Premier League 2017-18

[BobHelm]

Bournemouth 2 1 Brighton and Hove Albion

Bournemouth come from behind in a far better second half of a game.
Defoe netted the winner & his first for the club. However man of the match was ex-Pool winger & substitute Jordon Ibe. He has had a forgettable time with Bournemouth since arriving last year for £12M & the side must hope this is the start of better things from him.

The result does heap even more pressure on the new Palace manager later today as they remain the only side yet to gather any points in the Premiership this season!!

[BobHelm]

FULL-TIME

Crystal Palace 0-1 Southampton

No instant magical bounce for Uncle Roy..
Palace went behind right at the start of the game & were on the back foot for most of the first half. They improved after the break &, again, had a couple of clear cut chances to score but couldn't put them away.
Sadly they set a record of losing the first 5 games without scoring a goal. I imagine that Roy will strengthen the defending, but how he will manage to find regular goalscorer looks a far harder task!!

[747man]

England - Premier League September 16
FTCrystal Palace 0 - 1 Southampton
FTHuddersfield Town 1 - 1 Leicester City
FTLiverpool 1 - 1 Burnley
FTNewcastle United 2 - 1 Stoke City
FTWatford 0 - 6 Manchester City
FTWest Bromwich Albion 0 - 0 West Ham United
23:30Tottenham Hotspur ? - ? Swansea City

[Brian Davis]

FULL-TIME

Crystal Palace 0-1 Southampton

No instant magical bounce for Uncle Roy..
Palace went behind right at the start of the game & were on the back foot for most of the first half. They improved after the break &, again, had a couple of clear cut chances to score but couldn't put them away.
Sadly they set a record of losing the first 5 games without scoring a goal. I imagine that Roy will strengthen the defending, but how he will manage to find regular goalscorer looks a far harder task!!

Palace fans have had to retain a sense of humour over the years, but this is being stretched to the limit, when watching is miserable and frustrating. For some time now, the Club just seems to move from one crisis to another. Perhaps I've lived with Thais too long, but I'm thinking Selhurst is cursed. Who's going to bet against the team not losing the next three too? I think I'm correct in saying Benteke is the only available, recognised striker. Blame must fall upon the Club for failing to sign any goalscorers in the last two (maybe it's even three?) transfer windows.

[Zidane]

The late match finished Tottenham 0 Swansea 0,so Spurs have still to win a Premier League match at their new Wembley home.They enjoyed 75% possession and had 26 shots to Swanseas 4 but could still not find a way through Swanseas resolute defence.A good attendance of 65,366.
Similar to the Liverpool game where the Merseysiders could still not find a winner despite dominating the game.
The Spuds and Liverpool already 5 points adrift of leaders Manchester City and losing ground on the big four.....Citeh,United,Chelsea and Newcastle !
I watched most of the first half of Citehs game and they absolutely murdered a previously unbeaten Watford side.Aguero and Jesus as the strikers with de Bruyne just behind,as good an attack as anyone in Europe.
Also watched Palace v Southampton.....a pretty poor game,I thought.Yes,Palace only have Benteke as a striker and if opponents can keep him quiet or he has an off day then its hard to see where a goal for Palace will come from.
Palaces two best players were their loan signings Loftus-Cheek and Fosu-Mensah and the team didn't play nearly half as well as they did in their previous game against Burnley.
Southampton weren't much better but had the man of the match in their summer signing from Juventus,Lemina.

[BobHelm]

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Chelsea hammered the Gunners for the first 20 or so minutes & it looked like only a question of how many they would win by. However they failed to score & the visitors started to believe that there might be something in the game for them too.
Arsenal will go away from the game much happier than Chelsea will be. A disappointing game for the home side, first 20 minutes excepted, Arsene back in favour with his fans....for now!

Everton came to defend & that plan fell apart after only 4 minutes when Valencia scored his goal for the season. The visitors had some chances (via Rooney) to get one back but, realistically, this was all one way traffic. In a late blitz United scored 3 more to make it a bit of a rout.
On this showing it is obvious to see why the Toffees have failed to score. They are desperate for an out & out striker & Rooney is someone who manages on the opportunities that presents, rather than being one himself these days..

[Brian Davis]

Hang on a minute. Admitting I have minimal interest in any other team than my own (get your tissues out in sympathy ) but didn't Everton spend millions and millions?

[BobHelm]

But, sadly for them, they spent zip on a striker.
They sold the only striker they had (for £75M) & only replaced him with a freebie.

[Zidane]

Chelsea 0 Arsenal 0
Quite an entertaining game and a fair result.Chelsea did start the better but Arsenal improved as the half wore on and should have led at half time through Ramseys effort that hit the post......Courtois was the busier of the two keepers in the first half.
In the second half Chelsea forced the Gunners on the back foot through sheer determination but I can only remember a stinging shot from Hazard that forced Cech into a good save.No doubt it will be pointed out to me that I missed most of the action in the second half when I went to get a beer out of the fridge !
Luiz was a tad unlucky to be booked for dangerous play when his overhead kick caught Koscielny but then was rightly red carded for a stupid foul on Kolasinac that gave the ref no option but to send him off.

Manchester United 4 Everton 0
Great start for United with a fantastic goal from Valencia after 4 minutes and United looked really good for the first 25-30 minutes.But thereafter they allowed Everton too much possession and de Gea had to make a couple of smart saves.
Three goals in the last 10 minutes was a bit harsh on Everton but it could have been worse if Lukaku would have scored from a chance that 80 year old Sir Bobby Charlton would have put away in the first half and Mata not hit the post with his free kick.
I thought Rooney was Evertons best player,not that that is saying much and I thought Lukaku was,overall,quite poor for United.
Everton are toothless in attack and teams don't mind giving them possession as they don't offer much danger.How much have they spent on players in the close season ? Over 150 million ? But they have failed to replace their only quality striker and are now paying the price.
Their last 4 results tell their own story.....0-2,0-3,0-3 and now 0-4.......3rd from bottom of the Premier League.

747man has been very quiet on the footie forum the last few weeks......is he still "under moderation" or should that now read "under sedation" ??

[stattointhailand]

Only saw the first half of the Man U game, and must say I was SHOCKED to see that Lukaku got 3 Bonus points on FF. When I turned off the only way I could see him getting even ONE Bonus point was to score a hatrick (at least) , as his first half showing was somewhere between woeful and pitiful Having seen the "highlights" which showed his goal & assist I am now completely convinced that the guy who works out the BP system MUST have a well known Bank a/c number ............. the only other possible answer is that it is done by computer programme which would only crunch a batch of useless numbers rather than giving an actual assessment of the players performance.

Rumour going round ...... not sure how true, but Wemberlee staff are going to give free tickets to Tennis fans

Tickets in question are for seats behind the goals, and reason being that Tennis fans already suffer neck ache from watching their sport, and are less likely to sue after watching Tottenham play. With arguably the best strike force in the country (Kane Ali Eriksen & Son) one wonders why then, that Dire (not a miss spelling), Vertongen, Sissoko, Sanchez. Trippier and Alderweireld spent so much of the match passing the ball sideways/backwards and occasionally forward among themselves first right to left, then left to right, then right to left, then left to right.
The introduction of a bit of quality late on (Aurier) managed to prove that he cant dive with even a little credibility and that he does not possess the ability to cross a ball (I counted 8 attempted crosses with 3 hitting the guy directly in front of him and the other five failing to get beyond the first defender at the near post Perhaps they play the game differently where he comes from

[747man]

Yes Andy I Am Still......."under moderation".............???

[stattointhailand]

Former England captain Wayne Rooney has appeared in court and admitted drink-driving.

He was arrested when police stopped a car in Wilmslow, Cheshire, in the early hours on 1 September.

The 31-year-old was banned from driving for two years and ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work as part of a 12-month community order.

Shame ..... now his bits a totty will have to drive their own little 53 Herpies (oops spellin' mistoke)

When he has performed his 100 hours of "unpaid work" he will only have about 2000 hours left where he has been paid but hasn't worked to make up

[stattointhailand]

Well I use to think Kick it out was a good idea ......... however

Now, all I see is a bunch of morons with their heads so firmly stuffed up each others ar*es that they have lost track of the REAL WORLD. The thing that amazes me is that the "powers that be" FA/Prem/Police actually listen to these w*nkers.

Good job their comments dont get listened to by the Thai authorities.... three quarters of the population would be arrested for being racist/sexist/bigist/smallist/farangist etc etc

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41317495

[fogeyes]

Yes Andy I Am Still......."under moderation".............???

Ban him

[747man]

Yes Andy I Am Still......."under moderation".............???

Ban him

That WOULD Make YOU Happy,Wouldn't it ???........FOOL !!!!

[747man]

Oooooooppppssss !!! : Leicester City grabbed second-half goals through Shinji Okazaki and record signing Islam Slimani to earn a 2-0 victory over Liverpool in the League Cup third round on Tuesday.

[BobHelm]

[BobHelm]

FULL-TIME

West Ham 2-3 Tottenham

It was pretty close & still nil, nil in the first half when the Hammers brought on Andy Carroll. Unfortunately he then proceeded to give the ball away twice to produce 2 Spurs goals before half time. Spurs then went 3 up before Hernández scored his first for West Ham. Spurs then had Aurier sent off, the Hammers got a second to make it a thrilling end..

[stattointhailand]

BBC reveal ANOTHER 11 signings made by Koeman that nobody knew about ......

[BobHelm]