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[Cerbie]

The stars are definitely aligning, Leeds 5 points clear at the top of the Championship... 63/64, 89/90, 19/20

[Sus]

The stars are definitely aligning, Leeds 5 points clear at the top of the Championship... 63/64, 89/90, 19/20

Those are some niche stats! How did you come across those?

[Cerbie]

Those are some niche stats! How did you come across those?

A very good friend of mine is a Leeds fan, he messages me regularly about it!

[DerKrampus]

Yep! Imagine the fume if Ipswich somehow snuck a win over United

And if (big if) Arsenal drop points while we beat Newcastle, I’ll believe it’s over

I don't think it's unreasonable for Forest to beat Arsenal, Forest have a good defence and plenty of speed on the wings.

[Exiled_red]

What a fantastic Wednesday of football (Thursday if you're in Australia) -

Premier League

Brentford versus Everton - kick off 19:30
Manchester United versus Ipswich Town - kick off 19:30
Nottingham Forest versus Arsenal - kick off 19:30
Tottenham Hotspur versus Manchester City - kick off 19:30
Liverpool versus Newcastle United - kick off 20:15

Somewhat off topic but what is the deal with evening kick offs in the UK? they can be 19:30, 19:45, 20:00 or 20:15 just pick a time and stick to it FFS

[frank the tank]

I don't think it's unreasonable for Forest to beat Arsenal, Forest have a good defence and plenty of speed on the wings.

if they can lose to West Ham at home, then they can definitely lose.to Forest away.

I wouldn't be surprised with a draw either to be honest. In reality Arsenal are on the ropes I think......they struggled against Leicester the previous game as well. I think the lack of a striker rhetoric is playing into the rest of the team too much to be honest but the midfielders and the likes of Trossard need to step up too. Saka has been a huge loss to them alright though.

[BigChief]

It's come to something when the shock result would be Arsenal winning away to forest.

[Buzzo]

That’s got low score draw written all over it.

Depends if Arsenal really go for it (which they kind of have to) which plays into Forests hands, if they play like they did against us and they should be very motivated then Arsenal have their work cut out.

[vlahka]

I expect arsenal to lose 3-1. You're welcome.

[Sus]

I expect Arsenal to win 1-0 through a set piece, and keep their zombie title chase alive for another week

We just need to win, please, and not give them a sniff, with a 10 day gap to the next league game

[Mr Pink]

And if (big if) Arsenal drop points while we beat Newcastle, I’ll believe it’s over

I don’t think that’s a big if tbh.

[Mr Pink]

We have done Notts Forest a favour by beating City so they owe us one by taking points off Arsenal.

Haha would be class, but they’d be doing themselves a favor as much as doing us one- if they win, I’ll fancy them to pip Arsenal to 2nd place.

[ChesterDave]

Somewhat off topic but what is the deal with evening kick offs in the UK? they can be 19:30, 19:45, 20:00 or 20:15 just pick a time and stick to it FFS

There generally seems to be a lot more variation in recent seasons. There is usually 6-10 12.30 kick offs across the top 4 divisions every Saturday. Across Thursday to Monday there were 17 different kick off times in the FA Cup 3rd round and that's from 32 matches. Drip fed rather than the excitement of lots happening at once.

7.45 and 8 were always quite common but I think the 7.30 (aside from the football league trophy or LDV Vans whatever the hell it is called these days) and 8.15 became more common after the round of fixtures exclusive to Amazon.

[Sus]

Are Chelsea fans booing their own team for taking goal kicks slowly? Or am I imagining that?

[DerKrampus]

Don't Arsenal have any youth strikers to call upon?