Premier League 2024/25 - Gameweek 19 - 29th Dec-1st Jan 2025

[Stan]

all kick-offs 15.00 (GMT) unless stated

Sunday 29th December, 2024
Leicester vs Man City, 14.30 (live on Sky)

Crystal Palace vs Southampton
Everton vs Nottm Forest
Fulham vs Bournemouth
Tottenham vs Wolves

West Ham vs Liverpool, 17.15 (live on Sky)

Monday 30th December, 2024
Aston Villa vs Brighton, 19.45
Ipswich vs Chelsea, 19.45

Man Utd vs Newcastle, 20.00 (live on Sky)

Wednesday 1st January, 2025
Brentford vs Arsenal, 17.30 (live on TNT)

 

[Dan+]

Doctor Leicester will see you now.

[OrangeKhrush]

We go to Old Trafford with a chance to break our curse.   If we keep the same level of intensity we have a good chance. 

[Stan]

5 hours ago, Dan said:

Doctor Leicester will see you now.

Today really could be such a good opportunity to take advantage of a poor Man City side but you just know we won't take the chance. 

We'll play Haaland and Co back in to form. 

[Happy Blue]

9 hours ago, Dan said:

Doctor Leicester will see you now.

Try to relax you're anus 

[Stan]

41 minutes ago, Happy Blue said:

Try to relax you're anus 

On paper your squad is still ridiculous. De Bruyne loves a game against us. 

[Happy Blue]

5 minutes ago, Stan said:

On paper your squad is still ridiculous. De Bruyne loves a game against us. 

It's very old though and with the injury's we cant rotate much, we will prop off massively in the 2nd half with only 2 days rest, don't know why Peps not giving the kids a chance. Ake is injured too, he couldn't sprint yesterday so Vardy could cause us problems

[Happy Blue]

 

[RandoEFC+]

No complaints about the Forest goal but these officials have been absolutely shite so far. Tarkowski booked for a decent tackle, missed an Everton corner and two fouls on our players in the final third. All in 20 minutes. Awful.

[RandoEFC+]

Some reasonable approach play but we are so bad at creating chances when we get to the final third. Ndiaye can beat a man but has nobody capable of any interplay to help him. Two wingers that cut inside without full backs who can, or are permitted to, overlap them, isn't a recipe for success either.

I don't care about Forest's league position. This isn't an acceptable fixture to lose at home.

[RandoEFC+]

That is really poor from Conor Coady. Drifts into no man's land and gives Haaland the freedom of the penalty area to stay onside for a free header.

[LFCMike]

11 minutes ago, RandoEFC said:

 

I don't care about Forest's league position. This isn't an acceptable fixture to lose at home.

Really?

[RandoEFC+]

17 minutes ago, LFCMike said:

Really?

No? They're in good form but they're not Arsenal or Liverpool. You can't just expect to lose all your home games against any top half team if you want to stay in the league.

They've smashed and grabbed us 2-0 here. Fair play to them. Mykolenko and Tarkowski leave it to each other and Forest take advantage. Awful defending.

I don't know what it will take for Dyche to give Mykolenko some time out of the team. Play Young at left back and Coleman or Patterson on the other side. He needs to stop playing Harrison from the start as well when Lindstrom is showing more potential.

[Happy Blue]

Wow, we have found a team worse than us   ..still horrific at times for us today, Vardy could of easy had a few. need to get these signings in fast

[LFCMike]

5 minutes ago, RandoEFC said:

No? They're in good form but they're not Arsenal or Liverpool. You can't just expect to lose all your home games against any top half team if you want to stay in the league.

They've smashed and grabbed us 2-0 here. Fair play to them. Mykolenko and Tarkowski leave it to each other and Forest take advantage. Awful defending.

I don't know what it will take for Dyche to give Mykolenko some time out of the team. Play Young at left back and Coleman or Patterson on the other side. He needs to stop playing Harrison from the start as well when Lindstrom is showing more potential.

Of course not but i don't think you can say it's not acceptable to lose to a team that will go second after this game. 

[RandoEFC+]

Dyche lapped up all the credit for going through Arsenal, Chelsea and City undefeated but games like this go to show that it's not because he's a tactical genius, it's because this team spends 90% of their training sessions working on defensive shape, discipline, set pieces and organisation, and no time on passing, crossing, attacking movement, link up play or largely anything that involves having the ball or hurting an opposition. 

Grateful to him for keeping us up these past two seasons and hopefully one more but fuck me I can't wait for us to move on to a management style that makes it actually enjoyable to watch my team play again.

[Whiskey]

You really get the feeling that the relegation places as they are now will stay the same until the end of the season, early days I know but the three that are there now are comfortably the worst in the league, perhaps indicating the chasm between Premier League and Championship.

Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton will go. I wonder if as Leicester are the more established of the three whether they'll panic and pull the trigger on RVN around March.

[Gooner]

Game over at half-time in this one, now just a case of how many more Liverpool will score in the second half. Salah has always been ridiculous but he's taking it to an even higher level this season. 

[RandoEFC+]

 

God this guy must be unpopular in the dressing room. We've got some really limited players in our team but you've got to credit them for not downing tools at any point over the past few seasons like some more talented players have done in the past. The way Dyche makes them play and the way he speaks about them in the press at times, he's given them plenty of excuses to do so.

[Dr. Gonzo]

1 hour ago, Whiskey said:

You really get the feeling that the relegation places as they are now will stay the same until the end of the season, early days I know but the three that are there now are comfortably the worst in the league, perhaps indicating the chasm between Premier League and Championship.

Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton will go. I wonder if as Leicester are the more established of the three whether they'll panic and pull the trigger on RVN around March.

Wolves are pretty shit and referees seem to enjoy fucking them over, so I could see them going down.

But yeah that bottom 3 is pretty shit, I could see Leicester being less shit if they play more like they did in the first half of their recent match like us.

[Dr. Gonzo]

Honestly this West Ham side seem legitimately terrible

[RandoEFC+]

1 minute ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Honestly this West Ham side seem legitimately terrible

It's like he sets them up to neutralise his own best players Bowen and Kudus.

[Dr. Gonzo]

10 minutes ago, RandoEFC said:

It's like he sets them up to neutralise his own best players Bowen and Kudus.

Kudus has been the only player they have that’s seemed of any use today, but the rest of them… just poor.

[Rick]

This was a walk in the park. Apart from a couple of things from Kudus, they’ve been well beaten. 
 

The way both teams are playing, we should smash Utd next Sunday. 

[Stan]

Vastly improved performance but just didn't have the ruthtlessness and finishing to go with it. Thought we were good for at least a draw but sometimes the basics let us down. 

Vardy should be scoring shortly before Haaland's header but they're the game-changing moments we need to go our way. I'm confident we may have even gone on to win had Vardy scored as we seemed in the ascendancy. 

Can probably agree with the above that the bottom 3 are set and it'd take something special for any 3 of us to turn fortunes around. But I'd say we're most equipped to do that. Especially if RVN is backed in January. And he simply has to be. I saw enough of a plan and good play on occasion today to think we might be okay, but we definitely need reinforcements.