily been a 0-0 or worse. Man C came for the draw so barely went up-front at all. On the odd occasion they got through, one was via the exploitation of Hyppia's slowness (again) and his lack of ability to change direction quickly.

So, I'm not happy at all.

And its a case of lucky for Liverpool, as Arsenal lose again. Both clubs look as if they are going to make heavy work of getting to 3rd and 4th, which is good news for the 'also-rans', the chasing pack.

If Benitez picks another formation like this, it will be asking for trouble.

ho-hum

redspider

kinaldo

...............Given

Solano Taylor Bramble Ramage

Milner Parker Emre N'Zogbia

...............Dyer
....................Martins

Subs:

24 Pavel Srnicek
32 Paul Huntington
22 Nicky Butt
20 Antoine Sibierski
7 Albert Luque

My prediction is 3-1 to Newcastle!

Guy:Incognito

What is Davids James' hair like? He looks like the weirdo baddy from the first charlies angels film.

kinaldo

Great finish from Martins but very harshly ruled offside

Ffs linesman, daylight!

Newcastle playing excellent so far.

Attractive Nun

I haven't seen the incident, but the rule isn't actually "daylight", if any part of your body that can be used to play the ball is in front of the defending player, then it's technically offside.

kinaldo

Sky commentators are convinced it should have stood, he looked level to me.

Newcastle are having no luck so far.

Parker injured and replaced by Butt.

Then just on the stroke of half time, Milner who was having a very good game is injured and replaced by Sibierski.

Attractive Nun

Well if it was level, then it obviously should have stood. Still, I'm getting sick and tired of Sky, and BBC, and to a lesser extent RTÉ, and the managers, constantly going on about referee's decisions. When everyone is complaining, it seems to me that it'll even itself out, get over it!+

Vokes

Very harsh decision - should've stood.. Twas a great finish.

kinaldo

Attractive Nun wrote:

Well if it was level, then it obviously should have stood. Still, I'm getting sick and tired of Sky, and BBC, and to a lesser extent RTÉ, and the managers, constantly going on about referee's decisions. When everyone is complaining, it seems to me that it'll even itself out, get over it!+

Well, easier said than done to just "get over it" when there's so much at stake.

It was a lovely goal too. Martins will be gutted, he really needs one.

kinaldo

GET IN THERE!!!!!

Sibers u legend! No more than we deserve.

I was almost in tears when I saw Dyer clutching his hamstring again. That was a real nasty looking vicious gash.

Mad Dog

Stekelly wrote:

What is Davids James' hair like? He looks like the weirdo baddy from the first charlies angels film.

That definitely was the most entertaining part of this game, I think he was breaking that hairdo in for someone else

kinaldo

Did everyone forget that Spurs were also playing Wigan today?

Some cracking goals from Defoe, Berbatov, Lennon and Camara.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lirxC91ulgY

Pigman II

Stekelly wrote:

What is Davids James' hair like?

Two theories.

1) Superman Returns came out on DVD this week. Kal-el-amity James must have picked a copy up and been inspired.
2) David Seaman phoned hJames im up and ensured him that a ridiculous haircut is the best way to cement a place as England Number 1.

Guy:Incognito

Kirkland pulling off some good saves in the Spurs game. Continueing the trend of current and ex Liverpool gk's playing great as long as they arent in a Liverpool Jersey.