Arsenal Picks Thread 2018/19

Round 24 available points:

Arsenal v Cardiff

Pick Arsenal win: 1 point

Pick exact score 2-1: 5 points

Arsenal MOM: Lacazette (8.1): 3 points

Arsenal player points: Aubameyang 2 (goal, assist), Lacazette 1 (goal)

Pick Chelsea loss: 3 points

Pick Liverpool draw: 2 points

Updated Table after Round 24 (Now updated with Liverpool/Chelsea results):

Downey26  159 (12)

Brumbys     148 (3)

RonnieMac 140 (3)

Paulm         139 (7)

Ajc28          127 (6)

Surge          123 (5)

Kwlap          120 (5)

Oh noes Brumbys, you didnt select any players!

I would have picked Auba & Laca I swear ;-)

What a clusterfudge.

Forgot that I can now add the points for Arsenal's finishing round of the FA Cup:

10) Arsenal finishing round for League Cup

11) Arsenal finishing round for FA Cup

12) Arsenal finishing round for Europa League

13) Liverpool finishing round for the Champions League

14) R19 and R38 Arsenal position in the EPL - PICK 5TH AT R19: 5 POINTS

15) R19 and R38 Liverpool position in the EPL - PICK 1ST AT R19: 5 POINTS

19) Chelsea finishing round for Europa League

Sorry guys still haven't got to the updates, should get there today! In the meantime, Round 25 picks, we have a special round...

Man City v Arsenal (Monday morn):

Pick HT and FT scores, 3 Arsenal players, and 3 Man City players.

I thought we should do Man City players as well because there's a pretty strong chance that Arsenal players won't clock up many points... not to be pessimistic of course! Hahahaha. I won't do head to heads this time. 

Pick results only:

Chelsea v Huddersfield (Sunday morn)

Westham v Liverpool (Tuesday morn)

Here's my picks, structure yours like this:

Man City (1) 2 Arsenal (0) 3

Auba, Laca, Torreira

Aguero, Sterling, Sane

Chelsea: win

Liverpool: draw

Ronniemac's picks:

Man City (2) 4 Arsenal (0) 1

Auba, Guendouzi, Torreira

Aguero, Sterling, Sane

Chelsea: win

Liverpool: Win , its February now, time to get back on track

Man City (3) 4 Arsenal (0) 1

Auba, Lacazette, Ramsey

Aguero, Silva, Sane

Chelsea: Win

Liverpool: Win 

Man City (2) 3 Arsenal (0) 1

Auba, Lacazette, Iwobi

Aguero, Silva, Sane

Chelsea: Draw

Liverpool: Win 

Chelsea: win

Liverpool: Win

Man City (2) 2 Arsenal (0) 0

Auba, AMN, Xhaka

Aguero, Silva, Ederson

Man City 3 (1) - 2 (1) Arsenal

Aguero, Sane, Sterling

Laca, Auba, Iwobi

Chelsea Win

Liverpool Win

Man City (2) 3 Arsenal (0) 1

Auba, Laca, Kolasinac

Aguero, Sterling, Sane

Chelsea: win

Liverpool: win

Ok lads I'm a bit behind in here, haven't quite finished the last round of tallying up. Working through it where time permits today, will get it all updated asap. 

So just doing this bit now. The result was that Arsenal exited the FA Cup in the 4th Round, 5 points awarded for any that picked that correctly. 

Updated Table after checking off the points for Arsenal's FA Cup exit:

Downey26  159 (0)

Brumbys     148 (0)

RonnieMac 140 (0)

Paulm         139 (0)

Ajc28          127 (0)

Surge          123 (0)

Kwlap          120 (0)

LOL's:         1000000

Round 25 points available:

Pick Chelsea win: 1 point

Pick Liverpool draw: 2 points

Man City v Arsenal:

Pick HT result of Man City ahead: 3 points

Pick exact HT score 2-1: 5 points

Pick FT result Man City win: 3 points

Pick exact FT score 3-1: 5 points

Pick Arsenal MOM: Leno (7.8): 3 points

Pick Man City MOM: Aguero (9.6): 3 points

Arsenal player points available: Koscielny 1 (goal), Monreal 1 (assist)

Man City player points available: Aguero 3 (3 goals), Sterling 1(assist), Laporte 1 (assist)

Updated Table after Round 25 (this round's score in brackets):

Downey26  170 (11)

Brumbys     167 (19)

RonnieMac 154 (14)

Paulm         152 (13)

Ajc28          140 (13)

Surge          140 (17)

Kwlap         133 (13)

Round 26, SPECIAL ROUND

Saturday:

Huddersfield v Arsenal (Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players)

Liverpool v Bournemouth (Result only)

Sunday: 

Man City v Chelsea (Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players)

**BONUS EUROPA WEEK** 

Next Thursday: 

Bate v Arsenal (Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players)

Malmo v Chelsea (Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players)

My picks:

Round 26: 

Huddersfield 1 Arsenal 3

Auba, Laca

Liverpool: win

Man City 3 Chelsea 1

Kepa, Hazard

Bonus Europa Week:

Bate 1 Arsenal 5

Laca, Iwobi

Malmo 0 Chelsea 3

Hudson-Odoi, Giroud

Round 26:

Huddersfield 2 Arsenal 4

Laca, Saurez

Liverpool: win

Man City 3 Chelsea 0

Hazard, Kante

Bonus Europa Week:

Bate 1 Arsenal 3

Auba, Cech

Malmo 0 Chelsea 2

Giroud, Barkley

Round 26, SPECIAL ROUND

Saturday:

Huddersfield 1 v Arsenal 3 - Aubamayang Mustafi

Liverpool win

Sunday: 

Man City 2 v Chelsea 0 Gonzalo Higgers & Hazard

**BONUS EUROPA WEEK** 

Next Thursday: 

Bate 1 v Arsenal 2 Lacazette, Ozil

Malmo 0 v Chelsea 3 Giroud, Kante

Huddersfield 1 Arsenal 2

Aubameyang, Kolasinac

Liverpool: Win

Man City 2 Chelsea 1

Higuain, Hazard

Bonus Europa Week:

Bate 1 Arsenal 2

Laca, Torreira

Malmo 0 Chelsea 3

Hazard, Giroud

Round 26, SPECIAL ROUND

Saturday:

Huddersfield 1-3 Arsenal 

Ramsay, Auba

Liverpool Win

Sunday:

Man City 0-1 Chelsea 

Hazard, Kante

**BONUS EUROPA WEEK**

Next Thursday:

Bate 0-2 Arsenal 

Laca, Torreira

Malmo 0-2 Chelsea 

Hudson-Odoi, Willian

Round 26, SPECIAL ROUND

Saturday:

Huddersfield 1 v Arsenal 4 - PEA Laca

Liverpool draw

Sunday:

Man City 3 v Chelsea 1 Higuain & Hazard

**BONUS EUROPA WEEK**

Next Thursday:

Bate 1 v Arsenal 3 Ozil, Iwobi

Malmo 0 v Chelsea 3 Hazard, Giroud

RonnieMac's picks:

Huddersfield v Arsenal (Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players)

Huddersfield 0 Arsenal 4

Auba, Laca – safe picks

Liverpool v Bournemouth (Result only)

Liverpool Win – I can’t handle more dropped points

Man City v Chelsea (Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players)

City 2 Chelsea 0

Kante, Jorginho

Bate v Arsenal (Pick FT score + 2 Arsenal players)

(Master) Bate 2 Arsenal 4

Iwobi, Auba

Malmo v Chelsea (Pick FT score + 2 Chelsea players)

Malmo 1 Chelsea 3

Hazard, Higain

Round 26 available points:

Pick Liverpool win: 1 point

Huddersfield vs Arsenal

Pick Arsenal win: 1 point

Pick FT score 1-2: 5 points

Pick Arsenal MOM: Maitland-Niles (8.0): 3 points

Player points available: Maitland-Niles 1 (assist), Kolasinac 1 (assist), Iwobi 1 (goal), Lacazette 1 (goal)

Man City vs Chelsea

Pick Chelsea loss: 3 points

Pick FT score 6-0: 5 points

Pick Chelsea MOM: Hazard (6.6): 3 points

Player points available: ........... **tumbleweed** ...........

How the f*ck did Maitland-Niles give the ball away that much and get MOTM? Far too much weight on one assist!

Updated Table after Round 26 (this week's score in brackets):

Downey26  175 (5)

Brumbys     175 (8)

Paulm         161 (9)

RonnieMac 160 (6)

Ajc28          154 (14)

Surge         148 (8)

Kwlap         142 (9)

Brumbys joins Downey at the top... perhaps should be ahead on alphabetical order but I gave Downey the honour, as the long time incumbent... 

Here's a brief explanation of how they do it: 

https://www.whoscored.com/Explanations

They update live, every 30 seconds, with 200 different actions taken into account that can affect the score. When the assist was made, Maitland-Niles rating went up by 0.74.  That was the biggest jump in his rating in the game, but he trended upward right throughout, so must have been doing a lot of things right. Not arguing against you at all brumbys, just trying to make sense of it all, looks like there is a lot to the algorithm. 

I would love to read into the algorithm detail properly but don't have the time right now, maybe at some point!

I support this logic.

You know Brumbys I really have to question what this whoscored algorithm is doing. Yes we lost to BATE this morn, but look at these stats:

Arsenal are in blue. The only stat BATE bettered us on is tackles, but that's obviously because we had 76% possession (!). 

To then see the player ratings blows my mind. BATE literally out-score us in player ratings man-for-man, in every single position. Yes they won, I get that, and yes we didn't score, so our attackers were a bit off, but I can't understand how a midfield can be so dominated, and yet out-score their rivals. Their fullbacks got done like a dinner all night long, the number of balls in from wide areas was massive, and yet their fullbacks out-score ours (Kolasinac was our highest rated player, but still outscored significantly by his opposite). 

So I guess the result, and a clean sheet, means a hell of a lot to these ratings. 

Bonus Europa Week available points:

Bate v Arsenal

Pick Arsenal loss: 3 points

Pick FT score 1-0: 5 points

Arsenal MOM: Kolasinac (7.2): 3 points

Arsenal player points: ... ... ... ... yikes

Malmo v Chelsea

Pick Chelsea win: 1 point

Pick FT score 1-2: 5 points

Chelsea MOM: Ross Barkley (8.2): 3 points

Chelsea player points: Giroud 1 (goal), Barkley 1 (goal), Willain 1 (assist), Pedro 1 (assist)

Updated Table after Bonus Europa Week:

Downey26  177 (2)

Brumbys     177 (2)

Paulm         163 (2)

RonnieMac 161 (1)

Ajc28          156 (2)

Surge          150 (2)

Kwlap         148 (6)

Ok, we have FA Cup this weekend, Chelsea play ManU, but Liverpool and Arsenal are both out. No EPL matches on. 

After this weekend we have european ties next week - Liverpool play Bayern, and Arsenal/Chelsea play their 2nd legs from this morn. So lets do a bonus round for all that eh... 

SUPER CUPS BONUS ROUND:

Chelsea v ManU

Pick full time score + 2 Chelsea players

Liverpool v Bayern

Pick full time score + 2 Liverpool players

Arsenal v BATE

Pick full time score + 2 Arsenal players

Chelsea v Malmo

Pick full time score + 2 Chelsea players

Chelsea 2 v ManU 2 - Higuian, Hazard

Liverpool 2 v Bayern 1 - Firmin, Salah

Arsenal 3 v BATE 0 - Aubamayang, Kolasinac

Chelsea 1 v Malmo 0 - Giroud, Hudson-Odoi

RonnieMacs picks

Chelsea v ManU

Chelsea 1 ManU 0

Harzard, Willian

Liverpool v Bayern

2-0

Not confident in this..

Salah, Mane

Arsenal v BATE

4-0

Auba, Miki

Chelsea v Malmo

3-0

Willian, Pedro

My picks

Chelsea v ManU

Chelsea 1 ManU 3

Hazard, Pedro

Liverpool v Bayern

Liverpool 1 Bayern 1

Salah, Mane

Arsenal v BATE

Arsenal 5 BATE 0

Mkhi, Auba

Chelsea v Malmo

Chelsea 3 Malmo 1

Giroud, Barkley

SUPER CUPS BONUS ROUND:

Chelsea 2-1 ManU

Hazard, Kante

Liverpool 2-1 Bayern

Firminho, Mane

Arsenal 3-0 BATE

Auba, Laca

Chelsea 2-1 Malmo

Giroud, CHO

Cr@p.

Whats the prob Surge? 

Get in and make your picks! First game of these picks tonight...

I actually didn't consider the possibility that some people may not visit the thread until next week, assuming there would be no games this weekend. Hopefully everyone sees it!

Chelsea 1 v ManU 0 - Hazard, Willian

Liverpool 2 v Bayern 0 - Mane, Alisson

Arsenal 3 v BATE 1 - Aubamayang, Ozil

Chelsea 2 v Malmo 0 - Barkley, Giroud