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The Man with the Watches

Originally written in 1898 as part of a series of short stories called Round the Fire. Doyle needed money to complete a house he was building in Surrey. Insert your own jokes about actors, bad movies and extensions here.

Rugby is a town in Warwickshire, 83 miles north of London. Yes, it is where the sport of rugby is named after - more specifically Rugby School, a famous private school.

Smoking areas in British trains were gradually abolished from the 1980s, the final ones going in 2005 (GNER and Caledonian Sleeper). I have a 2000 GB-wide timetable showing where smoking was still permitted. In some cases, the trigger for the ban was the move to air-conditioned stock that would result in the smoke circulating in the rest of the train.

A Gladstone bag was a rigid-framed small suitcase that could be opened into two equal halves, named as such due to its used by William Gladstone, four-time British Prime Minister, who would start his final ministry later in 1892.

The guard's van on passenger trains was generally a specific section of a carriage that also had a caged area for carrying luggage, parcels and caged small animals.

Willesden Junction is located in Harlesden, NW London. It no longer has any platforms on the West Coast Main Line, with Avanti and London Northwestern Railway trains going straight past it. Its passenger service today is made up of London Overground Lioness line services from Euston to Watford Junction, Overground Mildmay line services from Stratford to Richmond or Clapham Junction and the Underground's Bakerloo Line from Harrow and Wealdstone to Elephant & Castle. The first and third share the same tracks, while the second operates, on lines shared with freight trains, on separate "High Level" platforms. There is a depot for Overground trains nearby.

Non-gangwayed stock i.e. carriages with no connection between them even for emergency use, continued to be built into the British Railways, with quite a few of the "first generation" of diesel and electric multiple units being built this way. Most got gangways in later refurbishments, but the Class 205 DEMU, bar one example (205205) altered in a refurbishment trial, would carry on without them until final withdrawal in 2004. Most of the survivors then promptly ended up in the hands of heritage railways.

The Bible Society of London was founded in 1804 with the aim of providing affordable Bibles in people's own languages, after the 1800 case of a woman called Mary Jones, who saved up for six years then walked 26 miles to buy a Bible in Welsh. It is still active today.

The London to Rugby line had been widened to four tracks in the 1870s. From west to east, the tracks go: Down (Northbound) Fast - Up (Southbound) Fast - Down Slow - Up Slow. Ergo, you cannot move between two Down trains without a big leap. (https://www.opentraintimes.com/maps/signalling/lec2#LINK_1)

A bunco-steerer is a swindler.

Green goodsmen operated a scam in which people were offered purportedly counterfeit notes printed using stolen plates (so appearing genuine) at a cheap price, being shown actually genuine notes in a bag. During negotiation, the bag was switched for one containing worthless goods, like sawdust or green paper. Having been duped out of real money, the victims were reluctant to report this to police as attempting to purchase fake money was illegal.

Card-sharping is cheating at cards using various means, including cutting bits of cards to mark the ones you would want. Vegas casinos frequently deliberately cut corners off used cards being sold to tourists to prevent them being snuck into their games.

Tammany refers to Tammany Hall, the corrupt political machine that had ran New York City, for much of the 19th century, leveraging support from Irish immigrants by providing them with jobs for example. It had been temporarily ousted from power after the Lexow Commission of 1894-95 into police corruption; to wit, promotions were being sold for large sums of money and officers got that through extracting protection money from brothels etc. However, it would come back in the 1898 elections and retain control with occasional breaks until 1961, when Carmine DeSapio was ousted as its leader. It then lost power and had gone by 1967.

Travelling salespeople would carry samples or models of their products on their trips, sometimes in branded containers. This has largely become a thing of the past, but is still around.

Northumberland Avenue used to have a lot of high-class hotels, but these have mostly gone. Some were taken over for government use for a while, including by the War Office.

"Mary Jane" appears to have been a slang term for a male prostitute; Mary Jane Kelly was the final victim of Jack the Ripper.

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

if there's one thing to know about me, it's that i love making pointless lists. for the final pointless list of 2023, here's the opening lines for all the fics i've published (not all from this year)

The plumber’s van pulled up at six twenty-three on Monday morning, half a block down from his apartment. (Complex Causality, April 2019)

This is how it starts: with a stream of stars past the window and the echo of a tinny newsfeed from two rooms over. (Emmetropia, April 2019)

The very first time, when he is truly thirteen, he wakes to starlight and an ache in his muscles. (The Eternal Recurrence of the Same, September 2020)

There’s a line at the edge of the village where you were born (not your village, not for a long time, maybe never) that marks the start of the law. (Dragonslayers, October 2021)

Two days past the end of the tresset, the air still held an electric buzz as the angry roiling purple of the clouds faded to a hazy pink before slowly clearing to blue. (What's Past is Prologue, August 2023)

You wake in the morning to find a man in the corner wearing your face. (All That You Are, September 2023)

Here’s a secret: it was Jamie’s fault his dad came back. (The Hedgehog's Dilemma, completed November 2023)

Keeley spent half the night after Richmond won against Watford in her office. (Flightless Birds, December 2023)

They’re up at Burnley and it’s snowing; lightly at first, a dusting of white over grass through the second half that had them shivering in their kits as they slid mud-spattered across the pitch. (Ephemera, December 2023)

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Ruud van Nistelrooy targeting a reunion with Man United starlet Harry Amass to help with Leicester's relegation battle

Leicester City is among the clubs considering the transfer of Manchester United’s left-back Harry Amass. Amass was brought to Old Trafford from Watford in 2023, graduating from the Under-18s to the Under-21s last summer and was one of the standout players in pre-season. However, despite showing the then boss Erik ten Hag what he could do, the young defender has not yet been able to make his debut…

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Soi kèo Manchester United vs Liverpool, 22h30 ngày 24/10/2021

Soi kèo Manchester United vs Liverpool, 22h30 ngày 24/10/2021

Soi kèo Club nhận định kết quả trận đấu giữa Manchester United vs Liverpool thuộc khuôn khổ vòng 9 Premier League. Trận đấu đầy duyên nợ này liệu sẽ kết thúc với phần thắng bất ngờ thuộc về chủ nhà hay đội khách tiếp tục nối dài chuỗi trận thăng hoa?

Soi kèo Manchester United vs Liverpool

Lữ đoàn đỏ đang thể hiện phong độ ấn tượng trong thời gian qua, trên mọi đấu trường họ đè bẹp từng đối thủ một cách không hề thương tiếc.

Trận gần nhất tại Premier League họ thắng Watford trên sân khách với tỉ số 0-5, đó là trận đấu mà bộ ba Salah – Mane – Firmino đều lập công, trong đó tiền đạo người Brazil có sự quay trở lại không thể tuyệt vời hơn với một hattrick trong ngày mà cả Mane cũng cán mốc 100 bàn thắng tại giải đấu cao nhất nước Anh.

Với sức mạnh hàng công đáng gớm như này, đội quân của Klopp tự tin đánh chiếm pháo đài Old Trafford để tiếp tục cạnh tranh ngôi đầu bảng với Chelsea cũng như Manchester City đang bám đuổi ngay phía sau rất gắt gao.

Ngược lại với đội khách, Manchester United đang có dấu hiệu chững lại rõ rệt trong khoảng thời gian cuối tháng 9 đến thời điểm hiện tại.Họ mới giành được 1/5 chiến thắng gần nhất, riêng tại giải quốc nội họ đã thua 2 và hòa 1 trong 3 trận đã qua.

Trận thua trên sân King Power của Leicester City mới đây để lộ rõ những điểm yếu chết người nơi tuyến dưới, H. Maguire gần đây mắc quá nhiều lỗi ngớ ngẩn, Lindelof vẫn chưa khẳng định được quá nhiều điều trong khi Varane đang dính chấn thương.

Soi kèo Manchester United vs Liverpool

Hiệu ứng C. Ronaldo đã không còn và dù hàng công vẫn luôn biết cách ghi bàn thì hàng phòng ngự lại đáp trả lại quá nhanh chóng bằng các bàn thua, cách vận hành lối chơi của Ole đang có vấn đề và ông thầy người Na Uy vẫn đang khá loay hoay để tìm ra cách vá víu nơi tuyến dưới.

Điều mà các fan Manchester United có thể hy vọng là tinh thần thi đấu trong các trận cầu với Liverpool, dù sao chất lượng nhân sự của họ không phải tệ và vẫn thường xuyên có được những màn trình diễn bất ngờ.

Nhận định kèo châu Á MU vs Liverpool: Chọn Man -1/4

Dù chủ nhà không có được phong độ tốt nhưng giới phân tích vẫn trao rất nhiều niềm tin cho họ khi xếp cửa trên với mức chấp khiêm tốn. Với mức chấp này chủ nhà đã từng hạ đội khách 2-1 trên sân nhà vào tháng 7/2018.

Trên sân khách trong 6 lần viếng thăm thì Liverpool cũng mới chỉ có 2 lần được hưởng niềm vui trọn vẹn, 4 trận sân nhà từ đầu mùa của Manchester United họ thi đấu cũng khá tốt với 2 lần giành trọn 3 điểm.

Với tính chất của một trận đấu mang nhiều duyên nợ, đội khách chưa chắc đã có thể thắng dễ dàng như trận đấu mà họ phải giáp mặt với Manchester City cách đây không lâu, lựa chọn chủ nhà mang tới nhiều niềm tin hơn cả.

Soi kèo tài xỉu Manchester United vs Liverpool: Chọn tài 2:3/4

Mức tỉ lệ tài xỉu bàn thắng được niêm yết khá cao bởi Liverpool đang có hàng công sắc bén, 22 bàn sau 8 trận là một thông số quá khủng khiếp, trên sân khách họ ghi đều đặn 3 bàn/trận trong 5 trận gần nhất. Chủ nhà cũng đạt hiệu suất cao với 16 bàn/8 trận, trung bình 2 bàn/trận.

Ở hai lần gặp nhau gần nhất cũng có tới hơn 5 bàn/trận được ghi, riêng các lần chạm trán tại Old Trafford thì 4/6 trận đều kết thúc với ít nhất 3 bàn thắng.

Dự đoán tỷ số: Manchester United 2 – 1 Liverpool

Thống kê phong độ Manchester United vs Liverpool

Liverpool chưa để thua trận nào từ đầu mùa, họ thắng 5/8 trận tại Premier League đã qua.

Cả 5 trận gần nhất của đội khách đều có ít nhất 3 bàn thắng được ghi.

Cả 5 trận của Manchester United gần nhất họ thủng lưới đều đặn ít nhất 1 bàn/trận.

Chỉ số phạt góc của cả hai đội đều ở mức cao tại giải, lần lượt là 6.3 và 7.7 trong 3 trận đã đấu.

Đội hình xuất phát dự kiến hai đội:

Manchester United: David de Gea, V. Lindelöf, H. Maguire, L. Shaw, A. Wan-Bissaka, N. Matić, P. Pogba, Bruno Fernandes, Cristiano Ronaldo, J. Sancho, M. Greenwood.

Liverpool: Alisson, J. Matip, V. van Dijk, A. Robertson, J. Milner, J. Henderson, Fabinho, C. Jones, Mohamed Salah, S. Mané, Diogo Jota.

Nguồn: https://soikeoclub.net/soi-keo-manchester-united-vs-liverpool-22h30-ngay-24-10-2021/

[blancheflericard]

Manchester United confirm Donny van de Beek out for rest of season

Donny van de Beek’s season is over after he was injured in Man United’s win over Bournemouth last week.

Erik ten Hag has confirmed Manchester United star Donny van de Beek is out for the rest of the season.

The 25-year-old’s leg gave out following a challenge from Bournemouth midfielder Marcos Senesi in United’s 3-0 win on 3 January.

Ten Hag said Van de Beek had not torn his ACL: “Yes, it’s the knee. Long term it looks pretty good, he will be back for the start of pre-season. The rest of the season he is out.

“I think everyone was really, thoughts are with him, it’s terrible when you’re in the middle of a season and you have a bad start, a serious injury, it’s always very disappointing and thoughts, your feelings are with the player, you express that.

“Our group did it really well and now we’re happy that his long-term knee is fine. Donny is happy about that too. But in the same moments, there are mixed feelings and disappointment that he’s out this season.

“The players are feeling that we are building something good and we want to be a part of it and that’s what I feel at this club and right now, everyone wants to be a part of it. There are two sides to that.

“But the good news is that in the long run he will be back and his knee will be stable.”

United signed Van de Beek from Ajax for £40m in September 2020, but he has started just four games this season, having managed four appearances last year.

Manchester United v Reading FA Cup match details confirmed Man Utd will face Championship side Reading in the FA Cup fourth round and match details have been confirmed.

Manchester United’s FA Cup fourth round clash at home to Reading will take place on Saturday 28 January.

The match was picked up for live TV coverage in the UK and will be shown on ITV4 starting at 20:00 GMT.

United’s home draw against Reading is the reward for beating Everton 3-1 at Old Trafford last week. Antony gave his team the early lead before a Connor Coady own goal and a Marcus Rashford penalty sealed victory. Reading progressed to the fourth round after beating Championship team Watford 2-0 at home last week.

United and Reading will receive £110,000, plus any payments from the competition’s prize fund for being involved in a broadcast tie.

FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2023

Manchester City v Arsenal at 8pm on ITV1, UTV, STV and ITVX SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2023

Preston North End v Tottenham Hotspur at 6pm on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport Manchester United v Reading at 8pm on ITV4 and ITVX SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2023

Brighton & Hove Albion v Liverpool or Wolverhampton Wanderers at 1.30pm on ITV1, UTV, STV and ITVX Wrexham v Sheffield United at 4.30pm on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and BBC Sport MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2023

Derby County v West Ham United at 7.45pm on ITV4 and ITVX

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[your-eyes-can-be-so-cruell]

Good for you Donny ❤️ At least something good will come of this game

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Why Choose Professional House Moving and Office Removal Services?

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[watfordgrimoire]

Creatures in the World of Mages

Aspssasin [WS 330]

Basilisks [WS 32]

Battering rams [AWTWB 39]

Brownies (can be part mage; can go to Watford) [WS 210]

Centaurs (can be part mage; can go to Watford) [WS 210]

Chimera [CO 5]

Counting sheep [WS 304]

Coyotes (can play poker) [WS 127]

Creek dryad [WS 160]

Demons (Do not talk to them; do not take their sweets; do not get in their vans; have to be summoned) (last demon entrapment case documented in 1800s) [AWTWB 18; 23]

Diphthong [WS 330]

Direhog [AWTWB 69]

Ditch Imp [WS 291]

Dolphins (Capable of speech) [WS 59]

Dragons (If dragons lose the use of a wing, the other dragons will kill it) [AWTWB 74]

Dryads (Hair “like moss” and dress “like one of those manga girls with the Victorian books and the umbrellas”) [CO 98]

Either/orcs [AWTWB 140]

Elf [WS 186]

Ent (Can be made of multiple types of trees; do not have faces; speak human languages; can engulf people in their bark) [AWTWB 205-207]

Fairies (live beyond the “fairy fog” in their own realm; have green wings that “shimmer in the moonlight”) [AWTWB 283; 569]

Fauns (can be part mage; can go to Watford) [CO 173]

Flibbertigibbets (Only takes two or three to kill a magician; make you lose your mind) [CO 113]

Fomorian (Chaos demon; Irish) [WS 138]

Fox Spirit [AWTWB 274]

Gargoyles [AWTWB 569]

Genie (Live in lamps; two rules - “You can’t wish for more wishes, and I don’t fuck with demons”) [AWTWB 141]

Ghost (translucent not white) [CO 79]

Ghoul [WS 127]

Giants (eat babies; hibernate for years at a time; have to be zoned for; have their own language; “Gog & Magog: World Tour 1993) [AWTWB 167; 169; 207; 207; 563]

Giant Eagle (there is a whistle that supposedly summons one) [WS 311]

Gnomes [AWTWB 207]

Goats of Watford (Have wings; protect Watford’s existence; only respond to select magic) [AWTWB 214-215; 340]

Goblins (green skinned; red lipped; handsome; can wear disguises; goblin who brings Simon Snow’s head back gets to be king; their gear is always cursed) [AWTWB 51; 53]

Gryphon (Conspiracy theory that the government is manufacturing them; give live birth) [WS 330; AWTWB 192; 447]

Gun demon (American only) [WS 127]

Harmadillos (not native to UK)

Harpies [AWTWB 146; 569]

Heffalump (Extinct) [WS 188]

Hell hounds (three heads; kept as pets) [AWTWB 307]

Hinkypunk [WS 160]

Imps (do not like to be confused with demons; make deals for children; play impdice) [AWTWB 369]

Jackalope (capable of speech) [WS 161]

Judas goats [AWTWB 39]

Lay-witch [WS 264]

Leach [WS 127]

Leprechauns (their gold disappears if you try to give it to other magicians) [CO 9]

lllamas (only one herd outside of South America owned by Malcom Grimm-Pitch) [AWTWB 39]

Loch Ness monster [AWTWB 565]

Magickal bees [Snow For Christmas 241]

Magickal swans (live in Oxford) [AWTWB 565]

Mermaids (can spread STIs between species; can have intercourse with humans; reproduce through fertilizing eggs) [AWTWB 184; 369-371]

Merwolves (do not like silver; blood takes like “gamy motor oil”; removed from Watford by Niamh) [AWTWB 317; 575]

Minotaur (Professor Minos; half-man half bull) [CO 81]

Mustkrat maiden (trick humans into trapping them so they can trade skins; have a thin layer of skin, both physically and emotionally) [AWTWB 204-205]

Nar-do-whal (one discovered in the Watford moat) [WS 329]

Ne’er-do-wolves [CO 132]

Night mares [AWTWB 39]

Nixies [WS 262]

Numpties [CO 132]

Otters with wings [AWTWB 184]

Paindeer [AWTWB 77]

Pegasus (Wings have “soft-white feather tipped with sky blue”) [AWTWB 109]

Pithbulls [WS 298]

Pixies (smell unique) (can be part mage; can go to Watford) [WS 210; AWTWB 25]

Prairie mog (American only) [WS 127]

Red devil [WS 139]

River spirit [WS 215-218]

River Phoenix (extremely rare) [AWTWB 150]

Sasquatch [WS 210]

Sea witches [AWTWB 496]

Sirens (can live in wells in America) [WS 127]

Sphinx [WS 162]

Spider-women (eight eyes; at least thirty fingers; four tongues; three hands) [AWTWB 248-249]

Spite sprite [WS 139]

Three headed snakes (can be killed by chopping off all three heads) [AWTWB 421-422]

Trolls [WS 329]

Unfairy [WS 204]

Unicorns (only capable of making small talk; can live on farms) [WS 58]

Vampires (need an invitation to enter every building; dislike the sun; need food and blood to survive; do not get sick; heal quickly; only immortal if they consume human blood; legal to kill them; Open signs and welcome mats allow vampires in) [AWTWB 59; 68; 285]

Vampire King [WS 290]

Venomous crested wood foul [Fangirl 101]

Were-adactyl (WS 139)

Were-pole-cat (live in surfeits) [WS 137-144]

Were-skunk [AWTWB 9]

Werewolves (After exposure, people must be quarantined due to the lupin virus; can be vaccinated against the lupin virus) [AWTWB 158]

Wosegers (worse version of badger) [CO 131]

Wraith [WS 127]

[chen-chen-chen-again-chen]

Monday's child: An annotated playlist for "Baker boxer teacher grief" 

I should give the obligatory warning that my SnowBaz fic “Baker boxer teacher grief” is VERY SAD and therefore, unsurprisingly, these songs are VERY SAD. I think they’re best listened to when you’re wrapped up in a cosy blanket and/or sweater, with a hot drink, cuddled next to someone that you love. 

Annotations below are probably at least a little spoilery, so if you haven’t already, why don’t you read the fic that inspired this? Here it is on AO3: Baker boxer teacher grief (Or: The thing that lasts)

“Black Star” - Gillian Welch

This is a cover of a Radiohead song, and in my head, it was playing in the first chapter, during the drive from Watford to Hampshire. The lyrics don’t really relate to this story specifically (I listen to a lot of Radiohead to set the mood, rather than for the lyrics) but I love the aching, wavering way that Gilian Welch sings: 

Blame it on the black star

Blame it on the falling sky 

Blame it on the satellite

That brings me home 

“Seventeen” - Sharon van Etten

“Seventeen” - Sharon van Etten feat. Norah Jones

In an earlier draft of this story, there was a lot more focus on Baz and Mordelia’s relationship, exploring the tension between them, and how they each relate to their father quite differently. That angle got chucked when I decided to tell more of the story from Simon’s POV, but I’m still very fond of the Baz/Mordelia relationship in this story. 

I always imagined the original “Seventeen” being the version for Mordelia, especially the building intensity in Sharon van Etten’s Tiny Desk performance. And the version with Sharon & Norah Jones seemed to me more of the Baz version, tinged with nostalgia and fondness, while he thinks of his sister who reminds him so much of himself. 

I used to be free

I used to be seventeen

Follow my shadow

Around your corner

I used to be seventeen

Now you're just like me

“Spring and Fall” - Natalie Merchant

Again, a song where I had a very specific version in mind - in this case, the performance in Natalie Merchant’s TED talk “Singing old poems to life,” with the intro on Gerard Manley Hopkins. Manley Hopkins wrote, “It is to explain death to a child, and it deserves a piece of plain-song music.” 

This is a song for Swithin up in his treehouse, playing jacks with acorns. 

Margaret, are you grieving

Over Goldengrove unleaving?

Leaves, lake the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

“Song to the Siren” - This Mortal Coil 

I had toyed with the idea of pulling the thread of The Odyssey through more of the story, but I abandoned it in order to reference a lot of other stories instead. 

“Song to the Siren” is lovely and haunting and full of longing, and I imagined it as part of the backdrop for the late-night conversation that Simon and Baz have in bed, after the wake. 

Did I dream, you dreamed about me?

Were you here when I was full sail?

Now my foolish boat is leaning

Broken lovelorn on your rocks

For you sing

Touch me not, touch me not

Come back tomorrow

“Undertaker” - Bry Webb 

This is the first of three songs which I think of as “the funeral songs.” A fascinating song about death, somewhere between merciless and merciful.  

Whether debutante

Or bone shaker

Husband, wife

Or heart breaker

I am known by everyone

I will be standing by

I will be standing by

“Videotape” - Radiohead

The second of the funeral songs. I don’t think I really have to say anything. It’s fucking “Videotape.” This is the version from “From the Basement.” 

This is my way of saying goodbye

'Cause I can't do it face to face

I'm talking to you before

No matter what happens now

You shouldn't be afraid

Because I know today has been

The most perfect day I've ever seen

“Company of Friends” - Danny Schmidt 

The third of the funeral songs, and a good one to end on (especially if you’re still feeling a bit raw from “Videotape”). 

I found out about this song from the podcast Our Plague Year, which I listened to a lot during the pandemic. I like to walk by the river close to my house, and more often than not, I’d wind up in tears while listening to this podcast. But it’s okay, because trees and squirrels and birds don’t judge. 

Again, I feel like I don’t actually need to add much commentary to the song itself or how it relates to “Baker boxer teacher grief.” It’s best if you just listen for yourself. 

When I die, let them judge me by my company of friends

Let them know me as the footprints that I left upon the sand

Let them laugh for all the laughter

Let them cry for laughter's end

But when I die, let them judge me by my company of friends

If you end up listening to any of these songs, do let me know. <3 Take care. 

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I seriously thought that Manchester United would beat Watford, which they would then use as a sugar high for the game against Villareal, before being steamrolled by Chelsea. Turns out the steamrolling began early. This is so shameful I don’t know what to say. And I am not even a Man U fan, but it seems I want better for the club than Ole’s failed leadership. By Monday, he should be now given his marching orders. It turns out there was no point delaying the eventual execution after that Liverpool game. Watford are freaking 15th in the league! 

If ole is not gone after this, I will riot

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Soi kèo Manchester United vs Liverpool, 22h30 ngày 24/10/2021

Soi kèo Manchester United vs Liverpool, 22h30 ngày 24/10/2021

Soi kèo Club nhận định kết quả trận đấu giữa Manchester United vs Liverpool thuộc khuôn khổ vòng 9 Premier League. Trận đấu đầy duyên nợ này liệu sẽ kết thúc với phần thắng bất ngờ thuộc về chủ nhà hay đội khách tiếp tục nối dài chuỗi trận thăng hoa?

Soi kèo Manchester United vs Liverpool

Lữ đoàn đỏ đang thể hiện phong độ ấn tượng trong thời gian qua, trên mọi đấu trường họ đè bẹp từng đối thủ một cách không hề thương tiếc.

Trận gần nhất tại Premier League họ thắng Watford trên sân khách với tỉ số 0-5, đó là trận đấu mà bộ ba Salah – Mane – Firmino đều lập công, trong đó tiền đạo người Brazil có sự quay trở lại không thể tuyệt vời hơn với một hattrick trong ngày mà cả Mane cũng cán mốc 100 bàn thắng tại giải đấu cao nhất nước Anh.

Với sức mạnh hàng công đáng gớm như này, đội quân của Klopp tự tin đánh chiếm pháo đài Old Trafford để tiếp tục cạnh tranh ngôi đầu bảng với Chelsea cũng như Manchester City đang bám đuổi ngay phía sau rất gắt gao.

Ngược lại với đội khách, Manchester United đang có dấu hiệu chững lại rõ rệt trong khoảng thời gian cuối tháng 9 đến thời điểm hiện tại.Họ mới giành được 1/5 chiến thắng gần nhất, riêng tại giải quốc nội họ đã thua 2 và hòa 1 trong 3 trận đã qua.

Trận thua trên sân King Power của Leicester City mới đây để lộ rõ những điểm yếu chết người nơi tuyến dưới, H. Maguire gần đây mắc quá nhiều lỗi ngớ ngẩn, Lindelof vẫn chưa khẳng định được quá nhiều điều trong khi Varane đang dính chấn thương.

Soi kèo Manchester United vs Liverpool

Hiệu ứng C. Ronaldo đã không còn và dù hàng công vẫn luôn biết cách ghi bàn thì hàng phòng ngự lại đáp trả lại quá nhanh chóng bằng các bàn thua, cách vận hành lối chơi của Ole đang có vấn đề và ông thầy người Na Uy vẫn đang khá loay hoay để tìm ra cách vá víu nơi tuyến dưới.

Điều mà các fan Manchester United có thể hy vọng là tinh thần thi đấu trong các trận cầu với Liverpool, dù sao chất lượng nhân sự của họ không phải tệ và vẫn thường xuyên có được những màn trình diễn bất ngờ.

Nhận định kèo châu Á MU vs Liverpool: Chọn Man -1/4

Dù chủ nhà không có được phong độ tốt nhưng giới phân tích vẫn trao rất nhiều niềm tin cho họ khi xếp cửa trên với mức chấp khiêm tốn. Với mức chấp này chủ nhà đã từng hạ đội khách 2-1 trên sân nhà vào tháng 7/2018.

Trên sân khách trong 6 lần viếng thăm thì Liverpool cũng mới chỉ có 2 lần được hưởng niềm vui trọn vẹn, 4 trận sân nhà từ đầu mùa của Manchester United họ thi đấu cũng khá tốt với 2 lần giành trọn 3 điểm.

Với tính chất của một trận đấu mang nhiều duyên nợ, đội khách chưa chắc đã có thể thắng dễ dàng như trận đấu mà họ phải giáp mặt với Manchester City cách đây không lâu, lựa chọn chủ nhà mang tới nhiều niềm tin hơn cả.

Soi kèo tài xỉu Manchester United vs Liverpool: Chọn tài 2:3/4

Mức tỉ lệ tài xỉu bàn thắng được niêm yết khá cao bởi Liverpool đang có hàng công sắc bén, 22 bàn sau 8 trận là một thông số quá khủng khiếp, trên sân khách họ ghi đều đặn 3 bàn/trận trong 5 trận gần nhất. Chủ nhà cũng đạt hiệu suất cao với 16 bàn/8 trận, trung bình 2 bàn/trận.

Ở hai lần gặp nhau gần nhất cũng có tới hơn 5 bàn/trận được ghi, riêng các lần chạm trán tại Old Trafford thì 4/6 trận đều kết thúc với ít nhất 3 bàn thắng.

Dự đoán tỷ số: Manchester United 2 – 1 Liverpool

Thống kê phong độ Manchester United vs Liverpool

Liverpool chưa để thua trận nào từ đầu mùa, họ thắng 5/8 trận tại Premier League đã qua.

Cả 5 trận gần nhất của đội khách đều có ít nhất 3 bàn thắng được ghi.

Cả 5 trận của Manchester United gần nhất họ thủng lưới đều đặn ít nhất 1 bàn/trận.

Chỉ số phạt góc của cả hai đội đều ở mức cao tại giải, lần lượt là 6.3 và 7.7 trong 3 trận đã đấu.

Đội hình xuất phát dự kiến hai đội:

Manchester United: David de Gea, V. Lindelöf, H. Maguire, L. Shaw, A. Wan-Bissaka, N. Matić, P. Pogba, Bruno Fernandes, Cristiano Ronaldo, J. Sancho, M. Greenwood.

Liverpool: Alisson, J. Matip, V. van Dijk, A. Robertson, J. Milner, J. Henderson, Fabinho, C. Jones, Mohamed Salah, S. Mané, Diogo Jota.

Nguồn: https://soikeoclub.net/soi-keo-manchester-united-vs-liverpool-22h30-ngay-24-10-2021/