Weekend Three November 1st

Welcome back to Weekend Three, after a long period of not posting due to several different reasons I am finally back and able to write, and this week it's another massive edition of Weekend three as we eagerly await Louis Van Gaal's first Manchester Derby and also see Alan Pardew's Newcastle host an out of form Liverpool and finally Chelsea hope to extend their lead when they welcome QPR to Stamford Bridge.

Newcastle v Liverpool

Newcastle, coming off of a fantastic away result as they managed to beat Tottenham 1-2 at White Hart Lane as great energetic subs made by Pardew in Cabella and Ameobi helped the Magpies edge Spurs. This result moved them up to 14th in the league. And Pardew is finally showing consistency under the constant pressure of the Newcastle fans. The main attacking threat for Newcastle last weekend was the young Ayoze Perez who played well to hold the ball up and include other player's in the game and ended up scoring the winner, the sheer pace of the man as well also caused problems for the Spurs defence. But as I wrote earlier this season I believe Remy Cabella will play a key part in Newcastle's performance if they get a result against the Red's this weekend, as he brought lot's of energy and flair to Newcastle.

Liverpool hope to get out of their poor run of form at the moment and they will really fancy their chances. It's coming to a real make or break point in Mario's Liverpool career as he is slowly losing the faith of Liverpool fan's and he need's to start scoring consistently to maintain it. And Liverpool fans have seen many rare tactical mistakes from Rodgers this season, one of them in my opinion was not starting Coutinho last week against Hull as he really impressed in Liverpool's disappointing lost to Real Madrid. What I would most like to see is Liverpool really go for it in the first 10-25 minutes of the game and replicate form of last season.

My prediction for this game is a 2-2 draw between the two sides.

Next up we see QPR travel to Chelsea, as QPR hope to end Chelsea's unbeaten run. But it's much easier said than done, but no Diego Costa will make QPR fans feel a little bit more confident. Chelsea's Matic put in a superb performance against Manchester United last weekend and will boss the midfield again this weekend hopefully for the Blues but the most key player for Jose this week will be Oscar who will keep feeding Drogba who looks set to start consecutive Premier League games, also Oscar will add his own flair and skill to the game.

QPR go into this clash with a lot of confidence as they have finally got off of  bottom and coming off a great victory against Aston Villa but it seems almost inevitable that Chelsea will score against them as they are both at completely opposite sides of the spectrum. What worries me the most with the R's is their very slow defence coming up against the likes of Hazard, Shurrle, Willian and Oscar. They also haven't found a consistent goal scorer so far and that''s what will win you games against the big teams.

My prediction for this one is a impressive 4-0 victory for Chelsea, with Oscar to play an instrumental role.

Finally on to the Manchester Derby!

And Van Gaal's most important game so far as the Red Devils manager, can they overcome the noisy neighbours? It all depends what kind of Manchester City turn up, wether it's the free flowing football and strong midfield and a surperb Agüero or it's the shaky defence, sloppy midfield and very uncreative attack like we saw against CSKA and West Ham. But I don't think we will see this side to them I think they will be rampant and really take advantage of United's defence.

United will have to play very central as they look quite weak on the wings and City have fairly strong fullbacks, against Chelsea we saw Di Maria played out of the game due to physical presence of Matic and Felipe Luis, and wouldn't be surprised to see this again as Im sure Fernando or Fernandinho will be marking him closely. But Di Maria will always show his class and one chance is all he will need, so don't rule him out completely.

Im going to say the Blue side of Manchester will prevail again with a scoreline of 3-1, no shortage of drama.

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