Arsenal Resurrects against Stoke City

The Gunners, who have been experiencing great problems this season and have disappointed many of their fans, won a very important game against Stoke City. Robin van Persie scored twice after coming as a substitute in the 66th minute.

The other goal for the team was scored by Aaron Ramsey.

The game proved that Arsenal depends greatly on Van Persie; their main hope is that he remains uninjured till the end of the season. The duet of Gervinho and Van Persie proved to be very effective for the offensive gamestyle Arsenal wants to apply. With this home victory, Arsenal climbed to the seventh place in the Premiership and shows signs of recovery from the crisis in the beginning of the season. For now, Arsene Wenger remains on the post of manager of the team. He is one of the symbols of Arsenal and has achieved the team's greatest ever successes, namely the final in the Champions League against Barcelona and the title in Premiership in 2004.

Why Johnny Evans?

Johnny Evans is a player of Manchester United. But after every match he plays all people ask themselves the same question - Why is he even playing? This defender has an interesting history in the team as his fate was supposed to be decided by Alex Ferguson. The manager of "The Red Devils" was supposed to choose between Gerard Pique and Johhny Evans. Well, it seems he made a wrong decision as now Johnny Evans is probably the most horrible defender in the world and Pique plays for the dominating team of Barcelona. Johnny Evans has never probably had a real great match. He has only had "okay" matches and real horrible matches. Unfortunately, the horrible ones take greater dominance in his career. He is a reserve in Manchester United and most of the times he is left to play in unimportant matches. On the 23rd of october in the year of 2011, Johnny left the mark of his "skills" ,yet again. Manchester United had a match against their city rivals, Manchester City. It was a mystery to all people watching why he was even on the field. City scored one goal in the first half and the reason was Johnny Evans as he left Balotelli all the space he needs to shot and score a goal. In the beginning of the second half he got a red card for a fault he never should have commited. Then Manchester United paid the price as they suffered the pain of losing to their rivalries 1-6 on the "Theather of Dreams". And all people were wondering: " Why Johhny Evans?" .

Match Report : QPR 1 Chelsea 0

Chelsea lost 0-1 the derby with Queens Park Rangers on 'Loftus Road’; thereby Andre Villa-Boash missed the opportunity to climb to the second place. Extremely exaggerated penalty incurred by Heydari Helguson in the 10th minute brought the three points of QPR and Chelsea was left with only nine men in the 40th minute after a controversial red card for Drogba and Bosingwa.

The first half turned into a nightmare for Chelsea after the guests’s penalty and two red cards. Each of the decisions of the referee Chris Foy chief, however, was controversial to varying degrees. First, the arbitrator ruled for the QPR absurd penalty after David Luiz. Helguson nudged slightly in back, which was enough for the attacker fell to the penalty box. Foy awarded a penalty kick, realized in the 10th minute Helguson. The next controversial point was the 33rd minute when Jose Bosingwa received a straight red card after tackling Shaun Wright-Phillips. The referee, however, considers that defender has committed a violation as the last defense of Chelsea and showed him a red card. In 41 minutes Drogba followed Bosingwa after he was expelled for rough entry into the feet of Taarabt.

Chris Foy continued give out cards and then, and the guests had claims for two penalties - against Lampard and David Luiz, as in the second situation the offense against Chelsea defender was obvious. In the 76th minute Helguson failed to double the advance of pure QPR position. Anelka did not manage to reduce in the 80-minute, sending the ball head in the hands of Kenny. David Luiz was also near the bar after acrobatic scissor. In the sequel, Ashley Cole also failed to bring a point of Chelsea.

So Chelsea failed to take the opportunity to oust Manchester United from second place. Arsenal remains third in the standings in the Premier League with 19 points - one less than United and five away from Manchester City. QPR is in 10th place with 12 points.

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.

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.

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.