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From the category archives:
Liverpool
A month ago it was a foregone conclusion that Manchester United were going to win another Premier League title. But after back-to-back defeats and Liverpool thrashing Real Madrid, Man United and Aston Villa in their last three games the title race is back on. The International break came at a bad time for Liverpool and Chelsea. Will they be able to pick up where they left off and will Man United’s bobble continue?
The fixture list for each team is below:
- Man Utd’s fixtures are: Aston Villa (h), Sunderland (a), Portsmouth (h), Spurs (a), Middlesbrough (a), Man City (h), Wigan (a), Arsenal (h), and Hull (a).
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Forward Roman Pavlyuchenko is finally earning his paycheck. Pavlyuchenko, one of the Russian heroes from Euro 2008, scored a late winner against Liverpool yesterday. It was Liverpool’s first loss of the season. The loss forced the Reds to now share first in the Premier League table with Chelsea. With the victory, Tottenham continues the run of good form since the addition of manager Harry Redknapp.
Redknapp will continue to push Ramos’ lads out of the drop zone until January comes. Then he will be able to begin structuring the squad to his liking. He commented to media after the game,
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Arsenal
The loss away to Fulham is a distant memory as Arsenal find themselves top of the Premier League after 5 weeks. The win at Bolton was impressive not only coming after a long mid-week trek to the Ukraine in the Champions League, but also considering that Arsenal had lost 13 of 27 matches in the north-west in the past four seasons.
Liverpool, Chelsea and Manchester United grabbing all the headlines, but Arsenal have quietly moved it up a gear since the Fulham loss scoring 10 goals in their last three league games. With no games against the big four until mid-November, Arsenal have an excellent opportunity to put together an impressive winning steak heading into a couple of blog November showdowns.
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The 2008-2009 campaign kicked off yesterday with a few surprises. Here are five observations from the Premiership pitch:
1. Torres delivers.
After Spain’s dramatic Euro 2008 Championship, the always confident Fernando Torres looked into Sky Sports’ camera and declared that he would help Liverpool to this season’s title. He backed up those words with action by scoring a dramatic winner in the 83rd minute at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light. Sunderland’s squad, bolstered by Keane’s summer signings, played with passion against the Big Four club and deserved to take a point from the match.
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Liverpool’s Champions League ambitions were dented Wednesday with a far from impressive 0-0 draw in Belgium against Standard Liege. If it wasn’t for a penalty save by Jose Reina and a missed goal by the Norwegian ref Tom Henning Ovrebo, Liverpool coach Rafa Benitez would be telling his U.S. owners that the £20m that they would get for qualifying for the Champions League group stages was in serious doubt.
Liverpool gave Italian full-back Andrea Dossena and £20million new boy Robbie Keane their competitive Liverpool debuts, but the much-vaunted Fernando Torres and Keane was practically non-existent all game.
The Liverpool defense was unusually rocky and the Belgian champions could easily have won this game 3-0 if it was not for Reina.
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A look at the first week of action in the English Premier League
Arsenal v West Brom: What a welcome to the Premier League for the Baggies. Arsenal at the Emirates in the sun on a prefect playing service. Scott Carson will be busy in this one as Arsenal romp to an easy win. – Buy Arsenal – West Bromwich Albion Tickets
Bolton v Stoke City. This will be an interesting meeting between two teams I expect to be around the relegation zone all season. Opening ties can throw up some upsets and I think that Stoke might be able to steal at point at the Reebok. – Buy Bolton Wanderers – Stoke City Tickets
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Fourteen days to go until the opening of the English Premier Season. It promises to be an enthralling season Premiership going in 2008-2009. So far we have looked at the likely relegation battle candidates, at those teams who are destined to be middle of the table and the UEFA contenders. Today we will look at the big four who will be competing for Premier and European glory this season.
With the transfer window still four week away the prospects for many teams will rise and fall on how is added or leaves between now and then. But with the current rosters, this is how I see the battle for the Premiership going in 2008-2009.
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Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez thinks that the signing of Robbie Keane for £20million is the final piece in the puzzle. In the Keane press conference Benitez said:
“I think all the defences will be worried about stopping them. Other managers and defenders will be trying to sign players but with Robbie, Fernando, Steven Gerrard, Dirk Kuyt and Ryan Babel we will have great presence. It will be a big problem for other teams to cope with, that’s for sure.”
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With the Premier League transfer season inching toward the final month of player movement, clubs have begun to make final adjustments heading into the 2008-2009 campaign. Saturday saw former Tottenham Hotspur defender Pascal Chimbonda move to Sunderland for an undisclosed fee. Chimbonda, who can play any of the back four positions, will more than likely make the club’s starting XI on August 16th as Sunderland hosts Liverpool at the famed Stadium of Light.
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