Manchester United 3 - 1 Chelsea

Prior to this game, Manchester United are without Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Rafael, Tom Cleverley and Danny Welbeck. Their main centre backs are both out injured which led to the only senior defender Patrice Evra.

They started the game with 

David De Gea

Chris Smalling - Phil Jones - John Evans - Patrice Evra

Nani - Anderson - Darren Fletcher - Ashley Young

Wayne Rooney

Javier Hernandez 

vs

Fernando Torres

Juan Mata - Frank Lampard - Daniel Sturridge

Raul Meireles - Ramires

Ashley Cole - John Terry - Branislav Ivanovic - Jose Bosingwa

Peter Cech

The first chance of the game was created by Chelsea when Ramires was passed by Torres near the touchline with no one beside him. He only needed to pass it into the net against David De Gea and somehow the young keeper managed to block off the weak shots away for a corner. Even Peter Schmeichel was surprised and happy to see United keeper keeping out such shot. 

Then suspiciously offside, Chris Smalling managed to leave his marker and head into the goals passed Peter Cech who rooted to the spot after Ashley Young drill a pacy freekick into Chelsea penalty box. 

Based on replay, it was little obvious that Chris Smalling was already offside before he start running. 

John Evans turns provider moment later when he passed from United half to the right flanks for Nani to showcase his dribbling skill past few players before unleashing an unstoppable shot past Peter Cech. Again, Chelsea goalkeeper who hardly goes wrong rooted to the spot again as the shot was going at the top corner. Based on replay of the goal, Nani was caught offside when John Evans lob the ball to him so it was another mistake from the linesman to allow the play to continue. 

Leading at 2-0, Manchester United are not willing to sit back and defence the remaining minutes and this time Phil Jones playing good one two passes with Rooney before bringing the ball to the touchline and John Terry was there to block his drive but his clearance hits Nani before falling to Rooney's boot and with just keeper to beat, Rooney scored his 9th goals of the season inside 5 games. Thats average of 1.8 goals per game he played this season. 

Moment after the break, AVB introduced Nicholas Anelka to replace unseen Frank Lampard and he immediately assisted Fernando Torres to score his second goal since his 50 million pound move from Liverpool. I would conclude that his movement was tremendous throughout the match causing problem to inexperience John Evans and Phil Jones. 

At 3-1, Rooney had the chance to score from penalty spots after Nani brought down by Jose Bosingwa inside the penalty box after he rattles the bar with another unstoppable shot. Unfortunately for Manchester United, their player of the season slipped and his shot was blocked by his own foot. Unable to restore the three goals lead, Chelsea started to push the defensive line higher into Manchester United half, but somehow they managed to keep the scoreline at 3-1 after Fernando Torres missed a sitter.

He was let running free by Mata to face one on one with De Gea, with ease he brings the balls past the keeper, with no one to beat, he shot the ball wide. It was one of the easiest goal he has to score but he scrambled to bring his team into the game. 

Overall, Chelsea had more opportunities compare to United but United had the scoring touch which won them the game. There were good and bad moment for Chelsea Fernando Torres where he ended his goal draught but the miss he had is quite sad to be seen after such good game he had. 

Here are some of the pictures for the game.

Chris Smalling heads Manchester United into an early lead

Smalling celebrates with the goal's creator, Ashley Young

Fabio Capello was an interested observer at Man United v Chelsea

Nani's stunning strike made it 2-0 to United

There was more woe for Chelsea before half-time as John Terry's clearance ricocheted to Wayne Rooney, who made it 3-0

Torres had a glorious chance to make it 3-2, but sliced wide of an open goal after rounding David De Gea

Fernando Torres' first goal of the season gave Chelsea renewed hope early in the second half 

Disappointment for Torres as United go two points clear at the top of the table

Barclay Premier League 2011/12 Campaign Week 5

Another entertaining week for Barclay Premier League where i believe most bookies won based on all Title Contenders lost (Except both Manchester clubs) and all 3 newly-promoted clubs won this week.

Highlights for Week 5 is definitely one of the match of the season where Manchester United face Chelsea at Old Trafford and Tottenham face Liverpool at White Hart Lane.

With both Manchester clubs fighting to continue their 100% winning start to the season, Manchester City travels to The Cottagers to face Fulham who hasnt won a single game this season. Arsenal brings their confidence after winning at Swansea last week to Blackburn Rovers who also has not won a single game. 

Here are the summary for Week 5

                                                        Blackburn Rovers 4 - 3 Arsenal

                                                      Yakubu Aiyegbeni          Gervinho

                                                             Alex Song (og)          Mikel Arteta

                                                      Yakubu Aiyegbeni          Marouane Chamakh

                                               Laurent Koscielny (og)

                                                                    Aston Villa 1 - 1 Newcastle

                                                     Gabriel Agbonlahor         Leon Best

                                                       Bolton Wanderers 1 - 2 Norwich City

                                                               Martin Petrov         Anthony Pilkington

                                                                                                 Bradley Johnson

                                                                          Everton 3 - 1 Wigan Athletic

                                                                  Phil Jagielka         Franco Di Santo

                                                        Apostolos Vellios

                                                         Royston Drenthe

                                                                Swansea City 3 - 0 West Bromwich Albion

                                                                 Scott Sinclair

                                                                      Leroy Lita

                                                                  Nathan Dyer

                                                           Wolverhampton 0 - 3 Queen Park Rangers

                                                                                                 Joey Barton

                                                                                                 Alejandro Damian Faurlin

                                                                                                 Dj Campbell

                                                Tottenham Hotspurs 4 - 0 Liverpool

                                                              Luka Modric

                                                            Jermain Defoe

                                                Emmanuel Adebayor

                                                Emmanuel Adebayor 

                                                                        Fulham 2 - 2 Manchester City

                                                           Bobby Zamora        Sergio Aguero

                                                          Danny Murphy       Sergio Aguero

                                                                 Sunderland 4 - 0 Stoke City

                                                             Titus Bramble

                                                 Jonathan Woodgate

                                                             Craig Gardner

                                                     Sebastian Larsson

                                                   Manchester United 3 - 1 Chelsea

                                                            Chris Smalling         Fernando Torres

                                                                    Luis Nani

                                                          Wayne Rooney

Based on the results, teams who dropped point this week including Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea and Manchester City whom are all considered among the title contenders.

Blackburn Rovers 4 - 3 Arsenal

Arsenal dropped to 17th position in the league after losing 4-3 to Blackburn who marked their first win of the season and reassure the fans on their managers Steve Kean. I would say Arsenal did managed to play their game according to plan where Mikel Arteta and Gervinho settled well into the team with both new comers scored for Arsenal. However, the hardwork and team spirit shown by Blackburn players somehow pressured Arsenal defenders to the limit especially by David Hoilett whom never fail to terrorised their full backs with tremendous dribbling ability. It was also Arsenal target Samba whom managed to earn Blackburn their second goal (scored by Alex Song) by using his aerial presence inside Arsenal penalty box. Perhaps Steve Kean did provide the team the confidence after the break to attack Arsenal as their defence has been very weak in the past few games. But i certainly never expect Arsenal to concede 4 goals againts Blackburn after capturing the Giant defender Metsesacker.

Wolverhampton 0 - 3 Queen Park Rangers

Queen Park Rangers are also one of the improving team since Malaysian Businessman Tony Fernandes took over the team. Their capture of Joey Barton as their new skipper, Shaun Wright Phillips, Armand Traore and Anton Ferdinand are all hell of a good buy at the reasonable price. This game the keyman was Joey Barton whom break the deadlock and Armand Traore paceful running to the touchline that won them the game easily. 

Tottenham 4 - 0 Liverpool

Tottenham had a negative start to their season. Their first game againts Everton was postponed due to the riot that happened that time and eventually they had to face both Manchester clubs as their opening games. They conceded 8 goals with scoring only one in both that games. Even worse news was the injury that happened to their key player Rafael Van Der Vaart. But they managed to win 2 - 0 at Wolves last week somehow ease the pressure on the team before facing Liverpool. Tottenham started the game brightly at high tempo pressuring Liverpool players all over the pitch. They kept pushing the players up into Liverpool's half which led to dismissal of Liverpool key player Charlie Adam at just before half n hour. Then the goals started coming in which ended up winning 4-0. It is one of their biggest win against Liverpool whom have spent 100 over millions this season. It's a massive boost to their confidence as they terrorized Liverpool's defence without Van Der Vaart and Michael Dawson. Their loan signing, Emmanuel Adebayor has been a relevation since joining them with scoring one goal of the two games he has started. This clearly show that their team perform better under the formation of 4-4-2 instead of 4-4-1-1 using only one striker. Jermain Defoe played really well alongside Adebayor who both players have scored two goals each in both the games they played together. 

Fulham 2 - 2 Manchester City

I was expecting Man City to win this game easily with their current form of 4 win out of 4 before this. Their new recruits have been settling well into the team. With the likes of stars including Samir Nasri, Silva, Yaya Toure, Gael Clichy, Sergio Aguero, Dzeko, Carlos Tevez and Mario Balotelli, i certainly never expect Fulham to be able to scrapped a point from them since they are still seeking for their first win of the season. Dzeko and Aguero has been a good buy eventhough Dzeko was bought last January but only started performing this season. Both of them has scored 6 goals each in the past 4 games. This game Aguero again scored two which brings his tally to 8 goals in 5 games. Thats 1.6 goals every game (such terrific goals ratio per game). But Bobby Zamora whom was Fulham last season best player managed to score one cracker and Danny Murphy scored the equalizer through reflected shots somehow ended Man City 100% winning start to the season.

Manchester United 3 - 1 Chelsea

I will share my views on this match on the next post.

Surprisingly, Europa spot are taken by Newcastle (they sold their key players Andy Carroll, Kevin Nolan, Joey Barton and Jose Enrique without buying proper replacement), Stoke City (even after getting thrashed by Sunderland). It is a good start to few teams like Aston Villa and the 3 newly promoted teams. Anyhow congratulations to Blackburn, Norwich, Swansea and Queen Park Rangers for their respective win this week. 

Funny Roller Coaster Pictures!

Ride on roller coaster is one of the best thing we experienced while young. Too bad Malaysia doesnt really has exciting roller coaster. The scariest (not scary at all) one is located at Genting Highlands, Pahang name Corkscrew. Boring..

Mercedes Benz Life Cycle Since 1886

TIPS for Home

Ants hate cucumbers. Keep the skin of cucumbers near the place or ant hole

To get pure and clean ice : Boil water first before freezing. 

To remove chewing gum from clothes : Keep the cloth in the freezer for an hour. 

To whiten white clothes : Soak white clothes in hot water with a slice of lemon for 10 minutes 

To give a shine to hair : Add one teaspoon of vinegar to hair, then wash hair. 

To get maximum juice out of lemons : Soak lemons in hot water for one hour, and then juice them. 

To avoid tears while cutting onions : Chew gum. 

To remove ink from clothes : Put toothpaste on the ink spots generously and let it dry completely, then wash. 

To skin sweet potatoes quickly : Soak in cold water immediately after boiling. 

To get rid of mice or rats : sprinkle black pepper in places where you find mice or rats. They will run away.