Senin, 30 April 2012

Real Madrid one win away from 32nd La Liga title as both Ronaldo and Messi set Spanish league top goals scorers record to 43.

Real Madrid recover from champions league semi-final defeat and moved closer and close to La Liga Championship after 3-0 win over Sevilla to end Barcelona three years dominance.  Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 43rd league goal and 57th in this season. The goal was followed by a brace from Karim Benzema. 

Real Madrid vs Sevilla video highlights all goals

Later defending champion Barcelona FC under Tito Vilanova earned a massive 7-0 victory over Rayo Vallecano, a brace from Lionel Messi to tally La Liga goals to 43 and right on course for pichichi. Both Ronaldo and Messi has registered new Spanish league most goals per season records which was set by Ronaldo last years after he scored 40 goals. Messi add his season goal tallies to 65 goals in all competitions. Bayern Munich’s striker, Gerd Muller scored 67 goals in 1972/1973 season a European top scorers record. Other Barcelona goals came from Pedro Rodriguez two goals, Seydou Keita and Thiago Alcantara and Rober (Rayo Vallecano’s defender) scored own goals.

Barcelona vs Rayo Vallecano video highlights all goals

Real Madrid set Spanish leagues goals record to 112.
More football records set and broken. With three top scoring strikers Ronaldo, Benzema and Higuan as well as two top goal assistant Mezut Ozil and Angel Di Maria, Jose Mourinho’s club have set new La Liga most goals record of 112 goals. In La Liga the strikers scored 84 goals, Ronaldo (43), Higuan (21) and Benzema (20) but 30 assists from Mezut Ozil (16) and Angel Di Maria (14) alone. Having being denied early championship celebration with Barcelona win, Madrid can clinch their 32nd La Liga title with win against the on form Athletic Bilbao on Wednesday.

Minggu, 29 April 2012

Chelsea's Fernando Torres bang hat-trick against QPR but stay 6th in Premier league log

Fernando Torres successes in Champions league continues in Barclays Premier League with his first hat-trick for Chelsea in 6-1 victory over Queens Park Rangers and add premier league hat-tricks tally to 19. The hat-trick is his fourth in Premier league.
The £50m striker scores his first hat-trick since Sep 2009 and he promises many more. "My last hat-trick was a long time ago but hopefully it will be the first of many" Torres said. His manager well satisfied with his performance. "I was always pleased with his contribution and he was always working hard for the team, putting the assists in". Di Matteo commented.

The UEFA championship and FA Cup finalist still sixth in the premier league log but close the gap with Newcastle to one point. The blues benefited from retuning back to traditional Chelsea game and performing better under Di Mateo who has only lost once and drew three of 16 games. Next trip they will face Liverpool in FA cup final before tough fight for fourth position against Newcastle.

UEFA Champions’ league final  
Chelsea FC also rely on players’ rotation in these important fixtures to avoid players’ exhaustion while protecting important players for Champions league final with Bayern Munich in Allianz Arena in May 19. The two clubs met on 2004-2005 champions’ league quarter final were Chelsea under Jose Mourinho supervision won 6-5 on aggregate after Chelsea 4-2 win on first leg and Bayern won 3-2 on second leg.

Chelsea FC vs Queens Park Rangers goals highlights  
Daniel Sturridge (1') 1-0 
John Terry (13') 2-0 
Fernando Torres (19') 3-0 
Fernando Torres (25') 4-0 
Fernando Torres (64') 5-0 
Florent Malouda (80') 6-0 
Djibril Cissé (84') 6-1 

Chelsea FC vs Queens Park Rangers video highlights of all goals szólj hozzá: g=6-18;[Matchhighlight.com]HL

Manchester city and Manchester United in crucial Manchester derby: The Premier league championship decider

Manchester United travel to Manchester City in crucial Manchester derby is more likely to be the decider for Premier league champion this season. Sir Alex Ferguson singled the tie as one of those unique ties It means everything, ... “Everything. Going into work on Tuesday morning will feel like the most important day of their lives. For both sets of supporters“.

With three matches on hand for each teams and United having 3 points advantage but four goals short on goal difference compared to City, the tie could be tell who win the league. Even a draw will be better results for United who will then maintain three points advantage. For Mancini a win is a must to level point and go top of the table with goal difference advantage. 

If City defeat defending champion on this tie, the results of who win the league will still depend who perform better in final two matches of which City seems to have more ambitious opponents.  If both City and United win their final two games, the more goals one score could still determine the league champion.With this options, United still have a bigger chance to clinch 20th league title

The final United and City fixtures
Newcastle United vs Manchester City
Manchester United vs Swansea City

Manchester City vs Queens Park Rangers     
Sunderland vs Manchester United

Manchester derby history
Manchester United has won more derbies than city 67 vs 44, but since the new premier league start, the record stands at 13 vs 10 in favor of United. This swing of United vs City win might still be changing in favor of City because of the recent investment done at City. With this investment city have became more superior than other EPL top clubs and Mancini quoted proving this fact  "We have 22 points more than Chelsea, who are in the Champions League final, and 14 more than Arsenal - and 31 more than Liverpool.

Previous league tie saw United defeated by 6-1, heaviest United defeat in this derby, but they also one defeated City 5-0 in 1994. The 6-1 score mean nothing to the upcoming tie, it is a totally a new game. The best game plan or individual player magic like would be crucial. Most fans would like to see luck or referee decision pick the winner.


Selasa, 03 April 2012

Barcelon and Bayern Munich advances to champions league semi-final

Barcelona vs AC Milan goals highlights
Lionel Messi (pen 11') 1-0
Antonio Nocerino (32') 1-1
Lionel Messi (pen 41') 2-1
Andrés Iniesta (53') 3-1

Barcelona vs AC Milan video highlights of all goals

Senin, 02 April 2012

Premier league hatricks: Alan Shearer leads with 11, Wayne Rooney leads current active goal scorers with 6.

Since 1992; 249 hat-tricks has been scored, with three leading top hat-tricks scorers Alan Shearer 11, Robbie Fowler 9, Thierry Henry and Michael Owen 8. Among current active players Wayne Rooney leads with 6 hat-tricks.

Premier league hat-tricks 2010-2011
In 2010-2011, 17 premier league hat-trick were scored by 14 scorers, Berbatov score 5 in a single game and Luis Saha scored 4 goals in a match. Berbatov scored three hat-tricks and Maxi Rodriguez scored two. 

Premier league hat-tricks 2011-2012
With about 7 game remaining, 16 premier league hat-trick have been score from 13 goals scorer two of them, Edin Dzeko and Yakubu Aiyegbeni have score four goals in one game. Wayne Rooney, Edin Dzeko and Demba Ba had scored two hat-tricks each.
England Premier League Hattricks 2011-2012
Edin Džeko* Manchester City Tottenham Hotspur 1–5
Wayne Rooney Manchester United Arsenal 8–2
Sergio Agüero Manchester City Wigan Athletic 3–0
Wayne Rooney Manchester United Bolton Wanderers 0–5
Demba Ba Newcastle United Blackburn Rovers 3–1
Frank Lampard Chelsea Bolton Wanderers 1–5
Andrew Johnson Fulham Queens Park Ranger 6–0
Robin van Persie Arsenal Chelsea 3–5
Demba Ba Newcastle United Stoke City 1–3
Yakubu Aiyegben Blackburn Rovers Swansea City 4–2
Dimitar Berbatov Manchester United Wigan Athletic 5–0
Clint Dempsey Fulham Newcastle United 5–2
Robin van Persie Arsenal Blackburn Rovers 7–1
Peter Odemwingi WestBrom Albion Wolverhampton W 1–5
Pavel Pogrebnyak Fulham Wolverhampton W 5–0
Steven Gerrard Liverpool Everton 3-0

Minggu, 01 April 2012

Premier league: Manchester City fight back for 3-3 draw vs Sunderland, Slowly handling title to Manchester United

Manchester City were forced to fightback from 3-1 down to earn one point with 3-3 draw against Sunderland at Etihad Stadium and surrender 100% home back to back wins record. Two superb strikes from Mario Baloteli and Aleksandar Kolarov were to much for Sunderland golie and City leveled the score on 86 minute. Mario Baloteli score twice and prove Mancini wrong, as the manager said he does not trust Baloteli. Mancini boys would have grabbed a win if they had more time as Sunderland players seemed tied of resisting City pressure.

City had had a poor run recently, surrendering lead at premier league summit after draw with Stoke City and if Manchester United win against Blackburn, the red devils will be 5 point clear at the top. United will be looking for three points in tough game against relegation zone fighters Blackburn and if possible they will try to get more goals as possible to nourish their goal difference. A record 20th premier league title for United is right at the corner and they would love it more as they are competing with their biggest rival.

Manchester City vs Sunderland goal summary
Sebastian Larsson (31') 0-1
Mario Balotelli (pen 43') 1-1
Nicklas Bendtner (45') 1-2
Sebastian Larsson (55') 1-3
Mario Balotelli (85') 2-3
Aleksandar Kolarov (86') 3-3

Manchester City vs Sunderland video highlights of all goals

Fernando Torres end Premier league goals drought in 4-2 Chelsea win vs Aston Villa

Right from the begin Chelsea showed the desire to win and move close Tottenham Spurs. The Blues score early on 9 minute through Daniel Sturridge (his 12th goal of the season) and Ivanovic added the second on 51 minute and Chelsea looked comfortably sealing the three points. Aston Villa then grabbed two quick goals through James Collins and Eric Lichaj

The heat raise for both team each going for the winner, but fortune favour the brave, Ivanovic got his second, third for Chelsea before Daniel sturridge release Fernando Torres to score the forth goals and end his Premier league goal drought. It took him six months to score his 4th premiership goal for Chelsea but has been hailed for his goal assist.

Chelsea to fight for Champions league by breaking top 4 or winning Champion league this season.
Chelsea lag behind Arsenal and Tottenham by 5 and 2 points respectively, but spurs has a game at hand against Swansea City on Sunday. Still tough for Chelsea to break in top four considering opponents forms and few games remaining but surely Di Mateo will try to push hard and hard. Chelsea will still be in Champions League next season even if they fail to make top four by winning the Champions league this season, which seemed even tougher than breaking into top four. Next week Chelsea will face Benfica FC in Second leg after 1-0 victory in first leg away game.
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Aston Villa skipper Stiliyan Petrov recently diagnosed with Acute Leukaemia was showed support by fan of both two clubs. We wish him a fast recovery.

Aston Villa vs Chelsea goals summary
Daniel Sturridge (9') 0-1
Branislav Ivanovic (51') 0-2
James Collins (77') 1-2
Eric Lichaj (80') 2-2
Branislav Ivanovic (83') 2-3
Fernando Torres (90') 2-4

Aston Villa vs Chelsea video highlight of all goals

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