weekend reviews

21st and 22nd march




MANCHESTER UNITED:


After an embarrassing defeat against liverpool,man utd couldn't have asked for more worst defeat against fulham at craven cottage.
Man utd defeat against Liverpool was the worst home defeat since 1992 after which they threw the title
to leads united.
After 16 minutes of play Scholes received red card for stopping the ball with hand near post which provided Murphy a chance to score from the spot which costed man utd a goal and player as well.
During first half manu were nowhere near the ball. Fulham were flying high with confidence .
During second half despite of the fact that man utd were down to 10 men they created some good chances . All of them were brilliantly parried away by the australian goal keeper Schwarzer for which he was awarded man of the match.
Later in the match there was nothing to cheer about if you are a man utd fan as fulham doubled their lead in 86th min over the leaders.

More drama unfolded after Ronnie hurled the ball at referee for which he was awarded second yellow in 89th min.
Final score Fulham 2-0 Man utd
After this slip by the world champions title race is wide open for others......










LIVERPOOL:

Liverpool splashed water in the face of Aston villa on sunday .
Unlike chelsea, liverpool didn't miss a chance to close in on the champions man utd.
Early goal came in 7th min by Netherland international Dirk Kuyt.After that reds were held for another 25 mins by villa . Second goal came in 33rd min by Riera.
After 6 mins Mr liverpool , Steven Gerrard who converted a penalty.
It was all Stevy G who scored second goal in 49th min and completed his hat-trick with a penalty in 64th min.
It was a nightmare for Aston villa which was worsen by Friedel's red card in in 63rd min.

Final score was Liverpool 5-0 Aston villa.
Now Liverpool think they have real chance over the championship......




CHELSEA:




Again,Chelsea failed to deliver. This saturday chelsea played against their city rivals Tottenham Hotspurs. From the beginning Chelsea looked vulnerable against the quality of attack of Modric, Lenon.

Chelsea fans might have wondered why Bosingwa did not let the ball go out of play ,which eventually ended up in tottenham's favour. Aron Lenon's pace outwitted the chelsea defenders who gave a killing low cross to croatian international Luka Modric who made no mistake in giving the lead to spurs in 50th min.
Earlier in the first half Keane had decent chance but Peter Czech parried it away.In second half chelsea had a handful of chances. All these chelsea's attempts on goal were ended in vain as the brazilian goal keeper Gomes made no mistkae in saving them.

Final score Tottenham 1-0 Chelsea

Chelsea failed to reduce the points gap with the champions man utd.......


ARSENAL:
Arsenal finally placed themselves in the fourth place after a long time . Arsenal made trip to newcastle .


Early in the match Alumina collided with Taylor for which Newcastle united were awarded a penalty. Martins missed a golden chance to take a early lead.
New boy Arshavin combined with Bendtner worked the ball into the box , but it was goal keeper Harper who saved the goal.

Finally in the 57th min Newcastle gave away an unnecessary free kick to Arsenal who converted it into first goal with Bendtner's header. Minute after Newcastle levelled it in the form of Martins.
S.Taylor certainly saved two goals by throwing himself infront of the strikers. In 64th min while he was receiving treatment , Arsenal made use of it to take the lead for the second time in the match. This time it was Diaby who scored for Arsenal.
Three mins later combined effort of Van Persie and Nasri paid them off in the form of third goal. Samir Nasri scored his 7th goal of the season.

Final score was Newcastle 1- 3 Arsenal

Now Arsenal can atleast hope to play in next champions league.......


STANDINGS:

Rank	Team	M	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Manchester United	29	20	5	4	49	18	31	65
2	Liverpool	30	18	10	2	54	21	33	64
3	Chelsea	30	18	7	5	49	17	32	61
4	Arsenal	30	15	10	5	48	27	21	55
5	Aston Villa	30	15	7	8	43	36	7	52
6	Everton	30	13	9	8	40	31	9	48
7	Wigan Athletic	30	11	8	11	30	28	2	41
8	West Ham United	30	11	8	11	35	35	0	41
9	Fulham	30	10	10	10	30	26	4	40
10	Manchester City	30	11	5	14	46	37	9	38
11	Tottenham Hotspur	30	10	8	12	36	34	2	38
12	Bolton Wanderers	30	10	4	16	32	44	-12	34
13	Hull City	30	8	9	13	35	52	-17	33
14	Sunderland	30	8	8	14	29	39	-10	32
15	Portsmouth	29	8	8	13	32	46	-14	32
16	Stoke City	30	8	8	14	29	47	-18	32
17	Blackburn Rovers	30	7	10	13	33	49	-16	31
18	Newcastle United	30	6	11	13	36	49	-13	29
19	Middlesbrough	30	6	9	15	21	42	-21	27
20	West Bromwich Albion	30	6	6	18	26	55	-29	24

FINAL MESS!
Yet again Middlesbrough failed to hold their opposition during final 10 mins....!