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Premier League 2024/25 - Gameweek 9 - 25-27th October, 2024


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all kick-offs 15.00 (BST) unless stated

Friday 25th October, 2024
Leicester vs Nottm Forest, 20.00

Saturday 26th October, 2024
Aston Villa vs Bournemouth
Brentford vs Ipswich
Brighton vs Wolves
Man City vs Southampton

Everton vs Fulham, 17.30 (live on Sky)

Sunday 27th October, 2024
Chelsea vs Newcastle, 14.00 (live on Sky)
Crystal Palace vs Tottenham, 14.00
West Ham vs Man Utd, 14.00

Arsenal vs Liverpool, 16.30 (live on Sky)

 

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1 hour ago, Rick said:

I think we’ll win this one. They’ve lost about 5 huge players lately, and this that defence of their taking a big hit this week, we should be able to do some damage. Hopefully Saka is out for it as a bonus. 

 

3 minutes ago, 6666 said:

No Odegaard, Saka, or Saliba. That's our three most important players. No Timber or Calafiori either.

Can't see us getting anything from this.

Yep, that's some massively key players out for Arsenal.

Even having 1 or 2 of those out is impactful, but Liverpool are surely big favourites for this game now. 

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As for our game, I'm weirdly not as nervous (or perhaps excited) as I have been for this game in previous years. Not to say it still won't hurt if we lose as Forest have always held some odd arrogance about them. But perhaps it's just a sign of the times of our football under Cooper that it's not very pleasing on the eye unless he chooses the best wingers in the team from the start. Fatawu has surely done enough from the start, and I've said countless times Ayew is the exact kind of player you bring on towards the end of the game to be the defensive forward on the right wing.

Fatawu and Mavididi should start, with Buonanotte in the middle behind Vardy. It's a quartet that is proving to be successful if the last two games are anything to go by. 

Be good to continue the good form and winning streak. If only just to create a bigger gap between us and the bottom 3, let alone it being against Forest.

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First half decent. 

Second half everything but. 

That just seems how we'll go about things this season under Cooper. 

Silly mistakes for their goals and gifted two of them. Relegation standard football in the 2nd half. Not that they didn't deserve to win either, but it's infuriating when you don't make teams work hard for their goals and just offer it up on a plate. 

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It's difficult to not react on emotion to that game because of the significance of that fixture to us. My most miserable take from it is just how far clear Forest actually are of us now. That was no smash and grab - they could've won that by 4 or 5. They're a genuinely good team under Nuno. They're everything I want us to be.

Even despite how highly I rate them, that second half is just unforgivable for me. That's as abject a half as I can remember from us. Literally not one redeeming feature.

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It sounds like Oliver Glasner has three games to save his job, which is fair, as getting to the international break in November without a win for any Premier League team is unacceptable.

He's been making minimal experiments so far and everything hasn't worked. There's a couple of things that he could try that are more radical. He could try four at the back because Munoz looks knackered, he could try Mateta and Nketiah as a two upfront, he could drop Eze and play Kamada there so his system is more coherent. If he sticks to trying to wedge Kamada in and blame the mentality as opposed to his system then that could be his own undoing.

I don't think we will get anything against Tottenham, but I'd like us to remain competitive and get a goal. I could argue that we should have drawn all our games this season, and regardless if you agree or not, it shows that nobody has been battering us and games have been close margins. Spurs haven't been keeping clean sheets in the Premier League on a regular basis so to lose 1-0 or 2-0 would be disappointing.

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This has been such a load of rubbish. Our defensive shape has been quite good for most of the game but our threat has been non-existent. Calvert-Lewin never gets joy when he gets put up against two centre backs he can't bully or outrun. I could have told you that before the game but Dyche comes without a plan other than hoofing it up to him anyway, watches it for 80 minutes and his only solution is to make a like for like swap for Beto. You can see in the players' body language that they know it isn't working. Not to excuse them as they've been second to everything regardless of tactics.

This is why most Everton fans are happy with the job Dyche has done but don't want to see his contract renewed after this season. He's done well to keep us alive despite having to sell important players every season, but we will remain absolutely allergic to going any higher than 14th while he's our manager.

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The way the match went, Bournemouth's late goal should really have been a consolation. A few of this type match mounting up now. I obviously still take this over the bottom 6. But, plenty to feed into the go-to punditry that Villa are not really in with much chance of anything.

On all the others, Slot at Liverpool is impressing me. I think there is a tradition of clubs doing well before a manager change, suffering a dip. But it's not going that way at all.

I do see the amusing side to Brighton & Forest being where they are. It's early, but that Big 6/7 just are not where they are supposed to be.

I think Southampton & Wolves could make it a 1 spot race for the others. Though both did well in different ways on Saturday.

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21 minutes ago, Stan said:

That ball from Palmer for the opening goal was sublime.

Yea it was excellent but as always we let ourselves down defensively again.. Doesn't matter where the team is in the league or what form they are in we will concede, It's almost a guarantee for teams playing us which means we need at least two or more to try and get the points because we can't keep a clean sheet.. 

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4 minutes ago, Bluewolf said:

Yea it was excellent but as always we let ourselves down defensively again.. Doesn't matter where the team is in the league or what form they are in we will concede, It's almost a guarantee for teams playing us which means we need at least two or more to try and get the points because we can't keep a clean sheet.. 

Yeah, it was a problem we had last season with Maresca, too, at times.

I always find it staggering how a centre-forward can almost stroll up to the 6 yard box unmarked to tap in. I can understand, to an extent, if it was a midfielder making a late run. But Isak is their only forward and you almost expect him to be in that area, so why isn't a defender picking him up and taking responsibility for him?

 

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