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Robin Van Persie Hat Trick Saves Manchester United at Southampton
Another less than impressive performance by Manchester United, but when you have the best striker in the Premier League, it doesn’t really matter. Robin van Persie finished with a hat trick and missed a penalty kick, giving Alex Ferguson another dramatic injury time win in his 1000th league match as the Red Devils manager.
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Santi Cazorla & Lukas Podolski Enjoy First Anfield Visit (Liverpool vs Arsenal)
Three matches into the 2012-2013 season, and Brendan Rodgers still doesn’t have a win to his name, with Liverpool falling at home to Arsenal 0-2 with two Santi Cazrola – Lukas Podolski counter attacking goals, and Arsene Wenger finally sees a win from his players this season while not picking out a single ball from their net.
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Manchester City – Carlos Tevez Sets the Tone
The champions, for the second consecutive home match, failed to put away a much weaker team. QPR caused the Manchester City defense the same problems Southampton and Liverpool did, but an awakened Carlos Tevez in the second half, with one assist to Edin Dzeko and the 90th minute goal himself ended any chance of an unlikely upset.
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Premier League – Liverpool vs Arsenal Predictions
Two matches into the season, Liverpool have yet to win, although last week’s 2-2 draw with the champions left many optimistic about what the club can do this season. Arsenal haven’t won, and haven’t scored, with Arsene Wenger settling for the offensive crew he has at the moment, which might not be enough to meet his own high expectations.
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Roundup of the 2012 Summer Transfer Deadline Deals
The last day of the transfer deadline heading into the 2012-2013 season across Europe showed how far financially English clubs are when compared with the rest of Europe, as Manchester City stood out with five signings (Javi Garcia, Maicon, Nastastic, Richard Wright, Scott Sinclair), followed by Tottenham, adding Hugo Lloris and Clint Dempsey.
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Arsenal FC – What to do With Santi Cazrola and Mikel Arteta
Two matches into the 2012-2013 Premier League season, Arsenal are still goalless after two 0-0 draws. Not conceding at Stoke, especially for Arsene Wenger’s side that constantly struggles against Pulis’ team, isn’t such a bad outcome, but the difficulty to score in the post Van Persie era does warrant a bit of worrying.
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Luis Suarez Free Kick Goal Isn’t Enough For Victory (Liverpool vs Manchester City)
It began with Martin Skrtel scoring a goal and ended with the same man setting up a goal for Carlos Tevez, ending the entertaining match between Liverpool and Manchester City with a 2-2 draw, with Luis Suarez looking great and scoring a fantastic free kick goal while Yaya Toure also got on the score-sheet to equalize for the first time.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard & Fernando Torres Combo Looking Better
If there’s one player that has stood out after a week of Premier League football, it’s Eden Hazard of Chelsea with a goal and four assists in his first three matches, involved in pretty much everything good happening on the pitch. Fernando Torres isn’t as influential, but two goals in the first three matches are better than many had hoped for.
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Manchester United – Robin Van Persie & Shinji Kagawa Barely Hide Weaknesses
As Manchester United struggled to their first win of the season, courtesy of a brilliant Robin van Persie debut goal and Shinji Kagawa putting his name on the Old Trafford score-sheet for the first time as well, everything good and bad about how this season could turn out for Alex Ferguson’s men, including a nasty injury to Wayne Rooney, unfolded through the 90 minutes.
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Robin van Persie Scores His First Goal in Style (Manchester United vs Fulham)
It was supposed to be a little bit easier for Manchester United in their first home game of the season, hosting Fulham, but eventually, it came down to David de Gea making some saves to keep United’s 3-2 lead alive till the end off of debut goals for Robin van Persie and Shinji Kagawa to highlight the win.