Manchester City absolutely slaughtered the neighbours of United. I believe the main conflict that would have won the match either team were Clichy-Nani. Lacking a creative offensive midfielder like David Silva, United strongly rely on their wings to score goals. Nani was the catalyst for every good thing that happened to United last season as a top assisstant in the League and with 12 goals. On Sunday he was crushed by a brilliant Gael Clichy. An extremelly offensive Clichy who often sought opportunities to make a break and deliver a cross. On a numerous ocassions Smalling left empty corridors which Clichy utilized perfectly. United's game depends strongly on Nani. This match, he couldnt even reach teh ball. Clichy was always first to the ball, and was not in a single moment fallen behind Nani.
Monday, October 24, 2011
The Wings that City flew on
Manchester City absolutely slaughtered the neighbours of United. I believe the main conflict that would have won the match either team were Clichy-Nani. Lacking a creative offensive midfielder like David Silva, United strongly rely on their wings to score goals. Nani was the catalyst for every good thing that happened to United last season as a top assisstant in the League and with 12 goals. On Sunday he was crushed by a brilliant Gael Clichy. An extremelly offensive Clichy who often sought opportunities to make a break and deliver a cross. On a numerous ocassions Smalling left empty corridors which Clichy utilized perfectly. United's game depends strongly on Nani. This match, he couldnt even reach teh ball. Clichy was always first to the ball, and was not in a single moment fallen behind Nani.
CSKA(Sofia) - Cherno More (Varna)
The friday game between CSKA(Sofia) and Cherno More(Varna) didn't offer the spectators any spectacular football and emotions. In the awful in terms of grass field of "Ticha" stadium, the final score was 0:0. The game began with a significant ammount of fighting for the tactical advantage and a lot of tough physical interventions. The were only two clear chances for goal in both pitches, but both of them ended up hitting the crossbar. Towards the end the match turned out of control, as the players from both teams started to tackle too hard, and in the 89-th minute Alexander Alexandrov from Cherno More(Varna) was sent off the pitch, for a disastorous tackle against Gregory Nelson from CSKA(Sofia). The match was a bad hit for the ambitions for the title of CSKA, as this round they lost another 2 points, and the last one they were beaten up with 2:1 by Slavia(Sofia). The last weak games of the reds caused their headcouch to be fired, so the one of the legends of the club, Dimitar Penev, to take lead of the team.
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Chelsea
Chelsea
Significant Transfers: Juan Mata(from Valencia for 30 000 000 €), Raul Meireles(from Liverpool for 13 500 000 €), Romelu Lulalu(from Anderlecht for 22 000 000 €)
Significant Sells: Michael Mancienne(sold to Hamburger for 2 500 000 €), Yuri Zhirkov(sold to Andji Mahachkala for 15 000 000 €)
Analysis of transfers: The new Chelsea manager André Villas-Boas ahs shown good transfer politics after signing with the young talent Romelu Lukaku who is showing great performances in Belgium and scoring a lot of goal only on the age of 19(he became the goalscorer of the championship). Also he managed to take to London spanish Juan Mata who is in the national team and is amazing footballer. The last news of Raul Meireles's tranfer were the final of coach's selection. Now that he has a ballanced team of well known players he can add a few refreshments to the team to make it capable of fighting for the title for another season.
Start of the season: 2 out of 3... Not bad for a start but if you fight for the title you got to work more on the pitch for the points needed. That's the current situation in Western London - 1 draw and 2 wins. It is true that Chelsea is now involved in a process of rejuvenating the team but the performances on the pitcj need improvement. First a deuce was made against Stoke City on their stadium 0-0 with a lot of misses from "The Blues". Then came the tough victory over West Bromich with 2-1 with all goals scored in the second half(Nicolas Anelka and Florent Malouda) for Chelsea. The last round they conceeded a goal but again managed to win, this time with 3-1 against Norwich with the goal of Bosingwa, Frank Lampard and Juan Mata. Despite the good start of the season it is clear that there are still thing to work on in the club because all of their matches so far have been against average teams who can easily fight for relegetion at the end of the season. That's why the new players will need a lot of practices and concentration in the matches to take the 3 points, because now, despite the wins there is still room for improvement.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Here we come again!
Summer vacation is over and we are back with the start of the european football leagues in the old continent. Now that it's the pause for these leagues, due to the Euro Qualifications held in Poland and Ukraine for 2012, we can make a quick summary of some of the championships and their clubs respectively. Every day we will post a brief summary of one team from a league.
We will start with the most popular one, that gained the fame of the most thrilling in the last 5-6 years-England. Barclays Premier League has show us a lot great matches so far, and the start of the season is no exception. Stunning results, amazing performances, unique players... Yes, in a matter of 3 rounds we've seen all of this in a single tournament. But lets start to analyse each club separately to see how are things going in 2011/2012 season. Starting with last year's champion from Manchester we will come down to the novices who came from Championship.
Manchester United
Significant Transfers: David de Gea(from Atletico Madrid for 20 000 000 €), Ashley Young(from Aston Villa for 19 500 000 €), Phill Jones(from Blackburn for 16 500 000 €)
Significant Sells: John O'Shey and Wes Borwn(sold to Sunderland for a total of 5 100 000 €), Gabriel Obertan(sold to Newcaslte for 4 500 000 €)
Retirements: Edwin van der Sar, Paul Scholes
Analysis of transfers: Sir Alex Fergues show agains how wise can he be on the transfer market, buying class players only for the positions he needed. Without toо many transfers as usual he got what he needed- prosperous young goalkeeper substituting retiring Edwin van der Sar, who shows differents performances so far, making brilliant saves and at the same time stupid mistakes, Left Wing (Ashley Young) who so far is impressive and has a total of 3 goals and 2 goal passes, and Phill Jones who improves a lot the defence of the team.
Start of the season: Manchester United won their first three matches with a goal difference of 13-3(the best in the league). First came the tough visit against West Bromich won with 2-1 with an opening goal from Wayne Rooney and a late goal of Ashley Young. Next weekend the "Red Devils" won with 3-0 against Tottenham Hotspur on the "Teather of Dreams" with all goals scored in the second half(Dani Welbeck, Andeson and Wayne Rooney). In the last round, playing on Old Traford, the boys of Alex Ferguson smashed emphatically one of the best teams in England- Arsenal with a result 8-2. Goal were scored by Wayne Rooney(3), Ashley Young(2), Nani, Welbeck and Park. Now the team is currently first and shows all prospects of being challenger for the first place at the end of the season.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Airsoft was created and marketed in Japan in the 1980s, due to civilian ownership of firearms being banned. Airsoft was used to closely emulate real guns. Now air soft guns have been adapted with a purely recreational application in mind. Many air soft guns are produced in China and Japan, where their distribution and sale is restricted. This has sometimes led to shipments of arms to many airsoft dealers being confiscated. Airsoft guns are also produced in the Philippines, the United States, and Taiwan. The game is a recreational activity in which participants eliminate opponents by hitting each other with round non-metallic pellets launched via replica firearms.Gameplay varies in style and composition but often range from short-term skirmishes, organized scenarios, military simulations, or historical reenactments. Combat situations on the battlefield often involve the use of common military tactics to achieve objectives set in each game. Participants typically emulate the tactical equipment and accessories used by modern military and police organizations. The guns used in airsoft are typically imitation firearms. They have a mechanism for pushing out projectiles 6 mm or 8 mm in diameter.Most airsoft guns fire round plastic pellets ranging from 0.12 plastic to 0.88 grams. However, the most popular weights for AEG automatic electric gun are between 20 and 28 grams. Heavier rounds 30 48 grams are typically used for long range and sniper use since they are more stable in flight and less easily deflected by wind. They are usually bought in bags or bottles of 2000 to 5000, but other sizes are available, such as a 250000 round of tournament grade pellets. Pellets are typically 6 mm in diameter, though 8 mm pellets do exist. These pellets are available in the 12 to 45 gram range.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Bulgaria - Montenegro 1:1 or Bulgaria's last hope gone
Bulgaria's football has never been worse. For a decade the Bulgarians haven't reached the group stages of either the World or the European tournaments. Since the establishment of the Bulgarian Football Federation there hasn't been any other such case. It appears that it is not only enough but the federation changed coach after coach with no result. It appears that even if they call Sir Alex or Mourinho or Guardiohla Bulgaria would still not qualify. Because the problem is not in a single person. It is every where. The Bulgarian players are not what they used to be. Even if they manage to show good performance in their clubs, in the National Team they appear to be completely different. There is not team play present, and some even appear to play just as lazy as Berbatov, but without the goals. Thus the last match revealed that the team hasn't changed a lot. The loss ended all!!
Liverpool to choose between Monreal and Cissokho

Liverpool are weighing up a move for left backs Nacho Monreal, 25, of Osasuna or Lyon's Aly Cissokho, 23, each at £9million.
Monreal has four Spain caps while Cissokho has played once for France.
Liverpool are already well advanced with deals for Sunderland's Jordan Henderson, Blackburn's Phil Jones, Connor Wickham of Ipswich and also want Blackpool's Charlie Adam.
They are in talks with Roma goalkeeper Doni's agent after the clubs agreed a £1.5m move, leaving manager Kenny Dalglish needing just a winger.
Aston Villa's Stewart Downing remains in the frame.
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