Watford vs Chelsea

Watfords home advantage gave them a fighting chance in this game, a boisterous crowd, led from the front by Elton John at Vicarage road, even Fan was on the touchline singing along to rocket man.

I like Watfords 4-3-3, it's well balanced and has a lot of potential in there for a lot of growth, but Chelsea matched them pretty much man for man, and whilst home adv and a good share of the tactics went Elsie's way, the team/bench slots land firmly in Fans lap
(fan not saying your tactics aren't good, but Elsie is one of the best tactians in the league)

Slots:
Home - 7
Away - 8
Draw - 3

Fruity:
D
H
H

Massive upset early season here

Watford 2-1 Chelsea
Nunez x2 (Matheus,Paulinho)
Haaland (Glealish)

MOTM - Nunez

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Arsenal vs City

I like this clash, 2 different styles and 2 different formations. I like what Jet has done with Arsenal, think the sides well balanced, might be just my reading of the tactics but he sounds like it stifles Barella somewhat and he's a man who needs that bit of freedom really, too shackled in a two where he's told to keep the ball ahead of him, I like the front line, bags of pace out-wide.

City switching to a 3-5-2 is the perfect counter to the swashbuckling style of Arsenal, that's a really strong back-line and with pacey WB's they can hold their own against Arsena;'s wide-men and keep DCL isolated. Kane and Kroos is about as good a twin-six as you'll get and the front-three are all capable, I do like sides with two up top

Slots:
Home - 9
Away - 6
Draw - 5

Fruity:
Home
Away
Away

Smash and grab this one for the Citizens

Arsenal 0-1 Man City
Lukaku (Bernardo)

MOTM - Kante

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Spurs vs Lesta

Last years top two meet early doors this season, we have two similar sides in terms of quality, formation and tactical nous.

I like rof's shietehousery in his opening 2.5 paragraphs

I actually really like Rof's tactics and Sterling as a false 9 could work with his pace, but whilst not rapid Neves sitting as anchor is a good counter to that, consistently last season around the top of the interceptions and tackles made charts.

also love TAB's counter shietehousery "We know Rof will try to downplay the effectiveness of Messi and KBD operating in the same space blah, blah"

I honestly never thought I'd see the day where I conside Hazard to be the weak link, and that's all I can say about Spurs.

Gk - Spurs
Back four Lesta
Midfield - Spurs
Front-line - Spurs

Slots:
Home 9
Away 6
Draw 5

Fruity
Draw
Draw
Home

In a game where I couldn't separate the two sides the fruity seemed to struggle to.

Spurs 1-0 Lesta
Messi (pogba)

Motm - Neves