Re: Rival thread

[mr-r34]

10 man Newcastle still considered a good result?

[Helmer]

no i still think we should have won but may be one man being down worked in their favour and the defended more so was difficult to break them down...
But now i would like to forget about hull win and all the draws.
We have some big matches coming on so lets get something from them

[RedOranje]

10 man Newcastle still considered a good result?

Is that what I said?  No.  

But drawing away to a club who have managed to beat Tottenham (A), Chelsea (H), and Manchester United (A) is not a shocking result, red card or not.

[McAgger]

Results all going our way, let's hope Sunderland pull a miracle

[Art Morte]

Manchester v Newcastle wasn't great football, but it was still great to watch. The Mancs going two full games at home without scoring

[mr-r34]

Everton dropped 2
Arsenal dropped 2
City dropped 2
United dropped 3
Chelsea dropped 3

What a week for us.

Lets hope we beat spurs and city beat or draw against arsenal next week.

[Helmer]

brilliant weak
Spurs have had a good weak with two wins and will be high on confidence. But I think we should play for win against them and if we cant, get at least a draw

[McAgger]

Absolute brilliant last 2 matchdays

[Nishankly]

Hull remain the only Premier League visitors to the Etihad Stadium this season to have conceded fewer than three goals.

[Helmer]

I dont even wanna play against ManCity at Etihad...just cant imagine how much we will be screwed

[Helmer]

It will be quite a big achievement if we lose like 2-1 or may be 3-2 at Etihad, but I think unlike other teams like Arsenal we wont play such an open game, so we have better chances(like 5%) to get something from there

[Nishankly]

I fear we'll respect them too much like we did to Arsenal or United

[Art Morte]

Yeah, getting anything from the blue side of Manchester would be awesome. It wouldn't surprise me anymore if they won every home game of the season, it's only us and Chelsea left out of the big clubs.

Anyway, things looked nice when Fulham equalised, but then they went on to lose 4 - 1 to Everton... At least Newcastle and Soton drew.

[Helmer]

If the game gets stretched like today, we are frracked...I think BR will never such tactics against such teams in form, I still believe we will be the first one to knock on the door screwing their home record, but finally they might edge us.

[ExtremistEnigma]

We have dominated City in the past few years. Yes, they're under new management now and freely scoring but I think we can snatch a point there. Obviously not counting on it though.

[Helmer]

yeah i thought Fulham under the new manager will surpeise is with draw but it seems Fulham are Fulham this season

[Red Alert]

I say kill ourselves against Spurs and Chelsea to go out and do our best to get 6 points there, and play a "weaker" side against Cardiff to try and get a positive result. (It's at home, so we only really need Suarez against them anyways.) We have no chance of 3 points at the Etihad. Not without Sturridge and Gerrard anyway.

[Red Alert]

We have dominated City in the past few years. Yes, they're under new management now and freely scoring but I think we can snatch a point there. Obviously not counting on it though.

That's because of Mancini being their manager to be fair.

[Red Alert]

Aguero will miss the Liverpool game, he's out for 6 weeks.

[McAgger]

At the end of the storm there is a golden sky ffs

Looks like fortune is favoring us finally after years of dismay, even in little things like injuries to rivals' best players

[Red Alert]

^ Gets better for us I guess. Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny could face a lengthy spell on the sidelines after being carried off on a stretcher with a deep cut to the knee during the Premier League clash at Manchester City.

They're still doing scans, but I saw it live, he couldn't move his knee. Think he'll be out for months, I hope for his sake it's not his ACL.

That means Vermaelen is in, and he's been average defensively for couple of seasons now.

[McAgger]

I hate to be happy for people's misfortunes especially with injuries but f*cking hell I think we've been one of the most unluckiest teams in the league regarding injuries ourselves, so some injuries to our rivals isn't unwelcomed here

Just off the top of my head we've had injuries to

Agger (out twice)
Enrique
Coutinho
Johnson
Gerrard
Sturridge (niggled almost all the games he played and now out for a good couple of months)
Aspas
Coates
Jones
Kelly (Still recovering from old injury)

Pretty sure there was a couple of more that I'm forgetting

[Red Alert]

Chelsea's next 5 games:

Dec 17  06:45 EST  Sunderland   v   Chelsea Stadium of Light Capital One Cup (Quarter-finals)  
Dec 23  07:00 EST  Arsenal   v   Chelsea Emirates Stadium Premier League  
Dec 26  02:00 EST  Chelsea   v   Swansea City Stamford Bridge Premier League  
Dec 29  03:00 EST  Chelsea   v   Liverpool Stamford Bridge Premier League  
Jan 1  02:00 EST  Southampton   v   Chelsea The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium Premier League  

Manchester City's next 5 games:

Dec 21  02:00 EST  Fulham   v   Manchester City Craven Cottage Premier League  
Dec 26  04:30 EST  Manchester City   v   Liverpool Etihad Stadium Premier League  
Dec 28  02:00 EST  Manchester City   v   Crystal Palace Etihad Stadium Premier League  
Jan 1  23:45 EST  Swansea City   v   Manchester City Liberty Stadium Premier League  
Jan 12  01:05 EST  Newcastle United   v   Manchester City St James' Park Premier League  

Arsenal's next 5:

Dec 23  07:00 EST  Arsenal   v   Chelsea Emirates Stadium Premier League  
Dec 26  02:00 EST  West Ham United   v   Arsenal Upton Park Premier League  
Dec 29  00:30 EST  Newcastle United   v   Arsenal St James' Park Premier League  
Jan 1  02:00 EST  Arsenal   v   Cardiff City Emirates Stadium Premier League  
Jan 13  07:00 EST  Aston Villa   v   Arsenal Villa Park Premier League  

Man Utd:

Dec 21  02:00 EST  Manchester United   v   West Ham United Old Trafford Premier League  
Dec 26  23:45 EST  Hull City   v   Manchester United The Kingston Communications Stadium Premier League  
Dec 28  02:00 EST  Norwich City   v   Manchester United Carrow Road Premier League  
Jan 1  04:30 EST  Manchester United   v   Tottenham Hotspur Old Trafford Premier League  
Jan 11  04:30 EST  Manchester United   v   Swansea City Old Trafford Premier League  

Everton:

Dec 22  03:00 EST  Swansea City   v   Everton Liberty Stadium Premier League  
Dec 26  02:00 EST  Everton   v   Sunderland Goodison Park Premier League  
Dec 29  00:30 EST  Everton   v   Southampton Goodison Park Premier League  
Jan 1  02:00 EST  Stoke City   v   Everton Britannia Stadium Premier League  
Jan 11  02:00 EST  Everton   v   Norwich City Goodison Park Premier League  

Spurs:

Dec 22  00:30 EST  Southampton   v   Tottenham Hotspur The Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium Premier League  
Dec 26  02:00 EST  Tottenham Hotspur   v   West Bromwich Albion White Hart Lane Premier League  
Dec 29  03:00 EST  Tottenham Hotspur   v   Stoke City White Hart Lane Premier League  
Jan 1  04:30 EST  Manchester United   v   Tottenham Hotspur Old Trafford Premier League  
Jan 11  02:00 EST  Tottenham Hotspur   v   Crystal Palace White Hart Lane Premier League

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Chelsea look like they have a hard run, just like we do. Let's hope they can drop as much points as possible.

City will breeze through I think.

United will start to catch up with some easy games. I think they get Carrick back which puts Rooney back forward.  

Everton will make themselves look good over the next month, although have limited depth. Not too sure how they'll go with playing 5 games in 2 weeks but can't see them losing too many points.

Spurs, well they're on the downhill IF they sack AVB. No chance of them making the top 4 if AVB is sacked. I think a "poor" result against Soton will get him the sack. Levy looked clueless after defeat, and there's a lot of rumours going around that he was going to get sacked today.

Arsenal will have "mixed" thoughts I think. Some easy games, but Chelsea and Newcastle could hurt them. Their best defender in Koscielny is out injured. Wilshere will definitely miss the game against Chelsea. Oh, if Chelsea beat them, they go first. Which is surprising as Chelsea has been dead average this season. I really hate the Mourinho affect.

[Red Alert]

[Fahim89]

What ever it is i don't understand why ManU are being considered as our rivals!!!

Come on they have Moyes as Manager!!!

[Red Alert]

They could potentially get 15 points from their next 5 games without a manager.

Rooney is back from suspension. He'll carry them. Moyes is crap, but United is still a threat.

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Anyway, Zabaleta has done his hamstring. He'll miss the Liverpool game too (Aguero's the other).

David Silva is 1 yellow card from suspension. Let's hope he picks up a card against Fulham.

Apparently Micah Richards is also out, so they have no right back to cover Zabaleta. I hope they stick with Pantil as well, he has butter fingers, can't hold onto the ball from a shot / cross. Only bad news for us is that Kompany is back and pretty much carry's City defence on his own and they're attack is still deadly.

With all that said, we always give City a game so it's looking positive.

Cardiff first, though.

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