Archive for April 22nd, 2009

In wild crazy match at Anfield, Liverpool escaped by the hair of their chinny-chin chins with a 4-4 draw with Arsenal.

The entire match was a shooting gallery for Liverpool. I mean they peppered Arsenal keeper Lukasz Fabianski with 26 shots and 14 of those were on goal. Can you say, “duck.”  Or better yet, I hope Fabianski was wearing some armor.

The BBC Sport announcers said, “ An honorable mention too for Nasri and Fabianski also did well. The rest of the Arsenal players were a joke and they could have conceded many more than they did.”

Right on Bro.

Many of these so-called pundits didn’t report it or buried deep into the story that Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger didn’t field his best squad. Arsenal already has the final spot for next years Champions League wrapped up and Wenger was saving his squad for The Champions League semifinal match next week with Manchester United.

Still it was a nightmare match for the Arsenal keeper Fabianski.

Yet with everything against stacked them Arsenal could have won the match if it wasn’t for a late goal by Liverpool’s Yossi Benayoun.

Yossi Benayoun’s pinball machine goal in the 93^rd minute secured the tie for Liverpool.

In basketball terms, it looked like Liverpool joined the masons. The Reds were firing brick after brick. Good show lads for this tie may have cost you The EPL Title.

But we will see for Manchester United has a date with Portsmouth later this afternoon.

If Manchester United wins today against Portsmouth this might seal the deal. If this happens Manchester United will move three points ahead of Liverpool in the table.

Liverpool had a chance to move two points clear of The Red Devils.

Liverpool is now tied with Man U for first place in The EPL. Liverpool is ahead on goal difference.

 After today Man U will have five games left while, Liverpool has only four.

The hero of the match for Arsenal was Andrei Arshavin who’s singled handedly kept Arsenal in the match and he almost led The Gunners to the win with four goals.

I wish the fans would throw hats on to the pitch celebrate a cats hat trick like they do in The NHL. But what the heck you can’t have everything. 

Liverpool should have won this match going away but it was stupid defensive mistakes that cost them the win.

This is Deja Vu all over again.

Now which team is it that has trouble handling the pressure and I will give you three guess and the first two don’t count.

Oh yeah before I forget Chelsea battles with Everton at Stamford Bridge this afternoon too.

 Oh yeah here’s another quick point for ya.

In the Copa Libertadores Nacional of Uruguay tied 1-1 with Universidad San Martin of Peru. Nacional surprised Universidad San Martin with their attacking style.

This match was played in high altitude.

This draw gives Argentina’s River Plate some new hope. River has four points and they must win tonight against Club Nacional if they want to glimmer of hope to advance to the next round in The Copa Libertadores.

Brasil’s Palmeiras defeated LDU Quito 2-0. The defending Copa Champs LDU Quito is in danger of not making it out of the group stage.

Palmeiras scored on two wild and crazy goals. The first was a corner kick placed deep into the box and the LDU Quito keeper tried to punch the ball out but missed and he hit is own player square in the head. This boneheaded play led to a tap in goal for Palmeiras’s Marcao.

The second goal by Diego Souza of Palmeiras was a perfectly placed free kick from just outside the box that squeezed between the keeper and the far right post. 

Let the fun and games begin as we head into the final weeks of The EPL season, The Champions League, and the knockout stage of The Copa Libertadores.