Tuesday 15 September 2015

Roundup!!



Hello you lovely lot! What a good weekend of football that was, unless your a Chelsea or a Liverpool fan! There were plenty of goals and talking points to go through!

Everton 3 - 1 Chelsea - What has gone wrong at Chelsea? They look completely and utterly awful all over the pitch, Eden Hazard has done a disappearing act, Diego Costa seems more concerned about starting a fight on everyone and not scoring goals. The defence is shocking and Jose Mourinho has lost the plot. Everton were superb but the substitute of Steven Naismith was a masterstroke and it paid off big time, The Scot scored a perfect hat trick and Everton were worthy winners. Chelsea are out of the title race for me already, yes it may only be September but 11 points is a massive gap and they don't even look like winning.

Arsenal 2 - 0 Stoke - The striker situation goes on at Arsenal but both forwards grabbed themselves a goal each in a pretty routine win for The Gunners. Theo Walcott has pace and will cause problems for any defence but he just isn't clinical enough for me but he took his goal very well but the pass from Mesut Ozil was out of the top drawer. Oliver Giroud has come under a lot of unfair flack recently fans of Arsenal and France but I was very glad to see him score, Arsenal would be a lot worse off if he wasn't up top and I hope he bangs a few more in.

Crystal Palace 0 - 1 Man City - A late late goal from young Nigerian  striker Iheanacho saw City continue their 100% start to the season, they are looking pretty good but I do think they are beatable. Cryatal Palace had chances to nick it but fluffed their lines. We saw probably the worst miss of the season from Jesus Navas who somehow hit it wide with an open goal, it was quite impressive to be honest.

Norwich 3 - 1 Bournemouth - Both sides like to get the ball down and play and it was a very entertaining game of football. These two sides will know that to stand any chance of surviving the drop is their home form.

Watford 1 - 0 Swansea - So Swansea draw at Chelsea and then beat Man United but lose to Watford, what a funny old game football is eh? Watford got their first win of the season even though they went down to ten men. Swansea looked pretty average but I expect them to bounce back after this defeat.

West Brom 0- 0 Southampton - I hate games that end nil nil, both sides could still be playing now and they still wouldn't score. nothing to talk about here except Saido Berihino got a mixed reaction from the West Brom faithful.

Man United 3 - 1 Liverpool - A great debut for Anthony Martial who scored a peach of goal in a pretty easy win for United. Liverpool look woeful at the back and I am not sure if Brendan Rodgers is going to see the end of this season, he has spent a lot of money on players but they don't really look any better. Christian Benteke scored a worldie but it was just a consolation in the end.

Sunderland 0 -1 Tottenham - This game looked destined for a goalless draw but my favourite player Ryan Mason popped up with a well worked goal to give Spurs a very important win. The reason I dislike Ryan Mason is because last season against Aston Villa, he got Benteke sent off for a tiny touch on the face and the way he acted really got on my wick. Sunderland should have won this as they had the chances which fell to a player who you would want it to, Jermaine Defoe but The Black Cats look in trouble already.

Leicester City 3 - 2 Aston Villa - With 20 minutes to go and Villa cruising, 2 nil up, I thought Leicester's good form had come to an end but boy was I wrong?! Claudio Ranieri is working wonders at the King Power and Riyad Mahrez is looking unbelievable at the moment. Tim Sherwood looked distraught at full time and I think he may have the Villa side in training all week to work on that defence.

West Ham 2 - 0 Newcastle - Another week and another defeat for The Toon army. Their evening didn't get off to a good start as they had to walk the last mile to get into the ground due to traffic which meant they only arrived about 50 minutes before kick off. They did ask for the game to be delayed but their request was declined. What I don't understand is why would you put West Ham against Newcastle on a Monday night? I know the Newcastle fans would travel to the moon to watch their team but why not put Leicester and Aston Villa on Monday as they are Midlands rivals and put this one on a Sunday?

So all in all a pretty good weekend of football! I will back on Thursday to go over the English clubs in the Champions League. Have a good week!

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