The international break is over, and it’s back to a nice quiet bit of of domestic football. For six mad weeks before we all have to stop so they can sneak a little World Cup in.
There is a really quite insane amount of football to get through before Qatar, so who’s got it worst?
20) Fulham
Total games: 8
Premier League games: 8
Big Six games: 2
The only one of the 13 top-flight teams forced into round two of the Carabao to manage to get themselves straight out of the Carabao. Marco Silva out here playing 4D chess when the other managers are playing checkers. Only the eight games in six weeks for Fulham’s merry band of Pleasingly Bright Starters. Not a bad run of games initially, either. Let’s ignore the consecutive games against the Manchester clubs in November and look at what is a very friendly October compared to most: Newcastle, West Ham, Bournemouth, Villa, Leeds and Everton. You’d take that schedule in most Octobers and you’d absolutely do so in this particular one.
19) Bournemouth
Total games: 9
Premier League games: 8
Big Six games: 1
Carabao Cup third round: Everton (H)
Back-to-back games against Everton bring part one of Bournemouth’s season to a close. Spurs at home is the only game against the big boys, but the five-game run between now and that game could be absolutely massive for the Cherries’ overall prospects this season: Brentford, Leicester, Fulham, Southampton, West Ham. Those all feel quite six-pointy, don’t they?
18) Crystal Palace
Total games: 9
Premier League games: 8
Big Six games: 1
Carabao Cup third round: Newcastle (A)
Yeah, that’s not too bad at all. Seven league games in a row against teams currently in the bottom half after Saturday’s home game against Chelsea. Man United and Brighton aren’t ideal fixtures for rearrangement, though. United because they are in Europe which makes potential space in the fixture list that much harder to find, Brighton because it’s a derby whether the rest of us like it or not.
17) Leicester
Total games: 9
Premier League games: 8
Big Six games: 1
Carabao Cup third round: Newport County (H)
Forest, Bournemouth, Palace, Leeds, Wolves, Man City, Everton, West Ham. For anyone else, this would look like a really decent Premier League fixture list. It’s arguably the gentlest of the lot. The bad news, though, is that this is Leicester and all these fixtures are football matches against football teams and thus look absolutely horrible.
By virtue of not playing until Monday…
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