Chelsea 1 Liverpool 2

The team of Liverpool won the derby with Chelsea in the 12th round of the Premier League and again proved that played far better against teams in the top of the rankings than against those in the lower half of the table. The boys of Kenny Dalglish came to success with the goals from Maxi Rodriguez and Glen Johnson in 33th and 87th minute. Daniel Sturridge equalized for Chelsea early in the second half, as throughout the second part the team from London totally outplayed the opponent. However, they were shocked by the great breakthrough of the English national Johnson, who overcame Ashley Cole and sent a shot past Cech which brought the victory for his team. With this victory, Liverpool again came closer to the top 4, which ensures a place in the Champions League, which departed with the losses against Norwich and Swansea. Chelsea again disappointed in the derby against a rival at 'Stamford Bridge' - the stadium, which for years had turned into his fortress.

The match started in London at very fast tempo and in the 10th minute volley from Juan Mata was about to open the score, but his shot was blocked by a Liverpool defender. Just minutes later, guests also had the chance to score, but Branislav Ivanovic knocked the ball from the feet of Luis Suarez.

In the 21st minute Didier Drogba with a dangerous shot from a foul was about to score, but the ball went near the bar and entered the net from the backside.

In 33 minutes ,in which the defense of Chelsea made fatal mistake, and John Obi Mikel gave away the ball to Charlie Adam, and in the developing counter Maxi Rodriguez opened the score.

After that hit Chelsea rushed to seek equalizing, but the defense of the guests dealt with the enemy attacks. During the halftime Londoners manager Andre Villa-Boash replaced John-Obi Mikel and undertook much more offensive scheme to include Daniel Sturridge.

These changes brought a serious change in the game – Chelsea, which started lining up attack after attack in front of Pepe Reina. The defense of Liverpool seemed totally inadequate in these minutes that allowed the team from London to score. Florent Malouda, completely uncovered, made an unsuccessful attempt to shoot. However, the ball found Sturridge, for whom it was an easy shoot. The next minutes Chelsea’s missed another opportunity to score, seconds after the goal from Sturridge, Reina had to save a header from David. Malouda and Lampard were also without protection in convenient positions, but didn’t score.

So, completely in contrast with what was happening on the pitch, Liverpool scored the winning goal. Glen Johnson received the ball on the right wing, technically overcame Cole and entering the penalty area, shot for the final 1:2.

Manchester United record another 1-0 win over Swansea City.

England Champions Manchester United has won another match with 1-0 and maintained the distance of 5 points between their city rivals Manchester City. United were supposed to win in this match because earlier that day City won against unbeaten Newcastle with 3-1 at Newcastle. The match started with slight advantage for Swansea, but in the 11th minute defender's mistake lead to the United goal. Ryan Giggs passed the ball to Hernandez, who at close distance left no chance for Vorm, and united went in front. Swansea played in a organized way and in the 23rd minute they had golden opportunity to equalize. Graham and Routhledge passed the ball greatly, and then Graham found Sinclair who could not kick the ball, and missed to score. Swansea tried to equalize, but Vidic and Ferdinant were solid in defence and that is why, Swansea's attacks were held down till the half time. After the second half had begun Sinclair had huge chance to score, but De Gea denied it, so United were still in lead. In the 73rd minute Williams and Graham had a great chance but both their shots were blocked by Ferdinand, who became without doubt the man of the match for Manchester United. Dangerous counter attacks were almost brought second goal in Swansea's net. First Jones hit the post and after that Nani was close in scoring a goal. After that the final whistle blew and United won their match maintaining the distance between City as 5 points.

BEERBAUM's VICTORY IN STUTTGART

Ludger Beerbaum won a title for Germany yesterday 20th Nov 2011 in the fifth round of the Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping Western European League series on his home terrain at Stuttgart. Madeleine Winter-Schulze’s 10-year-old mare, Gotha, was becoming stronger and stronger in the hands of the five-time champion of the Olympics for a ceratin period of time, and made an excellent jump-off round to win maximum points for the 48 year-old rider who won this title 18 years ago.
It was not an easy afternoon for the world’s top competitors and riders, with only six of the 39 beginning in the competition could pass the hard round track with 13 fences set by the designer Christa Jung. The German course designer made it hard for them from the first fence to the last and this difficulty is proven by the eight retirements during the course“It was not too technical but it was quite big - Christa did a good job,” says Beerbaum after the round. “There were mistakes at all the fences, except, I think, the first - it was selective".

Nadal wins his fight over Fish on Monday

Rafael Nadal won in Group B his match against Mardy Fish with a surprising result of 6-2, 3-6 and lastly 7-6(3). This match was a show of skill from Nadal through his comeback after the seccond second set where he made some really bad mistakes which allowed Fish to take the initiative and win the set giving him a boost of confidence for the third set. However even with this boost Nadal still managed to beat him even though it was very close to a loss on his behalf. Now with Fish out of the way and Roger Federer's win against Tsonga, the two powerful tennis players are put against eachother in the next match of the group. The result of this clash will be a quite interesting match for everyone watching and even now the tickets for the matches on Tuesday have almost been sold out leaving the whole arena full with people waithing for the amazing gameplay that will occur on that day.

Milan to beat Barca?

Although both Milan and Barcelona are already certain teams for the finals, both the Catalonia and the Italians seem to be more than just motivated to win the next game. Barcelona are ok with a draw to keep the first place, and Milan, two points behind, need a victory to secure the first place. The Milano team is ready with some last-minute changes. The rumors say that Kevin Prince-Boachely will play now that his red card penalty is over. Robinho will probably stay on the substitutes' seats. Instead of him the talent, Pato is said to play. The other change, more of a strategic character - Zeedorf will now play right behind the strikers. And the last change concerns the Holland player van Bomel who is going to have his change against Europe's first. Barcelona have not commented the changes, but one thing is for sure - the two teams are going to present some high-class football!

Night of the Jumps

Night of the JUMPs is world largest Freestyle MX Series with more than 100 night of the JUMPs during the last 10 years. FIM World Championship events are run with 12 riders. 8 riders are qualified by the World Ranking list, 2 will be selected by the national promoter and 2 by the National Motorcycle Federation of the hosting country.

This year the top 3 so far are:

Javier Villegas (6th in the world) with 156 points

Remi Bizouard (3rd in the world) with 135 points

Jose Miralles (1st in the world) with 124 points

If you are thinking of attending one of the nights, the next ones will be in Poland, Bulgaria, Austria, Russia, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

The last night was on the 19th in Ostrava (Czech republic) where the best freestyle motocross riders competed in the 9th round of the tournament.

Arsene Wenger is staying in Arsenal

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger insisted that he would remain with Arsenal for a few more years. On Saturday, right after the 2-1 win at Norwich, the 62-year-old Frenchman stated once again that he has no intentions to leave his team at the end of the season. He said: "I have a few more years to go. I will stay and that's it", but he also admited that if club decides so, he would have no other choice to leave, but he is completely commited to his job. Wenger promised to show his commitment at the end of the season.

The Frenchman is in charge of the Gunners since 1996. He lead them to three Premier League titles, and four FA Cup wins, but he has not won a trophy since 2005.

In September Stan Kroenke, the owen of Arsenal, stated that the future of Wenger is in his hands, and that he's the only one to decide when Wenger is leaving.

In his interview to the French Newspaper L'Equipe, Arsene Wenger revealed his disappointment of the loss of key players. "For the first time I lost young players, who were reaching maturity," he said. "I suffered. It's painful to lose key men you have invested a lot in."

This statement is related to the loss of Cesc Fabregas to Barcelona and Samir Nasri to Manchester City, this summer.

Arsene Wenger signed his current contract in August 2010 and it expires in the summer of 2014, but as the manager himself said he is planning to stay "another 14 years" at the club.

Liverpool's surprise victory at Stamford Bridge

LIverpool won the derby match against Chelsea in the English Premier League. Maxi Rodriguez and Glen Johnson scored for the impressive 2-1, while Daniel Sturridge was the Chelsea's goalscorer.
The beginning of the match was very intriguing and Juan Mata tried a volley in the 10th minute, but the shot was blocked by a Liverpool defender. IN the next minute, the Reds also had a chance, but Branislav Ivanovic stopped the opponents' attack. In the 21th minute Didier Drogba fired a dangerous shot from a free kick, a less than meter away from teh goal.
IN the 33rd minute, the first goal was scored. John Obi Mikel made a mistake and in the following counterattack Maxi Rodriguez scored an easy goal 1 on 1 against the goalkeeper Petr Cech.
After Liverpool's goal Chelsea launched massive attacks in order to score a goal before the end of the first half, but all efforts were unsuccessful.
During the break Andre Villas-Boas substituted Mikel with Sturridge and changed the playing style into more offensive. This refreshed the attacking style of Chelsea and a lot of dangrous attacks marked the beginning of the second half. In the 55th minute Florent Malouda advanced in Liverpool's half and fired a shot. The ball went into Sturridge, who successfully scored from 2 meters in the empty net. The following minutes were even tougher for the Liverpool's defenders. David Luiz's header was saved by Pepe Reina, and dangerous attacks resulting in shots fired by Malouda and Lampard also showed the weakness of the Liverpool's defence in this minutes of the match.
And then, suprisingly, out of nothing, an excellent raid of the defender Glen Johnson, passing through Ashley Cole, ended with a goal-scoring shot. It happened in the 87th minute, so there was no time for Chelsea to launch successful attacks, so Liverpool didn't have much trouble keeping their net safe to the end of the match.
The win gives hope to Liverpool for a place in the first 4 (the participants in the Champions League)teams in the Premier League.

PRELIMINARY POST MORTEM RESULTS FOR HICKSTEAD

Preliminary findings from the post mortem on Hickstead confirmed an aortic rupture, resulting in heart failure. More test are going to be conducted but they will problably takw two or more weeks to be completed and will probably be inconclusive about the heart rupture. The stallion that was 15 years old collapsed and died during completing his round of jumping with just four faults. Eric Lamaze, his rider was uninjured in the incident.
"The sudden loss of any horse, but especially one with the character and history of Hickstead is a shock to everyone, but our thoughts are especially with Eric Lamaze and John Fleischhacker at this difficult time”, said FEI Veterinary Director Graeme Cooke. He adds that “Under FEI regulations any equine death at an FEI event must be investigated and a post mortem undertaken. The preliminary findings have revealed a catastrophic rupture of the major blood vessel, the aorta, which very rapidly led to heart failure. This is an unusual incident in Jumping and while we are investing the very many possible causes of a rupture of this nature, it is possible we may never know the real reason behind it.”

Arsenal vs. West Bromwich

The strike merely confirmed what the game was clearly telling us – Arsenal were in control.
They continued to hold a firm but hardly vice-like grip on the game until they got their second six minutes before the break.
Van Persie cut the ball back form the byline and Vermaelen thumped home his first goal since the fateful day Aron Ramsey broke his leg at Stoke in February 2010.
It also put Arsenal into positive goal difference for the first time this season.
The first half had been comfortable for an Arsenal side that had barely got out of third gear. The stats said they had enjoyed 71 per cent of possession and had three shots on target, scoring two goals. West Brom had not mustered a shot.
Vermaelen nearly killed off any comeback just before the hour when he slid a header wide from Van Persie’s corner.
Just after that Chris Brunt fly-kicked a shot high over the bar. A decent chance, poorly executed.
But for all Arsenal’s control they had much more left in them. On the hour, Gervinio darted in from the left and Ramsey hooked a shot across the face of goal.
Roy Hodgson brought on Somen Tchoyi for Zoltan Gera to strengthen his front line. They had had precious little joy this afternoon.
However, by now, Arsenal were stirring again. Foster was forced to make a couple of solid saves in quick succession. First from Gervinio’s low drive and then after Song tried to find the top corner from the edge of the box.
In the 70th minute, Walcott drove in from the right flank and Van Persie hoisted his effort over the bar.
Wenger then brought off Ramsey and Gervinio for Tomas Rosicky and Yossi Benayoun. It seemed he wanted this game closed off – and that is just what he got.
Sixteen minutes from time, Van Persie touched the ball back for Arteta to sweep home a third. Game, set and match.
Tchoyi escaped shortly afterwards but Vermaelen chased him down all too easily and blocked at the second attempt. It was West Brom’s best chance of the game and also a microcosm of the 90 minutes.
If anything, the visitors had the best period in the final 10 minutes when the game was up.
Steven Reid’s header and James Morrison’s drive were both held by Szczesny.
However, nothing would dent a super (and straightforward) afternoon for Arsenal.

Andy Murray wins against former No.1 Andy Roddick

Murray, the third in the current rankings of ATP, managed to win against Andy Roddick. On Thursday in Paris, Murray won with a lead of 6-2 and managed to reach the quarter finals of the BNP Paribbas Masters. Murray has played exceptionally well throughout these past three months, winning 27 out of all 28 matches he played in many of the previous tournaments, such as the PTT Thailand Open and Shanghai Rolex Masters. Roddick was certainly displeased with the result of the game, mainly because of Murray's defensive style and also because of the fact that he will be outside the Top 10 for the first time in several years. Nevertheless the match was exceptional even though the result was somewhat expected.

The Goalscorers

Since the beginning of the season we have seen great performances of some clubs that make fans go euphoric and boost the joy of their supporters. We have also seen many great goals so far but also great goalscorers that have shown their scoring abilities and have helped their teams prosper. Today we will look at the tolist of goalscorers of the gratest leagues in Europe.

Barcalys Premier League:

1. Robin van Persie - 11 goals -the captain of Arsenal is the leader of the team and literally pulls up the team of East London to win their matches.

2. Edin Dzeko -10 goals - the number one forward of Manchester City is on to a great strike of goals and finally seems to have found its place in the club.

3. Sergio Aguero - 9 goals - the playmaker of the forwards in Manchester City is showing great performances so far and it seems like he will be the one in charge of the attack of the team.

Bungestliga:

1.Mario Gomes - 13 goals - he is the leader of the attack of Bayern Munchen and has an amazing goal strike so far. WE can surely expect a great season from the former Stuttgart footballer.

2.Claudio Pizzaro - 11 goals - the rebirth of the team from Bremer is fact with the great help of this player and if he continues his perfromances on the pitch we can surely expect a great season from Werder.

3. Klaas-Jan Huntelaar - 10 goals - Schalke 04's win are a product of this player so far and it really looks like we will have a grat season by this player as well.

Primera Division:

1. Llionel Messi - 14 goals - piece of genious...that are the only words that can describe this phenomena and we just have to match this players and admire what he does to enjoy us.

2. Cristiano Ronaldo - 13 goals - another footballer pure of skills and abilities. Many of the football experts onsider him the only manwho can stop Llionel Messi.

3. Gonsalo Higuain - 11 goals - the forward of Real Madrid proves why he's considered a great player of this time and surely we have to expect a amazing season from him.

Barca agonizing against a third vision team

Barcelona earned 1-0 away win in their first match of the third round of Copa del Rey against CE L'Hospitalet. The Catalunians were not putting much efforts in the game and the team from the Spanish third division had a lot of opportunities to score in Jose Manuel Pinto's goal. The only goal that was scored in the whole match, watched by 6000 fans of Hospitaletat, was scored by Andres Iniesta at the end of the first half. The midfileder received an assist from Cesc Fabregas and eliminated the goalkeeper, who early on in the game was able to block a few shots fired by David Villa.
Barca played without most of its stars. Some of them are preparing with their national teams, others were just given a break by Pep Guardiola. However, Carles Puyol, Fabregas, Xavi, Iniesta, and Villa were all in the starting eleven.
Iniesta's goal was a real pleasure for the viewers. After series of passes in front of Hospitaletat's penalty box, the Mondial 2010 hero fired a powerful shot, scoring the goal. Earlier, VIlla and Keita missed good opportunities.
Barcelona had more opportunities in the second half, but after a corner Puyol's header just hit the bar. Hospitalitat managed to complete few dangerous counter-attacks, without success.
Iniesta was substituted in the 62nd minute of the match by Busquets, and a bit later Fabregas had another opportunity, after a good pass from Keita. 15 minutes before the end of the match, Viila again tried to score, unsuccessfully. In the last minutes there were a few interesting in front of Pinto's goal, also. The young 18 years old Rafinha subsituted Fabregas, and another promising player, Tello, even was in the starting eleven.

28 years ago...

On this same day, 7th of November, 28 years ago, one of the most unexpected things in football happened. The legendary team of Ajax(Amsterdam) was busted by CSKA(Sofia), after a decade of complete dominance in football Europe, and three subsequent UEFA trophies. The game took place on the "Vasil Levski" Natinal Stadium, in front of the spectacular 70 000 spectators, to become one of the golden moments of Bulgarian sport history.
In the first match Ajax have won with 1:0 and it seemed like it was going to be easy for them to win.The game began with a slight advance for the Bulgarian team, and up to the 60th minute it looked like the team from the Netherlands will hold the tie, but then Marshaliev deflected the ball in the net, after a brilliant break by Denev. The result stayed the same till the end of the game, and in the additinal time everybody was preparing for the penalties, when Mihaylov scored, after a spectacular shot from the border of the penalty area. Thus, "the giant" from Amsterdam was taken down by the modest team from Sofia, which was now turning into a killer of big European champions.

The leader of Chelsea Frank Lampard once again proved his importance for the blue team from London, scoring the only goal for his team during the visit of Blackburn Rovers, which brought success to the guests with the minimal 0:1. Lampard scored a masterly with head out of a difficult situation, having received the ball from Branislav Ivanovic minutes into the second half of the game.

Striker Fernando Torres guests, who appeared on the pitch as a substitute after the break, again made ​​an incredible miss. In 93rd -minute El Nino had a chance to seal the victory for the guests when he was only two meters away from the goal, thanks to the good combination of his teammates, but sent his shot far over the top bar.

Most prosperous teams in hte European leagues

Even though we have seen only the first 10-13 rounds in all soccer tournaments in Europe so far, fans have been trilled about the amazing performances of certain teams. In all the leagues we have great surpizes and even though we are just in the beginning of the football year we have to be pleased with the show of emotions and passions from the great game called football. We will start with Barclays Premier Leagueand move on with all the other significant tournaments.

Barclays Premier League(England):

1. Manhester City- so far the team has 10 wins and 1 draw out of 11 matches and a 5 point lead ahead of their rivals Manchester United. All the money spent on the club in the last 2 years paid back with an amazing start of the season. Even the fact that they won against Manchester United with 6-1 on "Old Traford" was astonishing and speaks for itself for the great performances of the club so far.

2. Newcaslte - the team is still unbeaten in the league(7 wins and 4 draw matches out of 11 games) and continues to be a performing great so far. The fact that the club is in the Champions League's zone is enough to comment on the progress of the team.

3. Tottenham Hotspur - the team plays very well and despite the 2 loses in the 10 games they've played so far it seems like Harry Rednap will try again to win the quota for the big tournament(Champions League).

Seria A(Italy):

1.Juventus - currently the tem is first in the league and ahs shown astonishing progress compared to last year's performance. 5 wins and 4 draws speak for themselves and also the team has a solid squad that can prosper with the same rate of speed in the next 4-5 years.

2. Milan - 6 wins out of 10 matches may not sound very strong stike but surely the team has show great matches(cwinning streak of 5 currenly) and contiues with the great results on the pitch.

Bundestliga(Germany):

1. Borussia Dortmund - 7 wins out of 12 matches - not the greatest result but the team has shown quite a strength in winning matches in hte last few weeks, especially at home. Last 4 out of 5 matches were won with great results and the team has many young players that can add to the famous history pages of the club.

Liga 1(France):

1. Paris Saint Germain - astonishing results and amazing performances on the pitch gave guaranteed the 1st position in the league for the club. The team was bought by very rich managers and lot of money were spent in buying players like Pasotre that were very positive on the pitch for the club. 9 wins out of 13 matches is a statistic that shows undoubtedly the domination of the club.

Primera Division:

1.Real Madrid- 9 wins out of 11 matches is enough to secure the first pistion in the league table for the club. Ahead of the rival of Barcelona it seems like this year the team will make something remarkable and will finally overcome the their catalunian rivals.

Milan searching for a new forward

Milan's vicepresident Adriano Galliani announced that it is very possible that the club will buy a new striker during the winter break. Antonio Cassano suffered an operation to fix a heart disease so he'll be out of play for 5 or 6 months. Yesterday Catania's forward Maxi Lopez said that he is ready to go to a bigger club like Milan. Galliani commented: "I heard what Maxi said. We'll see. There are different opportunities. We will loan s striker till the end of the season and then we'll decide whether to buy him or not. We are waiting for Cassano to return to the first squad. I believe that Maxi Lopez is good enough to play for Milan, but I also believe the same thing for all strikers from Real Madrid and Barcelona. There are a lot of excellent forwards in Europe." He also rejected a possibility that Alessandro Del Piero will join his club.

After the bad start Milan is one point behind the leaders of the championship Lazio and Udinese.

DEATH OF EQUINE SUPERSTAR HICKSTEAD

The Rolex FEI World Cup™ Jumping 2011/2012 series at Verona, Italy was stopped yesterday Nov. 6th 2011 because of the unexpeted death of the stallion Hickstead. His ridier was the canadian olympic champion Eric Lamaze. Hickstead collapses in the middle of a comination of fences after jumping the thirteenth one. Everything was normal until the stallion suddenly fell down and died. The competition was stopped because the riders wanted to pay their respects to this great horse and support Eric in this hard time for him. There was a minute silence. "Hickstead really was a horse in a million and my heart goes out to Eric and everyone connected with this wonderful horse. This is a terrible loss, but Hickstead truly will never be forgotten. We were very lucky to have known him." says the FEI President also shocked from the bad news.
“Shortly after finishing his round of jumping Hickstead collapsed in the arena and died. As yet the cause of death is unknown, but our deepest sympathies go out to the owners, to Eric and to all the connections of one of the greatest Jumping horses of all time. Hickstead’s presence on the circuit will be very sadly missed” also adds the FEI Jumping Director, John Roche. It was unexpected for all of them to lose the great stallions. They will always remember the greater success of the horse and the canadian rider when they won the Olympic Games of 2008.

Hannover 96 - Shalke 04

In the derby of the Bundesligathis weekend Hannover 96 will be host on AWD-Arena against Shalke 04. So far Hannover are on the 7th place with 18 points, while Shalke are 2nd after Bayern Munich with 21 points. Hannover 96 is playing good so far this season and an evidence for this is their victory against Bayern 2 weeks ago. Throughout the season Hannover are beating everyone on AWD-Arena having 4 victories and 2 X-s. Legends such as Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen lost their matches as guests here.

Shalke are right now second only 4 points behind Bayern Munich and just one point before Borussia Dortmund, Werder Bremen and Borussia Mönchengladbach. So far this season their successes are not consistant.

Both teams will have matches today for the Europa League and they will probably show the current situation of the players for the German derby. I personally believe that the game will end X.

Grigor Dimitrov failed to advance at the Stockholm Open

Bulgaria's best tennis player - Grigor Dimitrov, was defeated by the twenty-year-old Canadian - Milos Raonic. At the first set of the game the Bulgarian played pretty well, but his set game was too poor. Until the rest of the game he could not recover. The young Canadian player bet with 5-7, 4-6 in the quarterfinal of the Stockholm Open.

Raonic stated how happy he is of his win, and he is sure that he did his best in taking care of everything."The job is to take care of serve and look for opportunities -- and I couldn't have taken care of serve any better," he added in advance.

This game showed Dimitrov's inability to become the first Bulgarian male player to reach 250 semifinal in the Association of Tennis Professionals.

On Saturday Milos Raonic, who is the 29th ranked Canadian, will play with Gael Monfils in the semifinal of the Stockholm Open.

Poor Win for Manchester United

On the second of November 2011 Manchester United defeated Otelul Galati. However their win was not at all impressing as their whole performance this season. Although, the Red Devils started reall strong this season with two amazing wins. However, after those 2 matches the team of Alex Ferguson has not been playing well. In their first match against Otelul Galati they won playing really poorly. The match ended 0-2 for Manchester as they had 2 penalties. In yesterday's match, United again won with 2 goals. The big supprise of the match was that Wayne Rooney started playing as a center midfielder and Berbatov and Owen were the attackers. Wayner Rooney and Anderson were playing very poorly as the made a series of bad passes. However, in the 8th minute Valencia managed to score a goal. Berbatov made a good pass to Jones and then Jones crossed. Owen got the ball but he passed to right where Valencia was able to score. In the 11th minute Owen got injured and he was replaced by Chicharito. The Devils played poorly till the end of the half as Otelul was playing on the same level as Manchester. In the second half Manchester United started playing much better, but they missed many of their chances. Berbatov was the best player on the field as he was able to make magnificent attacks and passes, but he was never able to put the ball in the net. Rooney was not playing good during the match as he didn't have any special moments. In the 87th minute, however, he was able to score a lucky goal. He tried to shot from afar but there was a deflection in a defender and the ball changed it's course and went into the net.

Real Madrid won against Olimpique Lyon and are in the last 16

Real Madrid won as a guest against Lyon, and Cristiano Ronaldo scored both goals for the "White Balley". From the very beginning Real were the better team and in the 7th minute Ronaldo shot from 25 meters, but Lloris was there to save it. After three minutes, there was a perfect one-one-one chance for Benzema, but the French goalkeeper saved it. In the 25th minute the logical happened and Real got in front. Perfect free-kick by Ronaldo went in the net, without chance for Lloris to react. Until the end of the half time, bith teams had ooportunities to score, and Gourcouff for Lyon was very close to the equilizer, but the half time ended with a slight lead for the guest team. in the 60th minute Ronaldo's shot from 20 metres was covered by Lloris, and real were the more active team, searching for the second goal. In the 68th minute Dabo fouled Ronaldo at the penalty box, and the referee was sure- penalty. Ronaldo scored the second goal, and this was a major hit on Lyon's hopes. Until the 75th minute Real controlled the match, but finally Lyon took controll for the last 15 minutes of the match. Briand, Gourcuff and Kallstrom were close to score a goal for the host team, but they didn't. At the last minute of the match, fast counter attack made Ozil very close to the goal, when Ronaldo made a cross, but Lloris made just the enough to deflect the ball and save Lyon from 3rd goal. After this match Real Madrid are surely in the last 16, being first in their group, with 4 wins, from 4 matches, and they need two points from the next two matches to guarantee their first place for sure. Ajax and Lyon are also trying to reach the last 16

Petra Kvitova's amazing sucess in the WTA tournament

An unsurprising result, Kvitova managed to completely decimate Victoria Azarenka in the final match of the WTA Istanbul tournament. With an astonishing win of 75, 46 and 63 Kvitova managed to secure her place as the 2nd best in the world, almost catching up with Caroline Wozniacki. Despite the way Kvitova managed to gain a lead of 5-0 in the first game, Azarenka did not give up and continued fighting, creating an amazing spectacle for all the viewers. Even after the defeat, Victoria kept a happy attitude and showed delight that she was defeated by a champion such as her, despite not being the best in the rankings. In the beginning of the season Kvitova was just closely in the Top 30. Her commitment to the game shows how a person can succeed if they struggle to the last breath to achieve what they want. In Kvitova's case it was to improve her game, and look where it brought her now, only one place away from being the world's best.

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND QUALIFY FOR 2012 OLYMPIC DRESSAGE

Australia and New Zealand have qualified for the team Dressage competition at the Olympic Games of 2012 in London.This is a result from their performance at the regional qualification competition in Sydney on 28 October and in Ermelo,Netherlands yesterday on 2 of November.
Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were competing for the two slots available for the Olympic games. Team of Australia of Rachael Sanna with horse Jaybee Alabaster; Chantal Wigan with Ferero; Lyndal Oatley with Potifar; and Mary Hanna with Sancette scored an average result of 69.255% and they lead in front of the other two teams. Team New Zealand, consisting of Louisa Hill with Bates Antonello; Vanessa Way with KH Arvan; Nicky Pope with Fabarchie; and Shiwon Green with Gosh finished second in the competition with close results.
This last competition completes the process and gives the 11 numbers of teams for Dressage at the 2012 Olympic Games: Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden and the USA. There is a chance that there would be one more additional team consisting only of three people from one nation qualified according to FEI Rankings.

David Silva injured

One of the best players of the leader in Premier League Manchester City David Silva was substituted yesterday because of injury. Manchester won 3-0 against Villareal in a decisive game in Champions League. Silva felt pain in his back in the second half and Roberto Mancini immediately replaced him with Adam Johnson. However, Mancini is not worried about the physical condition of one of his most valuable players this season. He is sure that Silva will be fit enough to play in the next match of City against Queens Park Rangers in Premier League. "David was hit in the back and I decided to substitute him in order to prevent his from complications. I don't think it's a serious injury. There are 60 more hours till our next match so I think he'll be in a good shape for that fixture." shared Roberto Mancini with the media after the Champions League derby.

The Blue Thunder

The history of the blues is not so glorius, but now Man. City are the new leading team in England and Europe. After City won the FA Cup in May they were an attractive destination for the players who wanted money, trophies and glory. Of course there were many critics for the team. The specialists never seem to consider City as a contender for the Premier League. But now everything is changed. City crashed United at Old Trafford 6-1 and are ready to conquer. The team of Roberto Mancini has scored 36 goals in their 10 matches in the league and have lost only two times in every tournament they participated since the start of the season. Many people say: City are full of individulas and there is no team, but this shows that they have not seen the Manchester team. City plays with a lot of passion and passes - nearly everyone touch the ball before someone scores. The european performance of City is not so good for now, but the team is improving and the 0-3 win at El madrigal is showing this. The debth of team will later help City in his way to glory. So finally you can underestimate City, but you will understand that you are wrong and the Citizens will achieve glory.

Juventus's rebirth

Fan and soccer upporters are glad to see that the team from Torino is back on the European stage. It is

unbelivebale how this team was disqualified in 2006 to play in Seria B but soon afterwards "The Old Lady" managed to win the league and return to play with the strongest italian teams. But most of the good players had joined other clubs and it was impossible to recover instantly with good results. That is how the team struggled for 3 years and it it wash a shame for the club to see that it was ranked 7th in the last 2 years.
But this year it is brand new story - 5 wins 4 draws 0 loses and 1st place so far in the Italian Calcio. It is also unbelievable how well the team plays under the tough hand of Antonio Conte who made miracles to bring the club it its deserved position. If we look deeper in the club's affairs we will notice that there are players at a very young or very old age that seem to cooperate as if they have been playing for years. Players like Claudio Marchisio, Alexandro Matri and Stefan Lihstajner seem to fit pefrectly in the club tactic with the hel of Georgio Chielini, Alex Del Piero and Djanluigi Buffon. Furthermore the rival games against Milan and Inter were both won with great games and stining results(2-1 against Inter and 2-0 against Milan).

That is how the team began to prosper this year and surely will make a great year if it continues in the same way.