Barclay Premier League 2011/12 Campaign Week 2

Second week into the 2011/12 season and here are the roundup for Week 2

                                                             Sunderland 0 - 1 Newcastle United

                                                                                        Ryan Taylor

                                                                  Arsenal 0 - 2 Liverpool

                                                                                       (og) Aaron Ramsey

                                                                                       Luiz Suarez

                                                             Aston Villa 3 - 1 Blackburn Rovers

                                                Gabrial Agbonlahor          Morten Gamst Pedersen 

                                                         Emile Heskey

                                                           Darren Bent

                                                                  Everton 0 - 1 QPR

                                                                                        Tommy Smith

                                                                Swansea 0 - 0 Wigan

                                                                  Chelsea 2 - 1 West Bromich Albion

                                                       Nicolas Anelka         Shane Long

                                                     Florent Malouda

                                                         Norwich City 1 - 1 Stoke City

                                                      Ritchie De Laet          Kenwyne Jones

                                                                  Wolves 2 - 0 Fulham

                                                          Kevin Doyle

                                                      Matthew Jarvis

                                                  Bolton Wanderers 2 - 3 Manchester City

                                                           Ivan Klasnic          David Silva

                                                         Kevin Davies          Gareth Barry

                                                                                        Edin Dzeko

                                                 Manchester United 3 - 0 Tottenham Hotspurs

                                                     Danny Welbeck

                                                               Anderson

                                                      Wayne Rooney

Week 2 Table

Week 3 Fixtures

Manchester United 3 - 0 Tottenham Hotspurs

Deliberately sleep early last night just to ensure myself having enough sleep while watching Manchester United vs Tottenham game. This is the 2nd game of the season and first at Old Trafford for United whereas first game for Tottenham. Manchester United has a average game last week with narrow win over West Brom whereas Tottenham was in really good form to have beaten Hearts in the champions league 5-0 just few days earlier. I was expecting this game to be tough due to injuries to many experienced defenders for United. 

This is the line-up for last night's game

(GK) David De Gea

(RB) Chris Smalling - (CB) Phil Jones - (CB) Johnny Evans - (LB) Patrice Evra

(RM) Luis Nani - (CM) Tom Cleverly - (CM) Anderson - (LM) Ashley Young

(CF) Wayne Rooney

(ST) Danny Welbeck

vs

(ST) Jermain Defoe

(AM) Rafael Van Der Vaart

(LM) Gareth Bale - (CM) Jake Livermore - (CM) Niko Kranjcar - (RM) Aaron Lennon

(LB) Benoit Assou-Ekotto - (CB) Younes Kaboul - (CB) Michael Dawson - (RB) Kyle Walker

(GK) Brad Friedel

Manchester United has plenty of experienced substitute but SAF decided to give the younger generation a try with average age of 23 years old. The oldest member is Patrice Evra at 29. Three other defenders age are 19 (Jones), 21 (Smalling) and 23 (Evans). 

The score was tied at 0 - 0 until 61 minutes where the possession was quite balanced among the two teams. 

Until the sudden change of pace in cross by Tom Cleverly, he spotted Danny Welbeck at the goal as swing in a superb cross and Danny managed to head it into the goal with Brad Friedel only managed to look on. 

Danny became much more confident after the goal and he did a clever backheel back to Anderson and Anderson who is not famous for scoring scored easily past Friedel. 

With quarter an hour left, SAF sent on three experienced players - Ryan Giggs, Park Ji Sung and Javier Hernandez to finish off the game. With that limited time given, Giggs still managed to provide an assist by crossing a pin point cross to Rooney to head goal, his second of the season.

Man-Of-The-Match Danny Welbeck shines for Manchester United as the Red Devils overturn Tottenham Hotspur with a 3-0 victory

Sir Alex and Harry share a few words before the game as Tottenham face Manchester United in their first Premier League game of the season

Man United players take to the pitch before kick-off in their new lucratively sponsored training gear DHL

Noisy neighbours Manchester City manager, Roberto Mancini and David Platt check up on their city rivals and Man City's next opponents Tottenham

The Old Trafford faithful find a free gift on their seats, a commemorative '19 champions' scarf

The game gets off to a fiery start with both teams playing at a furious pace

Tom Cleverley can hardly believe it when his toe poke is superbly touched around the post by Brad Friedel

Jonny Evans receives a yellow card after going through the back of Rafael van der Vaart

Phil Jones does an excellent job of keeping Jermain Defoe quiet throughout the entire game

Tempers boil over when Younes Kaboul clashes with Manchester United's Portuguese winger Nani

In the spotlight, David De Gea keeps his eye on the ball to make a routine save

The deadlock is broken on the hour when Danny Welbeck meets a cross from Tom Cleverley...

...his header finds the corner and sends Old Trafford into raptures

Welbeck celebrates his first goal for Manchester United in two years

United's Spanish keeper is left flapping when Gareth Bale challenges him on a cross

Brimming with confidence after his goal, Danny Welbeck attempts an overhead kick but it flies straight into the clutches of Brad Friedel

The lead is doubled on 76 minutes when a flowing move is perfectly capped off by a Welbeck backheel and Anderson strike

The Brazilian celebrates his goal with a little dance in front of the cameras and Stretford End

Harry Redknapp is left with plenty to ponder where it all went wrong after his side wilt in the second-half

Manchester United's number 10 can only laugh after he misses from point-blank range after a low cross from Nani

Three minutes from time and it's three for the hosts. Wayne Rooney leaps to meet a cross from substitute Ryan Giggs

Rooney finds the net with a well directed header and Tottenham sink to a 3-0 defeat

Sir Alex is all-smiles as his side take maximum points from their first two games and join Man City at the top of the league

25 Ways to Tell You're Grown Up!

Barclay Premier League 2011/12 Campaign Begin

Finally after one month of not watching proper football, the EPL has finally started its new campaign again.

This week the highlight was Arsenal vs Newcastle (remember last season game of the season Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal?). And Tottenham vs Everton game was postpone due to some unnecessary riot at England.

This is the summary of the week 1 results (Except for Man City vs Swansea that will play tonight)

                                                  Blackburn Rovers 1 - 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers

                                                     Mauro Formica          Stephen Fletcher

                                                                                       Stephen Ward

                                                                  Fulham 0 - 0 Aston Villa

                                                               Liverpool 1 - 1 Sunderland

                                                                   Suarez          Sebastian Larsson 

                                            Queens Park Rangers 0 - 4 Bolton Wanderers

                                                                                       Gary Cahill

                                                                                       Daniel Gabbidon (og)

                                                                                       Ivan Klasnic

                                                                                       Fabrice Muamba

                                                       Wigan Athletic 1 - 1 Norwich City

                                                  Ben Watson (pen)         Wesley Hoolahan

                                                             Newcastle 0 - 0 Arsenal

                                                             Stoke City 0 - 0 Chelsea

                                          West Bromwich Albion 1 - 2 Manchester United

                                                           Shane Long          Wayne Rooney

                                                                                       Steven Reid (og)

While watching Man Utd game last night, when Shane Long scored the equalizer i was thinking this week might be a draw game for all big four in the EPL but fortunately they managed to squeezed the goal through at the 80th minutes. Pheww

Here are some of the pictures of last night game of West Brom vs Man United

Fabio keeping things simple at the left back

Ferdinand heads the ball away from Tchoyi while Anderson looks on

West Brom Captain Chris Brunt tackles Wayne Rooney

Tom Cleverley did cleverly to squeeze through the West Brom midfield

Chris Smalling tries to get the ball off Tchoyi

Wayne Rooney receives the ball from Ashley Young, turns and shoots into the goal at 13th minute

Anderson impressed at midfield with his constant dribbling to bring the ball forward

Wayne Rooney celebrates with Ashley Young after scoring the first goal

David De Gea shows his delight after leading at 1-0

But debutant (signed from Reading) Shane Long managed to do few stepover before firing a soft shot into Man Utd goal

David De Gea losing his concentration to let the ball squeezed through under his arm

Shane Long celebrates after scoring the equalizer

Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic had to be substituted off the game due to hamstring and calf injury respectively (replaced by Johnny Evans and Phillip Jones)

At the 80th minute, Ashley Young did well to dribble through the defense and scored through the reflected shot

Ashley Young celebrates after claiming the winning goal

Ashley Young thanking the fans after the game ended with 2-1 win

De Gea receiving a hug from former Man Utd keeper Ben Foster

As a loyal Manchester United fan, it is really good to see Manchester United kick off their campaign by a win at West Brom as they away form last season was really bad.

Hope for another win next week at Old Trafford vs Tottenham!

Buka Puasa at Hilton Hotel, PJ

Had Buka Puasa dinner with Agency the other day. It held at PJ Hilton. It was a little awkward at there as most of the customers are Malay and all waiting for the time to Buka Puasa. We had quite a number of Chinese and didnt dare to even drink as we are not as rude as the Chineson 8TV Ramadan advertisement. HAHA. We reached there at around 7pm and most of them have been starving since lunch. At 7.15pm these people started walking to the food area to take food and apparently we tot they were going to eat but they were just preparing their food. What to do they have been starving from as early as 6am.

At 730pm, suddenly prayer started and the noise of the spoon and fork and plate became damn loud.

Here are some pictures of the environment and foods available there.



I found out the price per person for the buffet there is RM119.

Rating for this restaurant:-

Cleanliness - ǬǬǬǬ

Service - ǬǬǬ (not much service was needed as it is a buffet)

Environment - ǬǬǬǬ (the environment is good but not spectacular)
Food - ǬǬ (All Malay food, not my cup of tea)

Price - ǬǬ (for the price we are paying and what we are getting from there is not worthy at all)

Recommendation - ǬǬǬ (only go if u like Malay food)