The Weekend’s Other Games 22/01/21

[miller0863]

Couple of pieces of note re a couple of top four rivals even though it’s an FA Cup weekend.

File both pieces under ..”see how you like it.”

“Manchester City midfielder Kevin de Bruyne will be sidelined for four to six weeks with a hamstring injury, says manager Pep Guardiola.

The Belgium playmaker, 29, suffered the injury during Wednesday's 2-0 Premier League win against Aston Villa.

His absence will start with Saturday's FA Cup fourth-round tie at Cheltenham.

De Bruyne could miss up to 10 matches, including the Champions League last-16 first-leg tie with Borussia Monchengladbach on 24 February.“

And

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Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy will undergo hernia surgery and is expected to be sidelined for a few weeks.

The 34-year-old's 11 goals so far in the Premier League this season have helped put the Foxes firmly in the title race.

"We've been managing him over the past few months." said manager Brendan Rodgers.

"He can't hold it off for much longer - there's a lot of time in the season for him to make an impact."

Both will really miss said players. City without Aguero already and Leicester are a different proposition without Vardy’s pace and goal threat.
About time Utd managed without Fernandes for a while and Spurs without Kane or Son.

[Nineteenx]

To be fair to De Bruyne, i'm pretty sure he missed that pen v us deliberately, looked embarrassed to have been given it, look half hearted stepping up and put it well wide

Be a lovely tonic if we bum the filthy on Sunday, the only positive about last night was it was a non team and rival that ended our run, not the filthy or UAE FC

The filthy haven't actually gained many points on the VAR front, i think it's only 2, but plus 2 for them and minus 9 for us is an 11 point swing

[miller0863]

Stevie’s Rangers have today had 25 shots, 10 on target and scored 5 goals. A performance of some symmetry
Rangers 5-0 Ross County

[miller0863]

Earlier Arteta decided he would have a tilt at the League title, resting 7 players and going out of the FA Cup 1-0 at Southampton

[miller0863]

FA Cup latest

Barnsley 1-0 Norwich
Brighton 2-1 Blackpool
Millwall 0-3 Bristol C
Sheff Utd 2-1 Plymouth
Swansea 4-1 Notts Forest
WHAM 4-0 Doncaster

[southernboy]

Big boost for Cheltenham with KdB being injured :encouragement:

[Steveo]

Big boost for Cheltenham with KdB being injured :encouragement:

Yep evens up the teams.

[Steveo]

25 seconds in and a city almost a goal up.

[eggy81]

Looking at West Ham’s line up they have a stronger second string than we do.

[Kev0909]

Surprised noone has said anything

city losing to mighty Cheltenham

12 mins to goo

Mendy was awful couldn't be bothered at all

[Steveo]

Aaaah Kev - that’s silly - bet they equalise now

[Kev0909]

Aaaah Kev - that’s silly - bet they equalise now

too late

[miller0863]

Villa 1-0 Newcastle 14 mins gone

[miller0863]

Looked offside to me. Certainly would have been had we scored it

[RedNoodle]

Looked offside to me. Certainly would have been had we scored it

Come on now Miller. I'd expect those like yourself to not start wearing a tin foil hat.

By the way I'm refering to thinking we might actually put the ball in the back of the opposition's net, not us then having it ruled out for offside.

[miller0863]

I’ve spent a lot of time on my tinfoil hat I’ll have you know. Got a little aerial on it too

[RedNoodle]

I’ve spent a lot of time on my tinfoil hat I’ll have you know. Got a little aerial on it too

Can it pick up 'Jazz FM'?

[RedNoodle]

Traore makes it 2-0.

[miller0863]

Classic FM is quite clear on it to be fair.

Villa 2-0 Newcastle
Newcastle are shocking, so embarrassing to draw a blank against them

[RedNoodle]

The fact that Villa could be even further ahead already in this game just emphasises how toothless we are at the moment.

[miller0863]

Same with our single goal against WBA too to be fair, terrible team.

[RedNoodle]

Same with our single goal against WBA too to be fair, terrible team.

Yep we sure are at the moment, but how good do you think WBA are under BFS?

[skyebo]

Yep we sure are at the moment, but how good do you think WBA are under BFS?

Their fans must be grateful they can't go to games at the moment. His style of play would drive most of them away, having to pay to watch the dross all his teams serve up.

[miller0863]

See what you did there Noods.
Gone from total shite to total boring as fuck shite.

[RedNoodle]

See what you did there Noods.
Gone from total shite to total boring as fuck shite.

Are you talking about 'us', me, or both?

[miller0863]

Bfs’wba

[ianlfc]

You'd think of one of the teams that would have brilliant under soil heating, it would be the Romans team .

[miller0863]

H/T
Chelsea 2-1 Luton
Kepa chucking another one in. He’s fallen to Karius levels. At least we only paid £5m for Karius

[skyebo]

H/T
Chelsea 2-1 Luton
Kepa chucking another one in. He’s fallen to Karius levels. At least we only paid £5m for Karius

But he cost us millions more in that final.

[Kev0909]

To be fair to Kepa his view was blocked. still not great but rather harsh

that's the problem with him though he'll never escape that now, needs to get out the country

[miller0863]

Another Blackburn game another Harvey Elliott assist

[miller0863]

F/T
Chelsea 3-1 Luton
Fulham 0-3 Burnley
Brentford 1-3 Leicester

[RedNoodle]

Another Blackburn game another Harvey Elliott assist

By the time we bring him back he'll have used up all his assists, and we'll have yet another player on our books who lacks potency and creativity.

[miller0863]

Spurs really struggling at Adams Park

Wycombe 1-0 Spurs
43 minutes

[RedNoodle]

Spurs really struggling at Adams Park

Wycombe 1-0 Spurs 43 minutes

You were saying? Bale has just equalised.

They are saving their energy for Thursday.

[miller0863]

H/T Wycombe 1-1 Spurs

[miller0863]

They are quite similar to Utd, in that they have two excellent players in Kane and Son as opposed to Fernandes and Rashford.
The worry is that that do exactly what Utd did and play on our weakness, sit in and hit us on the break.
We’d better hope Matip gets a good 90 minutes in

[RedNoodle]

They are quite similar to Utd, in that they have two excellent players in Kane and Son as opposed to Fernandes and Rashford.
The worry is that that do exactly what Utd did and play on our weakness, sit in and hit us on the break.
We’d better hope Matip gets a good 90 minutes in

That is exactly what they'll do.

I fully expect them to 'twist the knife' on Thursday.

[LFC-DPG]

We’d better hope Matip gets a good 90 minutes in

He’ll injure himself tying his boot laces.

[RedNoodle]

Winks puts Spurs 2-1 up with five minutes left to play, and then Ndombele puts them 3-1 up two minutes later.

[RedNoodle]

Ndombele makes it 4-1.

[miller0863]

Wycombe were excellent and only lost when running out of steam and Spurs brought on two of the best strikers in World football.
Makes you wonder why they haven’t accumulated more points in the Championship