Soccer Saturday and it’s back 12th September games

First up it’s

Fulham v arsenal 1230 Bt sports

Fulham v Arsenal first up

i would guess 3-0 arsenal

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Fulham v Arsenal first up

i would guess 3-0 arsenal

Hard to call how Arsenal will do this season. Arteta does seem to be building a good spirit there and some good young players, but its mismatched squad.

Should be far too strong today though.

Fulham look bang up for this...

Originally Posted by Dr Stranger

Hard to call how Arsenal will do this season. Arteta does seem to be building a good spirit there and some good young players, but its mismatched squad.

Should be far too strong today though.

They're still Arsenal.

They'll finish 6th at best, new lad at back will be a typical Arsenal donkey.

Originally Posted by Patty_b

They're still Arsenal.

They'll finish 6th at best, new lad at back will be a typical Arsenal donkey.

Heading top.

Their title to lose now IMO.

Originally Posted by Bunker Buster

I take it back

Cursed them. Another Rona symptom that, apparently.

The Arteta love-in is already getting tedious and the season is only 36 minutes old.

I reckon Ole would get a lot more credit if he bought a nice casual jumper, some distressed jeans and did this more on the touchline:



Proper little Petri dish Pep.

Originally Posted by Patty_b

They're still Arsenal.

They'll finish 6th at best, new lad at back will be a typical Arsenal donkey.

Just scored

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Just scored

Looks like 3-0 might have been a conservative estimate.

I don't think arsenal under arteta will be as terrible as everyone wants them to be unfortunately. Bit of silverware straight away will help build confidence in what he wants them to do and they're still riding that new manager bounce by the look of it. He seems to have learned a lot from guardiola too, we'll find out how they cope when they lose a couple and if they're as flaky away at the top teams as they usually are.

Scott "Scotty" Parker in the opposite dugout, as suspected, looks completely out his depth. Another new manager who wants to come up and play "nice" football which will have all the established premier league clubs will be rubbing their hands together. It'll get them nothing but hidings all through the season. The worst thing these smaller teams ever did was getting seduced with this £#%&!ing idea that football can only be played one way. Got Bournemouth relegated, got huddersfield relegated and got Norwich relegated. Look at Burnley and Wolves, horrible teams to play against but seem to upset the big teams when they play them, precisely because they play their own way and haven't got a bunch of b-tec Guardiola's/Klopp's in charge.

Arsenal pump newly promoted shit in an empty stadium, hyperbole overdrive

Palace 1-0 Southampton

Zaha with the goal. Poor Wilf is destined to be stuck at Palace for his entire career..

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Just scored

Confident it'll all fall apart over the course of the season.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Looks like 3-0 might have been a conservative estimate.

I don't think arsenal under arteta will be as terrible as everyone wants them to be unfortunately. Bit of silverware straight away will help build confidence in what he wants them to do and they're still riding that new manager bounce by the look of it. He seems to have learned a lot from guardiola too, we'll find out how they cope when they lose a couple and if they're as flaky away at the top teams as they usually are.

This turned out to be the sort of game Arsenal love. Fulham had absolutely nothing in defence; they were terrible. Look at the space they gave Aubameyang for his second and the defending at that corner. Shocking. Tells us very little about Arsenal who looked quite flimsy in the centre of the park tbh.

Bielsa still doesn’t speak English? That’s got to be a wind up.

Leeds are going to get absolutely drilled 4 or 5 nil

Originally Posted by Sparky***

Leeds are going to get absolutely drilled 4 or 5 nil

Good.

Is this a misprint? Thought only United got penalties

The sponsor boards say The Champions Wall. Why wall? The only connection they have to a wall is......

Good finish.

Brilliant goal that. Leeds will score a couple here

It could be 2-2 if Bamford wasn’t so shite