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Sunday, 17 April 2011

MLS wrap: Galaxy win without Beckham

David Beckham was suspended but the Los Angeles Galaxy scored a valuable 2-1 away win at the Chicago Fire in Sunday’s MLS action.

Bruce Arena’s side were also without Landon Donovan, while Juan Pablo

Angel was left on the bench, leaving LA short of their usual star

firepower.

But the Galaxy dealt with the absence of their key men well, with Chad Barrett opening the scoring after 42 minutes.

LA looked to have sealed the points 18 minutes from time when Omar

Gonzalez added his name to the scoresheet but they did receive a late

scare, when substitute Dominic Oduro scored for the hosts with just a

minute remaining.

But it was just a false alarm as the Galaxy held on for a win that puts

them second on goal difference in the Western Conference behind Real

Salt Lake, while Chicago remain at the foot of the Eastern Conference.

The Portland Timbers held off a fast-finishing FC Dallas for a 3-2 victory at PGE Park.

The Timbers, who won 4-2 at home against the Chicago Fire on Thursday,

again started the match full of goals, with Jack Jewsbury’s 13th minute

opener delighting another passionate crowd in Portland.

Kenny Cooper added a second with 10 minutes in the first half remaining

and Rodney Wallace looked to have put the result beyond doubt with his

56th minute goal.

But Dallas refused to lie down, and an 83rd minute goal from David

Ferreira was followed by Brek Shea’s strike four minutes from time to

give the visitors the late momentum.

Portland did hold on for the win, however, which saw them rise to fourth in the Western Conference.

The other match of the day saw Houston Dynamo snatch a late 1-0 win

against New England, thanks to Hunter Freeman’s goal with just four

minutes remaining.

Mon 18 April, 2011

MLS wrap: Galaxy win without Beckham

David Beckham was suspended but the Los Angeles Galaxy scored a valuable 2-1 away win at the Chicago Fire in Sunday’s MLS action.

Bruce Arena’s side were also without Landon Donovan, while Juan Pablo

Angel was left on the bench, leaving LA short of their usual star

firepower.

But the Galaxy dealt with the absence of their key men well, with Chad Barrett opening the scoring after 42 minutes.

LA looked to have sealed the points 18 minutes from time when Omar

Gonzalez added his name to the scoresheet but they did receive a late

scare, when substitute Dominic Oduro scored for the hosts with just a

minute remaining.

But it was just a false alarm as the Galaxy held on for a win that puts

them second on goal difference in the Western Conference behind Real

Salt Lake, while Chicago remain at the foot of the Eastern Conference.

The Portland Timbers held off a fast-finishing FC Dallas for a 3-2 victory at PGE Park.

The Timbers, who won 4-2 at home against the Chicago Fire on Thursday,

again started the match full of goals, with Jack Jewsbury’s 13th minute

opener delighting another passionate crowd in Portland.

Kenny Cooper added a second with 10 minutes in the first half remaining

and Rodney Wallace looked to have put the result beyond doubt with his

56th minute goal.

But Dallas refused to lie down, and an 83rd minute goal from David

Ferreira was followed by Brek Shea’s strike four minutes from time to

give the visitors the late momentum.

Portland did hold on for the win, however, which saw them rise to fourth in the Western Conference.

The other match of the day saw Houston Dynamo snatch a late 1-0 win

against New England, thanks to Hunter Freeman’s goal with just four

minutes remaining.

Mon 18 April, 2011

Saturday, 19 February 2011

An Action-Packed Saturday, Just Without the Action

By: Ed | February 19th, 2011
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There are few things worse than watching everyone else play football, so today, tomorrow, and Monday come as a bit of a slap in the face. This weekend off also happens to be a nice reminder that Liverpool are only alive for silverware in one competition, and it just so happens to be the one in which they turned out a 90 minute collective coma. But hey, there’s the magic of the FA Cup and Crawley Town could pull the ultimate shock at Old Trafford, and there’s also West Brom taking on Wolves—don’t mention the manager, don’t mention the manager, don’t ment—in Roy Hodgson’s 2011 managerial debut. Forgive me.

As a Liverpool fan, there’s obviously plenty of schadenfreude to carry you into a viewing of the Chelsea-Everton match (on both sides)—which, incidentally, just ended 4-3 to Everton on penalties after an equalizer in the 118th minute by Leighton Baines—and the United-Crawley Town match later on. It’ll have to do for now, because otherwise you’re waiting five more days.

That’s not so much fun, though, and unfortunately there’s not a whole lot to take you through the day in terms of news. Doesn’t mean there’s nothing to report, but…actually, I’ll let you be the judge of what “nothing” constitutes.

** Kenny Dalglish continues to laud the arrival and presence of Andy Carroll, reminding us that there’s absolutely no expectation for when he actually is fit and ready to go. Because there wasn’t any of that anyway, was there?

“He’s a really good lad, he’s really down to earth. That is a value that I think is very important nowadays. You say this is an age where the punters can’t relate to the people on the street. Well I don’t think he is going to have a problem with that.

“We brought Andy (to Prague) to get amongst the boys and recognise a couple of faces. But they’ll relate to him when he gets back and he starts to get fit and play. But he’s here to be in and amongst the players and continue his rehabilitation.”

Which I’m obviously all for, and I’m just as excited as the rest of you to seem him in action. And this doesn’t necessarily add much to the aforementioned expectations, so maybe this is just a massively delayed reaction to the news that broke earlier in the week about him making his debut against Manchester United on March 6th, or maybe it’s bracing for the collective smug button-mashing we’ll hear after he hasn’t scored 7 minutes into whenever he does make his debut.

Coming off a long-term injury and working back to fitness even after he’s available, huge signing in terms of publicity and finance, and wearing the same shirt as a recently-departed goalscoring quasi-legend. All I’m saying is, patience.

** The big news prior to Thursday’s match was the inclusion of Raheem Sterling, John Flanagan, Jack Robinson, and Conor Coady, only the latter of whom made the bench for the match. The Echo’s got a piece about the presence and expectation around Sterling, written mostly in reaction to Dalgish’s quotes about having the 16 year-old along for the trip (which are worth reading in their own right):

Particularly in the case of Sterling, who would have broken the record for the youngest ever Reds player at 16 years and 79 days if he got on in Prague, it would surely have been too soon to blood him in a key knockout stage European fixture. Not that it wasn’t tempting.

Still, there is genuine excitement over the impact young Sterling can have in years to come at Anfield. Watching him repeatedly ghost past Southend defenders at Anfield last Sunday, as the Academy side romped their way to a 9-0 rout, was engrossing. It is far too early for comparisons, but there was definitely a touch of Michael Owen in the way the teenager effortlessly used lighting pace to ghost inside hapless defenders before finishing low and hard in the corners with unerring accuracy.

I think I’ll just gently nudge you in the direction of the post Noel put up earlier in the week about Sterling as any sort of response—still as applicable, if not more, after the Europa League squad-inclusion/exclusion thingy. Different than Andy Carroll, certainly, but still an exercise in creating and managing expectation.

** Raheem Sterling and the youngsters still on your mind, though? Fine, they got past the Stoke academy 4-1 earlier in the day, with Sterling netting twice and Coady firing one in on the volley. That’s the sixth-straight win for the U18s, and yet another good performance for the big names. As they start to gain more acclaim I’m sure the YouTube will have some highlights, so I’ll be back later on to include a link if it pops up. Bears repeating, though, that…screw it, they’re going to lead Liverpool to successive league titles in just a few years’ time. No question. They were in the Europa League squad for chrissakes. EUROPA LEAGUE!!!

My god that was exhausting.

Still some football left to catch for the day, including Crawley pulling the shockiest shock upset in FA Cup history. I’ll be back tomorrow morning to slog through the avalanche of non-news and rumor-mongering that the next 24 hours will bring. Hope you all enjoy the rest of your Saturday, which, judging by the last thread, will be spent listening to Radiohead.

Some Related Liverpool Posts:UPDATED–Saturday Liverpool RoundupUnited 1, Liverpool 0: The Earth is Not a Cold Dead PlaceFake Plastic Chelseas, Raheem Sterling Makes Europa Squad, and Other Wednesday NotesClosing the Transfer Window and Moving ForwardMatch Preview: Liverpool v. Manchester United, 01.09.10

Category: FA Cup, Miscellaneous, Team News

Tags: Andy Carroll, Conor Coady, FA Cup, Has Anyone Labeled Andy Carroll a Bust Yet?, Kenny Dalglish, Miscellaneous, Raheem Sterling, Team News
Tweet « Epic Swindles, Endless Injuries, and Other Friday Notes | Home | EdBlurgh, Crawley Town with the S*n as their shirt sponsors.justinwonderful stuff seeing CFC get beat by EFC though. Still liking this schadenfreude stuff. Not that Torres ever had a chance at the FA cup with them, but still.. HAHAHA.
NoelI was excited by the idea of Stoke City v. Brighton and HA until I googled the latter and discovered that it isn't actually two clubs that will be allowed to pool their forces and field twenty-two men against Stoke. And also I then noticed Stoke was involved, which sapped my expectation further.EdMy only hope was that one of the tens of thousands of rabid Stoke fans would break out onto the pitch and try to eat a B&HA player alive.blog comments powered by Disqus

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Wednesday, 22 December 2010

The Danny Webber Column: Sackings, Winter World Cup and a World Without Sir Alex

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It’s been a busy week for Fratton Park striker Danny Webber, with Xmas parties, Kings of Leon concerts and the occasional mindless sacking to boot!

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Tuesday, 30 November 2010

Chelsea remain without a win...

By Anish on November 28, 2010 7:54 AM | Comments | TrackBacksShare|

Chelsea are ahead of Arsenal on goal difference but have fallen behind Man Utd.
They conceded their first goal to Newcastle in quite a ghastly fashion.Alex made a complete bags of passing the ball back to Petr Cech and Andy Carroll made the most of the mistake.Salomon Kalou scored the equaliser at the stroke of halftime but that's as far as the scoreline went.

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Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Would Manchester United Be Better Off Without Wayne Rooney?

4 comments by Jonathan Lee on November 3rd, 2010

COS contributor Jonathan Lee wonders if perhaps Old Trafford doesn’t need the England striker, or his massive pay demands.

Saturday, 4 September 2010

Wolves musings on a weekend without football

By: DJ | September 4th, 2010

Weekends without football are usually a time for a holiday but this weekend I haven’t got my act together so I can think over what I should do without my international call up. Of course Wolves have lots of international players nowadays so they have gone to various points around Europe or in Adlene Guedioura’s case to Africa for an African Cup of Nations tie for Algeria against Tanzania. And he smashed in a fantastic equalising goal from 30 yards just to make it worthwhile, his first goal for Algeria. Take a look http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUxYmKVN3Ig

Also in action was Kevin Doyle who played 90 minutes for Eire with Andy Keogh a late sub but Kevin Foley didn’t get a game. Berra was also a late sub for Scotland. Hennessey played in goal for Wales and Edwards played the first 70 minutes. Van Damme and Milijas didn’t get a game for Belgium and Serbia but youngster Jonny Gorman got his 4th cap as a sub for Northern Ireland and he is still a 17 year old schoolboy. Mancienne played for England U21.

Gorman is rated very highly in Ireland and it will be interesting to see how his and some of the other promising youngsters at the club progress in the next couple of years. Malone, Baath, Winnall are others that are getting noticed but it’s a big jump from development football to Premier League so how does the club get them to the level they can be ready for the step up. Most likely route is via the loan system so they can get competitive football in the lower divisions. It would be great to see some players coming through the ranks and when the best team in the world currently, Barcelona, regularly get players to make the step from academy to the first team then there is no real excuse for anyone else.

Michael Kightly’s omission from the first team squad announced this week has raised a lot of concern about his fitness, coming as it did hot on the heels of Matt Murray having to give up the fight to return to the team. The only way Kightly can remove that concern now is to get some games and Reading have already expressed an interest in taking him on loan. It will probably be another month before he is fit enough to go through with that but he will need a couple of months of playing to get back to the Wolves squad in January or else this season will be written off for him and then the concerns will just grow more. It was one of the most amazing transfers of the summer window when Sigurdsson left Reading to go to Bundesliga team Hoffenheim for £6m and it has to be flattering for Kightly that they are looking for him to come in and fill the gap.

Stephen Hunt is stepping up his training an could be looking for a game later in September, and at a similar time Sam Vokes should be ready to play for Bristol City again on his loan that runs until January . It is one of the most pleasing things about Wolves start to the season that there are a number of very good players that are yet to step into the team. As well as Hunt we have Fletcher and Mouyokolo to come in and injury has also sidelined Zubar. Even Kevin Doyle has been playing while not match sharp after injury so his games for Ireland this week will help him get back to peak form. And Jelle Van Damme is still adjusting to the pace of the English game. So the promising start to the season may well have been achieved with what proves to be quite different to the strongest team.

Its worth remembering how much the team changed during the course of last season. For the first game at home to West Ham it was;

Hennessey, Foley, Mancienne, Craddock, Ward, Halford, Henry, Milijas, Jarvis, Keogh Ebanks Blake

For the last game against Sunderland at home it was;

Hahnemann, Zubar, Craddock, Berra, Elokobi, Guedioura Henry, Jones, Jarvis, Ebanks Blake, Doyle

And lots of changes between those times. So we will see many of the 25 man squad get their chance before the season is out and it is the strength in depth as well as the strongest team that will determine what the finishing position will be.

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