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De Futebol
River Plate finally got off the schnid with a huge 1-0 win over San Lorenzo in the Clausura on Thursday March 4th. Facundo Affranchino ripped the twines in the 69th minute to secure the win for Los Millonarios.
This was River’s first win in three weeks in the Clausura.
With the victory, Los Millionaires move up to tenth spot with nine points.
Boca Juniors and Velez Sarsfield had a good old-fashioned shoot out on Tuesday March 2nd.
Both sides drew at four all.
Gary Medel scored the equalizer for Los Xeneizes in the 89th minute.
Santiago Silva put Sarsfield up 4-3 in the 82nd minute off a wicked strike that flat out beat the keeper.
Boca currently sits in 12th place in Clausura with eight points
Banfield took care of business on Thursday March 4th by soundly thrashing Colon 3-1. Ramirez had for the daily double (13, 90) and Garcia ripped the twines in the 32nd minute to put Colon out of their misery.
Bichi Fuertes added a cosmetic goal off a great free kick in the 86th minute for the Sabaleros’.
Sapito-little toad-Encina hit the match winner in the 86th minute to lift Gimnasia LP past Chacarita.
Godoy sits atop the Clausura with 15 points. Independiente is second with 14 and Banfield is third with 13.
The EPL has two huge matches that will take place on Saturday.
They will go a long way in determining who will win the EPL.
We have a hot date at home with Burnley.
The Gunners will expect Arshavin, Denilson, and Abou Diaby to be ready to play for us in this all-important encounter at Emirates Stadium.
We need to kick butt and take names.
Three points are a must for Arsenal.
Chelsea will have a game in hand. This is due to the fact that the Blues have a quarterfinal FA Cup match with Stoke City.
Manchester United takes a little road trip to Molineux Stadium to take on Wolverhampton.
The Red Devils are struggling mightily on the road. Last road outing on February 20th the boys from Old Trafford had their butts handed to them by Everton 3-1.
Man U stinks on the road.
Man U will be without the services of Michael Owens and Wayne Rooney. Owens will be out for the season with a bad hamstring. Rooney will miss due to a bad wheel. His knee is in bad shape.
Wolves are currently in 17th place with 24 points. Wolverhampton is one-step away from getting the heave-hoe.
Hull City has 24 points too.
The only thing that is saving their sorry season is Wolverhampton has a better goal difference than Hull City.
Wolvers are a minus 24 while Hull City is a minus 29.
De Futebol
We have the final tune up before the 2010 World Cup kicks off in June in South Africa. Brasil battles Ireland at Emirates Stadium on Tuesday March 2nd.
This will be Dunga’s last chance to tweak the line up and see which players will make the final World Cup squad.
Sure, bets are Robinho, Kaka, Cesar, Luis Fabiano, Maicon, Lucio, Daniel Alves, and Felipe Melo.
This is just a partial list.
Adriano will be teamed with Robinho up front. I sure hope this works out. Adriano is still very iffy.
This is my take on the situation.
Please Dunga whatever you do not and I repeat do not include the head case Ronaldinho and the fat old man Ronaldo on the squad.
Please for this will surely ruin the team chemistry.
In plain and simple English, this will kill the team.
Globo Esporte had this to say http://globoesporte.globo.com/ Adriano deve ser o substituto de Luis Fabiano no ataque da seleção brasileira para o amistoso contra a Irlanda. O atacante do Flamengo participou entre os titulares da movimentação tática comandada pelo técnico Dunga nesta segunda-feira, no Emirates Stadium, em Londres, na Inglaterra. O “Fabuloso” foi cortado por causa de uma lesão muscular no peito.
A outra novidade foi a escalação de Ramires no meio-campo. Os titulares treinaram com Julio César: Maicon, Lucio, Juan e Michel Bastos; Gilberto Silva, Felipe Melo, Ramires e Kaká; Robinho e Adriano. A partida é a última antes da convocação final para a Copa do Mundo da África do Sul.
Brasilian superstar Kaka is worried that the guys may wind up getting hurt. UOL reported www.uol.com.br O temor a respeito de lesão foi levantado nesta segunda-feira por Kaká, um dia antes do amistoso da seleção brasileira contra a Irlanda em Londres (o jogo acontece nesta terça, às 17h05, de Brasília, com acompanhamento do Placar UOL Esporte).
“A gente vive a expectativa antes de cada convocação. Mas é um passo de cada vez. São dois meses até a próxima convocação, muita coisa pode acontecer. Não dá para entrar em campo pensando em não se machucar, mas o jeito é orar e esperar para que nada aconteça, porque jogamos no limite todo final de semana”, disse Kaká antes do treino da seleção desta tarde no Emirates Stadium, em Londres.
These fears are real. All one has to do is look at what happened to Arsenal’s RVP in a friendly World Cup match.
Lets hope Kaka and the guys come home unscathed.
We need to be at full strength to win this sucker.
I said we for I am an America with a Brasileiro heart.
My wife is Brasilian. Besides that, I love Brasil futebol.
I am a Flamenguista through and through. My family is Flamenguistas too.
This is my passion.
On Wednesday, there will be a full tilt of World Cup friendly match ups.
