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Manchester City was 2-0 just after 17 minutes; two defensive mistakes gave Siem de Jong chance to score two quick goals. In a must win match City fought had but at the end may be they did not fought hard or they should have let the two goals in the first place.
Playing in a group of death, City had difficult winning games and still searching for first win in this season Champions league. Following Real Madrid vs Borrusia Dortmund draw, Mancini boys with just two points need to beat Real Madrid and Borrusia Dortmund and pray Ajax to beat Real Madrid. For any football fan will agree that this is a very tall order.
Manchester City vs Ajax goals summary
Ajax 0-1 Siem de Jong 10′
Ajax 0-2 ( Siem de Jong 17′
Man City 1-2 Yaya Toure 22′
Man City 2-2 Sergio Aguero 74′
Manchester City vs Ajax video highlights of all goals
Premier league leaders Chelsea FC favorite against Norwich
Di Mateo players leads both Premier league and champions’ league group E. In previous match Chelsea grabbed famous victory at Emirates and massive 4-0 victory over FC Nordsjaelland. Their new attacking style supported by several midfielders has made life difficult for the opponents. Norwich is still winless in the league after 6 matches, their worst league star record. Having been beaten 5-0 by Fulham and league opening game and 2-5 by Liverpool in last match, the canaries will strangle against Chelsea. It could be a match for Torres to grab a goals and Di Mateo to try starting Victor Moses from first half.
Manchester United are not in god form yet, and they have been more dependent on Robin Van Persie. A trip to Newcastle would not be a nice test for United at this moment. In the last 3 matches Red Devils fails to be Newcastle. The Magpies are strong and they have good record on their home ground, In the last 13 games they recorded nice record 9W, 3D, 1L at Sports Direct Arena. The two top Newcastle hitman Papiss Cisse and Demba Ba will be great fear for shaky United’s defense line with Demba Ba seems to be on form, 6 goals in 6 matches. If history can be counted on this tie, United seems to have top scorers vs Newcastle.
Wayne Rooney 10 EPL goals vs Newcastle, best than against any club
Paulo scholes has score 9 against Newcastle, more than he has score against any EPL club.
Robin Van Persie, last season EPL top scorer, has scored 5 in last 5 EPL start and looks more sharp.
Manchester City so far won three games, in two of them they had to fight for last minute winners, 80' goals by Samir Nasri vs Southampton and 87' goal by Edin Dzeko vs Fulham. In the three draws except for draw against Stoke, they were dominated by both Liverpool and Arsenal and they could easily loose these games. At Etihad City has unbeaten record in 32 matches, 29W, 3D, 0L. The league champions face Sunderland which had four consecutive draws before a narrow win in last match. The on form Steven Fletcher scored 5 goals in as many matches will be an hidden threat to City. The champions will be coming from disappointed performance in champions league on which they survived defeat thank to Joe Hart saves.
Stokes failed to win at Anfield in 49 games 0W 10D, 39L and are not likely to change the record this weekend. Brendan Rodgers players grabbed comfortable win in previous game 5-2 vs Norwich by let Udinese come from behind and won in Europa League 3-2. Liverpool manager made mistake to not let in Luis Suárez, Steven Gerrard, Raheem Sterling earlier, as when they were introduced, the damage has already been done. Suárez is in good form, score hat-trick vs Norwich and one vs Udinese were he could have scred more if player full time.
Great football by Bundesliga back to back champions, Borrusia Dortmund whose attacking force made Joe Hart work for almost from the first to the final whistle.
Fantastic performance by Joe Hart with 8 saves which at the end earned city a crucial draw. The visitor went infront on following mistake by Jack Rodwell on which speeding Marco Reus took advantage and beat Hart. Premier league champions equalized through a controversial penalty converted by Mario Balotelli. Balotelli have so far been City penalty taker, scored five from five, quit a fantastic record.City were not only in need of this point, but to avoid Dortmund taking three points. Rooney commented on twitter singling out Joe Hart as a great golie.
Elsewhere in the same group, Real Madrid thrashed Ajax 4-1, second hat-trick for Criatiano Ronaldo in two games and nice bycycle kick goal by Karim Benzema. Ronaldo had now scored 158 goals for Real Madrid in 154 appearances.
Manchester United travel to Manchester City in
crucial Manchester derby is more likely to be the decider for Premier league
champion this season. Sir Alex Ferguson singled the tie as one of those unique ties “It means everything, ... “Everything. Going into work on Tuesday
morning will feel like the most important day of their lives. For both
sets of supporters“.
With three matches on hand for each teams and United
having 3 points advantage but four goals short on goal difference compared to
City, the tie could be tell who win the league. Even a draw will be better
results for United who will then maintain three points advantage. For Mancini
a win is a must to level point and go top of the table with goal difference
advantage.
If City defeat defending champion on this tie, the results of who
win the league will still depend who perform better in final two matches of
which City seems to have more ambitious opponents. If both City and United win their final two
games, the more goals one score could still determine the league champion.With this options, United still have a bigger chance to clinch 20th league title
The final United and City fixtures
Newcastle United vs Manchester City
Manchester United vs Swansea City
Manchester City vs
Queens Park Rangers
Sunderland vs Manchester United
Manchester derby history
Manchester United has won more derbies than city
67 vs 44, but since the new premier league start, the record stands at 13 vs 10
in favor of United. This swing of United vs City win might still be changing in
favor of City because of the recent investment done at City. With this
investment city have became more superior than other EPL top clubs and Mancini quoted proving this fact "We have 22 points more than Chelsea, who
are in the Champions League final, and 14 more than Arsenal - and 31 more than
Liverpool.
Previous league tie saw United defeated by 6-1, heaviest United defeat in this derby, but they also one defeated City 5-0 in 1994. The 6-1 score mean nothing to the upcoming tie, it is a totally a new game. The best game plan or individual player magic like would be crucial. Most fans would like to see luck or referee decision pick the winner.
Manchester City were forced to fightback from 3-1 down to earn one point with 3-3 draw against Sunderland at Etihad Stadium and surrender 100% home back to back wins record. Two superb strikes from Mario Baloteli and Aleksandar Kolarov were to much for Sunderland golie and City leveled the score on 86 minute. Mario Baloteli score twice and prove Mancini wrong, as the manager said he does not trust Baloteli. Mancini boys would have grabbed a win if they had more time as Sunderland players seemed tied of resisting City pressure.
City had had a poor run recently, surrendering lead at premier league summit after draw with Stoke City and if Manchester United win against Blackburn, the red devils will be 5 point clear at the top. United will be looking for three points in tough game against relegation zone fighters Blackburn and if possible they will try to get more goals as possible to nourish their goal difference. A record 20th premier league title for United is right at the corner and they would love it more as they are competing with their biggest rival.
Manchester City vs Sunderland goal summary
Sebastian Larsson (31') 0-1
Mario Balotelli (pen 43') 1-1
Nicklas Bendtner (45') 1-2
Sebastian Larsson (55') 1-3
Mario Balotelli (85') 2-3
Aleksandar Kolarov (86') 3-3
Manchester City vs Sunderland video highlights of all goals
Manchester City maintained 100% home record this season after snatching 3-2 victory in five-goal thriller. Samir Nasri opened the score line with fantastic goal after super vision and assist from David Silva, the leading top assistor in premier league this season. Joleon Lescott went in with the ball to make it 2-0. Jermain Defoe capitalized on defence error to pull one back before Gareth Bale superb direct volley to level the score 2-2.
Then came Jermain Defoe miss in final minutes, he just miss timed the ball following good effort from Bale. Spurs then have to pay the price, Mario Balotelli fouled by Ledley King in penalty box, Balotelli converted the spot kick on 94 minutes. Salute to Roberto Mancini for Balotelli substitution, he looked dangerous with every ball despite controversial fouls which look like the good, the bad and Balotelli pointed out in soccernet.com. City remain 3 points clear at the top of premier league table after United 2-1 victory over Arsenal.
Tottenham hotspurs starting lineup and subs: Brad Friedel, Ledley King, Joleon Lescot, Younes Kaboul, Benoit Assou-Ekotto, Kyle Walker, Scott Parker, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Aaron Lennon (Steven Pienaar), Jermain Defoe and Rafael Van der Vaart (Jake Livermore).
Manchester City starting lineup and subs: Joe Hart, Stefan Savic, Gaël Clichy, Micah Richards, Gareth Barry, James Milner, David Silva, Samir Nasri, Edin Dzeko (Mario Balotelli) and Sergio Agüero.
Steven Gerrald taking penalty kick in Carling cup first leg tie with Manchester City
City went to the game without defense back bone Vicent Kompany who saw his appeal for four matches ban after two feet tackle on Nani on FA Cup third round turned down. Steven Gerrard converted a penalty kick on 12th minute have Daniel Agger fouled by Stefan Savic.
City also lacked the service of David Silva (Injured), Ivorian internationals Yahaya Toure, Kolo toure who went to the African Cup of Nations. Having being knocked out of Champion league and FA cup, City boys have to pull their socks and try win the second leg Carling cup tie or else they will be knocked out in third title challenge. Mancini and his boys also have to concentrate on winning the Barclays premier league and have advantage of being three points ahead of Manchester United and Tottenham Spurs. Man City manager is expecting to sign new face in January Premier league transfer window to cover for African players.
Watch Carling cup Liverpool vs Manchester City video highlights
Tottenham Spurs meet in the game that was postponed on premier league opening day. The on form Spurs won 2-0 to level point with United and only three point behind Manchester City and eight point clear from fourth placed Chelsea that are a point on top of Arsenal. The goals come from Aaron Lennon on 35th and then came the super striker goals by Benoit Assou-Ekotto on 63rd which assured Tottenham of three points. Tottenham hotspurs are on the right right course to mark their fight for premier league title and prove their wealth in sport world.
Benoit Assou Ekotto firing a ball to score a superb goal for Tottenham.
Manchester united won 3-2 against ten men Manchester City in Manchester derby FA cup match. City played almost 80 minutes with ten men and yet managed to threat United win and nearly snatched an equalizer on final minutes.
Kompany was sent off for raised to foot tackle, at least that is what Chris Foy thought and ended City FA cup dream. Replay show Kompany tackling with two feet but extended his right foot wide and stopped the ball with the inside on the right foot. There was little contact with Nani who did not fall down and the superb tackle. It was a two raise foot tackle, but does that alone qualify it to be a serious foul play?
"We will do an appeal and I am sure that we will win an appeal Roberto Mancini said and went on to add. "There is no way Vincent shouldn't play against Liverpool in the Carling Cup semi-final on Wednesday."
Mancini is very confident he will be able to turn around the red card decision. added: "I don't want to talk about this incident. It was 300% not a sending off." He added.
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If the red card stand Kompany will face four match ban, which include two Carling cup semi final legs against Liverpool and tough premier league match against the on form Tottenham Spurs. With Yahya and Kolo Toure already left for African cup of Nations, City will try their best to see the ban removed or even reduced by FA.
Liverpool (h) Carling Cup semi-final first leg
Wigan (a) Premier League
Tottenham (h) Premier League
Liverpool (a) Carling Cup semi-final second leg.
According to FIFA laws of the game, send-off qualify when it is a serious foul play. Below are the Sending-Off Offenses in Law 12 - Fouls and misconduct.
A player, substitute or substituted player is sent off and shown the red card if he commits any of the following seven offenses:
1. is guilty of serious foul play
2. is guilty of violent conduct
3. spits at an opponent or any other person
4. denies the opposing team a goal or an obvious goalscoring opportunity
by deliberately handling the ball (this does not apply to a
goalkeeper within his own penalty area)
5. denies an obvious goalscoring opportunity to an opponent moving
towards the player’s goal by an offence punishable by a free kick
or a penalty kick
6. uses offensive or insulting or abusive language and/or gestures
7. receives a second caution in the same match
Law 12 Decision 4 A tackle, which endangers the safety of an opponent, must be sanctioned as serious foul play.
Manchester City moved three points at the top of the premier league table with 3-0 victory over Liverpool after losing to Sunderland last game. Manchester United had opportunity last week to top the league but they squander their chance, today they have chance to go level on points with League leader if they beat Newcastle United. It is unthinkable to imagine them winning by 9 goals difference and top the league but this season had many surprising results and one cannot rule out this difficult scenario. Sergio Aguero opened the score, followed by YahyaToure and James Milner nailed the third goal despite Barry being red carded 2 minutes ago. Aguero add his goal tallies to 14 and go level with Demba Ba, three goals behind Robin Van Persie.
Manchester City failed to capitalize on Chelsea and Manchester City slip up as they surrender all three points to Sunderland with 1-0 defeats. Video replay showed Ji was offside before he score but linesman was poorly positioned to see.
Chelsea FC have secured a third consecutive crucial win after beating premier league leaders Manchester City 2-1 at Stamford Bridge and registered the first league loss for Mancini's boys and end Manchester City unbeaten run.
The win came after two over victories against Newcastle (3-0) and champions league decider match against Valencia (3-0). Having fall a goal behind just on second minutes after Mario Balotelli score the opener, Andre Villas-Boas's club was able to fight back and level the score on 34' minute through Raul Meireles. Manchester City were reduced to ten men after Gael Clicly received two yellow card and a third City red card in 6 premiership games. City self destruct continue when Joleon Lescott handed a ball on penalty box and Frank Lampard netted to give Chelsea a winner on 82'. Lampard who missed a penalty kick against Newcastle is now on level with 7 goals for Chelsea as Daniel Sturridge.
Once again Andre Villas-Boas praised his team 'Going 1-0 down so early in the game made things very difficult because it gave Man City even more motivation and belief,' He said.
Chelsea ended poor run of loosing to big teams having lost to Manchester United (3-1), Arsenal (5-3) and Liverpool (2-0) and move to third place, 7 points behind the league leaders and 5 behind second place Manchester United.
Chelsea vs Manchester City Video highlights of all goals. szólj hozzá: Che 2-1 Mac Chelsea vs Manchester City goal scorers
Premier league resumed after Carling cup quarter final matches which left Chelsea and Manchester United dumped out by Liverpool and Crystal Palace respectively. Great premier league results for top five teams as they all secured important wins.
Robin Van Persie score again to remain current top premier league scorer
Manchester City remain five points clear premier league summit
The league leader, Manchester City resumed to winning ways with a 5-1 win over Norwich to remain unbeaten in premier league. Sergio Agüero (32'), Samir Nasri (51'), Yaya Touré (68'), Mario Balotelli (88') and Adam Johnson (90') on score sheet for Manchester City. Steve Morison score the only consolation goal for Norwich. szólj hozzá: Man City vs Norwich 5:1
Narrow win for Manchester united to stay second as couple of injuries face both clubs
Phil Jones scored his first goal for Manchester United and the only goal of the matches to secure victory over Aston Villa and prolong United record over Villa to 16 years. Injuries continue mounting for both clubs as Hernandez, Shay Given and Jermaine Jenas got injured during the game.
Tottenham 6th consecutive win record add pressure on Coyle
Tottenham Hotspur scored three goals through Gareth Bale (7'), Aaron Lennon (50') and Jermain Defoe (60') to put more pressure on Coyle, Bolton Wanderers manager. With Sunderland's manager already out pressure is mounting for other manager at the bottom of the table. Tottenham mark a new record with six consecutive wins to go third.
Crucial victory for Chelsea ahead of Valencia and Manchester City games
Chelsea managed to collect all three points and three goals at Newcastle Sports Authority stadium a big boost ahead of crucial games against Valencia and Manchester City. Andre Villas-Boas was impressed by team performance despite failure of Chelsea player to convert easy chance especially by Didier Drogba, Daniel Sturridge Penalty miss by Frank Lampard. Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou and Daniel Sturridge were all on score sheet for Chelsea to go above Newcastle in the premiership log. Chelsea had difficult task putting off the on form Demba Ba who could have forced David Luiz red card on third minute but Chelsea were luck.
Andre Villas-Boas commented on solid performance and went on to say “3-0 was probably slightly excessive, but we were coming up against a team on a great run and with one of the best defences in the league, we did fantastically well, and it was the fairest of results” szólj hozzá: Newcastle vs Chelsea 0:3 MOTD
Arsenal's top hit man, Robin Van Persie score his 14th goal to send Arsenal to 5th
Arsenal crushed Wigan Athletic 4-0 with goals coming from four different player Mikel Arteta (28'), Thomas Vermaelen (29'), Gervinho (61') and the current premiership top scorer Robin Van Persie (78') who added his goals tally to 14. Arsenal have now moved to fifth place in the Barclays Premier League table as Wigan being sent to 20th position due to poor goal difference.
Cristiano Ronaldo is off the mark for La liga top scorers, European top scorersand European Golden Shoe for competions as the Real Madrid striker is looking forward to top the European top scorer table once again in 2011-2012.
The portugeuse striker score hat-trick in La Liga opening match in 6-0 victory against Real Zaragoza. He he currently tied up with three goals with Roberto Soldado, Valencia striker who also scored hat-trick on 4-3 victory for Valencia against. Lionel Messi ranked third with two goals in his account. Ronaldo scored 40 goals last season to win European golden boot and make new La Liga record.
1
Cristiano Ronaldo
Real Madrid
3
2
Roberto Soldado
Valencia
3
3
Lionel Messi
Barcelona
2
4
Imanol Agirretxe
Real Sociedad
2
5
Álvaro Negredo
Sevilla FC
2
In premier league, Edin Dzeko banged four goals in 5-1 Manchester city victory against Bolton to lead the top goal scorers table with 6 goals.
Wayne Rooney scored hattrick in 8-2 victory over Arsenal and jumped to second position. Dzeko will have to face tough competition to clich the EPL top scorers award, let alone the European top scorers post.
1
Edin Dzeko
Manchester City
6
2
Wayne Rooney
Manchester United
5
3
Ivan Klasnic
Bolton Wanderers
3
4
Sergio Agüero
Manchester City
3
5
Ashley Young
Manchester United
2
Three strikers Klaas-Jan Huntelaar from Schalke 04, Mario Gomez from Bayern Munich and Papiss Demba Cisse from SC Freiburg in Bundesliga are all on 4 goals mark and signals tough competition for Golben boot within Bundesliga and Europe.
Demba Cisse was among top ten scorers in last season European golden boot challengers.
