Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Week 3 : English Premier League Review, Fun Facts, Highlights and Transfer Rumours



The third week of the Premier League was immense with many upsets and ridiculous score lines that surprised many fans. The game of the week between Manchester United and Arsenal provided us with a 10 goal thriller where United trounced Arsenal, as there season of misery continues. Wayne Rooney bagged a hat trick and remains top goalscorer. This scoreline did has put great pressure on Wenger who has yet to win a trophy in the last six seasons.
The battle of the birmingham clubs Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers ended in a  stalemate with many missed opportunities by both sets of strikers who failed to capitalise. The same scoreline was also seen in the Swansea City and Sunderland game, where the wearsiders had majority of position but could not put there name on the scoresheet.
Manchester City and Chelsea both showed on the field that money talks as they both beat there rivals convincingly, with an impressive tally notched up by Edin Dzeko. Fernando Torres is still yet to score this season and has not lived up to his $50 million price tag.
The Toon where highly impressive and remain in the top 4 as a Leon Best double secured all three points for the Tynesiders.  Liverpool , Wigan Athletic and Everton where all courageous on the field and it showed on the scorelines as they all narrowly scraped home and lifted there teams morales and more importantly there position on the table.

Highlights  - Week 3



Fun Facts:  The very first goal scored in The EPL was scored by Brian Deane from Sheffield United.  Ryan Giggs' father was also an International Footballer who represented Wales and finally Alan Shearer is still the Top Goalscorer in the EPL

Transfer Rumours
New Russian Club Anzhi Mackhachkala are rumoured to be offering English duo Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard contracts paying $13 million a year over two years.  Chelsea have their eyes on Borussia Dortmund wiz kid Ilkay Gundongan and are looking to open negotiations with him.  Roberto Mancini is looking to re-bid for Danielle De Rossi with an expected $8 million bid in the January transfers.

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