Weekend Prem Thread (6th / 7th Apr)

Vokes

Charlton after drawing away to Man City, so they missed out a chance to catch Sheff Utd. Charlton now 5 points ahead of the Hammers with a game more played.

Predictions...

Friday, 06 April 2007

Everton v Fulham, 19:30 Home

Saturday, 07 April 2007

Chelsea v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Arsenal v West Ham, 15:00 Home
Blackburn v Aston Villa, 15:00 Draw
Middlesbro' v Watford, 15:00 Score Draw
Reading v Liverpool, 15:00 Away
Sheff Utd v Newcastle, 15:00 Away
Wigan v Bolton, 15:00 Home
Portsmouth v Man Utd, 17:15 Away

EDIT: My mistake. Looks like Charlton have climbed above Sheff Utd on goal difference !

Green_Martian

Friday, 06 April 2007

Everton v Fulham, 19:30 Home

Saturday, 07 April 2007

Chelsea v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Arsenal v West Ham, 15:00 Home
Blackburn v Aston Villa, 15:00 Draw
Middlesbro' v Watford, 15:00 Home
Reading v Liverpool, 15:00 Away
Sheff Utd v Newcastle, 15:00 Draw
Wigan v Bolton, 15:00 Away
Portsmouth v Man Utd, 17:15 Away

Mossy Monk

Everton v Fulham is a decent enough game. Good goals so far.

Kojak

Saturday, 07 April 2007

Chelsea v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Arsenal v West Ham, 15:00 Home
Blackburn v Aston Villa, 15:00 Home
Middlesbro' v Watford, 15:00 Home
Reading v Liverpool, 15:00 Away
Sheff Utd v Newcastle, 15:00 Away
Wigan v Bolton, 15:00 Away
Portsmouth v Man Utd, 17:15 Away

county

Chelsea v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Arsenal v West Ham, 15:00 Home
Blackburn v Aston Villa, 15:00 Draw
Middlesbro' v Watford, 15:00 Draw
Reading v Liverpool, 15:00 Draw
Sheff Utd v Newcastle, 15:00 Draw
Wigan v Bolton, 15:00 Home
Portsmouth v Man Utd, 17:15 Away

MisterAnarchy

Why do Tottenham have to play at 12.45 tomorrow morning ?
Thats less that 40 hours after playing in Seville.
Bloody disgrace that.

purple'n'gold

Everton 4 Fulham 1
very gratifying result for the grand old team!

mike65

Chelsea v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Arsenal v West Ham, 15:00 Home
Blackburn v Aston Villa, 15:00 Draw
Middlesbro' v Watford, 15:00 home
Reading v Liverpool, 15:00 Away
Sheff Utd v Newcastle, 15:00 Away
Wigan v Bolton, 15:00 Draw
Portsmouth v Man Utd, 17:15 Away

Mike.

griffdaddy

who's on RTE/Setanta today?

kaimera

No game on RTE it seems.

Don't have Setanta

Chelsea v Tottenham, 12:45 Home
Arsenal v West Ham, 15:00 Draw
Blackburn v Aston Villa, 15:00 Draw
Middlesbro' v Watford, 15:00 Draw
Reading v Liverpool, 15:00 Away
Sheff Utd v Newcastle, 15:00 Away
Wigan v Bolton, 15:00 Away
Portsmouth v Man Utd, 17:15 Away

griffdaddy

just had a look there, it's Reading-Liverpool, sweet.

leninbenjamin

i see it's 0-0 at Stamford Bridge. Anyone watching it? would love to see Spurs hold out for the point.

Edit: and 1 minute after i post i see on bbc.co.uk that Chelsea scored... crap...

PHB

Anyone else blame that goal completely on Robinson? He seemed to react so slowly

PiE

Looked like he was expecting the defender to get a touch on it. But yea, shoulda done much better. Spurs deserved a point I felt.

Macker

PHB wrote:

Anyone else blame that goal completely on Robinson? He seemed to react so slowly

As a Spurs supporter he drives me nuts ,so many goals from outside the box this season it's unreal it's about time Cerney got his chance

KdjaCL

West ham 1 up

Cmon Bolton


kdjac

KdjaCL

Bolton 2-1 up.

Hope for the hammers if they can win today.


kdjac

therecklessone

Macker wrote:

As a Spurs supporter he drives me nuts ,so many goals from outside the box this season it's unreal it's about time Cerney got his chance

Missed todays game as on way home from Seville but totally agree. Alarm bells have to be ringing.

KdjaCL

YESSSSSSS

Hammers win 1-0


kdjac

PHB

****ing hell, what a win for West Ham.
Sheff United and Wigan lost.
Charlton got the draw last night.

It really is on for Charlton now, with West Ham having a great shot, despite having to play some of the top teams still

mike65

God day for Pool with a hard fought win and Arse loosing. Bolton for 4th place anyone?

Mike.

leninbenjamin

mike65 wrote:

God day for Pool with a hard fought win and Arse loosing. Bolton for 4th place anyone?

bloody hell managed to watch most of the game and miss all the goals at the same time. good result. wouldn't rule out Bolton for 4th either... Arsenal seem to be in free fall at the moment.

Pressure is on Utd. now, Richardson starting... hmm... should make for a decent game hopefully.

leninbenjamin

1-0 to Portsmouth. Opportunistic goal by Taylor, a rebound parried straight in front by VDS. reminiscent of Roma's second goal...

Necronomicon

Hate to criticise players but I cannot for the life of me understand why Fergie persists with Richardson. When I saw him in the tunnel I just had to sigh!

Anyway, plenty of time to go. Hopefully the players will drink a bit of whatever they had against Blackburn at half time last saturday!

PHB

Richardson once again poor, he just can't seem to take his chance.

I still think we can win this game, we've made some clear chances, we just havn't put them away. Ronaldo could have had 2, Carrick and Rooney could have had one.
Either bringing on Giggs or Ole for Richardson will make us much better.

Time Magazine

G'wan the Villa

zAbbo

great save by VDS

Should be an entertaining last 25mins

dr.bollocko

Yeeeaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhhh.
I will be the most surprised of us all when we win this one 2-1.

zAbbo

just....just touches the ball.

fade2black

Great tackle.

Pepe LeFrits

Wenger absolutely must buy a (maybe even two) goal-scoring midfielder or good 4th striker in the summer.

Mossy Monk

Pepe LeFrits wrote:

Wenger absolutely must buy a (maybe even two) goal-scoring midfielder or good 4th striker in the summer.

For sure. Hopefully Wenger knows this too.

zAbbo

10mins left, don't think I've ever seen a ManU team lacking so much passion.

Still you could see them nicking something late on.

Portsmouth are pressing Utd at every chance, credit to their performance.

besty

Good God this is frustrating stuff from United. Please, please, please nick a draw...

zAbbo

Weeee-Oh

very funny.

zAbbo

Interesting, JoS gets a last minute goal

2-1, 4mins left.

Credit to Alan Smith for winning that ball back.

Mossy Monk

Surely that's the end of that.

No wait.

2-1 now

besty

Jesus. So many near-heart attacks in that last 5 mins

zAbbo

LuaLua is the most infuriating player on show !

Game over 2-1 Pompey, well done.

James with a great last minute save

Time Magazine

Heh. 3 points innit.

Mossy Monk

zabbo wrote:

James with a great last minute save

Yeah. He must wait until Monday now to see if he can get that clean sheet record.

leninbenjamin

my god what a game and what a way to throw it all away. Giggs looked utter sh*te when he came on. Smyth should have been on sooner, they needed a bit of a warrior like him up front, he was the only player to actually go fight for the ball when ever they lost it in pressing.

the game displayed a real lack of communication between United players. so many knockdowns and passes that went the opposite way of where the team mate was. The own goal was the culmination of this. Chelsea fans should really be delighted, Utd did not look like a team that can go on to win this.

Utd also need a defensive midfielder. when the ball is lost in the attack it has to go all the way back to the defense before they can regain possession, placing to much pressure on them.

Edit: United are going to have to be very strong mentally to come through this.

PHB

Portsmouth deserved the win in the end, very poor performance from United.

Still ****ing infuriated about that offside at the very start of the second half, clearly onside and Rooney popped it away, would have totally changed the game. ****ing linesmen

Terrible performance today from Scholes and Carrick, who really were quite poor. Saha was missed so much it was unreal, somebody to hold onto the ball up front would have made all the difference. Giggs possibly played the worst I've ever seen him play.

Alas, what can ya do.
The run in is going to be very very tight.

United have a easy two premiership games coming up:

Sheffield United (H)
Boro (H)

Then it gets tough

Everton (A)
Man City (A)
Chelsea (A)
West Ham (H)

Chelsea on the other hand have:

West Ham (A)
Newcastle (A)
Bolton (H)
Arsenal (A)
Man Utd (H)
Everton (H)

Chelsea have one easy game (Newcastle), United have two, so its just really up to the teams.
Luckily for United, Vidic should return for the last four games, so we'll only be weak in defense against Sheffield and Boro at home, which should be ok

tdv

It had to be the genius Ferdinand. The script was written for him.

PHB

It was VDS's fault imo

Aquos76

PHB wrote:

It was VDS's fault imo

Would concur with that...

zAbbo

Other defenders would have hoofed it, seems like he didn't get a shout from somewhere.

Looked like he was blaming Wes Brown.

Guy:Incognito

PHB wrote:

It was VDS's fault imo

I would give it to both. VDS was in the wrong place, but Ferdinand didnt look and put the ball where he assumed the keeper would be, bad move. ALWAYS look first.

Dcully

Chelsea stuttering all season yet still within reach,writing on the wall?
Man U were crap today just like mid week.

Dave!

Man Utd played sh*t today. Scholes was completely inconspicuous for the whole match. Maybe he's p*ssed off with himself over the Roma match so he's keeping quiet? Giggs was diabolical. Heinze again played poorly. I was told that Evra was on the bench, can anyone confirm that? Smith was decent when he came on.

Van Der Sar was ridiculous... 3 times in 2 matches, he's pushed the ball back at the attackers rather than catch it or put it over the bar. 2 of those 3 times, we directly conceded a goal. And then he played a part in an own goal. He pulled off a cracking save towards the end, but these are crazy mistakes from a keeper of that caliber! And at such a key time in the competition!

John O Shea... What odds are the bookies givin for him to get a hat-trick against Roma during the week?

Mossy Monk

Having watched the highlights of Arsenal v West Ham I must say how the hell did West Ham go away with three points. The Gods are against Arsenal.