EPL Week In Review April 13th
- Chelsea should send Bolton a thank you card for there performance on Sunday. Bolton’s fight back to make it 4-3 after being down 4-0 should make it crystal clear to Chelsea that they can’t let up at all against Liverpool on Tuesday.
- Nice rebound for Liverpool shaking the cobwebs off their performance against Chelsea to beat Blackburn 4-0. Big Sam’s team like many other teams had no answer for Fernando Torres whose early goal pretty much doomed Blackburn.
- Wonder what Benni McCarthy was thinking when he found out that Christopher Samba was playing up front as a striker while he was resigned to the bench?
- Finally Middlesbrough showed some life grabbing a vital home win against Hull. After their impressive start to the season Hull can’t wish for this season to end quicker as their 34 points leaves them too close to the drop zone for comfort.
- Guess Federico Macheda isn’t a one goal wonder? Interesting to see Macheda replaced an ineffective Dimitar Berbatov and score another key goal that United paid 30 million pounds for Berbatov to score those types of goals.
- The blame will fall on Ricky Sbragia if Sunderland do go down but Roy Keane should take the lion share of the blame. It was his transfers that all but fizzled out with Pascal Chimbonda and El Hadji Diouf sold at the first opportunity. Keane taking his ball and going home mid season because he didn’t care for Sunderland new American owners shouldn’t be forgotten either.
- Tottenham and West Ham was a classic case of two teams comfortable in mid table playing with very little urgency.
- Bad week for Wigan losing 4-0 last week and 4-1 against Arsenal this week. Unless your team name is Barcelona don’t image many teams would be looking forward to playing Arsenal with the form their currently displaying.
- Despite not getting the three points Alan Sheaer can at least walk away with some positives over Newcastle’s 1-1 draw with Stoke. Unlike many other games this season Newcastle didn’t pack it in once down 1-0, they kept pressing on and got their deserved goal thanks to a well placed Andy Carroll header.
- Obafemi Martins has to go, simple as that. Minutes before a key game he pulls himself out of the lineup with a strained hamstring when he was fit all week during training. When you are a key player like Martins you have to at least make the attempt to play through that. If you can’t count on your players to give it their all, week after week they are not worth having despite having the talent that Martins processes.
- Neither Aston Villa or Everton will be pleasured with yesterday’s 3-3 draw. Martin O’Neil may sleep better knowing he is still in 5th place but he can’t be happy going down 2-0 then 3-1 at home and David Moyes can’t be happy with not being able to hold on to a two goal lead.
- Tell me again why Mark Hughes deserves to be Manchester City’s manager? City look like 11 players all doing their own thing instead of playing as a collective.
April 13th, 2009 at 6:15 am
The aston villa everton game was one of the best games of football ive seen in a long time. If you remove the big four from the league as they effectively play in a seperate four team league then fifth is sorta first of the other league (if you get me) and that was an amazing top of the table clash.