English Premier League Thread 2015-2016

#226      

bdutts

Houston, Texas
This weekend's Premier League schedule (all times Central):

Saturday
6:45 AM, NBCSN: Stoke vs. Manchester City
9:00 AM, NBCSN: Manchester United vs. West Ham
9:00 AM, USA: Arsenal vs. Sunderland
11:30 AM, NBC: Chelsea vs. Bournemouth

Sunday
10:00 AM, NBCSN: Newcastle vs. Liverpool

Monday
2:00 PM, NBCSN: Everton vs. Crystal Palace

Weather here is lousy - windy and rainy. Some games in the Scottish Premiership are canceled due to waterlogged pitches. Will be interesting to see how the weather plays into today's fixtures.
 
#229      

wettsten

Chicago
Aresnal's new logo:

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seems about right
 
#232      

Joel Goodson

ties will be resolved
No goals for City, United, Chelsea and Liverpool. Zero.

Leicester on top.

Go figure. What a season!
 
#233      

wettsten

Chicago
No goals for City, United, Chelsea and Liverpool. Zero.

Leicester on top.

Go figure. What a season!

vardy also failed to score for the first time since august. he has scored 14 goals, even with the entire team of swansea or west brom (14 each) and one more than the entire team of stoke or villa (13 each). together, vardy and mahrez have 24 goals through 15 matches, more than 14 individual teams in the premier league. but they've also given up 21 goals, and you have to go down to 14th (chelsea) to find a club who has conceded more goals. clearly their game plan is to simply score more than their opponents. and it's working...
 
#234      

Joel Goodson

ties will be resolved
vardy also failed to score for the first time since august. he has scored 14 goals, even with the entire team of swansea or west brom (14 each) and one more than the entire team of stoke or villa (13 each). together, vardy and mahrez have 24 goals through 15 matches, more than 14 individual teams in the premier league. but they've also given up 21 goals, and you have to go down to 14th (chelsea) to find a club who has conceded more goals. clearly their game plan is to simply score more than their opponents. and it's working...

LC has a heckuva 1-2 punch. Mahrez has been excellent, AFAIC. As in one of the very best performers in the PL. Crazy that his manager had him on the bench for awhile. I'll be very surprised if they stay on top, but they have a good shot (~50%) at qualifying for the Champions League.
 
#235      
This league is amazing! I love Bournemouth especially their passion and intensity. Also LC speed on the break is killer, Mahrez's 2nd goal took 31 seconds from the time it left Schmeichel's hand to ending up in the back of the net. Hopefully Palace can get a result at Everton tomorrow, rant over.:thumb:
 
#236      

Joel Goodson

ties will be resolved
This league is amazing! I love Bournemouth especially their passion and intensity. Also LC speed on the break is killer, Mahrez's 2nd goal took 31 seconds from the time it left Schmeichel's hand to ending up in the back of the net. Hopefully Palace can get a result at Everton tomorrow, rant over.:thumb:

Should be a very good match. Did anyone catch the latest Premier League Download (on CP)? Had no idea how strong their atmosphere is. STRONG. Great stuff.

Bournemouth has been another great story this year (and their 6 year story is unreal). Love their young coach. A bigger club is going to poach him.
 
#237      
Everton vs. Palace was very entertaining we might have been lucky to grab a point as well. The PL download on Bournemouth is also great and I think Eddie Howe will stay because he would be even more of a legend than he already is.
 
#238      

Joel Goodson

ties will be resolved
Everton vs. Palace was very entertaining we might have been lucky to grab a point as well. The PL download on Bournemouth is also great and I think Eddie Howe will stay because he would be even more of a legend than he already is.

The PL Download has been great. Loved the Bournemouth segment. The Swansea and Roberto Marino pieces were excellent too.
 
#244      

Joel Goodson

ties will be resolved
nice. i've never even heard of this. watching now...

Enjoy, they're very well done. Lots of insight on the smaller clubs. Makes me appreciate the PL that much more.

One more shout out to Stoke City. That Bojan, Shaqiri, Arnautovic attack was brilliant. In particular, that Shaqiri turn and subsequent through ball was unreal. Granted, City's devastated by injury, but c'mon! The Potters looked great.
 
#245      

Joel Goodson

ties will be resolved
2 points separating 6 teams, 6-12, a third of the way through. More parity now than ever?
 
#246      
United knocked out of the UCL today! My Arsenal buddy says he wouldn't mind losing tomorrow so they can focus on the Premier League. They have so many injuries, losing probably wouldn't be a bad thing. Up until now, I've been ignoring the "Mourinho is getting sacked" articles. But after losing to Bournemouth, if they get knocked out of UCL tomorrow I think he actually will get sacked.
 
#247      

Joel Goodson

ties will be resolved
United knocked out of the UCL today! My Arsenal buddy says he wouldn't mind losing tomorrow so they can focus on the Premier League. They have so many injuries, losing probably wouldn't be a bad thing. Up until now, I've been ignoring the "Mourinho is getting sacked" articles. But after losing to Bournemouth, if they get knocked out of UCL tomorrow I think he actually will get sacked.

Wolfsburg handled United, no luck involved.

That's what he's saying now, but it'll be different when the game starts.

Mourinho is safe for a few more weeks. LC on Monday, followed by Sunderland and Watford. Assuming Chelsea gets some wins, he'll make it to the January transfer window. They'll be big buyers, so that'll buy so more time.
 
#250      

Joel Goodson

ties will be resolved
Everyone hates Olivier! Sounds like a sitcom.

He's a 6' 4" monster (in a sport chock full of sub 6 footers) and he's pretty darn good. The real problem, is that he's not at the top of the pyramid (e.g., Neymar, Ronaldo, Bale, Aguero, Lewandowski, et al). And that's largely why fans hate him.