lawro tips a draw v chelsea

stephen cartwright · 9th September 2011, 11:56 AM

Sunderland will be fine this season. I know plenty of people are pointing to their form at the back end of last season and the start of this wondering if there are problems there, but these things will take time to settle in.
I'm very interested to see how Nicklas Bendtner, on a season-long loan from Arsenal, fares.

He has a very high opinion of himself, scored a couple in midweek for Denmark which will help his confidence, and he'll be one of those this season that either sinks or swims. Maybe regular games will equal regular goals for Bendtner, which in turn may equal growing up a little bit as well. That might be the key for both him and Sunderland.

The manager Steve Bruce has the right chairman in Niall Quinn, a real football man, so he'll be just fine. The time to sit down and review for Sunderland - and for all teams - is 10 games in.

Chelsea, too, are a bit of a work in progress. They will be there or thereabouts this season, but I just feel new boss Andre Villas-Boas is trying to change their style a little.

Where before Chelsea could be a little laborious in their approach play, I think Villas-Boas is trying to instill a bit of urgency and a bit of pace about their play, which is all designed to fit around Fernando Torres. He needs early balls alongside the centre-backs and the full-backs, because the slower the build-up the less effective Torres is. And if you spend £50m on a player you have to build the team around them don't you?

With both teams settling in a touch, I'll go for a draw in this one.
Prediction: 1-1

This week is the turn of Richard Archer, lead singer and frontman of Brit band Hard-Fi, to predict the scores for the latest round of Premier League matches.

tips a 2-1 chelsea win

no idea who this bloke is like

Safc_Luke · 9th September 2011, 12:08 PM

1-1 agreed.

I'd take it now but we would have to beat Stoke.

Coxhoe Mag · 9th September 2011, 12:18 PM

Cant see you getting anything from this unless you play 5 in midfield with Bendtner a target man.

The longer Torres stays on the pitch the better mind.... Sturridge or Lukaku are classy and have more goals in them IMO

fishboy · 9th September 2011, 01:01 PM

hate to say it, but i fear we may get humpt, hope im wrong

ProfessionalMackem · 9th September 2011, 01:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Coxhoe Mag

Cant see you getting anything from this unless you play 5 in midfield with Bendtner a target man.

The longer Torres stays on the pitch the better mind.... Sturridge or Lukaku are classy and have more goals in them IMO

Torres loves scoring against us mind.

AlpineExile · 9th September 2011, 01:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stephen cartwright

Sunderland will be fine this season. I know plenty of people are pointing to their form at the back end of last season and the start of this wondering if there are problems there, but these things will take time to settle in.
I'm very interested to see how Nicklas Bendtner, on a season-long loan from Arsenal, fares.

He has a very high opinion of himself, scored a couple in midweek for Denmark which will help his confidence, and he'll be one of those this season that either sinks or swims. Maybe regular games will equal regular goals for Bendtner, which in turn may equal growing up a little bit as well. That might be the key for both him and Sunderland.

The manager Steve Bruce has the right chairman in Niall Quinn, a real football man, so he'll be just fine. The time to sit down and review for Sunderland - and for all teams - is 10 games in.

Chelsea, too, are a bit of a work in progress. They will be there or thereabouts this season, but I just feel new boss Andre Villas-Boas is trying to change their style a little.

Where before Chelsea could be a little laborious in their approach play, I think Villas-Boas is trying to instill a bit of urgency and a bit of pace about their play, which is all designed to fit around Fernando Torres. He needs early balls alongside the centre-backs and the full-backs, because the slower the build-up the less effective Torres is. And if you spend £50m on a player you have to build the team around them don't you?

With both teams settling in a touch, I'll go for a draw in this one.
Prediction: 1-1

This week is the turn of Richard Archer, lead singer and frontman of Brit band Hard-Fi, to predict the scores for the latest round of Premier League matches.

tips a 2-1 chelsea win

no idea who this bloke is like

No he doesn't.

He's predicting a 0-2 win for Chelsea, I think you may have been looking at his predictions for either the Stoke/Pity City game or the Wolves/Spurs one.