Adekugbe looked great in the FA Cup game. Needs to step up today and show he can cut it with Championship wingers. Based on MK performance, I reckon he'll be OK.
Sorry to bore you. Not staying it as fact merely pointing out that Reading could be due a slide of the stats are borne out. Sorry if that's not sufficiently diverting for you.
Half a season to go and a lot of money will be spent in transfer window. The source of the threats in the second half may well be different to those in the games before Xmas.
Experimental 3-6-1 (the best source of game data analysis i know) have been saying that Reading have been over performing for weeks. Their writer has even been getting twitchy because they keep scraping results despite every stat saying they shouldn't. Let's see what happens to Reading now.
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Akpom from Arsenal (and who knows this league) would fit the bill I think - http://footballleagueworld.co.uk/championship-trio-chasing-deal-for-arsenal-striker/
Surely if we can sell all out tickets for the away game at Huddersfield, there must be an appetite for Yorkshire football at the Amex too. Should be a sell out.
One thing this does show clearly - and I know we all know it - is that the teams below us will take points off each other. Every fourth or fifth game for the teams challenging top two below is will be against others in the top six.
Preston - Sat 14th (a)
Sheff Wed - Fri 20th (h)
Cardiff - Tues 24th (h)
Currently 54pts from 24 games. Would settle for five points from those now - and I think that would leave us top at the end of Jan no matter what the rest do.
Newcastle (52pts from 25 games) have Brentford (a) and...