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.
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