GWT: EPL - Matchweek 25 (ft. MW 15)

[bluesfan94]

This "matchweek" kicks off with a rescheduled derby after a slight breeze made Merseysiders hide. A midweek Merseyside derby promises to see some folks wake up having a very, very bad Thursday. The matchweek proper sees a London derby on Saturday, with West Ham hosting Brentford. Elsewhere, the battle for European spots is heating up, including a south coast derby when Southampton takes on Bournemouth, but also featuring Brighton hosting Chelsea, Villa welcoming Ipswich, Newcastle traveling to City, and Fulham clashing with Forest. We also get a relegation six pointer, as Spurs host United in a battle for which Big 6 club is having the silliest season. With the proper results, we could end the matchweek with United and Spurs in 14th and 16th place respectively. Luckily there's quite a gap from 16th to 17th, so they should be safe.

Home	Away	Time and Date (CT)	Venue
Everton	Liverpool	Wed., Feb. 12, 1:30 PM	Goodison Park
Brighton & Hove Albion	Chelsea	Fri., Feb. 14, 2:00 PM	The AmEx
Leicester City	Arsenal	Sat., Feb. 15, 6:30 AM	King Power Stadium
West Ham United	Brentford	Sat., Feb. 15, 9:00 AM	London Stadium
Southampton	Bournemouth	Sat., Feb. 15, 9:00 AM	St. Mary's Stadium
Aston Villa	Ipswich Town	Sat., Feb. 15, 9:00 AM	Villa Park
Manchester City	Newcastle United	Sat., Feb. 15, 9:00 AM	The Etihad
Fulham	Nottingham Forest	Sat., Feb. 15, 9:00 AM	Craven Cottage
Crystal Palace	Everton	Sat., Feb. 15, 11:30 AM	Selhurst Park
Liverpool	Wolverhampton Wanderers	Sun., Feb. 16, 8:00 AM	Anfield
Tottenham Hotspur	Manchester United	Sun., Feb. 16, 10:30 AM	Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

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[Savant]

Last Derby at Goodison. Moyes at the wheel. Everton finding a bit of form. Could be an interesting one. 3 here and LFC won’t care what happens in the Carabao Cup and Plymouth games before it. They’ll probably take a similar team to the PSV to Plymouth

 

[S E P H]

I got your storyline here...Everton beats KFC on a late-minute stunner, just for Arsenal to draw at LC lol.

 

[Savant]

LFC basically using Slot’s preferred XI. Don’t love Diaz at 9 in this game but Slot seems he wants to get the best eleven guys out there. Bradley starts with Trent on bench as Trent is still not 100%

 

[luiginb]

Liverpool get a little taste of their own medicine. Yeah I'm still bitter haha

 

[Live in the Now]

What a finish lol.

 

[Savant]

LFC bad defending for the Everton goal but that was never a free kick. Guess Oliver hates them too. Glad they got another back quick but should be 0-1. Ndiaye looks like he hurt himself diving again.

 

[gary69]

Bad loss for Everton, as injured Ndiaye taken off crying, he had been in good form lately.

 

[Live in the Now]

Hurt himself diving and now he’s crying about it. Weird twist of fate.

 

[Savant]

Everton diving all over the place and Oliver is rewarding them.

 

[Savant]

Dive dive dive dive

 

[Live in the Now]

He’s given out too many yellows, guaranteed to send at least one player off.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Apparently this is the first time Liverpool have ever named a top-flight starting XI without an English player in it

 

[Savant]

Oliver has been atrocious today. Someone is getting sent off in the second half.

 

[Carlzner]

That's a joke of a dive

 

[gary69]

Apparently this is the first time Liverpool have ever named a top-flight starting XI without an English player in it

Top-flight or just PL era? I sort of remember that some matchday in the 1980s they didn't have an English player in the starting line-up? Lots of Scots, Irish, Welsh players + Grobbelaar (Zimbabwe). Maybe they had one English player there every time (e.g Sammy Lee, Steve McMahon)? Phil Neal was often the lone English player in the line-up in the early 80s, I think.

 

[Carlzner]

Bradley didn't even touch him. Shocking

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Top-flight or just PL era? I sort of remember that some matchday in the 1980s they didn't have an English player in the starting line-up? Lots of Scots, Irish, Welsh players + Grobbelaar (Zimbabwe). Maybe they had one English player there every time (e.g Sammy Lee, Steve McMahon)?

The post I saw specifically said "top flight" and not Premier League

 

[bluesfan94]

Bradley commits a second yellow offense and nothing. I guess when you're a young fullback and Michael Oliver is the ref, you can get away with anything


(as long as you're not black)

 

[Carlzner]

Bradley commits a second yellow offense and nothing. I guess when you're a young fullback and Michael Oliver is the ref, you can get away with anything


(as long as you're not black)

He literally doesn't even touch him LOL

 

[bluesfan94]

He literally doesn't even touch him LOL

Oliver clearly thought he did, hence the foul LOL

On the bright side, Mac Allister also just away with kicking the ball away after a foul in the middle of the pitch. Good thing Oliver has never cared about that before.

 

[Carlzner]

Oliver clearly thought he did, hence the foul LOL

And yet your initial complaint was that Oliver didn't do enough - not that the call was wrong.

 

[bluesfan94]

And yet your initial complaint was that Oliver didn't do enough - not that the call was wrong.

Because once he made the call, the yellow card has to be given. I'm pretty sure his heels were clipped regardless, but the point is that Oliver is incredible inconsistent and somehow each inconsistency benefits Liverpool.

Anyway, Konate gets to play basketball and Jones gets to go studs up. About to AI a video of Coote calling Arteta a wanker

 

[Carlzner]

Because once he made the call, the yellow card has to be given

Arsenal fans are hilarious. Care more about your own perceived notions about what's fair instead of what literally happened.

 

[JeffreyLFC]

That is a proper derby and nothing like the soft ones like Tottenham/Arsenal or Man United/Manchester City

This game mean the world for Everton.