24/25 Match Week 5 Recap

In Today’s CleanSheet:

• Headlines 📌

• Current Situation📈📉

• Hot Topic 🔥🔥🔥- Updated Odds

• Off Island 🏝️ - Milan Derby

• Best Bets 💰

Headlines 📌

• CS Match of the Week. City 2-2 Arsenal. WOW! What a match. You can read all about it, but here is a quick summary. Heavy rain, momentum swings, controversy, red card, key injury. Arsenal deserved the 3 points, and they announced they will be in this race all season.

  • The Match.

    • Haaland at 9’ gives City the lead

    • ACL for Rodri. A key player for City went down on just a regular play at 20’ and has been ruled out for the season.

    • Calafiori at 22’ bring Arsenal back in it with some controversy. Kyle Walker got called over to talk to the ref and didn’t get back in position in time when play resumed. It’s a great goal, but you can see at the start the questionable quick start.

    • Magalhaes at 45+1’ puts the Gunners in the lead

    • Ref Dean Oliver wants everyone to know he’s in charge giving Leo Trossard a second yellow/red card for this.

    • City had 28 shots in the SECOND HALF, and 88% of the ball.

    • After defending with 10 men for the 2H John Stones equalizes for City at 90+8’.

    • Here’s Haaland throwing the ball off Gabriel’s head after the goal. Shite move.

    • Here are all 4 goals, with each managers reaction.

  • The Dark Arts. Severus Snape would be proud.

    • Several clubs have complained to the PL governing body that Arsenal are using “Dark Arts”.

    • After the City match City player’s Kyle Walker and John Stones complained about Arsenal time wasting and “using the Dark Arts”.

    • Here’s City’s Bernado Silva with the shot fired “Asked about the difference between City's rivalry with Arsenal to the one they shared with Liverpool during the Jurgen Klopp era, Silva continued: "I don't know. Maybe that Liverpool have already won a Premier League, Arsenal haven't. That Liverpool have won a Champions League, Arsenal haven't. Liverpool always faced us face-to-face to try to win the games, so by this perspective the games against Arsenal haven't been like the ones we had and have against Liverpool."

    • Here’s more on the story from BBC Sport.

  • Harry Potter. If Snape is an Arsenal fan that would make Michael Oliver Harry Potter, always trying to piss off Snape’s Slytherin.

• Lotta “Wood” in Brighton. BHA 2-2 Forest. Red cards (3), great goals and high intensity. The takeaway, Forest came to play this season and Nuno has them meshing.

  • Wood at 13’ with the PK to put the trees in front.

  • Hinshelwood with the header at 42’ brings BHA even.

  • Welbeck gives BHA the lead at 45’.

  • Sosa brings the trees back to even.

  • THREE RED CARDS at the 83’!

• Don’t Sleep on Chelsea.

  • It’s another road Win for the Blues, this time 3-0 at West Ham courtesy of a Nicolas Jackson brace (2 goals) in the 1H and a Cole Palmer COLD FINISH.

  • That’s 3 wins in a row, 9 goals and 3 clean sheets for Chelsea.

• Quick Saves.

  • Wolves lose defender Mosquera for the rest of the season in 1-3 defeat to Villa.

  • Friedkin Group officially reached agreement (BBC Sport) to buy Everton.

  • Love the noise - Watkins evens it for Villa on their way to victory over Wolves.

  • Chicago. Anyone attend PL Mornings fan fest? Looks like it rained a lot Sunday.

Current Situation 📈📉

CleanSheets Counter & Goal Tracker

Goals are DOWN this season over last, clean sheets are UP over last but only slightly.

CS will track the clean sheets over the season as well as the number of goals scored compared the last season.

Last Season had ZERO match weeks under 30 goals scored. This season has yet to have a MW go over last season’s average of 32.8 goals per MW.

Hot Topic 🔥🔥🔥

Updated Odds

Here’s what has been learned through 5 matches…..

• City is still the favorite, but losing Rodri will be a big deal. This will be a tough run to the title for them.

• Arsenal are for real and will challenge.

• Slot has taken what Klopp created and could take the next step.

• Chelsea seem to be getting it together under Enzo.

• Nuno has Forest humming.

• Dyche needs to figure it out quickly or Arsenal are in real trouble.

• Spurs and United are stumbling out of the gate and need to find their footing.

• Wolves are in trouble.

• It’s a long season, a lot will change.

Updated Odd’s to Win

Updated Odds for Relegation

Off Island 🏝️

Derby della Madonnina

AKA Derby di Milano, AKA Milan Derby.

MILAN IS RED

AC Milan (Milan) “traveled” to Inter Milan (Inter) last weekend in Serie A. The Derby is named after the statue of the Virgin Mary on top of the Duomo which is often referred to as Madonnina, "Little Madonna”.

• This match has been contested 240 times.

• Inter has 91, Milan won 80, with 69 draws.

• Both teams play in the San Siro (think sofi, meadowlands). Inter usually holds the North end and AC the South.

• Historically, Inter fans were the bourgeoise “upper class” and Milan the casciavit “working class”.

This weekend Christian Pulisic showed why he’s one of the players in the world and probably the best in CONCACAF now.

• Pulisic puts Milan in the lead at 10’.

• Italian Studio hosts react to Pulisic’s goal, guess who are the Milan fans.

• After Inter tied it up, Gabbia for Milan got the winner at 89’.

Best Bets 💰

It’s a dry start…..

Last season CS started off slowly and asked readers if the budget would hit ZERO or $1000 first and several subscribers responded with ZERO. Reminder, last season CS finished up 18%. What say you after this start?