Today's Games

[Cjay]

If Brentford could get draw or a win then that set of scores would be good for us.

[BGwhite]

WBA yet another late penalty to get a point

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[Cjay]

Derby 1-1 WBA

Barnsley 1-3 Luton

Blackburn 0-0 Cardiff

Charlton 1-0 Brentford ( damn Lee)

Fulham 1-2 Forest

Huddersfield 0-2 Reading ( Shame)

Hull 1-3 Bristol City

Boro 1-1 Millwall

PNE 2-1 Wendies

QPR 3-1 Wigan

Swansea vs Birmingham tomorrow, Swansea with a chance to go level on points with us but need to win by 5 goals to go above.

Aside from Charlton that's a great set of results for us (relatively speaking this early)

[weasel]

Derby 1-1 WBA

Barnsley 1-3 Luton

Blackburn 0-0 Cardiff

Charlton 1-0 Brentford ( damn Lee)

Fulham 1-2 Forest

Huddersfield 0-2 Reading ( Shame)

Hull 1-3 Bristol City

Boro 1-1 Millwall

PNE 2-1 Wendies

QPR 3-1 Wigan

Swansea vs Birmingham tomorrow, Swansea with a chance to go level on points with us but need to win by 5 goals to go above.

Aside from Charlton that's a great set of results for us (relatively speaking this early)

Always tricky to judge results this early in the season, you would expect Charlton to finish below Brentford by the end of the season - Brentford seem to be outplaying teams, apart from when they played us, but suffering like we did last season by not taking their chances and then conceding. Forest look like they could be up there looking at their results so far so it might be that Forest become more of a threat than Fulham.

[SG90]

Another yellow card for Dan James for diving. It makes me glad we never signed him, hate diving.

[whiteswan]

Another yellow card for Dan James for diving. It makes me glad we never signed him, hate diving.

Scum have always had good divers SG. I remember years ago my Mum always going on about Mark Hughes always being on the floor! Thing is, for years under Alex Ferguson they always got away with it....a bit different now though, Refs aren't afraid of Ollie....

[weasel]

Brentford seem to be outplaying teams, apart from when they played us, but suffering like we did last season by not taking their chances and then conceding.

Further to this having watched the Brentford highlights the goal they conceded v Charlton yesterday was so reminiscent of the type of goals we conceded last season where there seemed to be acres of space through the central area of our defence. PJ starts of in a good position, his defensive partner nowhere to be seen but shows no awareness of the guy running, unmarked, centrally towards the penalty area. Instead PJ decides to go towards the winger, who is already being marked, and who would likely have only been in a position to cross even if the ball was played to him (the cross would have been played to the unmarked player steaming in as well).

This for me was PJ's biggest weakness in that he had poor awareness and was always attracted to the man or the ball instead of being able to read where the biggest danger was, similarly for Eddie's goal for us he gets attracted towards Costa who isn't in a position to shoot and he, and his fellow centreback, leave Eddie completely unmarked.

I bet if you compared White's stats to PJ you would see PJ doing far more tackles but White making more interceptions and not having many tackles to make as White's reading of the game allows him to take up better positions so he isn't making last ditch tackles or getting isolated. Because he is in a good position it makes the opposition look to play the ball elsewhere rather than towards the striker that White is marking. Someone posted up a graphic showing how few successful passes had been made into our penalty area and this is because of the good reading of the game.

https://youtu.be/1MIinXQ8xnw

[1964white]

Swansea 0-0 Birmingham H/T

[1964white]

GOAL: Swansea City 1-0 Birmingham City

Kyle Naughton

[1964white]

Aside from Charlton that's a great set of results for us (relatively speaking this early)

Certainly up to us to keep this unbeaten run going Cjay, apart from Swansea all the other teams seem inconsistent going into the last game of August

[1964white]

Celina makes it 2-0 with another thumping strike for the Swans

[Irish Ian]

Swansea making it 3 from the spot. Giving Birmingham an absolute battering in this second half.
Fair play as Brum have turned up with 5 at the back.

So we anticipate a top of the table clash next week at El.

[1964white]

3-0 to Swansea

Swans go top if they score again

Crunch game next Saturday

[1964white]

Leeds remain top by one on goal average

[1964white]

Citeh cruising 0-2 at Dean Court with goals from Aguero & Sterling

[1964white]

Harry Wilson whips in a beauty to reduce the deficit for the Cherries

[1964white]

Citeh win at Bournemouth 1-3

Newcastle leading 0-1 at Spurs

Burnley winning 1-0 at Wolves

[1964white]

Salah's 2nd goal v Arsenal

[1964white]

EFL Cup

Burton v Morecambe
Crewe v Aston Villa
Grimsby v Macclesfield
Leeds v Stoke
Forest v Derby
Preston v Hull
Rochdale v Carlisle
Sheffield United v Blackburn
Bristol Rovers v Brighton
Cardiff v Luton
Crawley Town v Norwich
Crystal Palace v Colchester
Fulham v Southampton
Newport v West Ham
Oxford v Millwall
Plymouth v Reading
Southend v MK Dons
Watford v Coventry

[1964white]

Yesterday's highlights

Codheads, Millwall, Palace & Leeds went out on penalties.
Villa hit six at Crewe.
Norwich made eleven changes including five debuts & were promptly knocked out at Crawley.
Cardiff thrashed at home.
Without Ben White's Newport lost to the hammers.
Forest thrash Derby 3-0.