It was a hard earned, but yet so precious 3 points for Manchester United today as they managed to win at the Emirates Stadium against Arsenal, as Manchester City had taken a 6 points lead before United kicked off, but now the gap is back to 3 points to put the pressure again on the Citizens, while Arsenal must be dreading the worst as they failed to win for the 3rd consecutive time.
Lionel Messi became the fourth player in history of football to claim the Ballon d’Or three times, and thus claimed the world player of the year title, ahead of his Barcelona team mate, Xavi, and Cristiano Ronaldo. Sir Alex was also honoured at the event, as he was awarded the FIFA president award for services to football, while Pep Guardiola received the FIFA’s Men’s Football Coach of the Year award, and finally Santos player, Neymar, received the FIFA Puskas award for best goal.
The FIFPro team was also announced, with the following line-up:
Iker Casillas,Dani Alves, Gerard Pique, Sergio Ramos, Nemanja Vidic, Andres Iniesta, Xabi Alonso, Xavi, Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney
Karma is a bitch, and you’ll only need to ask Manchester City for confirmation… The Citizens lost their rights some minutes ago to defend their FA Cup title, as the Red Devils managed to cling on and claim a 2-3 win from the Etihad Stadium, but they too have shown their limits as with City down to 10-men shortly after Rooney’s opener in the 10th minute, with Kompany being the player harshly sent off for City, United failed to capitalise on the advantage like City did few months back, although Welbeck on the 30th and Rooney again on the 40th, after fluffling his penalty but heading the rebound in, gave United a comfortable lead at half time. However, City came back with the intention to spoil the party, and Kolarov scored from a brilliant freekick on the 48th minute, and even the return of Scholes in the squad (YES YOU READ IT RIGHT!!!), did little to help United win by a bigger margin. In fact mistakes by the latter and Lindegaard gave City some hopes of getting back, as Aguero took full opportunity to score a second on the 65th minute, and mount up the pressure on United. But eventually, City’s efforts were in vain, as United held on and took part of the revenge of that humiliating 1-6 defeat suffered at Old Trafford in the league.
Manchester United suffered another setback last night, as this time they fell to the striking power of Newcastle at Sports Direct Arena (or St. James Park), leaving Manchester City clear on top of the table, and with the Blue half of Manchester looking more likely to lift the title at the end of the season, unless a miracle happens for the Red Devils. Newcastle kept attacking United throughout the game, leaving the Red Devils struggling most of the time, and it was no surprise to see Demba Ba score on the 33rd minute. Newcastle kept their lead till half-time, and 2 minutes in the second half, Cabaye curling a freekick past Lindegaard to double Newcastle’s lead. United were out of ideas as they failed to react, and instead, Jones scored an own goal in the dying minutes, as he headed Krul’s freekick into his own net.
Sir Alex received a nasty gift on his 70th birthday a few minutes ago, as Blackburn Rovers stunned United at Old Trafford to claim a 2-3 win, and keep Man City on top of the league table, the latter playing tomorrow away to Sunderland, and will finish top of the first part of the season irrespective of what they do in their match. Yakubu had scored two goals, one in each half, to put United 0-2 behind, but Berbatov responded with two of his own to pull the Red Devils back, however, while many were waiting for United to complete their comeback, Hanley took full opportunity of De Gea’s mistake to rise and head home the winner for Blackburn with 10 minutes remaining , but United could not get back to even claim 1 point from this game, and if Man City do take their chances tomorrow, they’ll be 3 points clear, and will be big favourites to win the title.
Dimitar Berbatov was at the center of attraction as he scored a hat-trick for the Red Devils, with other goals from Valencia and Park for a 5-0 win against Wigan at Old Trafford, and to put United level on points with Man City, but still second in the table due to City still having a +5 goal difference over the Red Devils, as they drew 0-0 at West Brom, a draw which keeps United in the race to pip them their first place at any other wrong step by the Citizens, provided of course United keep up their wonderful run in the coming days.
Wishing all my friends, blog readers, and blog followers a Merry Christmas 2011… Cheers!
Manchester United have shown they are back in business as they went to Craven Cottage to face Fulham, and returned with a 5-0 win over the Cottagers, with Ryan Giggs extending his record for scoring in every Premier League season so far since its creation. Rooney as well celebrated his 300th Premier League appearance with a sublime goal in the closing minutes, however, United lost both Jones, then his substitute, Young, to injuries, Jones with a concussion, while Young seemed to be injured on the ankle. Manchester City however still top the league following their win over Stoke.
The Red Devils continued their Premier League fine run after their thrashing by City which dented their ambitions for a while, as United won rather easily against QPR today, 0-2, in a match which in pre-match was thought to be a tricky away one for them. United score before the first minute, as Rooney headed in Valencia’s cross to give United a great start, and with the team looking very focused, they were rarely troubled by QPR, and Carrick sealed the win on the 56th minute following a solo run of half the pitch, his first goal after almost 2 years. United went top temporarily with this win, as Man City face Arsenal later today. Next game will be on Wednesday, as United travel to Fulham.
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