Fulham v Arsenal, the Untold predicitons and line up
Sadly someone out there really doesn’t like the sort of revealtions and thoughts we come up with on Untold Arsenal and so the site is down once more. As promised here is what we were intending to publish this morning if we had been able to.
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And so as a result of the matches played yesterday, Arsenal with Chelsea remain in 2nd/3rd place while Fulham are in ninth.
Of the clubs we’ve called the “big seven” of late Tottenham Hots, Newcastle U and ManU all sit peacefully in 11th, 12th and 13th position – which is not quite where they expected to be. Interestingly Tottenham do have a goal difference that looks like that of a top three club – they just happen to have lost six out of 14 games (which is to say 43%).
| Team | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | |
| 1 | Liverpool | 14 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 29 | 11 | 18 | 35 |
| 2 | Chelsea | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 31 | 15 | 16 | 28 |
| 3 | Arsenal | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 28 | 14 | 14 | 28 |
| 4 | Manchester City | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 21 | 6 | 27 |
| 5 | Nottingham Forest | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 25 |
| 6 | Aston Villa | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 25 |
| 7 | Brentford | 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 28 | 3 | 23 |
| 8 | Brighton and Hove Albion | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 23 |
| 9 | Fulham | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 22 |
| 10 | AFC Bournemouth | 14 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 21 |
| 11 | Tottenham Hotspur | 14 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 28 | 15 | 13 | 20 |
| 12 | Newcastle United | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 19 | 21 | -2 | 20 |
| 13 | Manchester United | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 19 |
There is also a fair amount of annoyance at the moment among some of the media with Fifa pressing ahead with telling the world how wonderful and democratic Saudi Arabia is and what a suitable place it is for holding the World Cup. Meanwhile Manchester United supporters being angry over a hike in ticket prices.
And of course we have quite a bit of chatter around about the ex-Arsenal men who have ended up in Fulahm such as Leno, Iwobi and Smith Rowe now in the side, plus Reiss Nelson on loan. What would these clubs do without the Arsenal academy?
Although as ever these journalist chappies do get carried away as with the notion that S”mith Rowe’s performance in the 2020 Boxing Day win over Chelsea that may well have salvaged the entire Mikel Arteta project.” (the Guardian)
Arsenal were indeed 15th in the league at that point, and this was the start of a run of five wins and two draws which took Arsenal up to ninth (although having played more games than any of the teams above them). But the problem was Arsenal then only won three of the next nine league games, which rather dented the revival and raises the question if Smith Rowe was the heart and soul of the revival what happened for the next downturn.
This season Fulham have won six out of 14 league games, beating Leicester City, Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest, Brentford, Crystal Palace and most recently Brighton & Hove. But they have lost to Manchesters United and City, Aston Villa and most extraordinarily 1-4 at home to Wolverhampton.
In their two seasons since returning to the Premier League they have come 10th and 13th But then we might also recall that in six of the last ten seasons they have been playing in the Championship, so their current position of ninth is very much a high spot.
As for the Arsenal team today 90 Min give us
Raya;
Partey, Saliba, Kiwior, Timber;
Rice, Merino, Odegaard;
Saka, Havertz, Trossard.
Pain in the Arsenal have exactly the same.
One Football appears to have an Untold-like problem and after the heading suggesting we will then see the line up there is a big blank. As for the Metro they come up with a most curious arrangement…
Raya;
Timber, Saliba, Gabriel, Calafiori
Odegaard Partey, Rice
Saka, Havertz, Martinelli
I do wonder if the problems facing Untold are spreading.