Premier League 2024/25 - Gameweek 20 - 4-6th January, 2025

[Stan]

all kick-offs 15.00 (GMT) unless stated

Saturday 4th January, 2025
Tottenham vs Newcastle, 12.30 (live on TNT)

Aston Villa vs Leicester
Bournemouth vs Everton
Crystal Palace vs Chelsea
Man City vs West Ham
Southampton vs Brentford

Brighton vs Arsenal, 17.30 (live on Sky)

Sunday 5th January, 2025
Fulham vs Ipswich, 14.00 (live on Sky)

Liverpool vs Man Utd, 16.30 (live on Sky)

Monday 6th January, 2025
Wolves vs Nottm Forest, 20.00 (live on Sky)

[Gunnersaurus]

Having to want man utd to win is making me ill 

[Happy Blue]

On 02/01/2025 at 15:55, Gunnersaurus said:

Having to want man utd to win is making me ill 

They getting hammered   Salah triple captain 

[OrangeKhrush]

1-2 Isak scoring in seven games in a row

[Stan]

Tottenham are a shadow of this Newcastle side. 

Newcastle bossing the midfield, Spurs defence can't cope with the pressure. 

12 minutes ago, OrangeKhrush said:

1-2 Isak scoring in seven games in a row

Looking at your next 5 league games, Vardy's record is under threat... 

[RandoEFC+]

Can't wait for us to lose 3-0 and have 1 shot on target and the manager to claim in his post-match interview that this set of players aren't capable of anything more than that and point to a 10 minute period where we won a couple of corners as proof that we can dominate matches and then to read later this week another article from a national journalist about how this guy deserves to have his contract extended and lead us into Bramley Moore.

[OrangeKhrush]

When I saw Villa, Yanited, Spurs i would have been happy with 5 points,  to take 9 points and score 6 while giving up 1 is a great string of results.

It was hard fought and needed grit to get through the game, but to win and do the double over spurs is massive.

Arsenal for the LC semi leg 1 and that will be a very tough game

[OrangeKhrush]

1 hour ago, Stan said:

Tottenham are a shadow of this Newcastle side. 

Newcastle bossing the midfield, Spurs defence can't cope with the pressure. 

Looking at your next 5 league games, Vardy's record is under threat... 

Vardy has that great story though, Leicester did something very special

[Stan]

11 minutes ago, OrangeKhrush said:

Vardy has that great story though, Leicester did something very special

Which is why it'd be shit to lose the record so soon! 

[Happy Blue]

We should be 3 down but Savinho bags to make it 1-0  

[OrangeKhrush]

1 minute ago, Happy Blue said:

We should be 3 down but Savinho bags to make it 1-0  

OG

[Happy Blue]

28 minutes ago, OrangeKhrush said:

OG

Original Gangster?  2-0 Savinho

[RandoEFC+]

Painful. Might be holding on to a 0-0 so far which would be a decent point but we'll be very lucky to survive another half with the way the game is going. Calvert-Lewin actually tackled Lindstrom to screw up our best opening.

I doubt our travelling fans have felt quite as "seen" for a while as they did when Bournemouth fans started singing "how dyou watch this every week" after about 20 minutes .

[Stan]

Drab game so far but I'll take it. Villa had the better chances but we're doing okay to restrict then to just a couple. 

Big half coming up, even if we do only get one point. 

[Gunnersaurus]

Wow spurs really have gone backwards this season. My pre season predictions were pretty awful. I had spurs in 4th man utd 3rd and Liverpool 5th 

[Happy Blue]

4-0 Savinho made 3 of them, this kids been on fire today and Haaland back in form with another 2, Foden with the other ...if we learn to defend we might stay up 

[Dr. Gonzo]

Aw shit looks like Savinho’s actually coming good 

[Stan]

James Justin is a shit cunt. Fucking horrible defender. 

[Gunnersaurus]

Although Brentford are tenth a lot of their wins have come at home I think. So Southampton loosing 3.0 at home is a bad result. At this rate they will be lower than derby's 2008 total 

[RandoEFC+]

Pathetic how predictable it is.

0 shots on target in 81 minutes against mid table opposition. This manager asks our defence to go out and be literally perfect just to get us a 0-0.

Sack him tonight ffs. I've had enough of this talk about it being a risk to change manager. At what point does it become just as big a risk to keep the guy who's won 3 games in 19, sees us routinely go full matches without a shot on target and has seen us fail to score in 8 of the last 10 matches?

[RandoEFC+]

1 shot on target against Forest. 0 shots on target down at Bournemouth. I'm pissed off enough wasting 2 hours sat on my sofa watching that shite. Imagine travelling from Merseyside to the south coast for it. They should all be refunded twice the cost of their tickets and travel.

Sack. Him. Tonight.

[Gunnersaurus]

@RandoEFC I don't think dyche could have any complaints if he was sacked. Let's be fair if I say that you are shit. I do get the impression there are lots of other issues at everton though?? If you look at some of the teams like Brighton, forest, brentford etc. I dont think just getting one of those managers would solve the issue. I mean didn't everton finish 11th or 12th under ancelotti? Who has won two champions leagues since then. And Marco silva was bad wasn't he and he's doing well at Fulham. 

Dyche has been a surprise for me. I thought he's do much better. 

[RandoEFC+]

2 minutes ago, Gunnersaurus said:

@RandoEFC I don't think dyche could have any complaints if he was sacked. Let's be fair if I say that you are shit. I do get the impression there are lots of other issues at everton though?? If you look at some of the teams like Brighton, forest, brentford etc. I dont think just getting one of those managers would solve the issue. I mean didn't everton finish 11th or 12th under ancelotti? Who has won two champions leagues since then. And Marco silva was bad wasn't he and he's doing well at Fulham. 

Dyche has been a surprise for me. I thought he's do much better. 

Dyche did a good job last season. There are a lot of difficulties at Everton spanning his tenure. Moshiri took 18 months to complete the sale of the club, we can't buy anyone unless the selling club will accept almost no money up front because of financial issues and PSR, the squad we've ended up with isn't great. Calvert-Lewin is running down his contract, the manager and director of football contracts expire this summer.

However, a decent manager has this set of players in the West Ham/Palace region like Dyche did last season and he's been failing badly this season. 

The new owners need to get decisive here. There's no time to sit around and get a feel for things with the way the team is performing. 

If it was me I'd go and get Moyes to the table. He won't take a deal to the end of the season so offer him a 2.5 year contract. I'd be absolutely confident he keeps us up and then stabilises us as a lower mid table team that doesn't pull up trees but doesn't end up in a relegation scrap. Take the two seasons to sort out the academy, stadium, backroom staff, recruitment team, and then look for an upgrade in summer 2027 if Moyes has reached a ceiling.

[Mel81x+]

Oh no Shrek is scoring again.

[Stan]

Arsenal players surrounding the ref. What happened to it just being the captain.