Mindfulness

Liverpool

Manchester City

The hay bale dystopia of international break week is a pain we must endure.

Nottingham Forest

Crystal Palace

My hope is that it's a Tuesday deadline, no-one else enters team and defaults to Liverpool, Liverpool draw or loose and Brentford claim last minute spawny draw with Everton, Mindfulness wins comp. And DON'T @ the other entrants as a reminder @Fader !!! DON'T YOU DARE !!!

@Fader Deadline Tue 19:30 surely?

Brentford + Joker

@Fader Will upcomming midweek EPL card be round 4?

Brighton & Hove Albion

I've had some time to calm down, reflect somewhat, and of course, quell the rage. In my completely unbiased view, I don't know how Palace lost that game, a draw would have been within the normal limits of taste and decency but beyond that is just plain bizarre. The one thing that did suprise me was Everton's fitness and concentration levels which were really good to be fair. I was not expecting that. Apologies to anyone that listened to me but the pain is all mine.

A word of warning @Fader from my completely unbiased view of Palace games: I was actually not looking forward to this game on paper a while back, because of reasons you mentioned: Everton normally do ok at Selhurst + Palace struggle against teams that come to Selhurst and play good defensive football + Moyes bounce. However! That midweek Merseyside derby would have used up energy with Palace having couple extra days to recover. No Ndiaye or Doucoure now for Everton and their total absences list is starting to look pretty ridiculous. Eze, Sarr and Nketiah will be back for this game, Palace looking very competitive now. Spirit level good at Everton but I don't see them winning this game, a draw maybe, but away win looks unlikely from my fully unbiased perspective.

Bournemouth

Chelsea