Monday, 1 February 2016

S5M24: February made me shiver

With reflection - I feel I've used this title before...

Well what a cracker we had back in the last PL weekend.

Norwich vs Liverpool - is there anything better than a 5-4 yo-yo game? Especially one with a last minute equaliser from over 20 yards from a centre back...before an even later winner!

Then we had Dele Alli with a nonchalant flick-swivel-volley in a serious contender for goal of the season - am I the only one really worried about this Spurs team? Look to be the real deal in a way that they never did under Harry Redknapp or AVB - those teams were built on monkey-faced quicksand. These guys are lean, mean and tight - a few more goals and there's a really exciting future for the wrong side of North London.

Vardy got back amongst the goals - Leicester are just defying all odds here with how they haven't dropped off yet. The next month will be crucial here. Charlie Austin marked his debut with a late winner at Old Trafford - it's hard to see what LVG can do to arrest this slide. With Guardiola going to City, it's hard to know who could come in and stop the rot...Mourinho's certainly not the guy to bring the "attack attack attack" school of play.

West Ham and City played out a great game, and doesn't the world seem a better place when Aguero is on form. I'm a massive fan of his - fix those hamstrings and he's got the game to be at Messi level in my opinion.

Finally - Arsenal took the ceremonial pistol this month, cleaned it, loaded it and very carefully aimed square at their own foot. This was not a good Chelsea side. There were plenty of chances to be level (even if Remy was doing a great job of keeping the scores close late on) and obviously this perpetuates the narrative - rather than looking at a month of scratchy form, it gets extrapolated to a point about Chelsea. Yawn. 

Let's get statty:

27 people played
Most popular predicted result: Everton WIN (27/27)
Most disputed result: Sunderland vs Bournemouth (10-9-8 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels 15,754/1
Lowest odds: Zoe Daniels 2496/1
Average odds: 8072/1

Best predictors: Hesham, Aron & WhoScored.com (5/10)
Worst predictors: Tarek & Yo (1/10)
Average score: 3.11/10

Best predicted result: Liverpool WIN (20/27)
Worst predicted result:  Swansea WIN (0/27)
Swing: Drinkwater's opener for Leicester (10 left disappointed)

Everyone's scores:




Leaderboard (>2/3, 16/23))

To this week's predos:

Arsenal vs Southampton - ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - CRYSTAL PALACE
Man Utd vs Stoke - DRAW
WBA vs Swansea - WBA
Everton vs Newcastle - NEWCASTLE
Watford vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

Good luck guys!

19 comments:

Aron Kleiman said...

Arsenal vs Southampton ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth PALACE
Man Utd vs Stoke DRAW
WBA vs Swansea WBA
Everton vs Newcastle DRAW
Watford vs Chelsea DRAW

Aron Kleiman said...

£7,014-1 Paddy Power

Steven said...

Arsenal vs Southampton ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth CRYSTAL PALACE
Man Utd vs Stoke DRAW
WBA vs Swansea WEST BROM
Everton vs Newcastle DRAW
Watford vs Chelsea CHELSEA

Paddypower odds 3780/1
Min 794/1
Max 1,612,579/1

RDM

Arsenal vs Southampton ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs NORWICH
Sunderland vs Man City MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa DRAW
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth BOURNEMOUTH
Man Utd vs Stoke STOKE
WBA vs Swansea WEST BROM
Everton vs Newcastle DRAW
Watford vs Chelsea CHELSEA

Paddypower odds 14,284/1

David Brickman said...

Arsenal vs Southampton ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs DRAW
Sunderland vs Man City MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke MANU UTD
WBA vs Swansea WEST BROM
Everton vs Newcastle EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea DRAW

Joe Abbott said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - Arsenal
Leicester vs Liverpool - Draw
Norwich vs Spurs - Spurs
Sunderland vs Man City - Man City
West Ham vs Aston Villa - West Ham
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - Crystal Palace
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man Utd
WBA vs Swansea - WBA
Everton vs Newcastle - Everton
Watford vs Chelsea - Chelsea

Zoe said...

Arsenal vs Southampton – ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - DRAW
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City – MANCHESTER CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - DRAW
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - BOURNEMOUTH
Man Utd vs Stoke - DRAW
WBA vs Swansea - WBA
Everton vs Newcastle - DRAW
Watford vs Chelsea - DRAW


Total Odds: 20,703/1 (Paddypower)

Doron said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - UNITED
WBA vs Swansea - SWANSEA
Everton vs Newcastle - EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea - DRAW

2227/1

Feneley said...

AF

Arsenal vs Southampton - ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - DRAW
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM (though David Cameron will be happy whatever happens)
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - CRYSTAL PALACE
Man Utd vs Stoke - DRAW
WBA vs Swansea - SWANSEA
Everton vs Newcastle - EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea - DRAW

AFM

Arsenal vs Southampton - DRAW
Leicester vs Liverpool - LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - ASTON VILLA
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
WBA vs Swansea - WBA
Everton vs Newcastle - EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

Josh Gaon said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - Arsenal
Leicester vs Liverpool - Draw
Norwich vs Spurs - Spurs
Sunderland vs Man City - Man City
West Ham vs Aston Villa - West Ham
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - Crystal Palace
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man Utd
WBA vs Swansea - DRAW
Everton vs Newcastle - Everton
Watford vs Chelsea - Chelsea

David Silverman said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - DRAW
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - DRAW
WBA vs Swansea - WBA
Everton vs Newcastle - EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea - DRAW

Nick said...

Arsenal vs Southampton – ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - DRAW
WBA vs Swansea - WBA
Everton vs Newcastle - EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea - WATFORD

Unknown said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - Arsenal
Leicester vs Liverpool - Leicester
Norwich vs Spurs - Spurs
Sunderland vs Man City - Man City
West Ham vs Aston Villa - West Ham
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - Draw
Man Utd vs Stoke - Draw
WBA vs Swansea - Draw
Everton vs Newcastle - Everton
Watford vs Chelsea - Chelsea

David dinkin said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - DRAW
Norwich vs Spurs - DRAW
Sunderland vs Man City - CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - PALACE
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
WBA vs Swansea - DRAW
Everton vs Newcastle - EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

Eli Daniels said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - Leicester
Norwich vs Spurs - Spurs
Sunderland vs Man City - CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - PALACE
Man Utd vs Stoke - DRAW
WBA vs Swansea - Swansea
Everton vs Newcastle - DRAW
Watford vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

Josh Daniels said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - Bournemouth
Man Utd vs Stoke - United
WBA vs Swansea - Swansea
Everton vs Newcastle - Draw
Watford vs Chelsea - Draw

4598/1

Will O'Doherty said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - SAINTS
Leicester vs Liverpool - DRAW
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - DRAW
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UTD
WBA vs Swansea - WBA
Everton vs Newcastle - EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

Dagmar said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - Arsenal
Leicester vs Liverpool - Leicester
Norwich vs Spurs - Spurs
Sunderland vs Man City - Man City
West Ham vs Aston Villa - West Ham
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - Crystal
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man Utd
WBA vs Swansea - Draw
Everton vs Newcastle - Everton
Watford vs Chelsea - Chelsea

Anonymous said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - ARSENAL
Leicester vs Liverpool - LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - CRYSTAL PALACE
Man Utd vs Stoke - MAN UD
WBA vs Swansea - DRAW
Everton vs Newcastle - EVERTON
Watford vs Chelsea - CHELSEA

HZ

Nick Jones said...

Arsenal vs Southampton - Arsenal
Leicester vs Liverpool - LEICESTER
Norwich vs Spurs - SPURS
Sunderland vs Man City - MAN CITY
West Ham vs Aston Villa - WEST HAM
Crystal Palace vs Bournemouth - CRYSTAL PALACE
Man Utd vs Stoke - Man Utd
WBA vs Swansea - Draw
Everton vs Newcastle - Everton
Watford vs Chelsea - Chelsea