Archive for October 18th, 2009

This was the day we were all looking forward to the end of the world cup qualifying so we can concentrate on the EPL and Brasileiros futebol.

Do you want to talk about a crazy day?  Can you say upset city baby. This is exactly what happened.  Chelsea goes down in flames to Aston Villa 2-1. Liverpool is bageled by Sunderland 1-0.

Ouch, this hurts.

But this is oh so cool.

The Blues swagger is now gone. Chelsea has to learn that you can’t turn on the MO on and off like a faucet. The Blues have to learn how to play full bore the entire match.

Drogba scored first. Drogba blast from thirty yards should have not been a goal. Aston Villa keeper Friedel had a massive brain fart. He completely missed played the ball. The bouncing ball went ker plunk over his head and into the net. It was 1-0 Chelsea after fifteen minutes.

Aston Villa didn’t quit. Richard Dunne’s header tied this baby up at one all after thirty-two minutes. Ashley Young set this goal up with a great corner kick dead center into the box.

Young was at it again in the fifty-second minute. Young fired a great crossing ball into the box. James Collins nailed the winner to give Aston Villa a 2-1 lead.

Blues manager Carlo Ancelotti blamed the loss on two set plays.

Wrong.

This goes back to bad coaching and poor match preparation. The Blues have a history of this. This trait began to rear its ugly head since the first match of the season. The Blues should have lost but scored two late goals to pull out the win.

This is how the Blues operate.

No dice coach.

Liverpool is now on a three match-losing streak. This is four losses in their first nine games. Can you say kiss your season good bye?  This is about to happen.

The match changer happened in the first five minutes. Darren Bent fired a shot right at Reds keeper Pepe Reina. Then the surreal happened. Flying out of the stands comes a red beach ball. The beach ball and the ball kiss. The ball bounds past the helpless keeper Reina. Goal. The place goes insane.

The refs have to award the goal.

Can you say turn out the lights the party’s over. Yep, this is exactly what happened.

Sunderland had at least five scoring chances. The Black Cats came up empty. Two of those were on a naked goal.

Liverpool deserved to lose. The Reds played like crap.

So far, two top-flight teams are playing garbage.

Do you see a trend here?

I do.

Manchester United minus Wayne Rooney beat Bolton 2-1.

Man U played well. The Red Devils had well over sixty percent of the touches.

The Red Devils drew first blood in the fifth minute. Michael Owens fired a header into the box. Bolton defender Zat Knight messed up the clearance. Instead of sweeping the ball safely away Knight fired the ball into his own net for a 1-0 Manchester United.

Valencia added the Red Devils second goal in the thirty-third minute. This was his first goal of the season for Manchester United.

Bolton added a late goal in the seventy-fifth minute to cut the gap to 2-1. Mathew Taylor’s header found the mark to make it close.

This win propelled Manchester United into first place in the EPL.

Arsenal had its way with Birmingham 3-1. This was one of those classic blowouts. This was like taking candy from a baby.

This match was over after the first eighteen minutes.

Robin Van Persie connected with the goal in the sixteenth minute. Van Persie’s move inside the box made the Birmingham “D” look stupid. He did a little shake and bake.  Van Persie popped the ball past the naked keeper Joe Hart. Van Persie went right then shifted the ball to his left. Can you say excuse me but here’s your jock back mister defender. Kiss this baby goodbye.

The term naked is giria for a defenseless keeper. 

Arsenal is up 1-0 after sixteen minutes. 

Two minutes later Abou Diaby added the match killer. Diaby’s smash of a shot went boom into the back of the net in the eighteenth minute to seal the deal at 2-0.

Arshavin added the final marker of the match in the eighty-fourth minute.

Manchester United sits a top the table with 22 points. Chelsea is second with 21 points.Spurs are third with 19 points. Arsenal is fourth with 18 points.

I will bet dollars to holes in a donut that the EPL title race will come down to the last week of the season.

One thing is for certain you can almost stick a fork in Liverpool’s chances of winning the title.

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