Tag: English Premier League

  • English Premier League vs Spanish La Liga Football

    What is “Real football?” The success of Barcelona and the Spanish national team over the last four-five years has made many people believe that anything that isn’t a short-passing, attractive style of football is an inferior way to play the game. Michu, Swansea’s Spanish star, proves that school of thought in a recent interview.

  • Gareth Bale Scores the Own Goal of the Season

    Gareth Bale Scores the Own Goal of the Season

    Luckily for Gareth Bale and Tottenham, despite scoring an own goal, one of the most comical you’ll ever get to see, that was the closest Liverpool got to scoring this evening at White Hart Lane. Bale, who had a hand, a leg and a head in every goal in the 2-1 win, won’t be too down about nearly costing his team two or three points at home.

  • Arsenal FC – Arsene Wenger Thinks He’s Doing a Good Job

    Arsenal FC – Arsene Wenger Thinks He’s Doing a Good Job

    There’s a world of difference between what Arsenal fans expect from their team, which is Premier League titles (or at least challenging for them) and making a Champions League semifinal now and then. Too much to ask? According to Arsene Wenger, they should lower their expectations.

  • Premier League – Who Scores When

    Premier League – Who Scores When

    Contrary to popular belief, the most clutch club in the Premier League this season is not Manchester United, with “only” six goals scored during the final 15 minutes of the match but Manchester City, with 8 goals of their 20 netted in during the final stage of the 90 minutes.

  • Luis Suarez Saves the Day (Chelsea vs Liverpool)

    Luis Suarez Saves the Day (Chelsea vs Liverpool)

    For more than 60 minutes, it didn’t really look like Liverpool were planning to score, let alone win, against a superior yet lackluster Chelsea side, leading thanks to John Terry scoring from a corner kick. But Luis Suarez woke up and finally found some room, connecting with a Jamie Carragher cross to make it 1-1, keeping it that way till the end of the match.

  • Premier League – Chelsea vs Liverpool Predictions

    Premier League – Chelsea vs Liverpool Predictions

    Last season, despite a terrible 2012 and missing out on almost every goal set before them, Liverpool managed sweep Chelsea in the league, beating them at Stamford Bridge with a beautiful Glen Johnson goal and thrashing them 4-1 at Anfield, when Roberto Di Matteo was giving up the Premier League and focusing everything he had on parking the bus and winning in the Champions League.

  • Robin van Persie Opens Manchester United Win vs Arsenal

    Robin van Persie Opens Manchester United Win vs Arsenal

    It took him only three minutes to put the Arsenal chapter of his life behind him. Robin van Persie didn’t celebrate his goal, but it was him saying and cementing the fact that he’s moved on to a better place, a better team, as Manchester United cruised to a 2-1 win against a sad, weak and impotent side fielded by Arsene Wenger.

  • Premier League – Manchester United vs Arsenal Predictions

    Premier League – Manchester United vs Arsenal Predictions

    So many story lines converging into one match. Another chapter in the unfair battle between Alex Ferguson and Arsene Wenger, as Arsenal try to put the ghosts of the 2-8 defeat from last season behind them. Robin van Persie playing against his former team stands above them all.

  • Robin van Persie Goals & Referee Mistakes win it for Manchester United at Chelsea

    Robin van Persie Goals & Referee Mistakes win it for Manchester United at Chelsea

    Best match of the Premier League season so far? Probably. Manchester United, lead by a prolific Robin van Persie, enojyed a quick lead and a frantic finish that saw Chelsea left win nine men and their comeback attempts thrashed by a goal from an offside position, giving the Red Devils a 3-2 win.

  • Luis Suarez & Liverpool Robbed of Winning Goal vs Everton

    Luis Suarez & Liverpool Robbed of Winning Goal vs Everton

    In a Merseyside derby filled with a lot of tension and a lot of goals, Luis Suarez stood out in both his ability and his usual antics, scoring a goal, setting up another own goal and scoring a 93rd minute supposed winner, only to be wrongfully disallowed, leaving Everton and Liverpool at a 2-2 draw.