CL: Olympiakos Vs. Real Madrid (Preview)

  Real Madrid will be playing their 4th match in the Champions League Group C, nicely standing top of the table with 7 points, while Olympiakos is playing at home and is 2nd place with 4 points.

As we can recollect, Robinho played a very important role in the last match which ended 4-2 for Real Madrid, the match was sensational really made us all be on edge. Real Madrid players showed their real spirit in that match and showed how much they want to win this season.

One weird observation is that Real Madrid lost a match before meeting Olympiakos, in the first match they lost 2-1 to Espanyol and now they just got a 2-0 loss against Sevilla. But i still expect Real Madrid to focus in this match and just put whatever past wins and losses aside.

Wingers Arjen Robben and Gonzalo Higuaín and the backup goal keeper Jerzy Dudek are still injured but the central defender Pepe and midfielder Wesley Sneijder are back and going to be traveling with their team mates but not sure if any of them would be able to play full 90 minutes.

Olympiakos will be missing injured defender Paraskevas Antzas and Vassilis Torossidis who was sent off in the previous match. Michal Zewlakow is back from injury and might feature in the match, although i seriously doubt he could play a full match.

My eyes will be locked on 3 main players today, ofcourse Robinho especially after his great show against Olympiakos although he wasn’t able to do much against Sevilla in the Spanish league but still its going to be different here. Another Real Madrid player to watch would be Wesley Sneijder that is if he played any part in the game. From Olympiakos the amazing midfielder Predrag Djordjevic who is 35 years old and plays as if he is 25 amazing speed and dribbling.

Real Madrid expected formation (4-1-3-2): Casillas, Sergio Ramos, Metzelder, Cannavaro, Marcelo, Heinze,  Diarra,  Sneijder, Guti, Robinho – Raúl, van Nistelrooy 

Olympiakos expected formation (4-5-1): Nikopolidis, Patsatzoglou, Julio Cesar, Zewlakow, Bravo, Archubi, Ledesma, Djordjevic, Stoltidis, Galleti, LuaLua

I expect a win for Real Madrid, maybe 2-1, in the worst situations i would expect a draw 1-1 or 2-2. But i believe we will win tonight.

Italian League: Juventus 1 – 1 Inter Milan

As usual Mancini just cant hold a score to the end of the match, this is just him, this isn’t the first time and wont be the last, Inter Milan played well during most of the match but Juventus was a powerful rival, they caused Inter Milan some trouble from time to time, and to be honest they deserved a draw, but that’s because our man here is so eager to keep the score 1-0 he just quickly go to defend where he gives the opposition the chance to slip through the lines and score. Se what he said after the match “We should have been more clinical, with a Juve that will never give up. It will serve as a lesson.” Believe me Mancini this isn’t your first lesson, this is so typical of you and your tactics, please try to learn for once in your life.

Anyway Inter Milan is still top of the table but you know even if we won the league a match between Juve and Inter just has a different taste. Its as if you are playing in a separate cup of something.

Here are the highlights:

EPL: Arsenal 2 – 2 Manchester United (Full Time)

Well, first of all a nice goal from Fabregas with the help of Eboue, Adebayor and Sagna. Arsenal returned to the fired up mode in the start of the second half, they played well, but to be honest Almunia was not so confident but he did save us from some nice shots but still shakey performance.

The  second  Manchester United  goal scored by Ronaldo was a result of a really nice Saha pass to Evra and a really bad defending job by Arsenal’s defence line. In the end gallas saved us in an amazing crazy goal.

I expected a 2-1 victory for Arsenal and they could’ve got that result, am not happy withh all arsene wenger’s substitutes I mean if they work with other teams that doesn’t mean it should always work.

Here are the goals:
Rooney Goal
Fabregas Goal
Ronaldo Goal
Gallas Goal

Do you believe that if Robin van Persie was playing that the result could’ve been better?

EPL: Arsenal 0 – 1 Manchester United (Half Time)

Ok, so we all saw that Arsenal was denied a penalty, thats not my problem my problem is that we started all fired up but eventually we just couldn’t keep the ball with us, and couldn’t handle is well enough to keep building up attacks and scoring a goal. Although we saw Gallas had a nice try and some shot here and there. Ofcourse Manchester played well but the goal is clearly a lucky goal its not because Rooney was clever or in control.

Nobody wants to see the goal again ofcourse but, here is the goal anyway, CLICK HERE.

EPL: Arsenal Vs. Manchester United (Before the whistle)

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Here is the line-up….

Arsenal Starting Line-ups:
24 Almunia
22 Clichy
10 Gallas
3 Sagna
27 Eboue
5 Toure
4 Fabregas
16 Flamini
7 Rosicky
13 Hleb
25 Adebayor

Arsenal Substitutes:
1 Lehmann
8 Diarra
19 Silva
32 Walcott
9 Da Silva
Manchester United Starting Line-ups:
1 Van der Sar
3 Evra
6 Brown
5 Ferdinand
15 Vidic
7 Ronaldo
8 Anderson
11 Giggs
4 Hargreaves
32 Tevez
10 Rooney

Manchester United Substitutes:
29 Kuszczak
22 O’Shea
17 Nani
16 Carrick
9 Saha

EPL: Arsenal Vs. Manchester United

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Arsenal will be playing their 11th match in the league, being top of the table with 26 points, while Manchester United will be playing their 12th match second in the table with 26 points. Well, this is the awaited match since the start of the season, everybody says this is the real deal, this is the true test that will show how fragile those teams are, yes its a test for both teams because to be honest they are the only two teams that has a chance in winning the league, those not only my words its fergie’s too. Well although i don’t really care what he usually says but this time he is right, only in this point, it true those teams are the only ones who can actually do it.

Statistically speaking, Premier League’s best attack (Arsenal: 22 goals scored) is playing against the best defence (Man Utd: 4 goals conceded), Arsenal averages 2.20 goals per game while Man Utd avergaes 1.73 goals.

We shouldn’t forget also that last season Arsenal won both games against Manchester United in the league. There are no new injuries reported for both teams, evra is fit and expected to feature in the match.

Arsenal’s Squad: Almunia, Lehmann, Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy, Hleb, Fabregas, Flamini, Diaby, Adebayor, Eduardo, Eboue, Walcott, Gilberto, Rosicky, Bendtner, Denilson.

Manchester United Squad: Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Brown, Simpson, Ferdinand, Vidic, Pique, Evra, O’Shea, Ronaldo, Fletcher, Hargreaves, Carrick, Anderson, Giggs, Nani, Tevez, Rooney, Saha.

I expect a scoreline of 2-1 for Arsenal, a draw is still possible but still believe Arsenal will be victorious.

Del Piero about Inter match: “it’s almost like we’re playing for the Scudetto”

I donno why players love to embarrass themselves, specially Del Piero, you are old enough not to put yourself in this situation, i know that sometimes these come as psychological mind play and so on to put fear in your opponent, but for God sake you are embarrassing yourself and your team with this kind of talk. Not only saying “The rivalry has been fierce for years, but this time it is the most tense of all, it’s almost like we’re playing for the Scudetto.” which just shows how afraid and worried you are from the match.

To be honest it is so sad to see him saying this “I feel in great shape, I do not see why I should consider retiring at the end of my current contract.”, hey old man give youngsters the chance, am not saying leave football, just stop playing it, become a couch or a scout or somthing. You ust gotta know when to hang the boots.

Spanish League: Valencia 1 – 5 Real Madrid

 They said we wont do it again, they said it was just a coincidence, they said it cant happen, real was just lucky they said, Villareal wasn’t ready. Well, we did it baby, AGAIN 5 freakin goals and against who? against Valencia, after all the warnings and the expectations that Real Madrid will fall and suffer in-front of Los Che but Los Merengues showed what they are made of and scored 5 goals.

So we are still top of the table, but by the way this wont make me change my opinion of Schuster, i still hate his guts and i think this glory isnt made by him but 100% by the stars we have. Robinho is proving day after day and goal after goal that he is NEEDED in Real Madrid, you can easily see that he is involved in all the goals.

Our next game is against Sevilla and if we play in this way then, i expect a win of at least 3-0 scoreline.

Here are the goals…

EPL: Liverpool 1-1 Arsenal

This wasn’t an easy match, not only for the players but for the fans too, i think i was on the verge of having a mixture of heart attacks and strokes all at the same time. I was on edge and just waiting for a freakin goal, we lost  lots of shots bouncing back off the sticks. Arsene Wenger seemed nervous from the start, after watching Arsenal matches for years now i have this sixth sense when i just look to his face i know if he is worried or really worried or he is realllllllllly worried. Oh he is never at ease he is always worried but there are stages. Anyway after thrashing Prague the other day 7-0 everybody was waiting for the massacre that was going to happen today, everybody wondering will it be 2-0 or 4-0 for Arsenal. Ofcourse some of the fans knew this wasn’t gonna be easy specially after Liverpool ended being the bottom of their group in the champions league. They wanted a win to regain confidence, but really Arsene Wenger’s substitutes where weird and amazing.

More to come later…

Tottenham Spurs SACKS Martin Jol, who didnt see this coming ?!!

They splashed him with cash and gave him full control, but he simply wasn’t able to reach to the level they were expecting. Do you blame them ?!

They are 18th on the EPL table, they just lost 1-2 to Getafe in the UEFA CUP, everybody expected this, we only didn’t know when.

By the way the decision to sack him was taken before getafe’s match but they waited until after the match, anyway they are hoping to get Juande Ramos Sevilla’s manager and the ex-spurs midfielder Gus Poyet as Assistant Manager who is currently Leeds Assistant Manager. But they might have to wait til the end of the season, for Sunday’s game they are giving the task to their Reserves Coach Clive Allen.

Where do you think Martin Jol would go ??

Here is the official club statement, Click Here.