Premiership 26 - 28th Aug

[christianu]

City were shite, got lucky and they worked hard and gave everything but this is just papering over the cracks of a dreadful team.

[christianu]

Sorry about this muse 8 times out of 10 Arsenal win, I thought they looked good.

[mrmuzeman]

Yeah this is true Chris. The fact is probably 4 times from 5 they would have been losing at half time on that show and City really dont look likely to score so much from open play. Still Ive backed Pompey and Arsenal now against your lot and youve come out with 4 points! Only 2 prem bets ive had so far too!

[christianu]

it is true that 2 out of 2.5 times Arsenal would win

[slick]

From sky sports..

Blackburn v Chelsea

Jose Mourinho's side let slip a one-goal lead at The Riverside to suffer their first defeat of the campaign, and he will be keen to return to winning ways in the Super Sunday clash at Ewood Park - live on Sky Sports 1.


Like against Boro last season, Chelsea lost at Ewood Park in the latter stages of the campaign, as Steven Reid's lone strike gave Rovers all three points against the Premiership champions.

Despite that result, Chelsea's recent history against Blackburn has been more positive, having claimed four wins out of five against the Lancashire outfit.

Mourinho's men will also take note of Blackburn's slow start to the new campaign, with Rovers opening the season with a poor 3-0 defeat at Portsmouth.

That was followed by a midweek 1-1 draw with Everton after Tim Cahill cancelled out Benni McCarthy's strike on Wednesday evening.

Despite only four points from their first two games, Hughes will hope his new strike partnership of McCarthy and Jason Roberts can unsettle a Chelsea back-line that looked shaky at Boro.

Rovers may hand a debut to new signing Andre Ooijer after the Holland international defender completed a £2 million move from PSV Eindhoven this week.

Right back Lucas Neill is available again after being suspended for the Everton draw following his sending off at Portsmouth last Saturday.

Mourinho will hope to have Arjen Robben and summer signing Michael Ballack available for Sunday's trip.

Robben missed the defeat at Boro after injuring himself in the warm-up, while Germany captain Ballack looks to have fully recovered from a hip injury.

Joe Cole, however, remains sidelined with a knee problem and Petr Cech is still recovering from an operation on his shoulder.



Skysports.com Prediction: 1-3
Chelsea get back to winning ways against Hughes's strugglers. Player to watch: Andrei Shevchenko

[CJ Mars]

Have taken Blackburn at a whopping 8.6 on Betfair with a draw saver at 4.1. This is a simply bonkers price IMO. Blackburn beat Utd, Chelsea (admittedly home and hosed) and Arsenal at Ewood Park last season. Bellamy is gone admittedly but this is still a very combative solid team that will get stuck in from the off.

Chelsea have looked off the pace and sluggish in the two games I've seen and Cech is a big loss. Cudicini has been at fault for at 2 of the 4 goals they have conceded in competition this season in my view and I don't think the defence has much faith in him.

Even at this early stage this is a big game for Chelsea. I can see this being quite open. A draw would leave Chelsea 5 behind United and I can see Mourinho wanting to force the pace. Could see lots of goals and possibly cards as well.

[kompressaur]

no one having any thoughts on the game tonight? I thought that surely between all the folks that are supposed to follow the 'greatest' league in the world they would have something to say about betting on this one. Would you advise it or not? Are you betting on it? Someone is gonna so it would be nice for them to actually read what other people think about the game. Nah its ok someone else will do it. If no one does then fcuk em as who cares eh?

[edinlichtie]

Quite fancy Pompey to do OK tonight.

I see Mendes is out after getting pole-axed, but is there any other reasons i should be wary of backing them?

Might take the +0.5 @ 1.84ish

[ONEDUNME]

Monday, 28 August 2006

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Middlesbrough	0-4 (HT 0-1)	Portsmouth
		N Kanu 6 B Mwaruwari 49 N Kanu 56 S Todorov 90
Bookings: S Downing 89 S Parnaby 90		Bookings: S Todorov 88

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Sunday, 27 August 2006

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Aston Villa	2-0 (HT 2-0)	Newcastle
L Moore 2 J Angel 37
Bookings: G Barry 6 G Agbonlahor 69		Bookings: B Emre 8 S Parker 87

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Blackburn	0-2 (HT 0-0)	Chelsea
		F Lampard (pen) 49 D Drogba 80
Bookings: R Savage 24 A Ooijer 48 Z Khizanishvili 89		Bookings: C Makelele 65

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Saturday, 26 August 2006

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Charlton	2-0 (HT 0-0)	Bolton
D Bent (pen) 64 D Bent 84
Bookings: A Faye 56		Bookings: E Diouf 30 S Giannakopoulos 60 T Ben Haim 63 K Nolan 71
Sent off: H Hreidarsson 27		Sent off: KC Davies 71

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Fulham	1-0 (HT 1-0)	Sheff Utd
J Bullard 39
Bookings: P Diop 65 H Helguson 79 J Bullard 90		Bookings: M Tonge 50 M Leigertwood 53 A Quinn 82

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Liverpool	2-1 (HT 2-1)	West Ham
D Agger 41 P Crouch 44		B Zamora 11
Bookings: F Aurelio 63

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Man City	1-0 (HT 1-0)	Arsenal
J Barton (pen) 40
Bookings: S Jordan 52		Bookings: R Van Persie 44

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Tottenham	0-2 (HT 0-0)	Everton
		C Davenport o.g. 53 A Johnson 65
Bookings: M Dawson 37		Bookings: K Kilbane 14
		Sent off: K Kilbane 32

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Watford	1-2 (HT 1-1)	Man Utd
D Francis 33		M Silvestre 11 R Giggs 51
Bookings: G Mahon 39		Bookings: K Richardson 78

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Wigan	1-0 (HT 1-0)	Reading
E Heskey 37
Bookings: E Heskey 23 P Scharner 49		Bookings: S Ki-Hyeon 60 S Sodje 83