Archive for August 29th, 2009

We have some wild and wooly matches this weekend in the EPL and Campeonato Brasil. I have circled Saturday August 29 and Sunday August 30^th on the calendar in anticipation of these matches.

First up Arsenal young guns verses Manchester United young guns. Manchester United and Arsenal will battled out at Old Trafford later today.

If history is an indication, this match will probably wind up a 1-0 final score.

Both sides are young and have blazing speed. My guess Arsenal and Man U will trade their best Sunday punches. I expect both sides to race up and down the pitch.  The Gunners are sorely lacking a striker while the Red Devils lost their top goal scorer Cristiano Ronaldo. 

Arsenal has scored a plethora of goals. Ninety percent of these goals have come from the Gunners mid fielders or defenders.

Manchester United only recently found its scoring touch. This is the first major test for both teams. Man U is the defending EPL champ while Arsenal finished a disappointing fourth.

I expect balls to the wall futebol. Both sides will leave it all on the pitch and in the end the winner will be?

I am not telling ya.

I can tell you this I don’t expect a 6-1 or 5-2 final score. It will be more like 1-0 or 2-1.

The winner of this match will have a leg up in their quest for the title.

Arsenal has a point to prove and so does Manchester United.  Both sides want it badly. The so-called futebol pundits and experts have over looked these two sides and have all but declared Liverpool or Chelsea the champ. Not so fast guys. Liverpool has dropped two out of their first three matches. Chelsea has looked good but they have at times during their first three matches struggled to score and have made some bonehead defensive lapses that have led to easy scores.

Sao Paulo and Palmeiras will have a massive struggled on Sunday August 30^th at Morumbi. This is the battle for Sao Paulo. Both teams are from Sao Paulo.

Palmeiras is in first place with 40 points. Sao Paulo is in third place with 36 points. Muricy was fired by Tricolor in mid July. Muricy led Sao Paulo to a three peat in the Campeonato. He was axed because Tricolor was playing like crap. They were on a three match-losing skid. Sao Paulo couldn’t stop the dead from scoring nor could they find the back of the net with a howitzer.

Enter Gomes and the entire tricolor team and fan base goes bananas. Everyone was screaming at management for firing Muricy. It wasn’t safe for Gomes to walk the streets of Sao Paulo. Gomes hung there and presto magic a miracle happens. Gomes’s hiring sparks a seven match-winning streak. The streak ended last Sunday with a 1-0 loss to Atletico-PR.

Sao Paulo climbs up from near the bottom of the table to third place four points behind league leader Palmeiras.

Do you want to talk about the fur flying? This will happened on this Sunday. Part of me wants to see both managers come out smelling like a rose but this will not happen.

I would like to see Flamengo win.  I am just kidding.

Final score Arsenal 2 Manchester United 1.

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