Tag: 2013-2014 season

  • Champions League – Leverkusen vs PSG Predictions

    Champions League – Leverkusen vs PSG Predictions

    It’s been a good season, especially in the Bundesliga, for Bayer Leverkusen so far. However, considering their results against big teams this season and the arrival of PSG to the Bayarena for the first leg of their Champions League knockout stage clash, they’re pretty big underdogs.

  • Champions League – Manchester City vs Barcelona Predictions

    Champions League – Manchester City vs Barcelona Predictions

    The possible dawning of a new force on European football in Manchester City, while the optional sinking of another, in a weakening Barcelona side, beginning their knockout stage, two-leg clash at the Etihad Stadium, with two South American managers who have never faced off before on the sidelines.

  • Match Highlights – Arsenal vs Liverpool

    Match Highlights – Arsenal vs Liverpool

    It wasn’t exactly revenge, but it was good enough for Arsenal, as the gunners came away with a 2-1 win over Liverpool in the FA Cup despite being the inferior side for most of the match, thanks to some help from match official Howard Webb.

  • Match Highlights – Manchester City vs Chelsea

    Match Highlights – Manchester City vs Chelsea

    The home team came to win and make the FA Cup quarterfinals. The away team? Maybe it believed that by having their manager speak more than anyone else they’ll somehow get by. Manchester City dominated this one from top to bottom, beating Chelsea 2-0.

  • Mario Balotelli With the Most Important Goal for AC Milan This Season

    Mario Balotelli With the Most Important Goal for AC Milan This Season

    The only way up since Clarence Seedorf took over as the manager of AC Milan, but it’s more than just his managerial skills that are going to save the season for this giant club, struggling in the middle of the table up to this point. Mario Balotelli hitting what might be the best goal this season in the Serie A falls under the definition of special.

  • Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Finding How to Make Steven Gerrard Useful Again

    Liverpool FC – Brendan Rodgers Finding How to Make Steven Gerrard Useful Again

    One of the best performances by Liverpool this season was their 5-0 win away against Spurs, which gave some indication that the club might be better off without Steven Gerrard playing. His return a few weeks later, and the team’s recent form, squashes that premise, although it did take some changes for Brendan Rodgers to make him important even without being the main set piece taker.

  • Manchester United – David Moyes Continues to Misuse Juan Mata

    Manchester United – David Moyes Continues to Misuse Juan Mata

    An away draw at the Emirates isn’t a bad result, but given the wider context of Manchester United winning only twice in their last ten matches, of David Moyes not even being creative enough to make up new excuses and Juan Mata finding it difficult to understand why on earth would he be used as winger makes the result a lot worse than it would have been in previous years.

  • Match Highlights – Fulham vs Liverpool

    Match Highlights – Fulham vs Liverpool

    The atrocious defending and mistake making from Martin Skrtel and Kolo Toure nearly cost Liverpool dearly, but a foolish slide from Sascha Riether gave Steven Gerrard a chance to win the match with a 90th minute penalty kick, as Fulham lead twice but eventually lost the match 3-2.

  • Match Highlights – Arsenal vs Manchester United

    Match Highlights – Arsenal vs Manchester United

    For Arsenal it was about missing an opportunity to reach the top of the table, for Manchester United it was simply another match of disappointing ability and no win, as the two teams left everyone quite disappointed with the match and the 0-0 draw.

  • FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Breaks Records Every Time he Touches the Ball

    FC Barcelona – Lionel Messi Breaks Records Every Time he Touches the Ball

    Not the grandest of displays from Barcelona, but it doesn’t matter when you have someone like Lionel Messi on the team, who didn’t just help turn the match around and win it for his team, but also set a new record for goals for just one club in Spanish football, reaching 334 career goals for Barca, surpassing Telmo Zarra.