by Philip Mboya on April 29, 2010
After an entertaining 2 days of Uefa Champions League action, attention shifts back to Europe’s second tier club competition the Europa League. Tonight Liverpool host Atletico Madriod while Hamburg SV travel to Craven Cottage to face Fulham. This will be a night of tense emotion as all clubs involved will be looking to make it through to the final.
Liverpool’s only realistic chance of ending the season with some silverware depends on the outcome of their return leg fixture against Ateletico Madrid at Anfield tonight. Read more... (451 words, 1 image, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)
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by Philip Mboya on April 27, 2010
Watching a re-run of the Juventus-Bari game made me realise that Juve‘s problems stem from a lack of poor coaching. The Bianconeri’s 3-0 win over Bari reminded me of the old Juventus who rarely lost a match. It was also a good day for Italy international Vicenzo Iaquinta who scored a brace to net his first goals for the club since last September and you can only imagine what it meant to him.
The news gets better for Juve fans and terrible for Liverpool fans as Reds coach as Rafael Benitez has apparently reached a verbal agreement with Juventus concerning his probable switch to Serie A. With Lverpool staring at the prospect of ending another season trophy less, Benitez is seriously considering his future in the EPL. Read more... (399 words, 1 image, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)
by Patton on April 19, 2010
With volcanic ash still spewing from the volcano in Iceland the skies over Europe are still cloudy, but airlines have run test flights and found no damage to their planes’ engines. This coupled with the ability to travel by train and ferry in Europe has caused UEFA to allow the matches in the Champion’s League on Tuesday and Thursday to go on as scheduled.
They are also trying to figure out what to do in the Europa League as they said in a statement: Read more... (325 words, 2 images, estimated 1:18 mins reading time)
by David Wilson on March 21, 2010
Chelsea‘s terrible week continued as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Blackburn and drop to 4 points behind Manchester United, although Chelsea have a game in hand.
Didier Drogba’s 22nd Premier League goal of the season had given Chelsea an early lead but for large parts of the game Blackburn defended well, led by the outstanding Christopher Samba, while 18-year-old debutant Phil Jones did not look out of place alongside him.
El-Hadji Diouf punished the Londoners for failing to take their chances in the first half with a superb header to pull Rovers level 20 minutes from time. Read more... (288 words, 1 image, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)
by David Wilson on March 8, 2010
Liverpool’s chances to qualify for next season’s Champions League took another hit with a its first-ever loss to Wigan.
The loss left Liverpool in sixth place in the Premier League with 48 points, one behind Tottenham and Manchester City.
Hugo Rodallega was the hero for Wigan, scoring after a giveaway by Dirk Kuyt. The three points for Wigan moved them up to 14th place and four points clear of the relegation zone.
Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez, as expetced, was not happy after the game saying: Read more... (160 words, estimated 38 secs reading time)
by David Wilson on March 2, 2010
Real Madrid has once again regained the top spot the Deloitte Football Money League, but that is only because of the continuing decline of the pound against the euro.
The Deloitte Football Money League list is based on clubs’ revenue excluding transfer fees
Dan Jones, partner in the sports business group at Deloitte, said:
“All the English clubs were impacted by the continuing depreciation of the pound against the euro and the scale of this is shown by the fact that if exchange rates remained at their June 2007 level, United would be top of the money league table.”
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by David Wilson on February 19, 2010
Robert Mancini was brought in to manage Manchester City for one reason. To get them into the Champions League this season.
After a hot start under Mancini, Manchester City has reverted back to what they were under Mark Hughes. City is an above average team, but they are not a good team.
Man City are 1 point above Liverpool heading into this weekend’s huge clash, albeit with a game in hand. But City’s lead should be so much more. Read more... (287 words, 1 image, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)
by David Wilson on January 14, 2010
As if losing to Reading in the FA Cup was not bad enough, now comes news that three Liverpool players suffered injuries in the game.
The biggest loss is Fernando Torres, who being substituted damaged cartilage in his right knee, and will be out of action for six weeks.
Steven Gerrard will miss two weeks through injury while Yossi Benayoun will be out for four weeks.
According to the Liverpool web site: Read more... (169 words, 1 image, estimated 41 secs reading time)
by David Wilson on January 13, 2010
It is no longer a big surprise when Liverpool looses, considering they have lost 10 of their last 20 games.
But for a side already out of the Champions League and the title race, the FA Cup promised the best chance for silverware this season for Liverpool fans.
To add injury to insult for Rafa Benitez, he saw lost both Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres to injuries during the first half. Read more... (198 words, estimated 48 secs reading time)
by David Wilson on December 29, 2009
Wow, someone at the north pole must really like Rafa Benitez as he got everything he wished for this Christmas.
An injury time winner from Fernando Torres gave Liverpool a huge 1-0 win at Aston Villa. Combined with Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Wolves on Boxing Day, Rafa’s reds find themselves only four points out from the last Champions League place as we end the year.
Consider all that has been written about Liverpool and what a disaster this season has been, Liverpool are still in 7th place, only four points behind Spurs. Does anyone think that Spurs will end the season above Liverpool? Read more... (347 words, 1 image, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)
