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Published: Thu, 15 January 2009, 04:50, also tagged: sport, football, liverpool, soccer, champions league, manchester united, premier league, old trafford, luiz felipe scolari
Manchester United secured a comfortable 3 nil win over rival title contenders Chelsea with a confident display at Old Trafford.
Chelsea started this season strongly with some impressive displays at the helm of new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari. In recent games however, Chelsea have been below par. The relentless winning machine has been turned on its head ever since the Champions League qualifier in Rome which saw Chelsea lose 3 – 1 to an impressive Roma team.
The opposite is true for Manchester United as they didn't start this season as well as desired, albeit down to the fact they had very tough fixtures, but this is typical of them and unlike Chelsea they are improving with each game. Liverpool are still at the top but with a game in hand Manchester United are poised to be number one.
Published: Sun, 21 December 2008, 08:09, also tagged: sport, football, arsenal, liverpool, soccer, barcelona, champions league, manchester united, real madrid, uefa, bayern munich, lyon, inter milan, roma, juventus, sporting lisbon, porto, atletico madrid, villarreal, panathinaikos
The English teams have all successfully progressed to the quarter final stage of the Champions League albeit some with more of a stumble than confident progression. Manchester United, and uncharacteristically Liverpool have both progressed as first seeds, whilst (also uncharacteristically) Chelsea and Arsenal are second seeds.
Manchester United have potentially the most difficult match with José Mourinho's Inter Milan. Liverpool are matched with Real Madrid who have been less than convincing this season. Chelsea who stumbled in their away game to Roma losing 3 – 1 will face Juventus and Arsenal will play the conquerors of Chelsea; Roma. Both second seed English teams will be happy to have dodged being drawn with the on-form Barcelona.
The fixtures sure are mouth watering prospect – some of the best teams in the world will go out at the first knock-out stage of the competition. There are certainly some difficult test for the English sides, but I do see them all making the next round. I'm quite confident of Manchester United's and Liverpool's progression in current form. The only questionable fixture for me, surprisingly, is Chelsea v Juventus. Chelsea have been haphazard this season; they've displayed some of the best attacking football I've seen, but at the same time have been tamed by Arsenal and Roma.
Published: Tue, 25 November 2008, 10:06, also tagged: sport, england, football, arsenal, hull city, liverpool, soccer, 2008, 2009, manchester united, jose mourinho, dimitar berbatov, harry redknapp, premier league, manchester city, cristiano ronaldo, tottenham, juande ramos, robinho, william gallas, cesc fàbregas, luiz felipe scolari, abu dhabi united group investment and development limited
The Barclays Premier League is well under way with the usual suspects dominating, along with some surprises provided by struggling Arsenal & Tottenham and an over-performing Hull City.
Chelsea have the experienced, World Cup winning manager Luiz Felipe Scolari at the helm and have been playing some sublime football. “Big Phil Scolari” has transformed Chelsea's playing style to be more flowing and attacking concious in contrast with José Mourinho's composed defensive displays.
Manchester United remain the happy owners of Cristiano Ronaldo for at least another season after the speculation during the summer that he would be wearing a Real Madrid. The Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov has joined Man United from Tottenham and is looking like he's going to be a huge success at Old Trafford.
Published: Wed, 21 May 2008, 18:29, also tagged: sport, football, final, soccer, russia, champions league, manchester united, uefa, alex ferguson, premier league, cristiano ronaldo, john terry, frank lampard, edwin van der sar, nicolas anelka, avram grant
The final part of my prophecy has been fulfilled, Manchester United have been crowned champions of Europe by beating Chelsea 6 – 5 on penalties in the Champions League final.
The game made decent viewing for the football fan. It's matches like these that make you happy to be a neutral.
Manchester United's performance was mostly in the first half were they could have seen themselves 3 nil up. Alas both sides could only manage a single goal from their chances. Cristiano Ronaldo showed us that he's just not good with his feet but also his head, and an emotional Frank Lampard equalised close to half time for Chelsea.
Published: Thu, 15 May 2008, 10:24, also tagged: scotland, sport, football, rangers, soccer, uefa cup, russia, champions league, manchester united, zenit st petersburg
A well deserved victory from Zenit St Petersburg has given them the UEFA Cup.
Zenit outplayed Rangers much of the match and in the end comfortably beat a quiet Rangers side.
If not for the football, Rangers deserved to get beat simply for the disgusting way their supporters behaving after losing, see BBC report.