Spurs are bang in form, scoring four times in their last Premier League game at Stoke City and as manager Mauricio Pochettino has added quality players like Victor Wanyama, Moussa Sissoko and Vincent Janssen to a squad that pushed so hard for the title past year, he will expect another title challenge this time round. Tony Pulis’ men haven’t had the best of times so far this season.
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Chelsea and Liverpool, undistracted by Europe, start their weekend early while Manchester’s twin giants recuperate. But my idea and the club’s idea is the same – try to win this competition. “I don’t think it’s a big problem but it happened two days ago so I don’t think he will be able [to play]”.
Leicester City are most recent and famous, the upstarts who beat 5000:1 odds to end up champions in 2015-16.
Hull are still out performing their pre-season expectations, but the initial good form is slipping.
Liverpool have been up and down all season.
Yet, in those two games Sunderland were just a couple of minutes from an unlikely draw at Manchester City and they could easily have left Southampton with maximum points, if not for a soft late equaliser. And, in terms of the Premier League, they have the same number of points as Liverpool, who everyone is raving about. But competing on multiple fronts in 2014-15, their league showing suffered and they earned just 47 points. Liverpool, on the other hand, haven’t managed to win the Domestic title for more than two decades. For a side like Everton, following up one of their best seasons of the millennium with a season of special European trips and mid-table domestic toil might not have been a awful thing-at least if Martinez had been able to recover the following season and again push for a place in Europe. Conte’s team of resident bluffers will no doubt have advised him of the unusual nature of that result, Chelsea’s only loss in their last eight league matches against Liverpool. City bluffers will be aware that their team won both their matches against this opposition last season by a four-goal margin (5-1 at home, 4-0 away), and hard-core bluffers may also be aware that their team is poised to become only the second in top-flight history to win their first five league matches in consecutive seasons (Chelsea achieved the feat in 2009/10 and 2010/11).
With the new additions to the team, it will be very interesting to see if they can hold that top spot in the ranks.
This fixture used to be a Champions League classic.
Their nine league goals have come from five different players – Philippe Coutinho, Adam Lallana, Sadio Mane, James Milner and Roberto Firmino.
Seasons aren’t made or lost in August and September, but the tone for what comes next can be set. “Every team needs to score to win games and, if you have such an incredible striker in your own rows, then it gives you the safety you are always able to score”. It’s still early in the tournament, but Leicester City have started off at a lowly pace, and are now 16th in the EPL Standings. It won’t be on Friday.
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Seattle Sounders forward Clint Dempsey has returned to training after being diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat last month but has not yet been cleared to play again for the Major League Soccer club. And both sides have shown signs of having a best eleven that can compete with anyone; that can maybe even push for the title. While it may be a subject for debate in the real world, there’s no debate in the world of fantasy football.
