Premier League, weekend 24 - 26 August

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Predicted winners in bold.

Saturday 24 August

Fulham v Arsenal (12.45)
Everton v West Brom (15.00)
Hull v Norwich (15.00)
Newcastle v West Ham (15.00)
Southampton v Sunderland (15.00)
Stoke v Crystal Palace (15.00)
Aston Villa v Liverpool (17.30)

Sunday 25 August

Cardiff v Man City (16.00)
Spurs v Swansea (16.00)

Monday 26 August

Manchester United v Chelsea (20.00)
 

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An Irish Red said:
Spurs/Swansea would be a much better match as well. City will batter Cardiff like, at least the Spurs match will be competitive.
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City won't batter Cardiff. I posted it elsewhere, but I can see Cardiff being a difficult place to go this year. Their away form will let them down, but they will be a tough away game.

Agree that Spurs/Swansea would be the better game though, by a long way.
 

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Saturday 24 August

Fulham v Arsenal (12.45)
Everton v West Brom (15.00)
Hull v Norwich (15.00)
Newcastle v West Ham (15.00)
Southampton v Sunderland (15.00)
Stoke v Crystal Palace (15.00)
Aston Villa v Liverpool (17.30)

Sunday 25 August

Cardiff v Man City (16.00)
Spurs v Swansea (16.00)
 

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Jaap said:
Saturday 24 August

Fulham v Arsenal (12.45)
Everton v West Brom (15.00)
Hull v Norwich (15.00)
Newcastle v West Ham (15.00)
Southampton v Sunderland (15.00)
Stoke v Crystal Palace (15.00)
Aston Villa v Liverpool (17.30)

Sunday 25 August

Cardiff v Man City (16.00)
Spurs v Swansea (16.00)
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Big call on the Villa/Liverpool game there, I would be surprised to see Liverpool win that one to be honest. Potentially the best game of the day though, I'm looking forward to that one.
 

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A big thanks to the PL for giving us the early kick off when we played in Turkey on Wednesday night when we could easily have been swapped with someone else.
 

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I am guessing Liverpool will have easy win today, Villa is probably tired after the midweek game.
 

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Surely BT could've taken the City game instead and had Arsenal play tomorrow? The Premier League must be the only league that makes no effort to help it's teams in Europe (although Arsenal could probably play the reserves in the 2nd leg), all that matters is money and TV audiences.
 

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prateik said:
Already? Is he carrying a knock?
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He's coming back from a long layoff so I can imagine he's just going to play 2/3 games until Christmas.

My biggest worry is Rosicky in the team. This is an unpopular view among Arsenal fans, but I just don't see what he provides in the way of end product. Arguably cost us at least a point in the Villa game. Looks nice, but actually when it comes down to it, produces little.
 

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Arsenal's defense really doesn't look good.
 

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From BBC:

Fulham: Stockdale, Riether, Hughes, Hangeland, Riise, Duff, Parker, Sidwell, Taarabt, Kasami, Berbatov.
Subs: Ruiz, Kacaniklic, Karagounis, Briggs, Boateng, Etheridge, Bent.
Arsenal: Szczesny, Jenkinson, Sagna, Mertesacker, Gibbs, Rosicky, Ramsey, Walcott, Cazorla, Podolski, Giroud.
Subs: Wilshere, Monreal, Fabianski, Sanogo, Frimpong, Gnabry, Zelalem.
Referee: Howard Webb
 

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alastair said:
He's coming back from a long layoff so I can imagine he's just going to play 2/3 games until Christmas.

My biggest worry is Rosicky in the team. This is an unpopular view among Arsenal fans, but I just don't see what he provides in the way of end product. Arguably cost us at least a point in the Villa game. Looks nice, but actually when it comes down to it, produces little.
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He's playing deeper today isn't he? His productivity won't be an issue at least, it'll just be his defensive work.
 

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Can't believe Zelalem made the bench for Arsenal. He's 16 - just got his GCSE results during the week apparently.
 

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Arsenal's front 4/5 looks good on paper, same can't be said about the defence though.
 

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That'sHernandez said:
He took a crunching tackle, BT Sport saw it. I think he's fine now.
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He actually took a ball to the bollocks from someone else having a shot. Looked sore.

Edit - 3,000th post, talking about Berbatov's bollocks. Appropriate.
 

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Gee Male said:
He actually took a ball to the bollocks from someone else having a shot. Looked sore.

Edit - 3,000th post, talking about Berbatov's bollocks. Appropriate.
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Ah right, I didn't catch it properly so I just saw a player run past him as he went down and it looked as though the were holding his ankle so I thought it had just been a bit of a collision.
 

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Commentary here is in Hindi, just made out the words "Indian monsoon"
 
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