Sinnacle Soccer Saturday
The eyes of the football world will be locked on Stamford Bridge as Chelsea will look to draw even in the race for the EPL title against leaders Manchester United. Arsenal had their 49 game undefeated steak snapped at the hands of Manchester United who will look to break a similar impressive steak by beating Chelsea at home for the first time in well over 100 games.
The rest of the EPL games are listed below
Birmingham City vs Liverpool – In what had to be considered the most important game of the season, Birmingham facing bitter rivals Aston Villa laid an egg losing 5-1. That loss now sees them in the dreaded 18th spot in the standings and now every game until the end of the season will end up being the most important. While all the pressure in on Birmingham to get at least a point Liverpool comes into this game without a care in the world. That is until Wednesday in the Champions League.
Tottenham vs Bolton – After being left for dead Bolton has proven the nay sayers wrong by picking up a couple of really important wins to see themselves out of the drop zone. They still cant breath easy. A loss in this game against Tottenham can find Bolton back in 18th spot.
Manchester City vs Fulham – Fulham had they chance to make some noise at the bottom of the table against Liverpool’s B team last week and responded with a 2-0 defeat. This is a team now resigned to life at the Championship next season.
Sunderland vs Middlesbrough – Sunderland will look to take the sting away from their 2-0 defeat at the hands of Newcastle last week but gaining at least a point versus Middlesbrough. Another point or two before the end of the season would be all that is needed for Sunderland to stay in the top division next year.
West Ham vs Newcastle – Kevin Keegan is smiling like its 1994-1995 again with Michael Owen enjoying his new role playing just behind the two strikers up front. West Ham are just looking for this season to be over and done it considering all the injuries they have had to endure.
Wigan vs Reading – These usually turn into a wild affair with both teams needing a result. Reading more so since their goal for/away record is dreadful. Both teams would walk away from this game with a point happily.
Over in Germany its just a matter of time before Bayern Munich are crowned champions. While the league leaders play tomorrow, a lost by Werder Bremen against Karlsruher and third place Schalke under new coach Fred Rutten losing to fourth place Hamburg would clinch the title for Bayern.
With Serie A not playing until Sunday looking at Spain, Real Madrid also have the title within reach. Barcelona play today against Deportivo La Coruna who has vaulted themselves out of the bottom half of the league and are one of the better teams over the last half of the year. The only other game in La Liga sees Sevilla trying to jump back into a Champions League place at least for a day on the road against Real Murcia.