Week 15

Newcastle vs Chelsa

two of the leagues strongest sides going toe-to-toe at St James' today, both line up in a 4-3-3 making the starting XI's easy to compare, RB is a coin toss call, Newcastles CB's are better but Chels have the better LB. I prefer the geordie middle-three but Chelsea's are by no means poor and up top is another coin toss on preference.

tactically both sides are laid out well, clear game-plans, not many holes to pick in either to be honest... Ludy with his space investigators makes me chuckle, but not as much as this nugget from Fan "they have a good young midfield who are quick so we need to be aggressive and press" Ludy is probably the only manager with an older midfield than me

as you can tell I'm struggling with splitting these teams who are so evenly matched, form goes to chelsea home adv brings it back to the geordies. see what the fruity wants to do.

D/H/D


Newcastle 1-0 Chelsea
Lewa (son)

MOTM - Casemiro

a win by the tightest of margins, draw would have been the fair result in my humble opinion

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Watford vs Man City

Watford are much evolving, half this squad going into the game knowing it was there last probably wouldnt have helped too much but I liked the formation and I generally players used, some very good talents in there, tactics as always are well presented and can see the gameplan.

City have matched them pretty much man to man and in the most part they have the advantage in player quality, think Kante and Verratti are a really good pivot that'd just take the sting out of this game and give them the foothold they need - also good to see both FB's given the licence to attack

Watford 1-3 Man City
Nunez (Olsen)
Schick x2 (Jesus,Ramsey) Jesus (chill well)

Motm - Verratti

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Brentford vs Spurs

Evening kickoff at the Brentford community stadium, a full house of 17k in attendance roaring the home side on, all the pressure's on Spurs as they're in a title race that's going to wire, news breaking that Leicester dropped points to North londons second biggest team adds further pressure.

Both sides set-out in similar 4-3-3/4-2-3-1's and whilst Welshy has improved the bees on paper the extra class in the spurs side shines through, tactically both sides do well. Tab has clearly stockpiled word of the day toilet paper though "Away to a good side we look to make our impact by putting on a technical masterclass. The opposition are blessed with talented youngsters however we look counter their youthful exuberance by starving them of the ball. Make them work off the ball, frustrate their forwards with a lack of possession, dazzle their midfield and pierce their defence with our scintillating attack. To do this we require players of the highest technical calibre"

nice game this with 2 teams playing the right way, the home crowd urging the bees on but ultimately falling short

Brentford 1-2 Spurs
Berardi (odegaard)
Messi (KDB) Griezmann (Fabinho)

MOTM - KDB