GW 23 - the week we forgot to start a thread

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Liverpool and Bournemouth take early leads

AFC Bournemouth v Nottingham Forest LIVE USA Net Universo Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth, England
Brighton & Hove Albion v Everton LIVE Peacock American Express Stadium, Falmer, England
Liverpool v Ipswich Town LIVE Peacock Anfield, Liverpool, England
Southampton v Newcastle United LIVE Peacock St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England
Wolverhampton Wanderers v Arsenal LIVE Peacock Molineux Stadium, Wolverhampton, England
Manchester City v Chelsea 12:30 PM Peacock Etihad Stadium, Manchester

Sunday
Crystal Palace v Brentford 9:00 AM Peacock Selhurst Park, London, England Line: CRY +105 O/U: 2.5
Tottenham Hotspur v Leicester City 9:00 AM USA Net Universo Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, London, England Line: TOT -210 O/U: 3.5
Aston Villa v West Ham United 11:30 AM Tele Peacock Villa Park, Birmingham, England Line: AVL -185 O/U: 2.5
Fulham v Manchester United 2:00 PM USA Net Tele
 
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Really bad looking injury to Wes Burns. Stretchered off with a boot on his leg.

That early Southampton goal apparently woke up Newcastle. They now lead 2-1.
 

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Completely unacceptable decision to give Lewis-Skelly a red card. Michael Oliver is an embarrassment to the Premier League, and just get rid of VAR if it can't overturn that.
 

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Completely unacceptable decision to give Lewis-Skelly a red card. Michael Oliver is an embarrassment to the Premier League, and just get rid of VAR if it can't overturn that.
The VAR part is crazy. Like, refs make bad decisions sometimes (this one was particularly brutal), but wasn’t that the point of VAR? We’re at the point where (the way the PL uses it) VAR is taking joy out of the sport when goals happen but also isn’t getting calls right. What are we doing?

And I say this as a Tottenham fan who is glad Arsenal got screwed, but completely agree they got screwed.
 

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Red cards, when they can be yellow, hurt the product. The punishment is so severe and it generally makes the games less enjoyable to watch. I don't understand why red cards are so prevalent in the sport when most of them are pretty avoidable by officials.
 

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Kluivert still on fire. Scored first goal eatly on a blast from outside the box. Just set up a perfect header for Bournemouth's second goal.
 

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And Kluivert scores again. Danced through several defenders. 3-0 Bournemouth


Edit: offside.......but still an amazing display.
 

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Bournemouth with a huge performance today. What a season they are having--they might make it into Europe this year.
 

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And Bounemouth gets a third minutes later anyway. And it counts. Forest getting steamrolled. And if I heard right, Bournemouth only has 13 senior players available?
 

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Preaching to the choir but the red on Lewis-Skelly is so bad on so many levels.

Unfortunately for Premier League viewers, Oliver seems to smart to have a video like Coote's surface
 

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Lewis-Skelly having that called 'violent conduct' while VAR confirms the Enciso yellow sums this league up
 

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Forest had only conceded 22 goals in their first 22 games, but let in 5 today. Definitely did a number on their GD.
 

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Chelsea really, really should be up 2-0. World Class fuck up by Palmer on a break where he was 2 vs 1 against the keeper.
 

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Flip side, City would be up 3-1 if Pep weren't obsessed with putting Gvardiol as far forward as possible. Worked on the tap-in but it's been a thing for him all year and I really don't get it
 

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If Moyes immediately snatches 6 points then Everton probably already justified in making the move
100%.

i was driving during the game, so didn't post, but my daughter was watching it and updating. The side has a much different feel. Dyche had leached the belief out of them. It's almost as if they were forbidden to think about attacking. Moyes is no wizard of attacking football but seems to have reassured them that they don't have to be miserable.

He's also made some personnel changes - featuring young defender Jake O'Brien and winger Jesper Lindstrom - that have solidified the side, especially on the left where Mykolenko has been struggling and Jack Harrison is having a poor year.

It was an ugly win - a pen on a handball and lots of parking the bus - but after predictably dominating proceedings, especially at the start of the second half, Brighton fizzled out. For all of their attacking talent, they didn't seriously trouble Pickford. For the last 30, Everton had a bit of swagger.

Toffees are still only in 16th, but 7 points clear of the drop; they are closer on points to Brentford in 11th than to Wolves and Ipswich. Of course it's too early, and of course Calvert-Lewin, who had looked rejuvenated, went off hurt ***again today, and all due caveats. I'm confident on current evidence that Dyche would not have kept us out of a relegation fight, and that Moyes will have us closer to mid table than the drop.
 

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Forest had only conceded 22 goals in their first 22 games, but let in 5 today. Definitely did a number on their GD.
FOREST: we've been a championship side for a long time, but here we are at the top of the table, exceeding expectations and kicking ass

BOURNEMOUTH: hold my beer
 

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Wow, that was some classic Son. A smaller pair of keeper gloves and that one was in.
 

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Horrid twat* Jamie Vardy levels in the first minute of the second half

* praise
 

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Big boos when Angie yanks Richy at 54’. I guess they’re handling him with kid gloves but they need both goals and swagger.
 

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I got my brother into footy. He thought supporting Everton was too dire so he switched to Spurs.