(Official rules) Arsenal Embarrass While Manchester City Has Egg On Its Face
No commentsBy Martin Sejas
Another interesting weekend of results in the English Premier League. There were some wonderful goals scored as well as some shock results. In total, there were 23 goals scored and 3 red cards given out.
The biggest surprise of the weekend and possibly the shock result of the season was the Arsenal’s capitulation against Hull City at the Emirates. Before I begin to analyse this game, I would like to point out that I’m a mad Arsenal supporter, and have been one for more than a decade now. This can be interpreted in 2 ways. If I praise Arsenal, then it would be seen as being biased. However, if I criticise the team, then the criticism will probably be more credible.
So given that, I have harsh criticism for Arsenal’s disgraceful performance on the weekend. It was not just disgraceful, it was also embarrassing given the quality of the players and the opposition. This is not to say that Hull City does not have a decent team, what I am saying is that a team like Arsenal should not and cannot lose to such a team especially given home advantage and current form.
Once again, football has been proven to be very unpredictable. I was only able to see the first half of Arsenal’s game due to time constraints, thankfully it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. In fact, after watching the first half, I had a feeling that this was not going to be Arsenal’s day. Throughout the entire half, we had not made the most of the opportunities, overplaying our approach to the opposing team’s goal and hence messing up what seemed great opportunities to score. We were simply trying to be too fancy, trying too hard to play a brand of football good on the eye, but not doing the most important thing, which is to score goals.
When I found out that Arsenal ended up losing the game, it was not entirely a shock given their first half performance. The thing that really summed up the game was the fact that Arsenal’s goal came from an own goal. Arsene Wenger had every right to be very angry at the players and we can only hope that Arsenal does not change its playing ways to recover from this very disappointing performance. The midweek Champions League game against Porto will tell.
The other shock result of the weekend was Manchester City’s loss against Wigan. I still can’t believe that this is the same team that recently won 6-0 in the EPL. It all goes to show that money cannot buy you success, at least in the short term. I’m of the opinion that Manchester City will not realise its potential until next season, when it is able to acquire a new group of players with the money they now have due to the takeover. I would recommend all punters to stop betting on the Blues from winning matches until next season when they should be a force.
Talking about that game, how good was the first goal by Valencia? This is up until now, the goal of the season. It flew like a bullet into the goal that the keeper barely had time to react. In fact, he didn’t react at all given the speed of the shot.
Champions League games this week should give us further clues as to which teams seem on track to having successful seasons. Football is a never-ending game and this season is only just warming up. Until next time!
Martin Sejas is the chief writer of http://www.SportsNewsFootball.com, a leading sports news football website known for its fearless and critical analysis of the major issues affecting the beloved game of football.
Why Do Some Get So Fired Up About Sports
By Aydan Corkern
Are you or someone you know a very big sports fan? These people will get all fired up about the games or the teams that they are watching. Sometimes they might get violent and end up in jail because they will get upset if their teams are losing. They might even start a bar fight because someone talked bad about their teams.
They will make bets on these games, and sometimes they might lose a lot of money. Sometimes they might go to a loan shark, which is not a good thing to do because these people aren’t nice. If you lose money to these people you better find some way to pay them back, or they will find you and you might end up in the hospital with something broken on your body.
If you really like to watch sports games and want to have fun it would be for the best of all concerned that you have a small gathering at one of your friend’s home and all of your friends are for the same teams. This is the best way for all of your friends to keep everyone from ending up in jail.
Some people really get all fired up about their favorite players. They can tell you almost every player on that team. They will also be able to tell you about how many times this team won in past years. Sometimes it seems like these people live and breathe sports. They will talk about the teams almost all the time and to whomever that will listen.
They will try to buy season tickets to all of their games. This could be for all kinds of sports. There are four different kinds of sports teams: baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. All of the different games have many different teams. These games are played all year round. So your sports fans can be watching these teams play different teams every weekend.
Sometimes these games will get in the middle of a couple’s marriage, or maybe a school function or one of your child’s activities for school. If this happens too often the problems that this can cause can really hurt the ones involved. It can cause marriage problems to come into your life. In some cases it can cause this couple to split. If you see this happening to your friends, you need to tell them and try to talk them into getting help with their problems.
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