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.

La Liga: Video highlights of all 101 Cristiano Ronaldo scored at Real Madrid in Spanish Liga BBVA

Cristiano Ronaldo continued is goal scoring run at Real MadridE reaching a century and smashing Ferenc Puskas record. He netted 101 goals in just 92 appearance while Ferenc Puskas netted 100 in 105 games and Alfredo Di Stefano scored 100 in 115 matches.

His goal scoring spree started in 2010 against Deportivo La Coruna and went on to score 26 goals in La Liga 2009-2010, in 2010-2011 he break La Liga goal scoring record in one season with 40 goals and 2011-2012 he is right on course to set another new record, with 35 goals and 9 games before the league end this season.He has already scored 44 goals this season including 35 goals in Spanish League. Among these goals, there are six La Liga hat-trick.

Ronaldo scored 118 goals for Manchester United between 2003 and 2009 in 292 appearances, 84 of which in 157 Premier league appearances. He scored his first in FA cup in 2004. The Portuguese international have been involved in rumour move to Chelsea for £80m combined price Ronadlo-Higuan . The blues are looking to building a new squad for next season.

szólj hozzá: All CR7 101 Goals in La Liga

Premier league: Manchester United stay in touch with City with 2-1 victory over Arsenal FC

Manchester United doubles win Arsenal vs Manchester encounters

Manchester United stayed closer to Manchester City with 2-1 win over Arsenal at Emirates Stadium. Goal from Antonio Valencia and Danny Welbeck were enough to see off Arsenal and restore 3 points gap with Premier league leaders. Premier league top scorer,  Robin van Persie scored his 18 premier league goal of the season but was not enough to stop Sir Alex Ferguson club. The gunners lost to United 8-2 in the first round Arsenal vs Manchester United encounter. Earlier Manchester City grabbed a 3-2  late minute win over Tottenham.

Van Persie joined Torres in this week crucial goal miss
Van Persie joined in Torres miss drama this week. Chris Smalling fell down allowed Tomas Rosicky  to snatch the ball and presented Van Persie with goal scoring opportunity, he hit the ball with left foot just ten yards in front of the gaping goal but surprisingly the ball went wide and it his Van Persie miss. What a miss for top striker!!

Arsenal FC vs Manchester United goals summary
Antonio Valencia 0-1 (45')
Robin Van Persie 1-1 (71')
Danny Welbeck 1-2 (81')
Arsenal vs Manchester United video highlights

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Arsenal FC starting lineup and subs:  Wojciech Szczęsny, Laurent Koscielny, Per Mertesacker, Thomas Vermaelen, , Johan Djourou (Nicholas Yennaris), Tomas Rosicky, Alex Song, Robin Van Persie, Aaron Ramsey (Park Chu-Young), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Andrei Arshavin) and Theo Walcott.

Manchester United starting lineup and subs:  Anders Lindegaard, Jonathan Evans, Chris Smalling, Patrice Evra, Phil Jones (Rafael - Park Ji-Sung), Ryan Giggs, Michael Carrick, Nani (Paul Scholes), Antonio Valencia, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney.

Premier league: Tottenham defeat Everton 2-0 to level point with United, Lennon and Assou-Ekotto super-strike

Tottenham Spurs meet in the game that was postponed on premier league opening day. The on form Spurs won 2-0 to level point with United and only three point behind Manchester City and eight point clear from fourth placed Chelsea that are a point on top of Arsenal. The goals come from Aaron Lennon on 35th and then came the super striker goals by Benoit Assou-Ekotto on 63rd which assured Tottenham of three points. Tottenham hotspurs are on the right right course to mark their fight for premier league title and prove their wealth in sport world.

Benoit Assou Ekotto firing a ball to score a superb goal for Tottenham.

  Watch Tottemham vs Everton video highlights

szólj hozzá: Tottenham H. 2-0 Everton

FA cup - Manchester Derby: Manchester City to appeal unfair Kompany red card after 3-2 defeat by Manchster United

Manchester united won 3-2 against ten men Manchester City in Manchester derby FA cup match. City played almost 80 minutes with ten men and yet managed to threat United win and nearly snatched an equalizer on final minutes.

Kompany was sent off for raised to foot tackle, at least that is what Chris Foy thought and ended City FA cup dream. Replay show Kompany tackling with two feet but extended his right foot wide and stopped the ball with the inside on the right foot. There was little contact with Nani who did not fall down and the superb tackle. It was a two raise foot tackle, but does that alone qualify it to be a serious foul play?

"We will do an appeal and I am sure that we will win an appeal Roberto Mancini said and went on to add. "There is no way Vincent shouldn't play against Liverpool in the Carling Cup semi-final on Wednesday."
Mancini is very confident he will be able to turn around the red card decision. added: "I don't want to talk about this incident. It was 300% not a sending off." He added.

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If the red card stand Kompany will face four match ban, which include two Carling cup semi final legs against Liverpool and tough premier league match against the on form Tottenham Spurs. With Yahya and Kolo Toure already left for African cup of Nations, City will try their best to see the ban removed or even reduced by FA.
Liverpool (h) Carling Cup semi-final first leg
Wigan (a) Premier League
Tottenham (h) Premier League
Liverpool (a) Carling Cup semi-final second leg.

According to FIFA laws of the game, send-off qualify when it is a serious foul play. Below are the Sending-Off Offenses in Law 12 - Fouls and misconduct.
A player, substitute or substituted player is sent off and shown the red card if he commits any of the following seven offenses:

1. is guilty of serious foul play

2. is guilty of violent conduct
3. spits at an opponent or any other person
4. denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goalscoring opportunity
by deliberately handling the ball (this does not apply to a
goalkeeper within his own penalty area)
5. denies an obvious goalscoring opportunity to an opponent moving
towards the player’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick
or a penalty kick
6. uses offensive or insulting or abusive language and/or gestures
7. receives a second caution in the same match

Law 12 Decision 4 A tackle, which endangers the safety of an opponent, must be sanctioned as serious foul play.

Premier league video highlights: Demba Ba bang his 15th league goals in as Newcastle vs Manchester United ended 3-0.

Demba Ba has now proved without doubt that he can take on any team any defender when he scored his 15th premier league goal, to be second after top scorer Robin Van Persie. He was a nuisance to United, denied call for a penalty early on after Rio brought him down on penalty box though the referee saw otherwise. He went on to be denied call for fouls and miss to connect a mouth watering cross.

United manager Fergusson brought in Anders Lindegaard for De Gea on to see the goalie concede for the first time in premier league and went on to concede three. There was nothing much he could do for all three goals. For the third goal it is not clear if he would have reached the ball before Leon Best if Jones avoided deflecting the ball. Demba score the open with a nice volley over Rio Ferdinand who block Anders Lindegaard vision. The second was pretty much super strike though Cabaye went just two steps behind before hitting the ball that hit crossbar and went inn. It was similar to Lampard goal vs Germany that was denied but Howard Webb did not require goal line technology to make decision. Then came the final nail, Jones own goal as he tries to obstruct the ball from Leon Best. He accidentally deflected the ball but Anders Lindegaard was already moving the other direction. 

Results add to the tally of surprising recent premier league results:

Chelsea vs Aston Villa 1-3

Manchester United vs Blackburn 2-3

Sunderland vs Manchester City 0-1

Fulham vs Arsenal 1-2

Wayne Rooney coming from unpaid week after misbehavior in holiday season was unable to prevent Manchester United consecutive defeat and was withdrawn on 75 minute. United made substitutions and played with 3 forwards before Rooney replacement but still could find a goal.

Premier league video highlights: Manchester City fail to take advantage of Chelsea and Manchester United defeats as they surrender all 3 points to sunderland

Manchester City failed to capitalize on Chelsea and Manchester City slip up as they surrender all three points to Sunderland with 1-0 defeats. Video replay showed Ji was offside before he score but linesman was poorly positioned to see.


szólj hozzá: Sunderland v City 1:0 HIGHLIGH

Premier league wins for Manchester City, United, Tottenham and Chelsea ahead of crucial Champions league and Europa games

Premier league resumed after Carling cup quarter final matches which left Chelsea and Manchester United dumped out by Liverpool and Crystal Palace respectively. Great premier league results for top five teams as they all secured important wins.

Robin Van Persie score again to remain current top premier league scorer

Manchester City remain five points clear premier league summit

The league leader, Manchester City resumed to winning ways with a 5-1 win over Norwich to remain unbeaten in premier league. Sergio Agüero (32'), Samir Nasri (51'), Yaya Touré (68'), Mario Balotelli (88') and Adam Johnson (90') on score sheet for Manchester City. Steve Morison score the only consolation goal for Norwich.
szólj hozzá: Man City vs Norwich 5:1


Narrow win for Manchester united to stay second as couple of injuries face both clubs
Phil Jones scored his first goal for Manchester United and the only goal of the matches to secure victory over Aston Villa and prolong United record over Villa to 16 years. Injuries continue mounting for both clubs as Hernandez, Shay Given and Jermaine Jenas got injured during the game.

Tottenham 6th consecutive win record add pressure on Coyle

Tottenham Hotspur scored three goals through Gareth Bale (7'), Aaron Lennon (50') and Jermain Defoe (60') to put more pressure on Coyle, Bolton Wanderers manager. With Sunderland's manager already out pressure is mounting for other manager at the bottom of the table. Tottenham mark a new record with six consecutive wins to go third.

Crucial victory for Chelsea ahead of Valencia and Manchester City games

Chelsea managed to collect all three points and three goals at Newcastle Sports Authority stadium a big boost ahead of crucial games against Valencia and Manchester City. Andre Villas-Boas was impressed by team performance despite failure of Chelsea player to convert easy chance especially by Didier Drogba, Daniel Sturridge Penalty miss by Frank Lampard. Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou and Daniel Sturridge were all on score sheet for Chelsea to go above Newcastle in the premiership log. Chelsea had difficult task putting off the on form Demba Ba who could have forced David Luiz red card on third minute but Chelsea were luck.

Andre Villas-Boas commented on solid performance and went on to say “3-0 was probably slightly excessive, but we were coming up against a team on a great run and with one of the best defences in the league, we did fantastically well, and it was the fairest of results”
szólj hozzá: Newcastle vs Chelsea 0:3 MOTD

Arsenal's top hit man, Robin Van Persie score his 14th goal to send Arsenal to 5th

Arsenal crushed Wigan Athletic 4-0 with goals coming from four different player Mikel Arteta (28'), Thomas Vermaelen (29'), Gervinho (61') and the current premiership top scorer Robin Van Persie (78') who added his goals tally to 14. Arsenal have now moved to fifth place in the Barclays Premier League table as Wigan being sent to 20th position due to poor goal difference.

Wayne Rooney bang hat-trick as Manchester United beat Arsenal 8-2, video highlights of all goals

Wayne Rooney scored his first hat-trick of the season as Manchester United beat Arsenal FC 8-2 at Old Trafford.

Wayne Rooney scored two goals from free kick with same styles before converting a penalty to earn his hat-trick.

Ashley Young scored twice all goals scored with his same favourite style with a curl to the top right corner and he assisted other three goals. Other Man utd scorers were Danny Welbeck, Nani and Park Ji-Sung. Arsenal goals were scored by Theo Walcott and Robin van Persie who earlier missed a penalty that would make the score 1-1.

In previous premier league game Edin Dzeko score hat-trick with two assist from Samir Nasri to give Manchester City 5-1 victory over Tottenham FC.
Manchester United V Arsenal video highlight of all goals

Premier league fixtures for round two matches

PREMIER LEAGUE FIXTURES SATURDAY,AUGUST 20, 2011
Time	Home		Away
11:00 GMT	Sunderland	v	style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 11px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Newcastle United
11:45 GMT	Arsenal	v	Liverpool
14:00 GMT	Aston Villa	v	Blackburn Rovers
14:00GMT	Everton	v	QPR
14:00 GMT	Swansea City	v	Wigan Athletic
16:30 GMT	Chelsea	v	West Bromwich Albion

Pre-Premier league: Manchester United overcome Manchester City in Community Shield in derby

Manchester United beat Manchester City 3-2 in community shield

Manchester United came from 2 goals down to win 3-2 at Wembley Stadium in thriller come back which showed the winning mentality of the Premier league champions. Earlier big spending Manchester City went ahead thank to goals from Joleon Lescott and Edin Dzeko. Chris Smalling pulled one back on 52 minute before Nani superb performance gave Manchester United an equalizer on 58 minute. It was Nani again who earn the Community Shield for Man Utd with his second goal of the game third for United.

David De Gea on Edwin van der Sar shoes
The Spanish under 21 goalkeeper ability to replace Edwin van der Sar was put to question as the two Manchester City are partily his fault. Many football fans seemed to confident that Edwin van der Sar would have served those balls. De Gea has to learn and caught up quickly if he has to match Edwin van der Sar’s record. De Gea made summer transfer move to Manchester United as a replacement for Edwin van der Sar.

Manchester derby (Manchester United vs Manchester City) records
This was a third derby win out of three for Manchester united in community shield competition. Man utd also hold an upper hand in league derbies, they have won 58 and Manchester City has won 37 and drew 49 in league matches. 6 league cup Manchester derbies has been played so far, Manchester city won 3, Manchester United 2 and they drew one. FA Cup Manchester United have won 5 and Man city. Recently Manchester united record has been improving and in 2011-2012 the Reds will be chasing their 20th league title.
Video highlights of all goals

Serie A: AC Milan and Inter Milan new home, away and third kits for 2011-2012

AC Milan home kits, Away kits and third kits for 2011-2012.

Inter milan new home kits and away kits for 2011-2012.

See also new kits for premier league new kits (Manchester United kits, Arsenal kits, Chelsea and Liverpool kits) and La Liga new kits (Real Madrid and Barcelona kits)

Wayne Rooney score hat-trick in 21 minutes: Manchester United 7-0 Seattle Sounders | Video highlights

Wayne Rooney bagged a 21-minute hat-trick as Manchester United thrash Seattle Sounders in United States tour before the start of Barclay's premier league. The rest of the goal were scored by Michael Owen, Mame Biram Diouf, Gabriel Obertan and Park Ji—sung. In another pre-season friendly, Cristiano Ronaldo scored hat-trick in nine minutes to give Real Madrid a 3-0 victory over Chivas Guadalajara.

Tanzanian player, Mrisho Ngassa played for Seattle Sounder on trial and became the first Tanzania to player against Manchester united. The 22 years old Azam winger had once had trial at West Ham United in London.

Barclays premier league: Manchester United new home and away kits for 2011-2012

Manchester United new kits for 2011-2012 season. The red home, away kits and Manchester 19 kits.

What do you think about the new Manchester united kits, the away kits look like Inter Milan kit

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