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Arsenal, Chelsea, and Man U are in the cross hairs. Arsenal has a hot date with Hull City on Saturday. We are on the road at Kingston Stadium.
The young cats are going to have to step up to the plate and knock it outta the park again.
We cannot afford to have a let down against the Tigers.
Hull City is fighting not to get the heave-hoe so they will be a dangerous foe especially in their house.
Once again, Andre Arshavin, Samir Nasri, and company needs to play lights out.
Three points are a must.
Wounded foes are very dangerous.
Chelsea has a home date with West Ham. This is a must win for the Blues. If Chelsea stumbles and falls, again at home this just might kill their title hopes.
What really might hurt Chelsea is the absence of keeper Petr Cech. Cech is out with a calf strain.
Ouch, that hurts.
Manchester United entertains Fulham at Old Trafford. The Red Devils are now firing on all cylinders. The Wayne man has stepped his game up a notch.
Rooney is taking names and then kicking butt.
Matches to watch are Tottenham-Blackburn, Stoke City-Aston Villa, and Birmingham-Everton.
Man U is atop the table with 63 points. Chelsea is second with 61 and Arsenal is third with 61. We are in third due to a plus 37-goal difference compared with Chelsea’s plus 39.
Let’s remember that Chelsea has a game in hand.
The race for the final Champions League is hot and heavy. Tottenham is in the catbird seat with 49 points. City has 39 points as well but the Spurs are a plus 23 while Man City is a plus 17.
Liverpool has 48 points.
Aston Villa has 45 and Birmingham has 43.
Manchester City battles Sunderland on Sunday.
Liverpool will try and be a rude host when Portsmouth comes a calling.
Let the games begin.
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Arsenal started out like a house on fire. Pressure baby. It was pure pressure the Gunners have applied on FC Porto.
We have been rewarded.
Samir Nasri fired a great ball into the goalmouth. This through ball forced keeper Helton to come out and protect the goal. Helton and two other defenders collide with each other as Arshavin attempts to shoot. The ball squirms free. Nicklas Bendtner pokes home the garbage in the 10th minute.
Arsenal is up 1-0.
This is huge.
If the scored stays this way, the Gunners are on to the next round.
Who says we are going to be hurt by the absence of Cesc Fabregas.
Nicklas Bendtner has hit for the daily double in the 25th minute.
Yes, sir re Bob, we are off and running. This goal was set up by a TO baby. FC Porto defender Fucile fired a pass right to Arshavin. This give away gave Andre Arshavin all the room he needed to slide the ball across the goal crease to the open Bendtner.
Walla the naked net.
Score this one for Bendtner.
Arshavin made the three Porto defenders look like schoolgirls.
I love it.
The guys have sucked it up and showed what the Gunners are made of.
Vince Lombardi said, “When the going gets tough the tough get going.”
Arsenal is as tough as nails.
We had a tiny let down. The Gunners let FC Porto’s the Hulk take it to the rack but Manuel Almunia stopped em cold.
Just like that, we scored two goals in a span of three minutes to put this sucker outta reach.
Samir Nasri was one on three. He made the FC Porto defenders look silly. Nasri ripped the twines in the 63rd minute to give the Gunners a 3-nil lead.
He shot was a tight angled shot that ripped the far post.
Arshavin steals the ball off a corner kick by FC Porto. He dribbles drives up the pitch. Arshavin hits a streaking Eboue. Eboue flat out beats the keeper to score a gimmie goal in the 66th minute.
Hey, mister keeper Helton here is your jock back.
It is 5-0 Arsenal.
Dandy Don Meredith is singing turn out the lights the party’s over.
Let’s hope all hell doesn’t break loose between now and the end of the match. We are in like Flynn to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
Just a little bit of salt in the wound is added in the 90th minute. FC Porto’s Fucile shows his frustration by tacking Eboue in the box.
Up stepped the main man Nicklas Bendtner. It is a hat trick for Bendtner. He nails the PK to put Porto out of their misery 4-0.
This was a total take me to the woodshed whopping administered by Arsenal to FC Porto.
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Arsenal picked up a huge 3-1 win over Burnley. Yes, this was a much-needed three points.
We started out with several great scoring opportunities. We were finally able to tickle the back of the net in the 34th minute.
Cesc Fabregas rifled home a shot right through the keepers Brian Jensen’s wickets to give us a 1-0 lead.
Samir Nasri set it up with a great chip shot right over the top of the Burnley defense.
Arsenal had one of those brain farts in the 50th minute. Burnley’s David Nugent knocked home the equalizer to level this baby up at one all.
Mate Leon Cort headed a great pass to Nugent to set up the goal.
We seized the lead in the 60th minute. Theo Walcott sniped home a perfect low ball. This shot flat out beat the keeper Brian Jensen to the right post.
Finally, Andre Arshavin put this baby out of reach in the 90th minute with a perfect strike into the back of the net.
Not pretty but we will take it.
This gives Arsenal 61 points.
Bolton scored two first half goals and then held on to beat West Ham 2-1.
Jack Wilshere, on loan from Arsenal, fired home a close range shot in the 20th minute for the Wanderers.
Kevin Davies ripped a header in the 10th minute to start this sucker off right for Bolton.
Bolton now has 29 points. The Wanderers are currently in 13th place. Bolton is five points from the drop zone.
Portsmouth is on the verge of getting shut down for good. Pompey picked a huge 2-0 win over Birmingham in the quarterfinals of the FA cup.
Frederick Piquionne hit the daily double, 67th, 70th minute, to make Pompey’s day.
This win is worth 600,000 pounds.
You gotta love it.
The dog saved their hide by beating a very good Birmingham club.
Manchester United has miss fired on all cylinders against Wolves so far.
The Red Devils dearly miss Wayne Rooney. Berbatov is a total waste of time
In a flash, the match changed. Nani broke free on the right side of the box. He fired a pass into the teeth of the Wolves goal line defense. Pinball machine time. Paul Scholes rifled home the point blank shot off a missed played clearance by defender Craddock in the 73rd minute to give Man U a 1-0 lead.
This was follow the bouncing ball time.
This was a huge goal.
For it sure looked like Wolverhampton would salvage a point.
There is ten minutes left.
We will see what happens.
Manchester hung on for a 1-0 win against Wolves.
Manchester United is now in first place with 63 points.
Road wins are a premium in the EPL.
This was a biggie.
The Blues have a game in hand.
We are in a great position to win this baby.
Remember what I said earlier, Arsenal would win the title. So far so good for the Gunner nation.
