S7M7: Brasso orders spike in Cheshire

Apologies for last week folks. That placeholder stayed there all alone, munching on a breadstick, refreshing a glass of tapwater whilst fending off progressively more pitying enquiries from wait staff as to whether they wanted to place their order.

Sorry babe. Something came up at work. Let's reschedule yeah? x

Er yeah. Great metaphors aside, it's all getting a bit tasty oop north. Guardiola has found his feet - they were being hidden by average full backs, but now unleashed, his City side are storming. Surprisingly enough, the other big spenders in the league & the city are also flying - Lukaku hasn't missed a beat stepping up whilst many of last year's cast have improved. A difficult performance at bogey team Southampton appears ominously like the cliched 'mark of Champions'. Liverpool managed to win, just about in a classic Liverpool performance at Leicester, where Vardy's rubbish penalty technique has finally been sussed. Everton also recovered somewhat to beat a Bournemouth side in real trouble at home. Burnley & Huddersfield did some War of the Roses reenactment or something 'cos they weren't playing elite level football amiright...

Wandering down south (I feel like a weatherman), to the taxpayer stadium, Spurs gave their annual charity to an awful side - hope of a comeback with 2 late goals and a red card for Aurier. The game also saw a significant milestone - Eriksen overtook Lord Bendtner as the all time top scoring Dane in the Premier League. Poor form from the Danish peon. Chelsea hammered a Stoke side who seem to have lost their identity - Morata sticking 3 fingers up at his critics. Watford will be happy with a late smash'n'grab from Wales with the Boy from Brazil grabbing the winner.

Late weekend games saw Brighton puncturing the Newcastle resurgence with a lovely goal from Hemed, who then decided to book a nice family break for a few weeks to celebrate, but work wouldn't give him the time off so what's a guy to do?

Arsenal beat WBA quite comfortably but admittedly some of that comfort comes from Tony Pulis' fury at the failure to award a penalty when Mustafi absolutely took Rodriguez out at 0-0. Oh well.

For what it's worth TP, there were at least 2 Arsenal pens not given and a red for Dawson that seemed to be ignored in your post-match interview, so yeah...gums be hushed son...

Let's get statty:

Matchday 5

This week 24 people played
Most popular predicted result: Man Utd, Man City, Liverpool & Spurs WINS (24/24)
Most disputed result: Crystal Palace vs Southampton (12-6-6 split)

Highest odds: Doron 3249/1
Lowest odds: Steven D 1261/1
Average odds: 2283/1

Best predictor: Tarek Najm 8/10
Worst predictor: Whoscored.com, Josh Daniels, Steven Daniels & Joni Kleiman (2/10)
Average score: 4/10

Best predicted result: Man Utd & Man City WINS (24/24)
Worst predicted result: Liverpool vs Burnley DRAW & Spurs vs  Swansea DRAW (0/24)


Matchday 6

This week 22 people played
Most popular predicted result: Arsenal & Man City WINS (22/22)
Most disputed result: Swansea vs Watford (10-6-6 split)

Highest odds: Josh Daniels (840/1)
Lowest odds: Steven Daniels (376/1)
Average odds: 659/1

Best predictor: David Silverman & Aron Kleiman (9/10) - Tomer Hemed did for them both
Worst predictor: 4 of yous (5/10)
Average score: 7/10

Best predicted result: Arsenal & Man City WINS (22/22)
Worst predicted result: Burnley vs Huddersfield DRAW (4/22)

Everyone's results:

To the leaderboard (>2/3 weeks; 5/6)

 Storming from 2 players who don't routinely challenge at the top of the table.

This week's predos:

Huddersfield vs Spurs  - SPURS
Bournemouth vs Leicester - LEICESTER
Man Utd vs Crystal Palace - MAN UTD
Stoke vs Southampton - DRAW
WBA vs Watford - WATFORD
West Ham vs Swansea - SWANSEA
Chelsea vs Man City - MAN CITY
Arsenal vs Brighton - ARSENAL
Everton vs Burnley - EVERTON
Newcastle vs Liverpool - LIVERPOOL

Good luck guys