S9M27: Blossoming

Right, so after all that, let me say I'm a huge fan of split matchweeks and as far as I'm concerned, this should be the new normal. Rather than football 7 days a week which is hard to keep a handle on, and is murderous for the blogging schedule, we should be looking at this bipartite system. Plus, 5 games is easy enough to pay attention to, I can catch up on some other aural treats and it halves the (blog) workload intensity of yours truly.

Storm Ciara of course ensured further elongation of the matchday but conveniently, meant we could still score out of 10 so yay Transatlantic Atmospheric Depression Affect. TADA!

So what happened? If we cast minds back, Everton continued their excellent series of results under Carlo Ancelotti, beating Palace 3-1. Watford are also enjoying their new manager, defeating a Brighton side looking slightly lost. Sheffield United continued their push for Champions League football next season - a realistic dream now Man City have been slapped on the wrist, buttock, cheek and everywhere else for being deceptive little cheaters. They beat West Ham though, so that's nice.

In the second round of games, Wolves and Leicester played to a draw in the Canine Derby. Burnley won down on the South Coast with 2 spectacular goals overcoming Southampton. Liverpool also won away but enough's been said about them. At Villa Park, Engels and Alderweireld decided to play a little 1-on-1 and were heading for a draw until Spurs cheated and threw on another player, surprising Engels who just let him run through and score the winner. Cheaters. Throw them in prison with Man City too. Arsenal had their best win since early-era Wengz against absolute Banter club Newcastle, who you'll recall from the previous statty blog, have been even worse than their abysmal results and position show. They are woeful and Alain Saint-Maximin has been added to my list of players who irritate me for being so bad when they should be so good. He also runs like a guy I used to train with in a Sunday league team in a moment of biomechanical deja vu. Finally, Chelsea lost to Man Utd for the third time this season which is Frankly a sackable offence. Geddit.

I missed out on that fun however, as the Impossibilibaby arrived so I was spared the VARgument again. It's more tedious than Brexit became by now.

Let's get statty:
This week, 22 people played
Most popular predicted results: Man City, Liverpool & Arsenal WINS (22/22)
Most disputed prediction: Brighton vs Watford (8-7-7 split respectively)

Highest odds: Doron Salomon (1133/1)
Lowest odds: Steven Daniels (245/1)
Average odds: 619/1

Best predictors: David Brickman & Gaj Thiru (8/10)
Worst predictors: Loads of you (5/10)
Average score: 6.32/10

Best predicted results: Man City, Liverpool & Arsenal WINS (22/22)
Worst predicted result: Burnley WIN (1/22 - well done Gaj Thiru)

Everyone's score:

Leaderboard (>2/3; 17/26)



On this note, I'd like to congratulate JMAC on trying to bribe his way up the leaderboard by cooking a delicious meal for yours truly and so am proud to aware him an extra 0.001 point in thanks. If you'd like extra points, I'm FIFA levels of corrupt, so please either send me food, gifts or cash and you will be rewarded with levels of generosity previously unknown on this planet....

To this week's predos:

Good luck all