Morning.
There was Premier League motion final night time, and I made a decision I’d watch Sp*rs tackle Newcastle at residence. Not as a hate watch, though clearly there’s a component of that, however I assumed it would really be fairly an entertaining recreation. It wasn’t actually, though Newcastle had been throughout them within the first half.
11 pictures to 4, one disallowed aim for a whisker-tight offside on former Gunner Joe Willock, and a 1-0 lead once they scored simply earlier than the break. There have been resounding boos when the half-time whistle went. It did get to 1-1, however inside a few minutes Newcastle took the lead once more, and that’s the way it ended up. If the boos at half-time had been loud, those at full-time had been … effectively, not fairly as loud as a result of half the gang had already gone residence, having spent a while singing about how their very own supervisor was getting sacked within the morning.
Genuinely, it wouldn’t shock me in any respect of in the event that they removed Thomas Frank as a result of their subsequent recreation is in opposition to us they usually’ll make a determined play for the ‘new supervisor bounce’. They could additionally sack him as a result of they’re getting dragged right into a relegation struggle. Solely a late, late aim from Man Utd away at West Ham prevented the hole between Sp*rs and the relegation locations being simply 3 factors this morning. Curse you Benjamin Sesko.
Elsewhere, Chelsea dropped factors at residence to Leeds, Bournemouth went to Everton and received 2-1, and as talked about, Man Utd salvaged a final minute draw which ended their 4 recreation successful run. At this level, the massive woolly-headed lad who received’t get his hair lower till they win 5 in a row both has to confess defeat, or begin negotiations with some type of industrial sheep shearing firm as a result of by the point that occurs he’s going to appear like curly Cousin It.
There are extra video games tonight, and listed here are my predictions.
Brighton v Aston Villa: Brighton have received simply 2 of their final 13 video games, however Villa have been a bit flaky of late. They’ve some issues in midfield after massive John picked up a severe McGinnjury, however I believe they’ll win this one. It’ll be one thing mad although, a 4-2 victory regardless of the very fact they’ll have a detrimental xG, and Brighton will hit the bar about 5 instances.
On Match of the Day this weekend you may see the Brighton proprietor was by no means glad on the finish of their defeat to Crystal Palace, and it wouldn’t shock me if he was contemplating the way forward for Fabian Hurzeler. I see Roberto de Zerbi has been sacked by Marseille, possibly there’s a reunion on the playing cards.
Crystal Palace v Burnley: Having received their first Premier League recreation since December, Palace will likely be assured of constructing on that at residence tonight. Their squad is stretched very skinny, however Burnley are fairly dangerous certainly. They only have so little about them as an attacking power, it’d be nigh on a miracle in the event that they acquired one thing from this.
Man Metropolis v Fulham: The sport between these two at Craven Cottage earlier within the season was mad. Metropolis had been 5-1 up, Fulham acquired it again to 5-4, and put the frighteners on them within the closing phases. I can’t see a repeat of that tonight although. Clearly I’m hoping our former Gunners can do us a favour, however I can’t assist feeling Marco Silva is among the most unfortunate managers on the planet, and even when they do keep in it, they’ll discover a solution to concede within the final minute to lose. Principally although, I believe Metropolis will flip them over with ease, and that’s one thing we’re going to must take care of forward of our recreation tomorrow night time. I repeat, there’s no probability in any respect that that is something apart from a house win. Zero chance. None. Mark my phrases.
Nottingham Forest v Wolves: A win for Forest would put them degree on factors with Sp*rs, heightening their relegation anxiousness, so clearly Wolves will by some means win this one.
Sunderland v Liverpool: This could possibly be a tasty one. On paper Liverpool are higher, however Sunderland have been excellent at residence this season, and the best way they put you underneath stress with their bodily depth would possibly trigger the guests some issues. Defensively they’ve been fairly suspect this season, as their final recreation confirmed (grrr), they usually’ll have to face up to lots from Sunderland this night. I nonetheless assume they’ll simply have a bit an excessive amount of on the enterprise finish of the pitch although, however let’s see.
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So, we have now all that to ‘stay up for’ later, in addition to Mikel Arteta’s pre-Brentford press convention which takes place round lunchtime. We’ll have all of the tales, if there are any past that annoying bloke from Sky making an attempt to make all of it about him together with his unbearable gimmicky method of asking questions which makes everybody’s toes curl, on Arseblog Information, and we’ll sit up for the sport correctly with a preview podcast over on Patreon.
For now, have a superb one.
