Saturday 29th March 2014
Man Utd 4-1 Aston Villa
Crystal Palace 1-0 Chelsea
Southampton 4-0 Newcastle
Stoke 1-0 Hull
Swansea 3-0 Norwich
West Brom 3-3 Cardiff
Arsenal 1-1 Man City
Well, a strange day at the top, with three of the championship contenders dropping points.
Arsenal's comeback against Man City was very impressive, compared to the disaster of the previous away game with City.They needed to show a lot of character after the two previous results resulted in so little, especially the 6-0 loss against Chelsea.
Palace deserved the win against Chelsea. But, Palace had the bigger desire to win on the day and Chelsea just didn't fancy it. Strange as they are top of the table and could ill afford to drop any points, much less loose the game. An unlucky og by John Terry, to be sure and he very nearly got an equaliser. Jose says he and "the Little Horse" cannot win the EPL title this year. (No, I don't believe him either.)
Man U had a little wobble, going behind early on, but then played quite well to win comfrortably in the end. Hernandez only got 15 minutes at the end, scored a goal but didn't look very happy. Maybe he is not in Moyes' future plans?
Southampton are probably the only team in the EPL who are having fun at present. A very good performance again and a comfortable win against the Magpies by four. The Saints have no relegation worries or no European possibliites and the only cloud on their horizon is that the bigger, more famous clubs in England or Europe, will buy their best players (Rodriguez, Lambert, Shaw and Lallana) or want their Coach.
A mad last few minutes at West Brom, with Olle's Cardiff getting a hard won point. A result which may not help either team.
Sunday 30th March 2014
Fulham 1-3 Everton
Liverpool 4-0 Tottenham (edited FT score)
And Liverpool are top of the EPL again, what a great weekend for them. Things started badly early on for Spurs, then just got worse really. (Sorry Red Bull). Suarez & Sturridge were again on sparkling form, with goals from Coutinho and Henderson. Sterling played very well too. Liverpool's home games against Chelsea & Man C are coming up in April and may be decisive as to who wins the title.
However, as we have all seen from the result at Palace yesterday, at this time of the season,
absolutely anything can happen results-wise and probably will.
Fulham wre a lot better than the scoreline suggests, but really not worth a point even, so it was a fair result.
Arsenal cannot afford any more slip ups, as Everton are getting close, have games in hand and are playing very well again.
Those last 15 minutes were nothing if they weren't 'squeaky bum time'!
So it seems, it was mentioned as a bit of a tense time, but the result is the result. Just histrory now, eh?
Monday 31st March 2014
Sunderland 1-2 West Ham