Fixtures 25/26 - First: Aston Villa (A); Last: Fulham (A)

[Dancing Brave]

I've noticed that the Christmas holiday period ( 27 December and on 30 December), not one of the 7 London teams will be required to play a game outside of London.

[SteV]

1 minute ago, Dancing Brave said:

I've noticed that the Christmas holiday period ( 27 December and on 30 December), not one of the 7 London teams will be required to play a game outside of London.

Aye, they’ve tried to keep the travelling in that period to a minimum, which is sensible.

 

Hence us having Man Utd and Burnley.

[Sibierski]

1 hour ago, JT24 said:

We’re winning it all. 

Those games after UCL are killers, bar Fulham at home. Need to address squad depth urgently or it’s just so many dropped points to teams we shouldn’t. 
 

Sunderland (A) Sunday Midday, after a hard slog away in UCL is giving me jitters already.

[LFEE]

No Martinez for Villa first game of the season if still with them. Every cloud…

[El Prontonise]

1 minute ago, LFEE said:

No Martinez for Villa first game of the season if still with them. Every cloud…

[scotia1997]

What's the chances of the Liverpool (H) on the 23rd of August being moved to Sunday 24th?

[Sibierski]

2 minutes ago, scotia1997 said:

What's the chances of the Liverpool (H) on the 23rd of August being moved to Sunday 24th?

Hard to say, depends what order the TNT/Sky get first dibs on games. Assume Sky first, then TNT then rest Sky. Which case, Sky will want Everton game on TV for first pick, then it’s our game against Liverpool and City/Spurs the TNT pick. Which you would expect TNT to pick ours.

[Sibierski]

Just seen we’re on TNT first weekend, so I’d say actually a VERY high chance the Liverpool game is Sunday.

[HaydnNUFC]

Forest (H) will be on Sunday 5th as they’re in the Conference League the Thursday before.

[SteV]

22 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

Forest (H) will be on Sunday 5th as they’re in the Conference League the Thursday before.

Good spot. International break after too so presume there won’t be a Monday game that weekend.

[Mazzy]

Every. Single. Game. Is. Fucking. Difficult.

 

We really need seriously strengthen going into this season.

[Mike]

If the CL draw is favorable I'm officially putting feelers out for Spurs, Burnley, CL game and Sunderland.

 

@Interpolic 

[The Prophet]

Unhinged.

 

[Ben]

Lucky Arsenal catching the big teams cold

[Turnbull2000]

We could potentially be playing Villa with almost the exact same team as we did in the 2023 season opener 

 

Pope

Tripps Botman Scharr Burn

Murphy Tonali  Bruno Joe Gordon

Isak

[alexf]

Atleast this time we are going into that Villa away not completely cooked physically with a few injured players being carried also like we did last season. 

 

Should give them a better game atleast even if it is a tricky opening fixture. 

Fixtures look brutal though with the champions league dates added in. We are in for a rough season if the squad doesn't get significantly boosted this summer. 

[LFEE]

I always stick to head to heads rather than month to month. So we’ve only got to improve on getting beat 4-1 off Villa and we’ve made improvements 

 

3-3 against Liverpool to better or match, possibly if ideally a late KO. Leeds replacing Leicester City so a 0-3 win might be a tough ask.

[Turnbull2000]

Yeah, top 7 is the more realistic target assuming no new outfield players of note. Alternatively we bin off the domestic cups.

[Andy84]

1 minute ago, Turnbull2000 said:

Yeah, top 7 is the more realistic target assuming no new outfield players of note. Alternatively we bin off the domestic cups.

Assuming no new outfield players of note? Who assumes that?

[timeEd32]

4 hours ago, JT24 said:

We’re winning it all. 

 

After the November international break is the following month:

City (h)
Champions League

Everton (a)

Spurs (h)

Burnley (h)

Champions League

Sunderland (a)

League Cup (possibly)

Chelsea (h)

 

Lots of home games thankfully, but that's when the wheels came off last time.

[Dancing Brave]

7 minutes ago, Turnbull2000 said:

Yeah, top 7 is the more realistic target assuming no new outfield players of note. Alternatively we bin off the domestic cups.

[Scoot]

10 minutes ago, Turnbull2000 said:

Yeah, top 7 is the more realistic target assuming no new outfield players of note. Alternatively we bin off the domestic cups.

 

Are you doom and gloom all the time in real life too? 

[Turnbull2000]

1 minute ago, Scoot said:

 

Are you doom and gloom all the time in real life too? 

 

Always 

[Andy84]

5 minutes ago, timeEd32 said:

 

After the November international break is the following month:

City (h)
Champions League

Everton (a)

Spurs (h)

Burnley (h)

Champions League

Sunderland (a)

League Cup (possibly)

Chelsea (h)

 

Lots of home games thankfully, but that's when the wheels came off last time.

In terms of injuries but in the December of 23-24 we were comfortably in the top 6 from memory 

[timeEd32]

27 minutes ago, Andy84 said:

In terms of injuries but in the December of 23-24 we were comfortably in the top 6 from memory 

 

On Dec. 2 we were 5th (3 points off 2nd) having beaten Chelsea and Man United the previous week, plus being robbed in Paris. By the end of the month we were 9th, out of the League Cup, and out of the Champions League.

 

This past season Liverpool were second on Oct. 28, a point behind City. By Christmas they were 12 points ahead of City and 6 ahead of Arsenal having also beaten Leverkusen, Real Madrid, and Girona in the CL and advancing to the LC semifinal. It was Nov/Dec when City completely fell apart last season.

 

I think it's a key stretch when you've already been through a couple months of multiple games a week and all that comes with it.