EPL Week3 warm up thoughts

I owe my views on gameweek 2 fixtures but luckily had a good prediction time with 8 out 10 in line.

Biggest shocker has to be Manchester United against Fulham. Vintage Scholes, early lead and 1^st half domination to inspired Fulham performance converting a ManU win to a draw. Highlite has to Nani’s miss penalty. SHOCKER!!

Some news from the midweek: Top 3 English sides (ManU Chelsea Arsenal) get easy Champions league fixture so that should put smiles on their manager’s face. Tottenham after great performance in CL qualifiers over Swiss “Young Boyz” draw Inter Milan.

Funnily enough, Benitaz lost to Athelico in Super Cup with last year “UNBEATABLES”. Mourinho or Special One’s effect. After Liverpool is it Inter’s turn :P.

Jumping to gameweek 3 predictions guys:

Blackburn v Arsenal:  Big Sam Men (Battering Ram and Rugby Ishstyle) to Wenger swift lightning quick crafty boys. Just makes life tough for prediction. Wenger made an astute purchase during midweek Squillaci from Sevilla to boost the backline. Big Sam gets Benjani Mwaruwari and boosts the front line. Walcott was g8 but a pointer and reason he his criticized “in 60^th minute Chamakh was unmarked and a simple cross would have led to the goal, Walcott shoots over the bar, its one thing to score against Blackburn and another against Chelsea or International. I will keep my euphoria under wraps.”

Result: Arsenal wins unless they leak one in a set piece. Expect a close game

Blackpool v Fulham: Got a welcome to Big Stage drubbing from Arsenal last week 6-0. Expect Fulham to win unless Blackpool play a little deep. They try and play real football but they ought to thinking about some points.

Chelsea v Stoke City: Chelsea win!!!. Blues are firing on all cylinders. Challenge for ManU is 1^st of season “traditionally slow starters” and Chelsea is 2^nd half “old legs and few injuries would make them wobbly”

Tottenham v Wigan: Impressive midweek, impressive bale, crouch and defoe. No reason why they wont win by a margin of 2 or 3 J.

Wolves v Newcastle: BenArfa Marseille to Newcastle united. 6-0 routing of Aston Villa last week must have left toons in high spirits. Welcome back toonies. Toons win, Wolves run for shelter.

Man Utd v West Ham: Shrug of craven cottage, devils we are back in “Theature of dreams”. Manchester United win. 2 or 3 goal margin. Expect Rooney to be influential J.

Bolton v Birmingham: Mcleish men have been making life difficult for everyone. Expect that to continue. They play in “Phalanx” and are tough to break. Expect a close match and draw.

Liverpool v West Brom: Liverpool win. Should be charged up after midweek victory in Europe. Waiting for Torres to come to full fitness.

Sunderland v Man City: This would be a good test for Man City. After a professional mid week victory in Europe their focus would now shift to Premier League. This is what they have to come to terms with to be contenders for life in BIG FOUR. Can Mancini overcome internal bickering and instability. He has done it till now. Last week it was Liverpool. My predictions: Result would be decided by How Man City back 4 counter the threat of Bent, Cambell. Odds in Man City favor.

Aston Villa v Everton: Villa look unsettled and unstable. Everton win or draw.

Stars: Rodwell / Arteta (Everton), Bent (Sunderland), Tevez / Milner (Man City), Gerrard / Babel (Liverpool), Jaaskelainen / Gardner / Elmander (Bolton),  Larsson (Birmingham),  Scholes / Vidic / Berbatov (ManU), Carroll (Toonies), Bale / Crouch (Tottenham), Old Pillars of Chelsea & Malouda, Walcott / Chamakh / Diaby (Arsenal), Robinson / Diouf / Dunn (Blackburn), Zamora / Dempsey (Fulham)

Have beer, Break glasses, Get high only on soccer… Enjoy Gameweek 3 J