Weekend Football

[Winston Biscuit]

Was just reading up on Brereton's Chile stuff and while I knew he had done well there I didn't realise how much of a national hero he became. He is nicknamed 'Big Ben' and has a nice sponsorship deal with Pepsi

Was just reading that Chile has, for reasons I couldn't understand, some affection for and interest in British life, and so they play on those things in his adverts



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2wQzNeQGJ4

[NathStPaul]

Reckon you'd be in for a shoeing if you actually drank Pepsi from a tea cup over here.

[URZZZZ]

Clever ploy from Arsenal trying to get the game postponed once it was revealed that Dier was injured

All seriousness though, I’d make them play it. Xhaka getting sent off was his own doing and it was Arteta who loaned out AMN even when he knew the squad was going down to the bare bones in midfield with Elneny and Partey out

[Pepe the Horseman]

could be wrong, but doesn't he play out wide for WH, whereas at Hull his goalmachine ways were helped by him being more central (a '2nd striker' as the kids say)?

I like Bowen as I was chatting with a top 4 only type armchair fan in the office 3 years back and he asked me who was good in the champ. Bowen was going through a crazy amount of goals at the time so I said him. WH bought him shortly after and he has been great. Fella at works seems to think I have some great insights into these things now, when in fact I just named the person scoring the most goals at the time

I just wish I'd got on the Ben Brereton Diaz hype-train in the summer after his form for Chile. 20 goals in 24 games this season, he was 125/1 to be Championship top scorer (and rightly so, hadn't got past 7 goals in a season before), and there's apparently a few punters due huge wins if he can find a way past Mitrovic.

Sky Bet had him at 1000/1 to score 20 goals.

https://www.sportinglife.com/football/n ... bet/197220

[Simmops]

Arsenal v spurs OFF

[Simmops]

Rafa gone? 2 done after 18 mins

[South Coast Royal]

could be wrong, but doesn't he play out wide for WH, whereas at Hull his goalmachine ways were helped by him being more central (a '2nd striker' as the kids say)?

I like Bowen as I was chatting with a top 4 only type armchair fan in the office 3 years back and he asked me who was good in the champ. Bowen was going through a crazy amount of goals at the time so I said him. WH bought him shortly after and he has been great. Fella at works seems to think I have some great insights into these things now, when in fact I just named the person scoring the most goals at the time

I just wish I'd got on the Ben Brereton Diaz hype-train in the summer after his form for Chile. 20 goals in 24 games this season, he was 125/1 to be Championship top scorer (and rightly so, hadn't got past 7 goals in a season before), and there's apparently a few punters due huge wins if he can find a way past Mitrovic.

The danger with that sort of bet is that, if succesful, the player might move during the January transfer window.
It probably wouldn't happen with Mitrovic or Solanke as they have been in the Premier League and haven't pulled up many trees and their clubs, unlike Blackburn, are not selling clubs at this level.

As for Bowen IMHO he has shown more than other wide strikers/ wingers in Rashford, Greenwood, Sancho and Hudson-Odoi this season but he is not at a Man Utd or Chelsea so it might not happen for him.

[Franchise FC]

Emi Martinez demonstrating the skills he learned at the Adam Federici school of goalkeeping

[Winston Biscuit]

Coutinho!!

[Sanguine]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

[NathStPaul]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

I am surprised they have kept hold of him, reckon he must be on the radar of the majority of Premier League clubs.

I bang on about Spurs quite a lot but again I am surprised they aren't coming straight in for players like Carvalho. Young, hungry players with big futures who won't cost the earth.

[Pepe the Horseman]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

What's the record for goals in the Champ? I know we got 99.

[Sanguine]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

What's the record for goals in the Champ? I know we got 99.

Pretty sure that's still the record. For the next few months, anyway. Fulham need 30 goals in 20 games to reach a ton.

[Hendo]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

What's the record for goals in the Champ? I know we got 99.

Pretty sure that's still the record. For the next few months, anyway. Fulham need 30 goals in 20 games to reach a ton.

99 is still the record. Would imagine Fulham breeze past that.

[Sanguine]

What's the record for goals in the Champ? I know we got 99.

Pretty sure that's still the record. For the next few months, anyway. Fulham need 30 goals in 20 games to reach a ton.

99 is still the record. Would imagine Fulham breeze past that.

At current rate, 124.

Fwiw, have read in a couple of places that the European record for league goals in a season is Aston Villa's 128 in 1930-31, when they incredibly came second to Arsenal in the league, who themselves scored 127.

[Silver Fox]

100 grand a week pays off doesn't it?

[URZZZZ]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

The problem is Fulham are in that position where they’re too good for the Championship but really struggle to hack the Prem. Encapsulated by Mitrovic who scores tons each year in the Champ but barely scored any in the Prem

They seem to have had a high focus on playing out from the back in recent years at all costs. When you’re playing the likes of Barnsley each week, it isn’t really a problem but you’ll always be punished in the Prem. I guess in that respect, they’re very similar to Norwich, simply not pragmatic enough to stay up

[NathStPaul]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

The problem is Fulham are in that position where they’re too good for the Championship but really struggle to hack the Prem. Encapsulated by Mitrovic who scores tons each year in the Champ but barely scored any in the Prem

They seem to have had a high focus on playing out from the back in recent years at all costs. When you’re playing the likes of Barnsley each week, it isn’t really a problem but you’ll always be punished in the Prem. I guess in that respect, they’re very similar to Norwich, simply not pragmatic enough to stay up

Bear in mind their owner is incredibly wealthy, if he decides to go hard at it next season they will end up staying up quite comfortably. They spent big last season when they came up but on all the wrong players in the wrong positions, you'd think they will have learnt from that mistake.

[Sanguine]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

The problem is Fulham are in that position where they’re too good for the Championship but really struggle to hack the Prem. Encapsulated by Mitrovic who scores tons each year in the Champ but barely scored any in the Prem

They seem to have had a high focus on playing out from the back in recent years at all costs. When you’re playing the likes of Barnsley each week, it isn’t really a problem but you’ll always be punished in the Prem. I guess in that respect, they’re very similar to Norwich, simply not pragmatic enough to stay up

They've made some better acquisitions over the last 18 months that should mean they are promoted (surely) with a better squad this time around (Robinson, Adarabioyo, Wilson, Chalobah). But Tim Ream is still ever present at the back, and he has struggled awfully in the Premier League.

And yeah, Mitrovic, 65 goals in 84 games in the Championship. 14 in 57 in the Premier League.

[URZZZZ]

Fulham are decent, aren't they? 6 goals or more in three consecutive games doesn't feel like it can have been done often before. 70 goals now this season, next highest is Blackburn's 44.

Hadn't realised, and quite excitingly, Fabio Carvalho, who has 7 goals in 16 games from midfield, chose to represent England at youth level. Must surely be on Southgate's radar.

The problem is Fulham are in that position where they’re too good for the Championship but really struggle to hack the Prem. Encapsulated by Mitrovic who scores tons each year in the Champ but barely scored any in the Prem

They seem to have had a high focus on playing out from the back in recent years at all costs. When you’re playing the likes of Barnsley each week, it isn’t really a problem but you’ll always be punished in the Prem. I guess in that respect, they’re very similar to Norwich, simply not pragmatic enough to stay up

Bear in mind their owner is incredibly wealthy, if he decides to go hard at it next season they will end up staying up quite comfortably. They spent big last season when they came up but on all the wrong players in the wrong positions, you'd think they will have learnt from that mistake.

Think they bought quite a lot of players in last season but don’t recall then spending huge amounts, a lot of them were fairly cheap signings (relatively speaking)

Their transfer window under Jokanovic when they first went up was horrendous though. Anguissa, Seri, Vietto, Schurrle etc etc - they were fairly pathetic that season