[FUTBOL] Weekend Fixtures ft. Arsenal v Man Utd & FA Cup 2nd Round (1st-4th December)

[Reg]

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Couple of Friday evening Portuguese games on FreeSports, plus Sevilla's Saturday game on Sky's free channel.

Friday
Roma 17:30 SPAL - BT
Sporting CP 18:15 Belenenses - FreeSports
Leeds 19:45 Aston Villa - Sky
Napoli 19:45 Juventus - BT
AFC Fylde 19:55 Wigan Athletic - BBC2 (FA Cup)
FC Porto 20:30 Benfica - FreeSports

Saturday
Chelsea 12:30 Newcastle - Sky
Brighton 15:00 Liverpool
West Brom 15:00 Crystal Palace
Leicester 15:00 Burnley
Stoke 15:00 Swansea
Watford 15:00 Tottenham
Everton 15:00 Huddersfield
Arsenal 17:30 Man United - BT

Barcelona 12:00 Celta Vigo - Sky
Notts County 12:30 Oxford City - BT (FA Cup)
Bristol City 17:30 Middlesbrough - Sky
Sevilla 17:30 Deportivo - Sky Sports Mix
Athletic Bilbao 19:45 Real Madrid - Sky

Sunday
Bournemouth 13:30 Southampton - Sky
Man City 16:00 West Ham - Sky

Benevento 11:30 AC Milan - BT
Aberdeen 12:30 Rangers - Sky
Inter Milan 14:00 Chievo - BT
Getafe 15:15 Valencia - Sky
Sampdoria 19:45 Lazio - BT

Monday
Birmingham City 19:45 Wolves - Sky
Slough Town 19:45 Rochdale - BT (FA Cup)

[Shindig]

Lunchtime kick-off. Disappointment nice and out of the way early, then.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Slough v Rochdale, the absolute apex of FA Cup glamour ties. It's like they've both won the southern and northern sections of the 'grimiest town' competition and this is the Grand Final.

[Byron]

I think the only question over our game is how many Man City will win by.

My vote is for 6-0 with Hart at fault for 4 of them.

[Max Power]

Hart is surely ineligible which is a bonus for you guys.

We host free wheeling Burnley. Hoping for a spawny win and Dyche moaning about net spend afterwards. 7th place is up for grabs this season, if we play like we did on Tuesday no reason we can’t nab it and sneak into Europe.

[John]

Interesting that it's taken seventy odd caps and ten years for the rest of the world to catch up to this forum on Hart. He's always been a bombscare.

[Mazuuurk]

We're just a little ahead in most regards here.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Collectively, on here, we must get most things pretty right (despite my best efforts to drag the average down). We're more intelligent than average, more articulate than average and watch more football than average.

[Kikó]

We're the best!

I'm in Canterbury tomorrow and probably won't be back for the game. Probably for the best as i can see Mourinho trying to stifle arsenal rather than allowing Martial and Rashford frighten them at the back.

[Reg]

From the prediction thread:

Best signing: Chicharito/Hart

At least I redeem myself (kind of) with the next line:

Worst signing: Arnautovic

[Jimmy Floyd]

With the dildo brothers in charge, Moyes at the footballing helm and saddled by a massive, dreadful stadium which isn't even theirs, I can see West Ham plummeting to the depths and never returning if this season doesn't go well. Upton Park was such a massive part of their identity.

[Giggles]

Whatever about upgrading or moving, no the should ever have moved into that stadium. Completely wrong for it.

[Jimmy Floyd]

What a fucking shambles that was. We're letting Dwight Gayle win every aerial battle.

[Waffdon]

Alonso

Chelsea really need better wing backs.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Our wing backs are fine. That came from Christensen wimping out of the first ball.

[Waffdon]

They’re average at best.

[Jimmy Floyd]

How is that not a penalty?

Silly me, first rule, it was unusual event and therefore play on.

[Waffdon]

Offside anyway but no idea how that’s not given as a penalty. He knees him in the head.

[Samadini]

Handball for the goal as well

[Samadini]

We're getting absolutely battered.

[Shindig]

It's Old Trafford again, this.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I've been trying to pick Christensen for a while and I've got him: he's the junior Nazi officer who you first think is reluctant and knows the Reich is evil, but ultimately betrays you. Think Rolf in the Sound of Music.

[Samadini]

Lejeune is having a good game.

[Jimmy Floyd]

'If anything, Clive, they might have scored too early'

Morata is a beaut tbh.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Kevin Friend going in for his half time wank over naked Philippe Albert and Pavel Srnicek pics.

[Samadini]

Geoff Shreeves is such a massive fucking prick.

[Waffdon]

Andy Robertson

[Samadini]

At some point an Everton manager is going to realise that Niasse is their best striker.

[John Arne]

Emre Can at CB :/

[John Arne]

2 in a minute

[Gray Fox]

That escalated quickly.

[John Arne]

Gini Wijnaldum as auxiliary left-back is an interesting one (and working so far). Robertson loves a good run forward.

[Gray Fox]

Cut out the errors and catch them on the break from now. Maybe give Salah a rest if it goes to 3.

[John Arne]

What a save from the Ming, a what a counter-attack. Salah is soooooooo good.

[Giggles]

[John Arne]

That's gotta be retrospective for that dive...

[John Arne]

Lol, nice one.

[Giggles]

Lol, nice one.

It's so true though. Makes watching the sport still worthwhile.

[John Arne]

It's so true though. Makes watching the sport still worthwhile.

Unless your browsing RAWK, it really isn't.

[Giggles]

Unless your browsing RAWK, it really isn't.

You're all the same when it comes down to it

[John Arne]

You're all the same when it comes down to it

Racist.

[Lewis]

I missed Tottenham power-shifting away in [joint] sixth. I knew calling 'Dele' an overrated whopper was a good long-term bet.

[Giggles]

Alli seems to be the sort of character that will be making his second comeback by 27 and out of the game by 30.

[John Arne]

I called that Coutinho daisy cutter. Me > Brighton wall

[Kikó]

I hope we don't stink it out today.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I think we'll smack them.

They've done alright so a Wenger meltdown is due.

Even Lukaku will score.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Tony V

[Lewis]

Right. Everyone on the edge of the box now.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Nice of every defender to instantly try and swarm Pogba leaving Valencia open.

[Reg]

Liverpool were so clinical. We were pretty poor though, no composure at all, and we look a bit knackered actually (mental tiredness presumably, which is a bit worrying with the busiest time of the season around the corner). That was probably the worst atmosphere this season but when you concede two in two minutes or whatever it always tends to knock the hope on the head.

Can-Lovren-Wijnaldum as a back three is one of the more unusual lineups I've seen.