Mid-Week Premier League Action

Peyton Manning

Wednesday 12th March 2008

19.45: Portsmouth -vs- Birmingham City
19.45: Aston Villa -vs- Middlesbrough
20.00: Chelsea -vs- Derby County

Unsurprisingly, Im going to go for a trio of home wins.

Dave!

Yeah I might put a tenner on that...

Killme00

Birmingham to draw..at least

Green Giant

Killme00 wrote: »

Birmingham to draw..at least

agreed

SantryRed

Three easy home wins tonight.

KdjaCL

Derby to draw is a decent bet.

Grant to be sacked tonight is another.


Any of these on tv?


kdjac

DSB

Villa really need to win this one or risk becoming detached from Everton and Liverpool. I think they will though.

mike65

Chelsea will be so fired up for this one could be a rout if they open the scoring early doors. Villa and a draw for Pompey/Brum.

Mike.

Nalz

will Lampard be back for this evening? 3 home victories. Pompey to win 1-0

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KdjaCL wrote: »

Grant to be sacked tonight is another.

Watchoo talkin' bout, Willis?

Nunu

Archimedes wrote: »

Wednesday 12th March 2008

19.45: Portsmouth -vs- Birmingham City
19.45: Aston Villa -vs- Middlesbrough
20.00: Chelsea -vs- Derby County

Unsurprisingly, Im going to go for a trio of home wins.

I'm telling you go for a Birmingham win!

For at least the last 10 seasons every time Utd suffer a domestic defeat(excluding Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool) I always back against that team in their next game - the most recent being City who went on to lose at home to Everton - it's amazing how often it happens.

I have won loads of money doing this.

invincibleirish

Home wins all three sides, but there surely has to be one freak result tonite, Chelsea did lose to Barnsley at the weekend!

pd101

Porthsmouth winning 2-1 after 9 mins

OPENROAD

Frank Lampard pen 1-0 Chelsea.

mayordenis

nice dive frank btw

machiavellianme

mayordenis wrote: »

nice dive frank btw

He shouldnt even be playing if he'd taken his ban like a man.

eirebhoy

Moses scores for Palace.

DSB

machiavellianme wrote: »

He shouldnt even be playing if he'd taken his ban like a man.

Why should someone take an unfair ban like a man? If you were given a ridiculously harsh sentence for a crime you wouldn't appeal then? You'd take it like a man yeah?

machiavellianme

If I'd committed a foul/crime, then yes.

DSB

You'd take a punishment that was way too harsh? Why?

V9

Chelsea 5-0 and sailing

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6-1

Lamps with 4 of them

estebancambias

Notice how nobody has said anything about Anelka and his struggle to get goals.

WhiteWashMan

awesome goal by berbatov against psv.

Dave!

Hey has anyone noticed the lack of goals by Anelka?

WhiteWashMan wrote: »

awesome goal by berbatov against psv.

Didn't know PSV were in the Premiership

edit: Boo in the general direction of Middlesborough

Unearthly

Lampard now has 17 goals this season, I thought it was common understanding he was brutal this year

An Citeog

Nunu wrote: »

I'm telling you go for a Birmingham win!

For at least the last 10 seasons every time Utd suffer a domestic defeat(excluding Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool) I always back against that team in their next game - the most recent being City who went on to lose at home to Everton - it's amazing how often it happens.

I have won loads of money doing this.

Must not listen to Nunu again!:D

jesus_thats_gre

:cool:

Unearthly wrote: »

Lampard now has 17 goals this season, I thought it was common understanding he was brutal this year

Had very few in the league until now tbh. All Chelsea need is 1 or 2 of Lampard, Drogba, Anelka, Cole or whoever else to start playing to their ability and Chelsea will have a very good chance of winning the league.

I personally feel that the league is gonna finish as follows:

Chelsea - 86pts
Manu - 85pts
Arsenal - 82pts
Liverpool - 80pts

Spent about 30 seconds predicting the points but I think the placings will be right. Then again, I could be completely wrong

Unearthly

There was a topic about a month ago on here with people predicting the rest of the fixtures, Arsenal had a 5 point advantage at the time and people had them winning the league by a huge margin.

People look at the 'grand slam' games coming up, I think it could be the games that teams don't expect to drop point from that will decide it.

PHB

The grand slam games as you call them, are gona play a huge role. Personally I think thats where Chelsea are gona fall down, because Grant seems to be terrible in the big games, doesn't have that extra tactical ability.

United are 2 points behind with a game in hand, they will make up that game with Bolton next midweek, and have Derby at the weekend. Can't see us slipping up in those two, which means United will have the lead going into those games.

p.s. The idea of Arsenal getting 14 points from a possible 27 is just silly. It would be their worst run of form so far this season by some distance.
The idea of Liverpool picking up 24 from 27 is equally nuts, considering that they are playing the other big 3

Nunu

An Citeog wrote: »

Must not listen to Nunu again!:D

Typical....and I really thought they would do it after drawing level from 2 goals down!

Worked for every other time this season - City(x2), Bolton, West Ham, Coventry.

invincibleirish

I think the only thing Villa can take away from tonights terrible draw was the attendance, 39,874, not bad for a midweek against Boro (they only had 200 away fans), more people at VP then Stamford Brige or Goodison!

jackdaw

PHB wrote: »

The grand slam games as you call them, are gona play a huge role. Personally I think thats where Chelsea are gona fall down, because Grant seems to be terrible in the big games, doesn't have that extra tactical ability.

Exactly .. looking at the record so far against the big 3 , we are **** with Grant .. man U 2 0 Chelsea
T'ars 1-0 Chelsea (should have been 3-0)
Chelsea 0 0 Liverpool (Benny Hill show - & Pool would have won if Torres was playing) ..

1/9 points ... a farce .. I hope that Sun article was true about Mou coming back ..

growler

PHB wrote: »

The grand slam games as you call them, are gona play a huge role. Personally I think thats where Chelsea are gona fall down, because Grant seems to be terrible in the big games, doesn't have that extra tactical ability.

I must be ill, or posessed, or both ... but I agree with you !!! :eek:

iregk

Can't help but notice the lack of a jackdaw comment in here. Must only come out for the bad results.

I put a bet on Chelsea winning 5-0 and lampard bagging a hatrick! Thought too little of them. Mind you I did say Anelka for the other two.

Super display last night.

jesus_thats_gre

PHB wrote: »

p.s. The idea of Arsenal getting 14 points from a possible 27 is just silly. It would be their worst run of form so far this season by some distance.
The idea of Liverpool picking up 24 from 27 is equally nuts, considering that they are playing the other big 3

Lol, I did say that I spent 30 seconds coming up with the points

~Rebel~

has Anelka scored for chelsea actually since he joined?

jesus_thats_gre

He has.. Think he scored last night..

Opps, he didn't.

Scored 1 in the FA cup though.

Fratton Fred

Nunu wrote: »

I'm telling you go for a Birmingham win!

For at least the last 10 seasons every time Utd suffer a domestic defeat(excluding Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool) I always back against that team in their next game - the most recent being City who went on to lose at home to Everton - it's amazing how often it happens.

I have won loads of money doing this.

how much did you lose then:D

jackdaw

YEs a great win .. 6/1 .. nice to get the goal difference up ...

maybe we can win the league .. MAYBE ...

no chance in the CL though ...

Best wishes to Barnsley in the FA cup ...

KdjaCL

invincibleirish wrote: »

I think the only thing Villa can take away from tonights terrible draw was the attendance, 39,874, not bad for a midweek against Boro (they only had 200 away fans), more people at VP then Stamford Brige or Goodison!

VP is bigger than both ? So it should have more in it.


kdjac

invincibleirish

Not Always:

this corresponding feature through the past few seasons has been in and around the 35K attendance

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/middlesbrough/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/01/11/17/SOCCER_Villa.html&TEAMHD=mboro&DIV=prem&TEAM=MIDDLESBROUGH&RH=Middlesbrough&PREV_SEASON=2000

http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/astonvilla/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/05/03/05/SOCCER_Villa.html&TEAMHD=astonvilla&DIV=prem&TEAM=ASTON--VILLA&RH=Aston--Villa&PREV_SEASON=2003

and they were at the weekend

Nearly 40k for a mid week against Boro? then winds of change through VP are in effect!

KdjaCL

So the fickle fans are back



kdjac

invincibleirish

KdjaCL wrote: »

So the fickle fans are back



kdjac

Fickle Fans? Villa? never!

http://www.heroesandvillains.info/discuss/viewtopic.php?t=23869&sid=7aa73717247c1699dd9849edb639c9dc