Premier League 2024/25 - Gameweek 17 - 21-22nd December, 2024

[Stan]

all kick-offs 15.00 (GMT) unless stated

Saturday 21st December, 2024
Aston Villa vs Man City, 12.30 (live on TNT)

Brentford vs Nottm Forest
Ipswich vs Newcastle
West Ham vs Brighton

Crystal Palace vs Arsenal, 17.30 (live on Sky)

Sunday 22nd December, 2024
Everton vs Chelsea, 14.00
Fulham vs Southampton, 14.00 (live on Sky)
Leicester vs Wolves, 14.00
Man Utd vs Bournemouth, 14.00

Tottenham vs Liverpool, 16.30 (live on Sky)

[LFCMike]

The two draws in our last two aren't disastrous by any means but it does feel like a must win this one. Spurs obviously dangerous at their best but there will be plenty of chances for us you'd imagine unless there's a drastic change in their approach.

[Stan]

If Ward plays, we lose.

Simple as that.

[Rick]

1 hour ago, LFCMike said:

The two draws in our last two aren't disastrous by any means but it does feel like a must win this one. Spurs obviously dangerous at their best but there will be plenty of chances for us you'd imagine unless there's a drastic change in their approach.

Yeah, we need to be clinical with our chances on Sunday. We’ve a habit of being too wasteful, and you don’t want give them any confidence of doing us. 

[Happy Blue]

Dias out injured now until the middle of Jan looks like we have no choice but to chuck Stones & Akanji in who are not fully fit and hope for the best. id play

Ortega

Walker   Akanji   Stones  Gvardiol

Grealish

De Bruyne        Kovacic

Foden            Haaland           Savinho

BENCH:- Ederson, Lewis, Pusey, Gundogan, Bernardo, Nunes, Doku, McAtee

 

[Stan]

27 minutes ago, Happy Blue said:

Dias out injured now until the middle of Jan looks like we have no choice but to chuck Stones & Akanji in who are not fully fit and hope for the best. id play

Ortega

Walker   Akanji   Stones  Gvardiol

Grealish

De Bruyne        Kovacic

Foden            Haaland           Savinho

BENCH:- Ederson, Lewis, Pusey, Gundogan, Bernardo, Nunes, Doku, McAtee

 

That's still a formidable team but I guess form plays a big part in how things go in the Villa game let alone the next couple of weeks.

Surely Grealish and Kovacic swap in that formation?

[Happy Blue]

4 minutes ago, Stan said:

That's still a formidable team but I guess form plays a big part in how things go in the Villa game let alone the next couple of weeks.

Surely Grealish and Kovacic swap in that formation?

Yeah we are the worse team in the league over the last 4 weeks or so. Walkers finished, KDB is only good for 60mins, Foden is in the worse form of his life and Haaland is off it too. i put Grealish Infront of the defence like we did against Forest (our only recent win) because KDB & Kovacic are slow and Grealish offers very little in attack but can hold the ball well and help with the defensive side of things and gives us a bit of energy in the middle, at this point it's worth another punt until we can buy a real DM in a few weeks

[Gunnersaurus]

@Happy Blue You already have 27 points so you should be safe from relegation this season 

 

[Dave]

Not expecting anything. Eze's out injured so I expect Kamada to start as him playing a deeper role when he came on for Eze worked well against Brighton.

[RandoEFC+]

A galvanised Goodison after this week's news can always be dangerous. Chelsea's record at our place in recent years is terrible too. This game shouldn't be viewed as a write off for us.

That said, the last time I thought that was Man Utd at home last season after the first points deduction and that resulted in us getting beat comfortably after getting a Puskas goal scored against us in the first 3 minutes. Everton got to Everton.

[Happy Blue]

6 hours ago, Gunnersaurus said:

@Happy Blue You already have 27 points so you should be safe from relegation this season 

 

Depending on the out come of the 136 

[Rick]

TNT putting City’s lineup first even though they’re the away side. Cockheads. 

[Stan]

12 minutes ago, Rick said:

TNT putting City’s lineup first even though they’re the away side. Cockheads. 

Isn't it always the away side first?

[Stan]

Villa firing out the blocks straight away! 

[Happy Blue]

One pass straight through our midfield and CB's  this is on Pep for playing Gundo & Kovacic in midfield together, when will he learn?

[Rick]

31 minutes ago, Stan said:

Isn't it always the away side first?

Can’t be surely?

[Stan]

1 hour ago, Rick said:

Can’t be surely?

To be honest I've never paid much attention to it! Doesn't really hold much importance! 

[Tommy]

Man Shitty lost again? Nice. 

[Stan]

Enjoying the scoreline at Ipswich. 

[6666]

You'd think the endless "stay humble" comments under every Man City video after a bad result would get tiring but nah, still enjoying it.

[RandoEFC+]

7 minutes ago, Stan said:

Enjoying the scoreline at Ipswich. 

Agreed

[RandoEFC+]

Forest are starting to piss me off now. That team and manager have no business being anywhere up there. Reminds me of Leicester's title run where a team just hits a one in a thousand run of unbelievable momentum and everything falling for them for months on end.

[Stan]

Palace must be sick of the sight of Jesus. 

[Rick]

Palace shouldn’t be losing this game. They’ve had all the ball, been in great positions yet they’ve let Arsenal score two feeble goals. Frustrating to watch that third go in, bloody awful defending. 

[Gunnersaurus]

3 hours ago, RandoEFC said:

Forest are starting to piss me off now. That team and manager have no business being anywhere up there. Reminds me of Leicester's title run where a team just hits a one in a thousand run of unbelievable momentum and everything falling for them for months on end.

Why is that pissing you of? Surely a smaller team doing well is a good thing for football