Football 2015/16

[kaosmark2]

Agree completely with will about the overall play from giroud. He fits their system near perfectly atm. That said, benzema had similar qualities so would still be an improvement in my mind

Edit: oh, and taking goals from ozil means jack shit as he barely scores anyway

Edited August 11, 2015 by kaosmark2

[Gucci Piggy]

Yeah I was actually gonna just say Lewandowski, because as you say Benzema is a good all round player similar to Giroud, so wouldn't take as many goals from the others, but I threw him in there anyway just because he's (always) the main rumour.

[kingcrawler]

Chelsea

Arsenal

Man City

Man Utd

Liverpool

Tottenham

Swansea

Everton

Stoke

Southampton

Crystal Palace

Newcastle

West Ham

West Brom

Aston Villa

Norwich

Leicester

Watford

Sunderland

Bournemouth

[mjsell]

I don't see why against lesser opponents Arsenal cant play 2 up top.

 

Midfield of

 

Ox- Santi -Coquelin - Sanchez (can rotate Ozil, Ramsey, Wilshere into this)

 

With Giroud - Walcott up top together,

 

Giroud is one of the best in the league at linking play, and Walcott could play on the last man..

 

Wouldn't work against the top teams but for bottom half teams should be fine.

[Gucci Piggy]

Gonna wait until the end of the window to make a full prediction, but I'd group everyone into these sections at the moment, in any order. Obviously any future signings will affect this so I'll do a proper one when the window closes.

1: Chelsea

2-4: Arsenal, City, United

5: Liverpool

6: Spurs

7-12: Southampton, Stoke, Swansea, Palace, Everton, West Ham

13: Newcastle

14-20: West Brom, Leicester, Sunderland, Villa, Bournemouth, Norwich, Watford

[Gucci Piggy]

I don't see why against lesser opponents Arsenal cant play 2 up top.

Midfield of

Ox- Santi -Coquelin - Sanchez (can rotate Ozil, Ramsey, Wilshere into this)

With Giroud - Walcott up top together,

Giroud is one of the best in the league at linking play, and Walcott could play on the last man..

Wouldn't work against the top teams but for bottom half teams should be fine.

If it did happen it'd probably be:

Sanchez - Ramsey - Coquelin - Özil

Or a different formation featuring two strikers. But yeah, it'd work against worse opponents. Wenger needs to start resting players more (as shown by the burnout at the end of last season where he was playing the same team every week), so changes in formation would probably help with that.

[DomDom1984]

Dundee derby tonight!

[DomDom1984]

Oh, my team are on the TV two Fridays from now. Morton vs St Mirren on BBC Alba. Yay.

[kingcrawler]

Looking forward to the Dundee derby tonight as well. First chance I've had to see both teams but I think this Dundee team will do really well this season, definitely top 6 again and maybe even top 4.

[DomDom1984]

Absolutely. The strike force is incredible on it's own. The defence could do with a bit of shielding though.

[kingcrawler]

Yeah that's true, especially with Thomson inevitably spending half the season out injured. The attack of Loy, Hemmings and Stewart is very exciting though. If Hartley gets them into Europe then I'd imagine this will be his last full season at Dundee, if he even stays for all of it.

[DomDom1984]

Aye, that attack is gorgeous. I'm a big fan of Hartley. But he's a Morton man though, so I might be biased.

[ThomThomDrum]

What you can think now that the first weeks games are done! http://www.balls.ie/football/knee-jerk-premier-league-reactions-week-one/304511

[mrtourette]

Gonna wait until the end of the window to make a full prediction, but I'd group everyone into these sections at the moment, in any order. Obviously any future signings will affect this so I'll do a proper one when the window closes.

 

Good to hear, I was worried that we weren't going to get to see a realistic league prediction from you.

[TheGayTent]

Good old Barton...

http://www.unscriptd.com/Raw/FOOTBALL-(SOCCER)-Joe-Barton-14997/

[eFestivals]

Good old Barton...

http://www.unscriptd.com/Raw/FOOTBALL-(SOCCER)-Joe-Barton-14997/

 

and some lovely 'class' by WHU fans too.

[Osama Jim Laden]

Good old Barton...

http://www.unscriptd.com/Raw/FOOTBALL-(SOCCER)-Joe-Barton-14997/

He's a turd ain't he..

[The Nal]

Sakho arrested for domestic assault now. They've enough thugs!

[TheGayTent]

Sakho arrested for domestic assault now. They've enough thugs!

He broke into his own house...

[Gucci Piggy]

Just been sat opposite Ilkay Gundogan in Munich airport. Wanted to speak to him but he'd just watched me take a photo of him so thought I'd avoid any further contact.

[thetime]

Just been sat opposite Ilkay Gundogan in Munich airport. Wanted to speak to him but he'd just watched me take a photo of him so thought I'd avoid any further contact.

You could of asked him anything, instead you take pics of his crotch..

Will oh will.

[DomDom1984]

That Dundee derby btw. Amazing. Fuck the super cup.

[kingcrawler]

That Dundee derby btw. Amazing. Fuck the super cup.

Yeah it was fantastic. The added time especially was ridiculous, Dundee having a good chance then Bain making a brilliant save (I liked Hartley shouting "what a fucking save eh" at him at the end ) before launching it forward and McPake scrambling an equaliser. It's a shame most people would have been watching the super cup as it was a great advert for Scottish football.

[the wonderwhy]

Just popping in to remind everyone how bloody great Pompey are 

 

Chaplin: "There aren't many words that can describe how I'm feeling after tonight." #Pompey #PUP pic.twitter.com/ZNtn5wdQwe

— PompeyNewsNow™ (@PompeyNewsNow)

August 12, 2015

 

what a goal 

[mrtourette]

They're not that great at all really.