One of the results I predicted...
Below I’m going to compare my predictions with what actually happened and attempt to predict what will happen in our next three games, against Stoke, Everton and Man City.
With two out of three predictions correct and only the Carling Cup defeat to Blackburn wrong, hopefully I can improve with my latest set of predictions, unless we can pull off a surprise at City. If you can’t remember what I said in my last lot then click here and see how they stack up to what happened in the actual games.
Spurs – 2-2 Draw
Wigan – 1-0 Win
Blackburn – 4-3 Loss
Current %: 66.6%
Now on to the next three games:
Monday 31st October – Stoke (a)
Earmarked by a number of fans as the true test of this season. The Britannia Stadium is a formidable place to go to. The pitch is tiny (in comparison to other Premier League grounds), and Stoke are renowned for a big, physical game, with a lot of set-piece work. If Newcastle can get a result here, it will set us up nicely for our run up towards the end of the year. Toonsy wrote the other day, “Will they pass or will they fail though? My money is on the former, even if we don’t get a result.” I share his optimism, and can see us getting at least a draw.
Draw
Saturday 5th November – Everton (h)
Back to the Fortress. Hatem Ben Arfa’s wonder strike won us three points at Goodison last season, but we were turned over 2-1 at home. The Toffees away form, at present, is better than their home form. This will be a tough game, but I think the players will be glad to be playing in front of their fans after a tough fixture in Stoke. They will also be without Royston Drenthe, who’s made a good start to his first season in the Premier League, after he was sent off against Chelsea midweek.
Win
Saturday 19th November – Man City (a)
The Etihad Stadium is where our unbeaten stretch in the League will end. The Blues have been in incredible form this season, scoring goals for fun and completely outplaying sides at home and away. We didn’t manage to pick up any points against them last year, and Mancini’s spent even more money in the most recent transfer window. I’m not saying that we won’t put up a fight at Eastlands, I think it’s realistic to say that it will be the toughest game. But based on their current form, it would be tough not to back Man City.
Loss
That’s the look ahead to the next three fixtures. Summary: 4 points, and our first league loss, setting us up nicely in the fight for European football. Then we face Man Utd away, Chelsea at home, and then Norwich away.
What do you think?
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Six points and a narrow loss at City
Qpr changed everything up front and are back in it at 2-1
I detest spuds come on Joey
i reckon we can do stoke and everton like,man city we will get nowt..
Not easy.
Can’t see us doing a lot at Stoke. They’ve played four of the “big” teams already at their place and done alright out of them. Wasn’t the Liverpool game their first loss in like 20 home games? Mond you I don’t think it will be 4-0 again.
Everton will be tough. They are just coming into form and I’ll be at the game so we’re bound to make hard work of it. Would love us to won as Everton are in that group of teams we should be looking to join.
Man City. Hmmm…..
Draw at Stoke and beat Everton – nowt at Man City – would be happy with 4 points out of those to be honest
Great goal by Bale there
First time I’ve heard Barton’s name there just
Who wants to know my prediction till end of the year?
Monday 31st October – Stoke (a) :WIN
Saturday 5th November – Everton (h) : WIN
Saturday 19th November – Man City (a): LOSE
Saturday Nov 26 Manchester United-(a):DRAW
Saturday Dec 3 Chelsea(h):LOSE
Saturday Dec 10 Norwich City(a):WIN
Saturday Dec 17 Swansea City(h):WIN
Wednesday Dec 21 WBA(h):WIN
Monday Dec 26 Bolton(a):WIN
Friday Dec 30 Liverpool(a): LOSE
Total Points for year 2011 fixtures:38points.
Toonsy…Stoke don’t score a lot of goals either. Maybe we could pull a draw out of the hat if we have the right team, tactics and application. Gonna be tough though, but there again all games are tough.
Stoke – lose
Everton – draw
Man City – lose
keep cool peeps……anything but a home win for spuds against QPR would be looked upon as a real upset. We just need to hope that QPR can keep the goals against down so that we can retain 4th spot…
And idea,should pardew play lovekrands tmr? since stoke players are those big size fellows.Playing on par with them doesn’t seems to work.
Toonsy: Just double checking but have you got my drafts? Wanted to make sure as I have a couple of ideas and I don’t want you getting loads of mine like you did the other week ahah
I think we will get a draw at Stoke, the Everton game is the more winnable fixture, gonna be very fiesty in my house when the verton game is on
Stoke (a) Cant see us beating them so 1-1 i will say
Everton (h) Again hard game i rate Everton better than Spurs but still think it will be 2-2
Man City (a) The way city are playing at the minute i cant see them losing this season will go for 3-1 City
Think the Stoke game is the most important game out of the next 5 and could well be the turning point in our season. We win people mite take us abit more seriously. We lose then i think we will lose the next 4 and our league position will plummet.
Zoë …stand your ground….don’t let them Evertonians get to you !
…although everything will be cool when we turn them over on the hill… 
AOD
Is that a serious thought Lovenkrands for tomorrow night. Ba and Best with Benny as the next alternative.
I was thinking,ba+lovenkrands for starting. Bench Best.
isnt best injured
Cause what i feel is that,against such teams like stoke,who also have one huge beanpole(Crouch) in their team.
We need to play smaller,flair,quick players against them,rather that big lads.
Zoe – Yep got them
Wasn’t sure of you’d finished with the so was waiting for you to say you were done with them
we stay 4th
Munich: My mum, uncle, cousins are all Everton supporters aha!
Toonsy- Yep I’m done with them
I’m waiting on an answer for a match preview. If I don’t get one I could be hastily penning one at 3:30 in the morning
Dosnt bother me toonsy i love the late night articles
Toonsy: If you don’t get an answer I could do one for you. I don’t go back till tuesday so I wont be going to bed early tonight. You’d have to tell me what it would involve etc
Think tomorrow night depends on tiote. If he starts tomorrow night no reason why we can’t get 3 points.
my team 2mora
krul
santon colo taylor raylor
obertan tiote cabaye gutierez
benny
ba
we have GOT to remember benny has been out for a year and alot of people are expecting far to much from him already , give him until xmas and he will be flying if he stays fit as the boy is a massive talent!
Zoe – Nah don’t worry. Give it some time and see if one crops up. If not I can do it early tomorrow
I wont be going to bed early tonight. You’d have to tell me what it would involve etc
Hitman – I have that effect. Women fling themselves at me. I think it’s my charisma or something like that
Toonsy stoke lost the last game of last season at home to wigan
Toonsy: Ok
the spuds have won 6 of there last 7 including beating pool and spurs
and arsenal
Cannot see us getting much tomorrow. They have a good home record and it looks like Tiote will be missing and if we didn’t want one player to be missing against them it’s Tiote.
no way i would play benny against clogger stoke the lad is least a half a yard off the pace yet,needs a few games in fact imo will be half way through season before we see anything like his best,anything short of pace and they will be into you
stu 79,always with the doom
+ice
Hitman – Just being honest, mate.
We could quite conceivably go with the same side that played Blackburn and take out the last 3 minutes of heroics we were pretty fcking shite. Stoke are much better too.
Think a draw is possible if we can cope with their ariel threat.
HITMAN never doom and gloom m8,just careful
good vibes only stu,we can have these phil taylor fks
Phil Taylor
Isn’t he Port Vale anyway?
so where the fk is the potteries.
always thought that ment the stoke lot.
Stuart79…with you on that one. If we play to the max we could pick up a draw, no problem. If Tiote is missing it’ll be real difficult, but a draw is not totally inconceivable.
You would easily know it was halloween its all gone doom and gloom
MM if we play to the max we could pick up 3pts, I don’t give a fuk if they have only been beat once in 18, we are a match for anyone.
I just hope the players dont think the same as some of our supporters, as I would be pissed of with them if they went back to the clueless chris ways of playing for a draw, they should be going there with the belief of winning
Big D…sorry mate, but it stands to reason if the “big clubs” have struggled to get a result at Stoke, that we could also conceivably find it difficult, especially without Tiote in the line up. We can still go there with belief, but why not go there to try and contain, and catch them on the break ?
Stoke don’t seem to score too many goals, the toon either, could be a tight game on Monday where we come home with a draw. Hope so…
MM – Just digging out some stats on that.
75% of their goals have come from set pieces.
They’ve had only 22 shots on target this season. Less than anyone else
MM@44 didnt pardew say at one point that he wanted pace in the front line as sometimes away from home when under pressure you need this outlet,which we might be at stoke
DAVE how did the car viewing go m8?
MM
has it been confirmed that Tiote is out, as for try to go there and contain them, the only team at the minute that would deserve that much respect ( Fear ) is Citeh 
Ice the car was lovely but my bro convinced me to hold of for another couple of weeks as he is sure he will get me a better deal and might get me my Racing Green one and a diesel one
jonathon phipps of birtley
Anyone know him!
He’s just been racially abusing sammy ameobi on twitter.
He’s since deleted it but apparently he goes to lord lawson school
DAVE hope so m8,that would be a dream for you,if not BATTY does a canny spray job in raceing green,cheap too
Ice I will just hold on aslong as I can till the right one comes along, I think sometimes that im being too picky but I dont want to get one then wish I had off held off for the right colour, I would prefer the diesel but i would compromise on that but the colour is the main one atm.
Hitman you must be on twitter then ?
Hitman – There are people who’ve taken screenshots. That lad is fecked now. Hope somebody teaches the twat a right lesson.
http://twitpic.com/78di3k
nar dave, 1 of the lads put it on footy mad,so it needed putting up on here cross board outrage so to speak..
the shite will get whats coming to him toonsy
Batty,
Are you going to the match tomorrow
hate this shite but we will get it for a while now until window closes
http://www.givemefootball.com/premier-league/united-step-up-chase-for-midfield-gem-report
@Batty
It started a few days ago and now some of our fans are getting on like Tiote and Collo have already left or are certs to leave its abit ridiculous.
TGS
Ice yeah mate sure it never really stops
Hitman there is some strange twatters on twitter
Ice…Toonsy…looks like we need to defend the set pieces against Stoke better than we did against Blackburn, that’s for sure. To do that we need Saylor in the team to combat the big gadgies which Stoke have up front.
Gotta be Obertan on the right, with a five man midfield with the hope to catch them on the break. Obertan is fast as flock, maybe we come good one day and we score a few away goals, why not starting on Monday.
Not even sure who the stand-out players are at Stoke, and why they are so difficult to beat ? Maybe they rely more on the collective approach of the team. Who is their midfield playmaker as such ?
MM to me they have a lot of pace on both wings,tend to have spoilers in c/m who play to the wings a lot but ive only seen them once for 90min on a stream
MM we need to get someone to knock Rory Delap over then stand on his hand, that will sort a lot of their set pieces out
I am not worried about the next 2 games am more worried about the ManCashity all i wanted out of that game is not a moral thumping … a loss by 3goal is fine anything more than that we will get fkd by every other team till xmas..
i would not play tiote against stoke and would like danyG to take his role and play caby and benny in front of DanG and best is due for goals and ba too we might put 6 against them double hat….lol… but after all i am bit worried at the other end too… so lets play counter attacking at stoke and we need to be clinical in front of the goal and the 2 best mans are Ba and best. maybe sammy….lol
stoke win 1 0
everton win 1 0
man city lose 3 0
you never know …..
Anyone got a slingbox or anyone tell me if they’re any good?
Ice@63, good point mate, but if we have Obertan and Guti tying up the wings we may have a chance to reduce their attacking prowess. Then we need some tough guys in the middle who can brawl it out with them to win and keep the ball. Cabaye and Guthrie the middle two perhaps with HBA in there too flooding the midfield, with one man up front, HBA and the two wingers breaking quickly from midfield. We don’t want them bombarding the two beanpoles up front, cos we’ll struggle under an aerial bombardment. I would love it if we could dumbfound the critics and come away with a well earned point, especially as we didn’t do ourselves any favours at Blackburn. It may not be pretty but who gives a flock, but who cares, we just want the points, that’s all that matters..
STUART you mean dreambox,ie getting sport,films prog ect??
MM i dont do forcasts they come back and bite your bum,dave does forcasts hes only got one wrong up to now,that was b/burn
No, a slingbox. They allow you to watch Sky anywhere in the world on your laptop. Well as long as you have Sky that is.
Stuart I don’t know owt about slingbox. but do you not get Sky now on your laptop sky and go ? or something ?
Stu – Try Sky Go. It’s basically Sky on your laptop as long as you have Sky
Toonsy thats it sky go as I know that works
I will go with 2-1 to them with Ba scoring for us. Hope we have a good game against Everton because after that it gets tough. We aren’t strong enough to handle Stoke away right now. Who fits best with Cabaye in the middle? I would have to go with Guthrie’s experience. Stay with Obertan on the right. He has size and speed to take the heat off our defense. Best and Ba up front if Best is fit. Benny to come in late if the score is close. Now we find out what the team is really made of. With almost no cover at the back or up front we need a small miracle with few or no injuries.
Looks like Best is out with tonsillitis. So much for Ba with Best. Perhaps Ba up front with Marveaux in behind? Don’t think Peter is strong enough with their big defense. So little real choice with Shola injured as well. Lack of depth exposed already. What a surprise. Spend some money Ashley. You’re so cheap you’re shoes squeak.
Sky go is only in this country. Slingbox is anywhere so I’m told.
We’ll see.
I reckon we’ll lose a scrappy game 1-0 to Stoke.
Stuart – Heard its only as reliable as the internet connection you have at tge time. If that’s the case then why pay £150 for a box when you can find streams of most things anyway?
I reckon we’ll pick up 2 points from our next 5 games, everton and one of the big boys. Think we’ll struggle against stoke, we always seem to against them.
on an another not… why are people worried about selling players. every club in the world needs to sell player if the player dont wanna stay at that club… look at arsnl n manu… they cant hold of the key players…. end of the day what counts are the club and fans. the ability to replace with equal or better players. I am all in for selling at high and buying cheap tallents and if we continue doing it every transfer and can improve the squad am happy. Every player and staffs are replaceable at any club. stop talking out ur ass and start to accept the fact, we have improved and look 2wds how we can improve and help the club to grow. Ashley is not a highschool stupid student he is way smarter than us in terms of earning money and he will never make a penny out of NUFC. Give the guy a chance and lets hope he brings that 2 needed players to take us a step closer to top6teams.
Munich Mag
October 30, 2011 at 17:33
‘Stoke – lose
Everton – draw
Man City – lose’
I’ll back that horse. Looking at the run of fixtures I reckon by the time we play Norwich away we could be desperate for 3 points. Norwich away isn’t the nicest place to have to travel either.
Can’t see us getting anything tomorow. Our fullbacks will give away too many corners and throw-ins, which they play for and then score from with their team of giants on a seemingly illegally narrow pitch. Only if we can out play them and score a few from open play, then we might get something. Ben Arfa will need a can of WD40 sprayed up his backside before that happens.
I think we need Santon to play RB as he is taller for the 50 set pieces they will have. Hopefully Tiote will be fit, but if not then I would like Gosling to play alongside Cabaye. I think Jonas and Obertoon should be on the wings and I would like either Marveux or HBA behind Ba. We need whoever it is out of those two to work hard for the cause, and I think perhaps Marveux would be the better option out of the two.
I think we can beat them if we play our game and dont start slowly like we have last couple of games. For some reason we need the Pardew hairdryer at half time to start playing. Strange.
love to see nufc beat stoke tonite!!!!
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