Today's Football 2023-24

[AjaxAndy]

Mad how trippier got so shite so quickly.

Apparently some personal issues off the field, don't know what though or how much that's a factor

[weimaranerblues]

Newcastle got Liverpool, City Villa and Sunderland in the cup b, Hose could be toast come February

[Shogun]

That's a rough result for Newcastle like

[Bob Sacamano]

Remember Trippier being the best RB in the league for about three and a half hours and then suddenly turned into Mykolenko under Lampard.

[blueToffee]

Missed the game, but that’s a shitty result.

Possible we could drop back into the relegation zone given the upcoming fixtures. Luton play Sheffield Utd and Burnley, plus have a lacklustre Chelsea at home. Plus they play Sheffield Utd again early Feb. in that same time we play Man City twice, Spurs, Villa….no easy games really.

[Granite]

Only teams in the top 8 have won more games than us. We’ll be fine.

[Shogun]

Fuming with this list of Boxing Day fixtures tbh. Only interested in the Man United/Aston Villa match later!

[blueToffee]

Only teams in the top 8 have won more games than us. We’ll be fine.

And we’re (currently given the score line) only 1 pt above the drop.

It’s likely we have a dip with some of these upcoming fixtures. I’m not actually trying to be doom and gloom because we have been playing well, but people are acting like it’s done because the bottom 3 are perceived to be useless, but a couple are showing some fight right now and Luton’s home form has been very good.

Given the points deduction it’s going to be a scrap until the end.

[Shogun]

I'll worry if if we start playing like we were under Lampard and Benitez.

19 matches to go after this round of fixtures which basically means we all have the same teams to play (I don't think we've played anyone twice yet?) and we're guaranteed to be ahead of three teams going into it.

Haven't seen anything this season to suggest that Luton, Burnley or Sheffield United will pick up more points than us over those 19 matches. So, I'm more than calm about it all. Especially considering xG suggests we should have more points than we already do, so it's not like we've fluked our way through the season so far.

[Bluedylan1]

Agree with all of that. I also think it's highly likely we'll get some points back on the deduction.

[Bluedylan1]

Brilliant bit of play from Alex Scott for the Bournemouth goal.

So annoying we lost to this nothing Fulham team.

[blueToffee]

Bournemouth are on some run of form.

[blueToffee]

Sheffield Utd vs Luton game has been pretty decent entertainment, albeit not always the best quality.

[blueToffee]

That’s pretty unlucky for Sheffield Utd. Luton given a corner that wasn’t a corner via supposed touch from Robinson, then he heads it into his own goal from the ensuing play.

Now 2-3 Luton. Another own goal.

[Cereal Killer]

Didn’t someone get sent off for pushing a ball boy?