Archive for September 30th, 2009

Who would thunk it. Fiorentina blew out Liverpool 2-0. This match wasn’t it even close. The Reds left their “A” game back in England. Stevan Jovetic received a great pass from Zanetti. His teammate Mutu was offside. This caused the Liverpool keeper Pepe Reina to face a two on one situation. No contest. Jovetic nailed the winner just underneath Reina’s left paw to make 1-0 after twenty-eight minutes.  

Nine minutes later Jovetic found the mark again on a great deflection shot to make it 2-0 Fiorentina at the thirty-seven minute mark.

On the day, Fiorentina was faster and quicker than Liverpool. The Reds looked slow and out of sync all match long.

This was a bad loss for the Reds.

Arsenal completely outplayed and out classed Olympiacos to win at home 2-0. The Gunners Robin Van Persie received a pass from teammate Eduardo. Persie rattled the net to give Arsenal 1-0 lead after seventy-eight minutes.

The whole sequence of events was set up by a great pass from Fabregas to Eduardo.

Fabregas made another great pass eight minutes later. Fabregas connected with Arshavin. Arshavin back heeled the ball into the net to seal the deal in the eighty-sixth minute to make 2-0. This was all she wrote baby. Stick a fork Olympiacos for they were surely done.

Arsenal is now 2-0 on group play.

The Gunners should have had a boatload of goals but they just missed each time. This was a thoroughly one-sided affair.

The line read like this: Arsenal had 26 shots. Eleven of those were on goal. The Gunners controlled possession of the ball for sixty-six percent of the time. Olympiacos had eight shots. Two of the shots were on goal. Olympiacos control possession of the ball for thirty-four percent of the time.

Guess what folks you don’t win many matches with stats like this. This was a classic ass whopping.

I can be a stats freak. The baseball, basketball, and football nut comes out in me. Futebol purest hate this but this is me. Too bad so get over it.

The score should have been 10-0 but when the Gunners were masons. This gives the opponent a chance to win. Brick City is a basketball term for a team that can’t hit the broadside of a barn with a cannon.

You have to learn how to finish. This is very hard. When an inferior opponent hangs around crazy things can happen. Ask the Pittsburgh Steelers this past Sunday when they lost to a sub par Cincinatti Bungles, I mean the Bengals on a last second TD 23-20. The Steelers should have killed em.     

The Bums (Phillies) are another prime example of this. They have had trouble holding on to leads. The closer Brad Lidge can’t even hold on to a lead to save his life. He has blown eleven saves this season and this will cause the Phillies to have lots of problems in post-season play.

Finishing is the key. Other than that, Arsenal played a great match. Later today Manchester United takes on German side Wolfsburg. Chelsea has a date with Apoel Nicosia.

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