EPL 2025/26
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@canefan said in EPL 2025/26:
@Cyclops said in EPL 2025/26:
Stat watch: Chris Wood on 91 premier league goals. Will be a fantastic achievement to get to 100.
A wonder he never got a decent run at one of the bigger clubs. Just not sexy enough clearly, but he certainly knows the way to goal
He's not really suited to how big teams want to play. He's a strong powerful centre forward who plays specifically between the sticks, like an old school forward, and a lot of teams up the ladder either don't play a specific striker, of if they do, they're expected to play all round the park and help contribute in building up play. Haaland is kind of an exception to this, and, well, his stats tell us why.
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2025/26:
United looked better than Arsenal but it was mainly huffing and puffing.
Arsenal (under Wenger) have played much better than Man U at OT in the past and lost. Soft by Bayındır as Raya was in exactly the same situation and punched the ball away.
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@Bovidae said in EPL 2025/26:
Now only two Kiwis on their books.
Although only Wood part of playing squad, Tyler is loaned out to a championship club
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And Eze to spurs, no scratch that Arsenal with late swoop
Adli confirmed for Bournemouth tooMeanwhile Wissa and Izak continue to throw tantrums
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@sparky said in EPL 2025/26:
Big win (5-1) last night for Chelsea away at West Ham.
Graham Potter the West Ham boss under all sorts of pressure.
Yeah didnt look to bad going forward but awful at the back. 8 goals conceded this early doesn’t help
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Spurs lay down an early marker beating City at the Etihad. The Thomas Frank effect is clear, we were more solid at the back, our midfield looked strong with Palhinha, Sarr and Bentancur. The energy was great, we seemed a step quicker all day and deserved the 2-0 win
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@bayimports said in EPL 2025/26:
And Eze to spurs, no scratch that Arsenal with late swoop
And didn't he look happy to be at the Emirates.
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Anyone hear the stat about Chris Wood, didn’t hear it correctly, but something like tied with most goals vs all current players with Haaland in EPL when you exclude penalties? If true that is sensational and if he scores today he leads the comp.
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@bayimports said in EPL 2025/26:
Anyone hear the stat about Chris Wood, didn’t hear it correctly, but something like tied with most goals vs all current players with Haaland in EPL when you exclude penalties? If true that is sensational and if he scores today he leads the comp.
Not sure I understand that stat! Can you explain?
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@KiwiPie said in EPL 2025/26:
@bayimports said in EPL 2025/26:
Anyone hear the stat about Chris Wood, didn’t hear it correctly, but something like tied with most goals vs all current players with Haaland in EPL when you exclude penalties? If true that is sensational and if he scores today he leads the comp.
Not sure I understand that stat! Can you explain?
I believe from the comms team they said out of current active players in EPL he is tied for leading amount of goals scored with Haaland, when you exclude penalties. Didnt believe it myself but haven’t checked
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Yeah that's wrong. Firstly, he's scored more goals than Haaland (and the margin is wider when you exclude penalties).
Looks like Wood is second overall amongst players active in the EPL - only behind Salah (who has more than double Wood's total). Kane and Lukaku also have more, but are in other leagues.
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@Cyclops said in EPL 2025/26:
Yeah that's wrong. Firstly, he's scored more goals than Haaland (and the margin is wider when you exclude penalties).
Looks like Wood is second overall amongst players active in the EPL - only behind Salah (who has more than double Wood's total). Kane and Lukaku also have more, but are in other leagues.
Yeah Salah was the guy I thought of. It does show how hard it is to be a consistent EPL scorer through many seasons
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Yeah walked into the room when it was been said so wasn’t sure of the accuracy. That’s incredibly impressive though at second.
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Yeah I was pretty surprised at how high he is, especially when there are 34 guys to have got to 100 (since the EPL started).
Last season Wood had 17 non penalty goals, Haaland, Isak and Wissa had 19 and Salah 20.
I suppose I should have done this KiwiPie style and made you guess! Wissa surprised me, but the others were obvious.
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Shearer has 100+ for two teams, no one else even managed 50 for both teams. Van Persie did 96/48, Dwight Yorke 60/48 and Dion Dublin did 61/48.
If Wood gets to 50 for Forest (103 total), he... won't be the second to the milestone since he finished on 49 for Burnley! (Plus 4 for Newcastle). But he'll be the closest since Shearer.
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Bournemouth always find a way to lose to Brentford especially when they were under Frank, not too upsetting exiting the cup in first round to them.
At least we didn’t exit by losing to Grimsby Town
