Barclay Premier League Week 9

Was busy during week 8 due to birth of my first child.

It was already a pretty bad week where Manchester United held 1-1 draw at Anfield with Liverpool.

Looking at their display, they were lucky to escape with a point though.

This week, Manchester City travel to the Old Trafford two points advantage above Man Utd.

Manchester United 1 - 6 Manchester City

It is United's biggest lost a home ground based on the scoreline. It was really difficult to watch that game based on the form United been having in the past few games. They shown bad display during Norwich and Liverpool game, also in the Champion's league against Basel. I expected them to flop again in this game but didnt expect it to be this bad. With the attacking talent that Manchester City possess it really showed what money can affect football. 

With midfield including David Silva, Yaya Toure, Gareth Barry, and James Milner and striker of Balotelli and Sergio Aguero, undoubtedly the Citizen owns bunch of the best players in the world. Not forgetting the bench of Dzeko, Nasri, Johnson. United finally experienced what Arsenal experience during their 8-2 drubbing. 

What hurt the most was the defense of United that kept attacking Man. City eventhough they were left with only 10 men. Evra and Ferdinand did not show what they were capable of compare to last year. Ferdinand is already 32 this year and his display in the match was awful. He didnt arrange the backline to protect their goal at all. 

Hopefully SAF will do what's best for the club as i believe their confidence has been dented by this match especially to their closest rival. 

Arsenal 3 - 1 Stoke City

This is a good result for Arsenal judging from their early start to the campaign. With Van Persie on top form past few weeks, they managed to win over Stoke City. Ramsey shown that they do not miss Fabregas with his fantastic display. 

Blackburn 1 - 2 Tottenham Hotspurs

Tottenham continue to climb the table with few successive win. Adebayor has proved to be a best signing this season so far based on the fee they needed to pay. Van Der Vaart has again proved to the fans that they need him to be in the starting line up just like last season even though it is obvious that Redknapp is trying to go with 2 strikers instead of one which was used last season.

QPR 1 - 0 Chelsea

Very very good result for the Rangers but very unfortunate result based on the referee's performance this time. Jose Bosingwa was not suppose to get sent off as he wasnt the last man when he brought down the opponent. But undeniably Drogba deserved the Red card after a dangerous tackle from him.

However, AVB did the right thing in the second half by attacking QPR even though they were left with 9 men in the field. However, QPR managed to hold on to one of their best result in their history.

Liverpool 1 - 1 Norwich City

A stunning header from Holt earned City a valuable point after a goal from Bellamy just before half time. Enough said.

Fulham 1 - 3 Everton

After facing so many big teams in the past few weeks finally Everton has won again. This time it was their loan star from Real Madrid, Drenthe who provided the good display to win them the game. It was a thunderbolt strike from him inside 3 minutes to give them the lead. Bobby Zamora should had won Fulham the game after equalizing goal from Bryan Ruiz when he was left open in front of goal. Saha and Rodwell managed to score in the stoppage time to win the game.

Newcastle 1 - 0 Wigan

Newcastle continue their unbeaten run with the expense of Wigan this week. A good long range strike from their new signing Cabaye. It will be nice to see them in Europe next year. They have sufficient funds and stadium space to be one of the top club in England.

After week 9 result, Manchester City currently stands at the top of the table with 5 points away from the 2nd spot Manchester United. They certainly shown they are not pushover after such brilliant start to their season. They will definitely be one of the title contender for the remaining season. 

Barclay Premier League 2011/12 Campaign Week 7

Results from week 7 should probably be bringing money to all gambler as most Big teams have won in the week including Liverpool, Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City except Arsenal who lost to another big team Tottenham.

Here are the results for Week 7

                                                                          Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool

                                                                                                 Andy Carroll

                                                                                                 Luis Suarez

                                                                    Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan

                                                     Gabriel Agbonlahor

                                                                   Darren Bent

                                                        Blackburn Rovers 0 - 4 Manchester City

                                                                                                 Adam Johnson

                                                                                                 Mario Balotelli

                                                                                                 Samir Nasri

                                                                                                 Stefan Savic

                                                      Manchester United 2 - 0 Norwich City

                                                                      Anderson

                                                           Danny Welbeck

                                                                    Sunderland 2 - 2 West Bromwich Albion

                                                          Nicklas Bendtner         James Morrison

                                                    Ahmed Elmohamady         Shane Long

                                                           Wolverhampton 1 - 2 Newcastle United

                                                            Steven Fletcher          Demba Ba

                                                                                                  Jonas Gutierrez

                                                       Bolton Wanderers 1 - 5 Chelsea

                                                           Dedryck Boyata          Daniel Sturridge

                                                                                                  Frank Lampard

                                                                                                  Daniel Sturridge

                                                                                                  Frank Lampard

                                                                                                  Frank Lampard

                                                                           Fulham 6 - 0 Queen Park Rangers

                                                                                                  Andrew Johnson

                                                                                                  Danny Murphy

                                                                                                  Andrew Johnson

                                                                                                  Andrew Johnson

                                                                                                  Clint Dempsey

                                                                                                  Bobby Zamora

                                                                 Swansea City 2 - 0 Stoke City

                                                                  Scott Sinclair

                                                               Danny Graham

                                                     Tottenham Hotspurs 2 - 1 Arsenal

                                                     Rafael Van Der Vaart          Aaron Ramsey

                                                                    Kyle Walker

Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool

Everton should not has lost this game if Martin Atkinson was not the referee for the game. It was one really bad mistake by the referee who gave straight red to Jack Rodwell who obviously won the ball fairly. It was not even a foul on Luis Suarez but it was his expression which led the referee whom had no choice but to give a card to him. If there was no dismissal of him, it will definitely be a good game to watch as the card was shown at 23 minutes. Everton had to play with 10 mens against a strong Liverpool team. Anyway i have full support for Everton who managed to control the game with a man less.

Fulham 6 - 0 Queen Park Rangers

Fulham marked their first win of the season with a superb display thrashing QPR with 6 goals to nil. This is following a good week after winning at Europa League and their confidence has increased tremendously in this game. Andrew Johnson who scored 2 last week in Europe managed to score another 3 this week bringing his tally to 5 goals in 2 games. Congratulation to Martin Jol.

Manchester United 2 - 0 Norwich City

After 2 bad games against Basel and Stoke, Manchester United's confidence are seen dropped especially at the defense. Despite Jones excelling at the centre, his partner (Ferdinand and Evans) keep causing problem to them with bad communication among the backline. Norwich could had won the game if Pilkington has scored for them after having a chance with only Lindegaard to beat and he missed it. Valencia positioning at rightback is also another problem as he was caught out of position each time he brings the ball forward. However, goals from Anderson and Welbeck at last quarter of the game managed to win United the game. Javier Hernandez and Rooney had a bad game, Anderson didnt bring the creative spark to the team, Nani was kept quiet by Norwich's defense, so did Park. However it was a really good character showed by United to continue trying despite not able to break the defense for such long period. 

The visitors at Old Trafford manage to keep the champions quiet in the first 45 minutes

Despite Norwich having the better chances, Manchester United draw first blood when Anderson ends some head tennis in the area by finding the net

The Brazilian celebrates his second of the season with the customary jig

Danny Welbeck and Park Ji-Sung combine to bag a second for Manchester United three minutes from time

Anthony Pilkington is consoled by Paul Lambert after the winger missed a sitter while the scores were still level at Old Trafford

Barclay Premier League Table after Week 7

Manchester United remains top of the league but with just one goal difference seperating them against rival Citizen. Chelsea and Tottenham also moving up with growing confidences in both the team. Fulham who marked their first win moved up to 12th spot. Bolton continue to suffer after getting thrashed by Chelsea.

Need to wait for 2 weeks before the Premier League week 8 continue due to International break.

Barclay Premier League 2011/12 Campaign Week 6

Was not able to squeeze time to update the score for Barclay Premier League Week 6 due to heavy work load last week. 

Week 6 was a pretty bad week for Manchester United as they were held draw at Britannia Stadium which is one of the toughest opponent so far this season. 

Here are the summary for Week 6

                                                          Manchester City 2 - 0 Everton

                                                             Mario Balotelli

                                                                James Milner

                                                                          Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton Wanderers 

                                                          Robin Van Persie

                                                          Robin Van Persie

                                                                      Alex Song

                                                                          Chelsea 4 - 1 Swansea City

                                                          Fernando Torres          Ashley Williams

                                                                          Ramires

                                                                          Ramires

                                                               Didier Drogba

                                                                       Liverpool 2 - 1 Wolves

                                                     Roger Johnson (og)         Steven Fletcher

                                                                    Luis Suarez

                                                        Newcastle United 3 - 1 Blackburn Rovers

                                                                      Demba Ba         David Hoilett

                                                                      Demba Ba

                                                                      Demba Ba

                                              West Bromwich Albion 0 - 0 Fulham

                                                                            Wigan 1 - 2 Tottenham Hotspurs

                                                          Mohamed Diame         Rafael Van Der Vaart

                                                                                                 Gareth Bale

                                                                      Stoke City 1 - 1 Manchester United

                                                                 Peter Crouch          Luis Nani

                                                     Queen Park Rangers 1 - 1 Aston Villa

                                                      Richard Dunne (og)         Barry Bannan

        

                                                                  Norwich City 2 - 1 Sunderland

                                                                  Leon Barnett          Kieran Richardson

                                                               Steve Morison

Manchester City 2 - 0 Everton

Good win for The Citizens as Everton are known as a strong team as they are always a threat to all big teams in the Premier League eventhough they do not spend much every season. This season they made only two loan signing without paying a single cent and they let go of their last season top scorer Beckford and Arteta to Arsenal. It was a fine display from their defense although some moment of carelessness caused them to lose the game. With a team who spent hundred over millions past seasons, against a team who spent not even 10% of their total spending, losing to 2 goals is considerably okay. Somehow Everton will need to find a proper Forward as they cant be relying on just Louis Saha who is injury prone and Tim Cahill who isnt even a Striker.

Arsenal 3 - 0 Bolton Wanderers

Boost of confidence for the Gunners as they thrashed the travelling Bolton at The Emirates Stadium. Robin Van Persie marked his 100th goal for Arsenal which is a tremendous achievement judging of their performance in recent years. He is undoubtedly one of the finest talents and this is shown by Arsene Wenger showing faith to put him as the skipper this season. His only problem is he is always on the sidelines due to fitness problem. Even Manchester City has recently expressed interest in signing him in upcoming transfer window.

Stoke City 1 - 1 Manchester United

Stoke City has already draw at Chelsea on the opening fixture and winning Liverpool has proved that they are capable of winning against big teams. This game they continue to show promises by constantly pressuring United defense and keeper using their aerial ability. They own plenty of tall players including their new arrival Peter Crouch measuring at 201cm, Walters (183cm), Delap (183cm), Whelan (180cm), Wilkinson (180cm), Wilson (188cm), Shawcross (191cm), Woodgate (183cm) and Huth (191cm). With United defense included newbie Jones, Evra and Valencia it is expectedly Stoke will cause plenty of problems in United penalty box and it was set piece which indeed gave them the goal. Although United 100% winning run ended in Week 6 but i am proud as it was ended by Stoke and not other teams as i have always admired Stoke City since last year which caused a few upsets to the big guns. This game also brings some good goal scored by Nani when he dribbled past few defenders before slotting home to give United the lead.

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. 

Bolton Wanderers 0 - 5 Manchester United

Another superb display by Manchester United in Premier League Week 4. This time against the strong Bolton Wanderers team who managed to score 2 at Manchester City few weeks back. 

United were looking to control their attacking force which are expected to bully new United keeper David De Gea who so far shown weak at winning strong physically built players in their penalty box.

Somehow Rio Ferdinand, Phil Jones, John Evans and Patrice Evra managed to control Bolton attackers perfectly well to protect their keeper. Phil Jones whom started at Right Back slot replace Chris Smalling shown himself as a perfect gem for United to be able to play at that position as though he is born for that. He provided a magnificent cross for Rooney's first goal and fantastic footwork before firing at goalkeeper which led to United 3rd goal. 

Chicharito's display was as though he didnt go through injury at all. His running shown each striker the perfect running to run off defenders to score. With the likes of Gary Cahill who recently being made first team for England, i can only rate his performance 4 outta 10 as Chicharito's movement made him look like a normal player. It only took 4 minutes for Chicharito to score his first goal in this season being in the starting line up. 

Wayne Rooney whom score hatrick against Arsenal continues his perfect start to the season with another hatrick against Bolton this week. He has score in all games this season. 

ONE vs West Brom

ONE vs Tottenham

THREE vs Arsenal

THREE vs Bolton

Have anyone ever scored 8 in 4 league matches? No idea in recent times. 

This would be the best ever start to the season for Manchester United as the team are known for slow starter to each season and normally catch back during Christmas period. The only negative was Tom Cleverly out injured after few minutes after being badly tackled by Kevin Davies. 

Here are some of the pictures from Bolton's game.

Wayne Rooney leaves the Reebok with the match ball tucked under his arm, after his hat trick helped Manchester United to an emphatic 5-0 win over Bolton

Javier Hernandez puts Manchester United 1-0 up within the first five minutes at the Reebok, as he slots it past Jussi Jaaskelainen's near post after tremendous running past Bolton defenders

The Mexican celebrates his return to the United starting XI in style

Bolton captain Kevin Davies slides in with a crunching tackle on United youngster Tom Cleverly

Wayne Rooney gets his toe on the end of a cross to put United into a 2-0 lead over Bolton after brilliant cross from Phil Jones

United players celebrate their third goal, as Rooney is left with a tap in following excellent work from Phil Jones

Luis Nani getting the better of Bolton's Mark Davies with his pacy dribbling

Hernandez adds his second and United's fourth, as the Red Devils run riot at the Reebok

Rooney will be taking home the matchball as he secures his hat trick and adds to Bolton's misery

United players celebrating after winning the game with ease. Perfect START

Barclay Premier League 2011/12 Campaign Week 4

Another interesting week for Barclay Premier League where you see Liverpool on the losing side, Arsenal and Chelsea barely able to win at lower ranking teams.

Here are the summary for week 4

                                                                  Arsenal 1 - 0 Swansea

                                                     Andrei Arshavin

                                                                  Everton 2 - 2 Aston Villa

                                                          Leon Osman          Stiliyan Petrov

                                                      Leighton Baines          Gabriel Agbonlahor

                                                    Manchester City 3 - 0 Wigan

                                                       Sergio Aguero

                                                       Sergio Aguero

                                                       Sergio Aguero

                                                             Stoke City 1 - 0 Liverpool

                                                   Jonathan Walters

                                                            Sunderland 1 - 2 Chelsea

                                                        Dong-Won Ji          John Terry

                                                                                      Daniel Sturridge

                                                     Wolverhampton 0 - 2 Tottenham Hotspurs

                                                                                       Emmanuel Adebayor

                                                                                       Jermain Defoe

                                                  Bolton Wanderers 0 - 5 Manchester United

                                                                                       Javier Hernandez

                                                                                       Wayne Rooney

                                                                                       Wayne Rooney

                                                                                       Javier Hernandez

                                                                                       Wayne Rooney

                                                                  Fulham 1 - 1 Blackburn Rovers

                                                      Bobby Zamora          Ruben Rochina

                                                         Norwich City 0 - 1 West Bromich Albion

                                                                                        Peter Odemwingie

Barclay Premier League 2011/12 Campaign Week 3

After winning 3-0 over Tottenham Hotspurs last week, SAF decided to stick with the same players and the result eventually paid off as United thrashed Arsenal a thumping 8-2 score at Old Trafford.

Here are the summary over the weekend results.

                                                             Aston Villa 0 - 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers

                                                       Wigan Athletic 2 - 0 Queens Park Rangers

                                                    Franco Di Santo

                                                    Franco Di Santo

                                                              Blackburn 0 - 1 Everton 

                                                                                       Mikel Arteta

                                                                 Chelsea 3 - 1 Norwich City

                                                      Jose Bosingwa           Grant Holt

                                                     Frank Lampard

                                                             Juan Mata

                                                         Swansea City 0 - 0 Sunderland

                                                               Liverpool 3 - 1 Bolton Wanderers

                                                  Jordan Henderson         Ivan Klasnic

                                                          Martin Skrtel

                                                         Charlie Adam

                                                   Newcastle United 2 - 1 Fulham

                                                              Leon Best          Clint Dempsey

                                                              Leon Best

                                               Tottenham Hotspurs 1 - 5 Manchester City

                                                      Younes Kaboul          Edin Dzeko

                                                                                        Edin Dzeko

                                                                                        Edin Dzeko

                                                                                        Sergio Aguero

                                                                                        Edin Dzeko

                                            West Bromich Albion 0 - 1 Stoke City

                                                                                      Ryan Shotton

                                                Manchester United 8 - 2 Arsenal

                                                    Danny Welbeck          Theo Walcott

                                                       Ashley Young          Robin Van Persie

                                                     Wayne Rooney

                                                     Wayne Rooney

                                                              Luis Nani

                                                          Park Ji Sung

                                                     Wayne Rooney

                                                       Ashley Young

This is an astonishing win for United and it shows how capable their young guns are. United had the luxury of having Ryan Giggs, Ferdinand, Berbatov, Hernandez and Park Ji Sung among the substitute and they managed to win with 6 goals margin over one of the biggest team in Premier League. 

It is also the first time United have scored 8 in a single match since 1999. It was Arsenal's worst ever defeat against United and the first time they have conceded eight in a league game since 1896.

Enjoy the pictures from the match from this post.

Nani gets away from Andrey Arshavin

Danny Welbeck celebrates after opening the scoring for United

Arsenal fluffed a chance to equalise when David De Gea saved Robin van Persie's spot-kick

Ashley Young doubled the home side's lead with a sublime curling effort

Wayne Rooney scored direct from a free-kick to make it 3-0

Theo Walcott reduced the deficit, but another Rooney set-piece restored the three-goal cushion

Rooney takes the plaudits from his team-mates

Nani added a sublime fifth goal with a cheeky chip

Arsene Wenger shows his frustration in the dugout

Park Ji-Sung swept home United's sixth goal

Rooney completed his hat-trick from the penalty spot after Patrice Evra brought down by Theo Walcott in the penalty box

There was still time for Young to score his second and United's eighth, but it was Rooney who went home with the match ball

Barclay Premier League Table after Week 3

As week 4 is used for international matches thus will proceed with Week 5 Fixtures