Arsenal Picks Thread 2018/19

Hope that's readable enough. Now for this week:

Arsenal 1-2 Man City

Aubameyang, Mhkitaryan

Liverpool Win

Chelsea Win

Arsenal 1-2 City

Aubameyang, Xhaka

Liverpool win

Chelsea win

Yep that's all good ajc. I only have to go back and review those once, at the end, so it's no problem.

If I can just ask one favour of everyone, it's that can you please be consistent with the layout of your match pick through the season. 

In particular, try and always name both Arsenal and their opposition, so I don't get confused as to which round the pick was for etc etc. There will no doubt be times when I tally up after a couple of rounds etc. Everyone is doing it perfect so far. 

And one last thing... LOL... 

If anyone misses the first round pick, or people feel like joining late, we can be very lenient, to encourage participation. If we do get that, I'll just make it something like you can start off with one or two points less than the lowest person on the table, or something like that. But we'll cross that bridge if we come to it. 

Righto:

1) Top 6 (name in specific order): 3 points for each correct team in their correct spot, or 1 point for each team picked in the 6, but not in their correct spot - Citeh, ARS, LIV, Red Scum, CHE, WHU (Sp*rs can get in the sea)

2) Relegation places (no particular order): 3 points for each - Swansea, Palace, Huddersfield

All of the following are 5 points:

3) Player with most Assists for the EPL (from any team) - Sterling

4) Player with most Goals for the EPL (from any team) - Aguero

5) Keeper with highest Number of EPL clean sheets (from any team) - Ederson

6) Highest scoring Arsenal player for the season, in all comps - Lacazette

7) Highest scoring Liverpool player for the season, in all comps - Firmino

8) Arsenal EPL GD at end of season (write as +16 etc) - +21

9) Liverpool EPL GD at end of season - +17

10) Arsenal finishing round for League Cup - 5th

11) Arsenal finishing round for FA Cup - 6th

12) Arsenal finishing round for Europa League - Final

13) Liverpool finishing round for the Champions League - Semi

14) R19 and R38 Arsenal position in the EPL - 5th, 2nd

15) R19 and R38 Liverpool position in the EPL - 2nd, 3rd

16) Round number for St Tott's Day confirmation (write NA if you believe this won't happen, NA will also be worth 5 points) - 33

17) Highest scoring Chelsea player for the season, in all comps - Morata

18) Chelsea EPL GD at end of season - -3

19) Chelsea finishing round for Europa League - 3rd

And:

Arsenal 1 - Citeh 1

Rambo, Laca

LIV Draw

CHE Draw

Pick Results for Round 1

Arsenal 2 Man City 0

Liverpool: Win

Chelsea: Win

Available points:

Pick Arsenal Loss: 3 pts

Pick correct score: 5 pts

Whoscored.com Arsenal MoM is Petr Cech: 3 pts

Obviously no assist/goal points :(

Pick Liverpool win: 1 pt

Pick Chelsea win: 1 pt

Standings to follow...

UPDATE: I had missed Surge's picks... WHOOPS! Have now added him... unfortunately he managed to fare worse than me!

Ajc28: 5

Downey: 5

Leighbo: 5

Ronniemac: 5

Brumbys: 4

Kwlap: 2

Paulm: 1

Surge: 0

Ok next up, we have Chelsea vs Arsenal on Sunday morning at 4.30am, and Liverpool play Crystal Palace on Tuesday at 7am.

Special round straight away!

Give me 24 hours max to come back with some special picks... 

Alrighty, how about normal picks, normal points, but we add players and an extra cupla categories for the special round match... 

So choose the Arsenal vs Chelsea score, also include the HT score in brackets, pick two players from EACH team, and then we can have a little keeper special, since Cech used to play for Chelsea, and Chelsea have a brand new guy. Pick one of the two keepers, and lets make it an extra 2 points for whomever gets the highest match-rating of the two, on whoscored.com. And of course, also select the result of the Liverpool game. So here is my pick, showing the right format to do it;

Arsenal 3 (1) Chelsea 1 (1)

Aubameyang, Lacazette

Hazard, Willian

Goalkeeper Bonus Pick: Cech

Liverpool: Win

Special Round points are as follows: Normal points for full time score, and player selections (including the two extra players), and the Liverpool result. 5 points for picking HT score, and 2 points for the Goalkeeper bonus.

Ronnie Mac has sent his:

Arsenal 1 (1) Chelsea 2 (1)

Aubameyang, Mikhitaryan

Hazard, Jorginho

Goalkeeper Bonus Pick: Kepa

Liverpool: Win

I guess I missed the bus then.

Arsenal 2 (1) Chelsea 1 (0)

Aubameyang, Ozil

Hazard, Kante

Goalkeeper Bonus Pick: Cech

Liverpool: Win

Get in there Surge!

I will give you a free point to start last equal with me on 1... 

The deadline to make the end of season prediction picks is Aug 31 so plenty of time.

Just throw in your pick for this coming weekend and you're in! And with my ambitious pick, you probably won't be last this time next week ;)

Arsenal 0 (0) Chelsea 1 (0)

Ramsay, Ozil

Hazard, Willian

Goalkeeper Bonus Pick: Kepa

Liverpool: Win

Arsenal 0 (2) Chelsea 0 (1)

Ozil, Aubamayang

Hazard, Kante

Goalkeeper Bonus Pick: Cech/Leno (Paul you OK with this or need us to make a call?)

Liverpool: win

Are changes still allowed to the season picks? Want to make one change.

Nothings locked until 31st August :) I'm holding off until the chance for transfer drama is over.

But then I was in Palmy Nth for 17 minutes on Monday so I can't be sure of anything for another few days 'til it wears off lol (sorry Matt)

OH SH*T! 

I did not notice that Surge! My sincerest apologies! 

Let me update the scoreboard... SORRY!

Edit: Just updated it... unfortunately you managed a 0 first out of the blocks... I appreciate the honesty, you could've nabbed yourself a free point there ;)

Yep that's right. Feel free to put your picks in, and continually edit your post up until Aug 31. 

However we can't actually see the edit time/date so we'll have to trust each other on that! No sneaky late updates at the end of the season! I may actually take a paste of them all on Aug 31 so I can check... or will I... you'll never know ;)

Cool thanks. Figured there was no point sticking with De Bruyne for most assists now he's out for 3 months.

Arsenal 1(1) Chelsea 1(0)

Ozil, Lacazette

Hazard, Kante

Kepa

Liverpool Win 

Chelsea 2(1) - Arsenal 0(0)

Lacazette, Aubameyang

Hazard, Jorginho

Kepa

Liverpool win

Arsenal 1(0) Chelski 2(1)

Ramsay, Ozil

Kante, Pedro

Cech

Liverpool: Draw

Round 2

Chelsea 3 Arsenal 2

Liverpool 2 Crystal Palace 0

Available points:

Pick Arsenal Loss: 3 pts

Pick correct halftime score Chelsea 2 Arsenal 2: 5pts

Pick correct fulltime score Chelsea 3 Arsenal 2: 5 pts

Arsenal MoM Henrikh Mkhitaryan (8.5): 3 pts

Chelsea MoM Marcus Alonso (8.7): 3 pts

Assists/Goals points: Alonso 2, Mkhitaryan 2, Morata 1, Azpilicueta 1, Pedro 1, Hazard 1, Iwobi 1

Goalkeeper Bonus: Cech (7.7) beats Kepa (6.6): 2 pts

Liverpool Win: 1 pt

Updated Standings (this week's score in brackets):

Ronniemac: 15 (10)

Ajc28:          10 (5)

Downey:      10 (5)

Brumbys:       8 (4)

Leighbo:        7 (2)

Kwlap:           6 (4)

Surge:           6 (6)

Paulm:           5 (4)

My maths is usually decent but please do tell me if I make any errors in your scores. 

Alrighty, next round, we are back to normal picks. 

Arsenal play Westham at home on Sat night.

Liverpool play Brighton at home on Sat night.

Chelsea play Newcastle away on Sun night.

RonnieMac's picks:

Arsenal 5 – West ham 1

Aubra, Ramsey

Chelsea Draw

Liverpool Win

My picks:

Arsenal 3 Westham 1

Aubameyang, Mkhitaryan

Liverpool Draw

Chelsea Win

Arsenal 3 West ham 0

Auba, Ozil

Liverpool Win

Chelsea Win

Arsenal 4 West Ham 0

Auba, Mustafi

Liverpool win

Chelsea win

West Ham 1 Arsenal 2

Mikhi, Iwobi

Liverpool win

Chelsea draw

Arsenal 3-0 West Ham

Mikhi, Auba

Chelsea Win

Liverpool Win

Arsenal 2-1 West Ham

Mhkitaryan, Aubameyang

Liverpool Win

Chelsea Win

Round 3

Arsenal 3 Westham 1

Liverpool 1 Brighton 0

Chelsea 2 Newcastle 1

Available points:

Pick Arsenal Win: 1 pt

Pick correct fulltime score Arsenal 3 Westham 1 5 pts

Arsenal MoM Aubameyang (7.7): 3 pts

Assists/Goals points: Monreal 1, Welbeck 1, Bellerin 1 Iwobi 1

Liverpool Win: 1 pt

Chelsea: 1 pt

Interesting that Aubameyang rated highest, Monreal, Xhaka and Ramsey were close behind (7.4/7.3). It looked like Bellerin got 2 assists but the Monreal goal assist was credited to Iwobi, not that he knew much about it. I feel like Lacazette should get an assist for the own goal but apparently it doesn't work that way. 

Standings (this week's score in brackets);

RonnieMac 20 (5)

Ajc28          16 (6)

Downey26  16 (6)

Paulm         15 (10)

Brumbys     14 (6)

Kwlap          12 (6)

Surge            9 (3)

Leighbo         7 (0)

I'm the first one to pick a correct score woot woot

Leighbo the first one to miss a pick! Don't worry next week we go again!

;)

1) Liverpool, City, Spurs, Chelsea, United, Arsenal

2) Cardiff, Huddersfield, Watford

3) Sterling

4) Aguero

5) Ederson

6) Lacazette

7) Salah

8) Arsenal EPL GD +28

9) Liverpool GD +42

10) Semi Final

11) Quarter Final

12) Final - winner

13) Quarter Final

14) R19 = 6 R38 = 5 

15) R19 = 2 R38 =1

16) NA

17) Hazard

18) Chelsea EPL GD +30

19) Semi-Final

Paul I took these numbers from the front page, hope they’re still correct :)

Edit: updated for mobile formatting compression...

Yep that's correct Brumbys.

Alrighty, my picks for the season;

1) Top 6: 1) Man City 2) Liverpool 3) Arsenal 4) Chelsea 5) Spurs 6) ManU

2) Relegation places (no particular order): Cardiff, Huddersfield, Burnley

3) Player with most Assists for the EPL: Ozil

4) Player with most Goals for the EPL: Kane

5) Keeper with highest Number of EPL clean sheets: Ederson

6) Highest scoring Arsenal player for the season: Aubameyang

7) Highest scoring Liverpool player for the season: Salah

8) Arsenal EPL GD at end of season: +32

9) Liverpool EPL GD at end of season: +44

10) Arsenal finishing round for League Cup: Winners

11) Arsenal finishing round for FA Cup: Winners

12) Arsenal finishing round for Europa League: Winners

13) Liverpool finishing round for the Champions League: Group Stage

14) R19 and R38 Arsenal position in the EPL: 6th, 4th

15) R19 and R38 Liverpool position in the EPL: 2nd, 3rd

16) Round number for St Tott's Day confirmation: 37

17) Highest scoring Chelsea player for the season, in all comps: Hazard

18) Chelsea EPL GD at end of season: +30

19) Chelsea finishing round for Europa League: Semi Finals

RONNIEMAC's Picks:

1) Top 6: Man City, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Spurs, ManU

2) Relegation spots: Huddersfield, Brighton, Cardiff

3) Player with most assists for the EPL: Hazard

4) Player with most Goals for EPL: Aguero

5) Keeper with highest Number of EPL clean sheets (from any team)

Allison/Liverpool

6) Highest scoring Arsenal player for the season, in all comps

Auba

7) Highest scoring Liverpool player for the season, in all comps

Mane

8) Arsenal EPL GD at end of season (write as +16 etc)

+22

9) Liverpool EPL GD at end of season

+42

10) Arsenal finishing round for League Cup

Semi’s

11) Arsenal finishing round for FA Cup

Quarters

12) Arsenal finishing round for Europa League

Semis

13) Liverpool finishing round for the Champions League

Quarters

14) R19 and R38 Arsenal position in the EPL

8th, 4th

15) R19 and R38 Liverpool position in the EPL

3rd, 2nd

16) Round number for St Tott's Day confirmation (write NA if you believe this won't happen, NA will also be worth 5 points)

36

17) Highest scoring Chelsea player for the season, in all comps

Pedro

18) Chelsea EPL GD at end of season

+29

19) Chelsea finishing round for Europa League

Finalist/Final