Saturday, March 6, 2010

Mikel Arteta scored twice, the popular striker Landon Donovan scores

EVERTON 5
- Arteta 17,
- Arteta 39,
- Garcia (og) 51,
- Donovan 82,
- Rodwell 86

HULL CITY 1
- Cairney 32

**Everton instantly lost the momentum of their previous home victory, a resounding thumping of Manchester United, with successive defeats at Sporting in the Europa League and Tottenham last Sunday.

Everton broke the deadlock through their Spanish midfielder Mikel Arteta. Osman found Yakubu on left wing, Brilliant 25-yard cross from Yakubu from wide on the left, and Arteta stabs it in at the far post. The midfielder volleyed the ball into the ground which bounced over the dive of Myhill and into the back of the net for his first goal of an injury-ravaged season.

Everton were made to pay for their penalty miss as Hull grabbed an equalising goal. Tom Cairney controlled the ball beautifully with his chest, knocked it up and hit a wonderful before unleashing a left foot shot.

Excellent work by Anichebe down the right and creates a chance for the Spaniard who scores with a cool, right-foot finish, steered around Myhill and into the right corner, 2-1 Everton lead. He's been the puppet-master today so far, a moment for Spanish midfielder.

In the 51st minute Everton did have their third goal thanks to an own goal from Garcia. Arteta's cross put the ball on the goalline and Garcia nodded it in. May have been the hat-trick but GArcia did bundle it over the line, 3-1 position for the host.

Everton scored their fourth goal of the game through the popular striker Donovan. A nice move down the left hand side released Baines who delivered a cross which found the American striker at the back post. The substitute controlled the ball before smashing it into the far corner of the net to pile on the misery for Hull City.

Great pass from Heitinga, curled into Donovan's feet on the right-side of the penalty area and he dinks a great pass to Rodwell who sweeps the ball into the goal

A great afternoon for Everton but disaster for Hull who are in the bottom three and next up welcome Arsenal to the KC Stadium.



Lineup:

Everton: Howard, Neville, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Osman (Rodwell '45), Heitinga, Arteta, Pienaar (Gosling 86), Yakubu, Anichebe (Donovan, '70)

Hull: Myhill, McShane, Mouyokolo, Zayatte, Kilbane, Garcia, Bullard (Altidore '62), Boateng, Cairney, Barmby (Geovanni 60), Zaki (Vennegoor '69).

Lampard scores, Terry proved himself for the team

CHELSEA 2
- Lampard 35,
- Terry 67

STOKE CITY 0


**John Terry will grab the headlines for all the right reasons after scoring Chelsea's second goal to help them sink Stoke and reach the FA Cup semi-finals.The home skipper has been the subject of a host of allegations about his private life of late, but headed in a Frank Lampard corner to seal the win.


Early fire from Stoke was extinguished by Frank Lampard whose fierce drive took the slightest of deflections as it flew past Thomas Sorenson.From a Chelsea corner on the left, the ball is put into the penalty area, eventually dinked towards Frank Lampard on the edge of it and he takes advantage of being teed up by John Terry by drilling a shot through a thicket of legs, off a Stoke defender and into the back of the net. Frank Lampard in scoring with yet another a deflected shot sensation.

Stoke had to thank Andy Wilkinson in the 66th minute when he cleared off the line from Anelka. Drogba's cross found the France striker unmarked at the far post and his header was stopped by Wilkinson with Sorensen struggling.

But two minutes later Chelsea went 2-0 in front through captain Terry. He planted a firm header into the net from a corner by Florent Malouda and then ran to the corner flag pointing at his captain's armband in celebration.



Teams :


Chelsea: Hilario; Ferreira, Terry, Alex, Ivanovic; Lampard, Malouda, Obi Mikel; Anelka, Drogba, Kalou

Stoke City: Sorensen; Wilkinson, Huth, Collins, Faye; Whelan (Pugh 46), Whitehead, Delap, Sanli (Lawrence 60); Fuller, Sidibe (Kitson 61)

Terrific Carrew, send to Wembley and an FA Cup semi-final clash against Chelsea.

READING 2
- Long 27,
- Long 42

ASTON VILLA 4
- Young, A 47,
- Carew 51,
- Carew 57,
- Carew (pen) 90

**A thrilling FA Cup quarter-final at the Madejski Stadium between Reading and Aston Villa finished in favour of the Premier League side after a ruthless second-half comeback from the Villans saw them book their spot in the last four of the competition.

Reading were full of confidence and after a set of corners they breached the Premier League side's defence for the first time. From the first corner, Tabb volleyed at goal from Sigurdsson's delivery, but the ball hit Dunne and went out just wide for another. However, the second delivery was even better, Mills flicking on to Long who headed in from the back post to give his side the lead.

Sigurdsson intercepted a Villa passing move and initiated his side's break. The Icelander turned and produced a slide-rule through ball which sliced open the back-tracking Villa defence. Kebe ran on to the ball and cut it back across the six-yard box where Long again, finished off the move by passing the ball past a helpless Friedel.

The Villa manager must have said something inspirational at the break as his side came flying out of the traps and struck back instantly. Good delivery into the danger area was missing in the first half but Downing's pass into the box that lead to the goal had quality and Carew flicked it onto Cuellar who in turn prodded the ball onto Young, who hammered the ball into the net from the back-post.

Reading had no time to react when less than five minutes later, their lead was wiped out completely.

Downing breezed down the right, looked up and delivered a delicious left-foot curling cross that slapped off Carew's forehead and bulged into the net to make it two apiece.

Young drew his markers on the left before disguising a pass which got Warncok in behind and the left-back crossed into the centre of the box where Carew finished low and accurately into the right side of goal for his second of the game.

After a period in which they appeared completely shell-shocked, the Royals seemed to wake up with a quarter of the match to go and Sigurdsson nearly drew them level but for the head of Ashley Young who cleared his effort off the line.

Aston Villa had to hold on as the game wound to a close but all hopes of any Reading comeback were snuffed out completely when Milner was fouled in the box and a penalty was awarded, which Carew converted from the spot.

It was game over and brave Reading's FA Cup run was finally halted in a thrilling game.



Teams :

Reading: Federici; Ingimarsson, Griffin, Mills, Bertrand; Tabb, Howard (Gunnarsson 59), freedom, Sigurdsson; Long, Church (Rasiak 71)

Villa:
Friedel; Collins, Dunne, Warnock, Cuellar; Petrov, Downing (Sidwell 90), Milner, Young; Heskey, Carew


Source : http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/85/england/2010/03/07/1822161/reading-2-4-aston-villa-john-carew-hat-trick-sends-villa-into-fa-

Two first half goals from Davies and Wilshere secured a vital away victory against relegation.

WEST HAM UNITED 1
- Diamanti 88

BOLTON WANDERERS 2
- Davies, K 10,
- Wilshere 16


**Two first half goals, including a first for Jack Wilshere, saw Bolton Wanderers secure a vital win at West Ham United, a victory that sees them leapfrog the Hammers in the table and ease their own relegation fears.

Bolton's goals came from their right flank, where Lee Chung-yong was good ascendant, in the tenth minute, the striker heading home a right wing cross from Chung-Yong Lee to hand the visitors the perfect start.

Six minutes later, Tomkins attempted to usher it out of play and Davies stole in to poke it towards the centre. To their credit, two Bolton players had ventured into the penalty area, gambling on the possibility of their captain winning the ball. One of them, Tamir Cohen, headed down and the other, Jack Wilshere, volleyed into the net.

At the last minute The home side tried to respond immediately with Alessandro Diamanti going close with a free-kick that found the roof of the Bolton net, but seconds later they were two down courtesy of Jack Wilshere and some poor West Ham defending.

Time ended without more goals achieved by both teams 1-2 result final, the visitors to victory.



Teams:

West Ham United :Robert Green, Matthew Upson, Jonathan Spector, James Tomkins, Scott Parker, Radoslav Kovac (Junior Stanislas, 76), Julien Faubert (Kieron Dyer, 47), Valon Behrami, Luis Guillermo Franco (Ahmed Hossam Mido, 67), Carlton Cole, Alessandro Diamanti

Bolton Wanderers :Jussi Jaaskelainen, Paul Robinson, Zat Knight, Gretar Steinsson, Sam Ricketts, Fabrice Muamba, Tamir Cohen, Chung-Yong Lee, Jack Wilshere (Matt Taylor, 78), Johan Elmander (Ricardo Gardner, 75), Kevin Davies, K

Fabregas, Walcott and Arshavin goal, secure the position in the table

ARSENAL 3
- Fabregas 34,
- Walcott 60,
- Arshavin 90

BURNLEY 1
- Nugent 50

**Theo Walcott scored the all-important goal as Arsenal beat Burnley 3-1 at Emirates Stadium on Saturday to draw level on points with Chelsea at the top of the Premier League table.

Cesc Fabregas fired the home side into a first-half lead but then hobbled off before the break. As a result his participation against Porto on Tuesday night may be in the balance.

However Arsenal kept their composure and should have seen off the Turf Moor team long before they equalised through David Nugent five minutes after half-time.

Walcott, who had come under fire for his England performance in midweek, gave the home side the lead 10 minutes later with a classy finish. Arsenal created a barrel-load of chances all afternoon but they only felt truly comfortable when substitute Andrey Arshavin fired home in injury time.

Like last week, this was a vital win tainted by an important injury.

However Arsenal's title bid remains on target.

It was almost a week since Aaron Ramsey had broken his leg but the issue was clearly still lodged deep in Arsenal hearts. The side came out with "Get Well Soon Aaron" on specially-made T-shirts meanwhile a banner in the crowd urged the players to "Do it for Rambo".

The absence of Ramsey and the suspension of Alex Song had created vacancies in midfield. The fit-again Denilson (calf) came in for the Cameroon international while Samir Nasri was moved into the centre to replace Ramsey. Tomas Rosicky returned on the left.

Sol Campbell (groin) was switched for Mikael Silvestre at centre half meanwhile there was rotation at right back with Bacary Sagna dropping out and Emmanuel Eboue dropping back. Walcott also came back into the side.

Before that furious fallout had drawn the all the back page headlines, Arsenal had actually won a vital football match last Saturday. The visit to Stoke was seen as one of the toughest of the remaining fixtures and Wenger's men had come through at the death.

A four-goal win would put Arsenal top at the final whistle today. But any kind of victory would do. The title race was entering its final quarter and Wenger's side had a strong a case as anyone.

They certainly started this game as if they meant business.
In the opening minutes, Fabregas prodded Bendtner clear. However the Dane was under pressure and his shot was deflected wide. From the corner resulting corner Rosicky drifted a volley just wide.

Although Clarke Carlisle's header tested Manuel Almunia in response, Arsenal's start had been as bright as the watery sunshine around Emirates Stadium this afternoon. And once again, Walcott was a livewire on the right.

In fact that flank was Arsenal's best outlet in the opening stages. After 14 minutes, Eboue's elaborate backheel allowed Fabregas to fire across the face of goal.

It seemed that the home side would take over but they didn't. In fact Burnley troubled Almunia a couple of times from distance through Daniel Fox and Martin Paterson.

The second of those efforts came after a long delay after Nasri collided with Burnley keeper Brian Jensen. The Frenchman would recover and, in the 34th minute, supply the opening goal.

Faced with the massed ranks of the Burnley defence, the former Marseilles man chipped through an expert pass for Fabregas to collect. The captain timed his run to perfection and volleyed home adroitly. The Spaniard's goal ratio is now better than one goal every two games this season.

It should have 2-0 a minute later. Fabregas slid a pass to Eboue who was overlapping on the right. He cut the ball back but the sliding Bendtner skewed the ball wide.

It would be the last contribution Fabregas made this afternoon. He pulled up shortly afterwards and was replaced by Abou Diaby. With Porto arriving on Tuesday for a knife-edge Champions League tie, Wenger will be a worried man during the next couple of days.

The loss effected Arsenal until the break but they were renewed after it. Again Walcott was the architect.
First he sent over a deep cross that an unmarked Bendtner nodded wide from eight yards out. Then the England man raced into space and fired inches over the bar.

Arsenal's second seemed to be minutes away so Burnley's equaliser was nothing short of a shock. The home side cleared a corner and Leon Cort's long, bouncing header somehow found Nugent in the area. The ex-England striker flicked a shot over Almunia and into the net. Except for a pocket of Burnley fans in one corner, Emirates was aghast.

Walcott was still Arsenal's best option and he did his best to remedy the situation. First he set up Bendtner then he tried himself only for Jensen to turn the ball wide.

On the hour, he finally found the net.

Bendtner nudged a pass to Walcott on the right. The 20-year-old cut inside Fox and fired a low, left-foot shot into the far corner. It might have been only his second goal of the season but the strike smacked of class.

Arsenal immediately went in search of another. They clearly did not want to be caught out once again.

Andrey Arshavin, who had replaced Rosicky, fired wide. Meanwhile Bendtner seemed to have embarked on his own individual crusade for a goal. The Dane was having a hit-and-miss afternoon but his tenacity was admirable.

He should have scored at the far post from Walcott's low cross but could only fire wide. Then he chased down is own mistake and eventually thumped a rising shot in the arms of Jensen.

When he was replaced by Eduardo with 15 minutes left, Bendtner got a rousing reception.

The Croatian should have killed the game with 12 minutes left but, from another Walcott cross, he nudged the ball beyond the far post.

The narrowness of the lead fired Burnley's optimism in the latter stages. They kept going and stretched the Arsenal defence at times, however Almunia was only troubled once.

In the dying minutes, Fox fired over the corner and the keeper's punch fell to Steven Thompson who fired over the bar. A massive opportunity.

Arsenal were still creating, and missing their own. Seconds later Arshavin sidefooted wide. In injury time, the Russian finally ended the argument with a low drive.



Teams Lineup :

Arsenal: Almunia, Eboue, Silvestre, Vermaelen, Clichy, Denilson, Rosicky (Arshavin 60), Fabregas (Diaby 39), Nasri; Bendtner (Eduardo 74), Walcott

Burnley: Jensen; Mears, Cort, Carlisle, Fox; Paterson (Thompson 74), McDonald (Elliott 53), Alexander (Bikey 65), Cork, Eagles; Nugent

Source : http://www.arsenal.com

Monday, March 1, 2010

Pavlyuchenko and Luka Modric's scored to send Tottenham secure a second successive league victory

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR 2
- Pavlyuchenko 11,
- Modric 28

EVERTON 1
- Yakubu 55

**Tottenham Hotspur successful takes four positions standings from Manchester City. Play the game to 28 against Everton, Spurs managed to silence his visitor with a score 2-1.

Compete at White Hart Line, Sunday (28/2/2010), in general the game in balance. However, the Spurs played more effectively so that they can win the game.

Spurs winning goal was donated by Roman Pavlyuchenko and Luka Modric are printed in the first round. While one goal of the visitors return printed by Ayegbeni Yakubu.

With this victory, while the Spurs to re-fill the four positions standings with 49 points Raihan. The Lilywhites have the same points with Manchester City but have a goal difference better.

Match path

Spurs do not have to wait long to be superior over Everton. When the game has been running for 11 minutes, the team from North London was a success thanks to the sliding open the benefits of receiving feedback Pavlyuchenko crossing Jermain Defoe.

Spurs kept attacking Everton. The results 17 minutes later, the child care was succeeded Harry Redknapp double advantages. Modric kick through Tim Howard's goal for the second time after receiving assists from Niko Kranjcar.
The 2-0 score stood until halftime.



The Toffees eventually managed to make a reply on goal 55 minutes from the heat in front of goal Spurs. Ball header from Jack Rodwell after receiving a corner kick received by Yakubu and successfully converted into goals.

However, after that no more goals and Spurs were created to ensure the victory with a 2-1 final score.

Teams

Tottenham: Gomes; Bassong, Dawson, Bale, Corluka, Palacios, Huddlestone (Kaboul 53 '), Modric, Krancjar, Defoe (Gudjohnsen 71'), Pavlyuchenko (Crouch 82 ')

Everton: Howard; Distin, Heitinga, Baines, Neville, Arteta, Osman (Jagielka 46 ')), Yakubu, Rodwell (Vaughan 81'), Pienaar, Anichebe (Donovan 63 ')

Gerrard & Torres Ensure Victory At Anfield

LIVERPOOL 2
- Gerrard 20,
- Torres 44

BLACKBURN ROVERS 1
- Andrews (pen) 40

**Liverpool win 2-1 at 28 week English League. Entertain Blackburn Rovers, the Reds won 2-1 thanks to goals that scored by Steven Gerrard and Fernando Torres.

At Anfield, Sunday (28/2/2010), Liverpool winning first through Steven Gerrard in the 20th minute. The visitors had equalized through a penalty executions Keith Andrews in the 40th minute, before Torres ensure victory with a goal host in 43 minutes.

This is the first victory in English League Liverpool after the two previous matches Manchester City 0-0 balanced and subject to Arsenal by 0-1. An additional three points to make the Kop are now collecting 48 points and had six positions go mandarins.

Create Blackburn, the defeat of the 12 it makes them not depart from the board mid-table. With 34 total points accumulated, they are stuck in position 12.

Match path

When the game has been running for two minutes, Blackburn had threatened goalkeeper Pepe Reina guarded. Christopher Samba header from a distance with the keeper caught the Spanish origin.

Nine minutes later, Blackburn returned to threaten Liverpool's goal. Nikola Kalinic kick receiving from Morten Gamst Pedersen ball veered to the right side of the goal.

Despite the continued attack by the visitors, but Liverpool managed to excel even in the first 20 minutes by foot Gerrard. Liverpool skipper was receiving feedback from Yossi Benayoun and then took him to the left side of the goal and let rip a loud kick Paul Robinson's goal. This is the eighth goal was England international players throughout this season.

Reina was forced back by a squad of hard work Sam Allydarce landing. Goalkeepers numbered 25 should be back to catch the ball jump Pedersen kick from close range.

Chance the home team doubled the advantage 30 minutes. However, the header from Dirk Kyut still extended to the left side of the Blackburn goal after receiving feedback Gerrard.

Jamie Carragher disastrous for the team at minute 40. England defender's conduct in the box handsball forbidden fruit gift penalty. Keith Andrews successfully directing the ball into the bottom right Reina's goal and score automatically changed to 1-1.

Four minutes later, Liverpool managed to lead. This time through cooperation between Maxi Rodriguez - Torres. The last player called successful kick off at close range and made his team leading 2-1. Score stood until halftime ..



The Reds again get a chance in the 54th minute. Gerrard free-kick from the right side of the field greeted by Daniel Agger header. But the ball is not on target due to float above Robinson's goal.

Robinson returned to rescue a hit four minutes later. He denied Kuyt header leading to the lower left corner of Gerrard assists.

Blackburn who continued to fight trying to find goals penyama counterattack. El Hadji Diouff provide feedback to David Hoilett, but on the left side field can still be anticipated Reina.

The rest, the game went relatively flat. And there is no threat means that waged by the two teams that competed.

New in 83 minutes, the hosts back Gerarrd create opportunities through which to accept the ball from Kuyt. But score changed frustrated because his shot was deviated far to the left of the visitors goal.

Blackburn are still left, trying to equalize in the last minute game. Effort will be made by the Samba but it did not work into goals. Finally, the long whistle to signal the game there is no goal is created. Score remained at 2-1 to win the number of Liverpool.

Teams

Liverpool: Pepe Reina, Daniel Agger, Jamie Carragher; Fabio Aurelio (Emiliano Insua '39); Javier Mascherano; Lucas; Steven Gerrard; Maxi Rodriguez; Dirk Kuyt; Fabio Aurelio; Yossi Benayoun (Ryan Babel '81); Fernando Torres (David Ngog '89)

Blackburn: Paul Robinson; Gael Givet; Christopher Samba; Martin Olsson (Pascal Chimbonda '51); Michel Salgado; Morten Gamst Pedersen; Keith Andrews; Nzonzi Steven (Vince Grella '60); David Hoilett (Jason Roberts '65); El - Hadji Diouff; Nikola Kalinic



Source : http://soccerblogvideo.blogspot.com