Archive for August, 2010

Three matches into the EPL season and now we have our first international break. The action resumes September 12^th after a two week break.

On Sunday, Liverpool finally picked up a 1-0 win over West Brom.

Super striker for the Reds Fernando Torres scored the only match of the goal in the 65^th minute.

Torres is still not a 100%. He has had two major knee operations plus a pulled hammy in Spain’s World Cup final match in July.

His score showed how great this player is. Torres shifed ball the ball and fired the volley into the back of the net.

Game, set, and match to Liverpool.

This was a huge three points for the Reds.

Aston Villa defeated Everton 1-0.

In the battle of American keepers Tim Howard and Brad Friedel, Friedel had the best of it.

Tim Howard made two lights out saves but this was not enough to over come crappy defense by the Toffees.

The score of the match came in the 9^th minute.

Luke Young received a great pass from mate Ashley Young. Luke Young fired home the winner past a helpless Tim Howard.

Toffees defender Marouane Fellaini let the ball slip under his feet. Whamo, bamo turnover. Goal for Villa.

Not good Garoto.

Everton now has two losses and tie to start the season.

This could spell doom for the Toffees.

Villa on the other hand has won two out of their first three matches.

Bolton and Birmingham tied at two all.

Sunderland pulled the upset special of the day beating Manchester City 1-0.

After blowing out Liverpool, what happened?

Lose to lowly Sunderland.

Way to go Garoto.

I love it.

Sybil City is your new name.

A PK in the dying moments cost man City big time.

Choke City baby.

City’s Micah Richards decided to play American Football and tackle the Black Cats Darren Bent.

You dummy.

I love it.

We’ll talk more about this in the next few days.

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Manchester United invited lowly West Ham to Old Trafford.

The host’s treated the Hammers to a shooting gallery.

Yes, my friend, the mighty boys from Old Trafford fired shot after shot after shot at West Ham keeper Robert Green.

It took a while before the Red Devils found the back of the net.

Ryan Giggs took it to the rack. Hammers defender Jonathan Spector was forced to tackle Giggs in the box. Whamo, bamo, It’s PK time. Rooney breaks his scoring drought in the 33^rd minute,

This is the Wayne man’s first goal in five months.

The Hammers hung in there.

I mean, man it was rough out there for the Hammers.

This match was hard to watch.

The feeding frenzy was on.

Nani beat almost entire West Ham team in the 50^th minute to make 2-nil Man U.

Juke right. Side step left. Step side right. Pause. Shift the ball to left. Fire. Bingo. Back of the net.

Nani made the entire Hammers side look ridiculous.

Berbatov added a great flying side ways bicycle kick into the back of the net in the 69^th minute.

The deal was already sealed after the first goal.

The mighty boys from Old Trafford should have had a ton more goals but Hammers keeper Robert Green kept it a respectable massacre.     

Man U is for real.

Chelsea and the rest better watch out.

The Red Devils have real team speed.

They can score.

The only problem is that super defender Rio Ferdinand is out.

Once he comes back watch out baby.

The other team to watch out for is my guys from Arsenal.

The young Gunners such as Theo Walcott are finding their stride.

With Walcott ripping the twines, watch out EPL.

The only bad news in Gunner land is that RVP is hurt.

Chelsea is beating up on the little old lady’s and the little sisters of the poor but let’s see what happens when the Blues get into the meat of their schedule.

Remember this Man U burned em in the Community Shield.

Last year Chelsea took it to the Red Devils.

This is a good indicator of what might be in store.

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My guys from Arsenal won on the road.

This was a huge 2-1 win over the pesky Blackburn Rovers.

We did good but there were several mix-ups and sloppy “D” that could have cost us the big “W”.

Theo Walcott ripped the twines in the 20^th minute to give us Gunners a 1-0 lead.

This baby was the direct result of a great counter attack.

Robin Van Persie took the ball and drove the left sideline.

Persie set up mate Walcott with a beautiful pass. All Theo Walcott had to do was deposit the ball into the back of the net.

Walcott’s rocket literally ripped the twines off the left side of net near the left post.

This was truly a rocket.

Blackburn nailed the equalizer in the 27^th minute.

Rovers Hadji Diouf made the Gunners defender Laurent Koscielny look like a schoolgirl.

Wham. Bam. Diouf hands Koscielny his jock.

Hadji hits mate Mame Diouf who jams the ball into the back of the net.

I thought here we go again.

Get a crap tie on the road.

But no! My Gunners picked themselves up by the bootstraps and scored the winner in the 51^st minute.

Andrei Arshavin nailed the rebound off a miss by mate Cesc Fabregas to give us the all-important road win.

The bad news is this.

Our top player Robin Van Persie left the match in the 35^th minute with an ankle injury.

Headman Arsene Wenger thinks RVP will miss about ten days.

This was a huge road win for the Gunner Nation.

The biggest surprise of the day was when lowly Wigan pulled the upset city match of the day by beating Tottenham 1-0 at Spurs house-White Hart Lane.

What did I tell ya!

Spurs are in above their heads.

Tottenham didn’t play worth a crap.

Spurs key scorer Jermain Defoe is playing with an injured groin.

Peter Crouch isn’t worth a damn.

Sure, Tottenham had most of the possession but the name of the game is to put the ball into the back of the net.

Maybe Spurs should take lessons from my guys in Brasil Flamengo who couldn’t find an acorn with a GPS system.

Welcome to the real big leagues Tottenham.

This is a different animal.

Other than that business as usual in the EPL, Chelsea beat up little sisters of the poor Stoke City 2-0.

Blackpool and Fulham tied two all.

Newcastle and Wolves kissed their sister one all.

Manchester United blasted West Ham 3-0 on Saturday. We’ll talk about that more on Monday.

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This is getting beyond ridiculous.

Flamengo can’t hit the broadside of a barn with a canon,a machine gun, or a howitzer.

Mengao and Atletico-MG tied nil-nil.

Globo Esporte-O time que não sabe atacar contra a equipe que não sabe vencer fora de casa. O resultado? Empate por 0 a 0, no Maracanã, e mais angústia para Flamengo e Atlético-MG na tabela do Campeonato Brasileiro.

The idiots in charge decided to get rid of Andrade. Then they lost Adriano and Vagner Love and low and behold, the offense is on life support. Better yet it has died.

We  had several good chances but each time the boo-Mengao missed it by that much.

Yes, folks it was a down right offensive display.

Two goals in the last seven games are  pitiful. One of them was a PK by Petkovic.

My grandmother could do better than this. She’s been dead since 1976.

Refletido em números, o caos ofensivo do Rubro-Negro tem dois gols marcados nos últimos sete jogos. E um deles de pênalti. A situação ficou quase insustentável para o técnico Rogério Lourenço. Ele deixou o gramado sob ofensas da torcida e o grito de “Fora, Rogério”.

The Flamenguistas are turning on headman Rogerio.

The real blame falls squarely on the shoulders of head idiot Patricia Amorim.

It stinks to high heaven.

My God hire a real striker not someone from the geriatric ward.

Sure Mengao finally used a striker but the cat Diogo is a has been.

This stinks.

O Flamengo, desta vez, até tinha um atacante em campo. Diogo estreou bem. Vontade, técnica, assistência linda para Leandro Amaral perder uma chance clara. Mas por trás havia um time desarrumado e que carece de saúde no seu meio-campo. Petkovic e Renato foram caricaturas dos jogadores que têm respeito e idolatria da torcida.

The hero of the match for Flamengo was the keeper Marcelo Lomba.

He made three saves that should have been goals.

One of them was a point blank shot that Lomba was able to swat away at the last possible second.

The Flamengo “D” played well for the most part however there were three times when the guys from Rubro-Negro fell asleep.

Marcelo Lomba proved to be the difference.

Mengao has 21 points.

We are hovering around mid table.

Flamengo is in tenth place to be exact.

This is not good.

As duas equipes tinham banca de protagonistas, mas depois de 16 rodadas são apenas coadjuvantes na tabela. O atual campeão está em décimo lugar, com 21 pontos, vendo o líder Fluminense (36) quase de telescópio. O Galo não larga a zona de rebaixamento e fica em 18º lugar, com 14 pontos.

If we don’t find a way score Rubro-Negro could find themselves in the heave-hoe zone.

I am not a happy Flamenguista.

Flamenguista for life.

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On the brink of disaster, Tottenham exploded at White Lane to rout Young Boys 4-0 to advance to the group stage of the Champions league.

This is the first trip for Spurs in the quest of ultimate prize in club futebol-the Champions League.

It looked bleak for Tottenham after they fell behind 3-0 on the road to the Swiss side Young Boys before rallying to score two goals to make the final score a respectable 3-2.

These two away goals were of utmost importance.

Harry Redknapp had his chargers breathing firing at home.

Peter Crouch dented the nets in the 5^th minute.

Jermain Defoe added a controversial goal in the 32^nd minute.

Defoe controlled the ball with his arm before depositing it in the back of the net.

The Crouch Man added to more markers to complete his hat trick.

Way to go Harry me boy.

The only downer was superman Jermain Defoe needs to go under the knife to repair a torn groin.

This will set the Spurs back.

Defoe is one of the key players for Tottenham.

Let’s see how Spurs will handle the loss of a very good player.

I have a hunch Spurs will drop back to at least mid table.

The loss of Jermain Defoe hurts big time.

Now Harry and his guys will now find out first hand what it is like to juggle Champions League, EPL, Carling Cup, and FA Cup in a season.

Just ask Sir Alex, Wenger, and Carlo Ancelotti about this. These men face this year in and year out.

Welcome to the big time Harry me Boy.

This is not an easy task.

Players will play about 75 matches in a single season and this will lead to lots of wrecks.

Harry me Boy you’ll find out first hand.

You have when Jermain Defoe will miss at least a month or so.

Hats off to Tottenham for getting to the group stage of the Champions League.

Kudos.

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We’re two weeks into the season. There are a few surprises but other than that nothing much.

Chelsea has kicked ass. The Blues destroyed two really inferior sides Wigan and West Brom.

Manchester United took it Newcastle but stumbled against Fulham.

The Cottagers have a history of driving Sir Alex nuts.

Arsenal played great at home and pulled a rabbit of the Gunners hat in a miracle one all tie with Liverpool at Anfield.

My Gunners have played well so far.

Both Robin Van Persie and Cesc Fabregas are nursing injures.

Theo Walcott has stepped up big time.

Capello decided to kick Walcott off the national team.

This was a huge mistake.

Capello needs to go.

Liverpool eked a tie against my Gunners but stunk the joint out against Man City.

Liverpool is on the way down.

Sure, the Reds are missing Fernando Torres but Liverpool has plenty of other good players such as Dirk Kuyt, David Ngog, and Joe Cole.

Liverpool is near the butt end of the table.

The Reds are in 17^th place with one point.

Man U killed the Magpies but Newcastle turned the tables on Aston Villa. Newcastle destroyed Villa 3-0.

Blackpool picked up their first win in the EPL in 39 years but came crashing down to earth when my guys from Arsenal rang up six goals.

Wigan is headed down.

Blackpool will probably go too.

Don’t be surprised if Liverpool hovers in the bottom half of the table.

These are my thoughts after two matches but remember this can change in an instant.

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Man City kicked ass and took some names in a 3-0 thrashing of Liverpool.

City took care of business at their house.

Tevez hit the daily double.

The head case Tevez looks like he has buried the hatchet with City manager Roberto Mancini.

I mean Liverpool let victory slip out of their hands in their season opener at Anfield against my guys from Arsenal. However, this sucker wasn’t even close.

City was in control from the outset.

This 3-0 win was the largest win over the Reds since 1937.

James Milner was the key in the match.

He set up City’s first goal.

Milner feed Gareth Barry.

Barry ripped the twines in the 13^th minute.

It all went downhill from there for Liverpool.

City looked like crap in their opener against Tottenham.

Now Man City looked like world-beaters.

Liverpool may struggle big time this year.

So far, a great start to the season.

I can’t wait to see how this season will shake down.

I still think Chelsea is on the downhill side of forty.

The Blues may win the title but this will be their last hurrah.

More skinny on the EPL on the flip side.

You gotta love it.

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Flamengo couldn’t hit the broadside of a barn with a machine gun or a howitzer. This was down right worse than bad.

Mengao lost to Atletico-PR 1-0.

Sure, we hung in there for most of the match,

Yes, Rubro-Negro had some great scoring opportunities but nothing resulted.

This is pure bupkis.

A late stupid defensive error allowed Atletico-PR to score in the 82^nd minute.

Paulo Baier floated a corner kick into the box.

Keeper Lomba and defender Leo Moura let Furacao attacker Manoel head home the match winner.

Flamengo keeper Marcelo Lomba looked like a windmill as he tried to stop the perfectly placed header that was squeezed between Lomba and the left post.

Mengao hasn’t won in Coritiba in 36 years.

You can stick a fork in Mengao’s chances of winning the Campeonato.

Hey Patricia baby sign a real striker.

Rubro-Negro’s offense is down right offensive.

It sucks big time baby.

UOL put it this way- Atlético-PR e Flamengo fizeram um jogo movimentado, neste domingo, na Arena da Baixada e, mais uma vez, o rubro-negro paranaense levou vantagem sobre o time carioca. Com um gol do zagueiro Manoel, no fim do segundo tempo, venceu por 1 a 0 e sustentou um tabu de 36 anos, nos quais não perde para o Fla, em Curitiba. Foi a 11ª partida entre os dois times na Arena da Baixada e nona vitória atleticana.

With the win, Atletico moved up the table and out of the danger zone. Furacao now has 17 points.

Globo Esporte-O Furacão, que passou a noite no Z4, respira. O time chegou aos 17 pontos e fica na 13ª posição, pelo menos até o fim dos jogos das 18h30m. O destaque da partida foi o ligeiro Maikon Leite.

Flamengo has now dropped out of the top four. Rubro-Negro is now in ninth place with 20 points.

O time carioca, por sua vez, também confirmou as conclusões da sua fraqueza ofensiva e precisa mais do que nunca da estreia da dupla Deivid e Diogo para voltar a ter um ataque repeitável. Nos oito jogos pós-Copa, a equipe fez quatro gols, dois deles de pênalti. Diante de números tão ruins, a equipe manteve os 20 pontos, caiu para o nono lugar e distanciou-se do G-4.

We are now in deep do-do.

I am not a happy Flamenguista.

Flamenguista for life.

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Fulham bit Manchester United twice in the butt to comeback for a two all draw.

This is not good for the mighty boys of Old Trafford.

Man U’s road woes still continue.

Three points were a must but a draw is better than a loss.

Scholes scored the first goal of the match in the 11^th minute.

Paul Scholes fired a deadly strike from 30 yards out.

Berbatov set it with a great pass.

Fulham found the equalizer in the 57^th minute.

Fulham pressed the attack.

The Cottagers Duff made a mad rush up the right sideline. He got past Man U defender Evra. Duff laid the ball off for mate Bobby Zamora. Zamora fed Davies.

Davies beat the naked keeper Van der Sar.

Man U scored the go ahead goal in the 84^th minute.

Ryan Giggs fired a wicked shot into the goalmouth. Fulham’s Brede Hangeland deflected the ball into his own net.

2-1 Man U.

The match changer happened in the 86^th minute.

Man U was given a PK.

Nani fired the shot right at keeper David Stockdale.

Block. Save.

This miss cost the mighty boys from Old Trafford the match.

The Cottagers nailed the equalizer three minutes later in the 89^th minute.

Hangeland headed home a brilliantly placed corner kick by mate Duff.

This killed Man U.

Stupid mistakes killed the Red Devils.

Bad defending was the key.

The two goals were the result of poor marking and no help side defense.

This tie may have cost the Man U a shot at the title.

Road wins not ties are the key.

This is a stumble however this is not fatal.

Newcastle killed Aston Villa 6-0.

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This was one of those classic blowouts. Arsenal flat out took it to Blackpool 6-0. Theo Walcott pulled a hat trick out of his hat.

Finally, Walcott lights up the twines.

Diaby, Arshavin, Marouane Chamakh each added their names to the score sheet.

About time guys.

Emirates is very good to us Gunners.

This was a kick ass win.

You gotta love it.

I sure do.

Blackpool came crashing down to earth after the Seasiders huge win over Wigan last Saturday.

Blackpool will probably get sent packing at the end of the season.

Arsene Wenger decided to rest super stars Cesc Fabregas and Robin Van Persie.

Smart move on Wenger’s part.

The young guns are coming along quite nicely thank you.

Spurs are finding life hard at the top of the table.

Tottenham pulled out a 2-1 win over Stoke City.

Gareth Bale hit for the daily double.

Bolton chewed up West Ham 3-1.

West Brom stopped Sunderland 1-0.

Everton and Wolverhampton tied one all.

The Toffees are stumbling out of the gate.

Everton has one draw and one loss.

This is not good.

Chelsea kicked some major butt in a blow city 6-0 shut out of win over helpless and hapless Wigan.

Nicholas Anelka and Salomon Kalou each hit for the daily double.

The Blues looked good in their first two matches against inferior sides. Lets see what happens when Chelsea gets into the meat of their schedule.

The Blues may win the whole enchilada this year but they are on the downhill side of forty.

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