Monthly Archives: October 2009

CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying Round 10 Preview

Heading into the final round of qualifying, Mexico (18 pts) and the United States (19 pts) have both qualified for the World Cup while El Salvador and Trinidad & Tobago have been eliminated. This leaves Costa Rica (15 pts) and

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Thoughts On Honduras-United States Game

This was a thrilling game as the United States qualified for the World Cup and left Honduras needing help from the Americans in order to secure their spot to South Africa. The game started off with the United States trying

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CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying Round 9 Preview

It is getting to get very serious in terms of the qualifiers. Heading into this weekend, there are 11 of the 32 spots locked up for the World Cup finals in South Africa. By the end of next week 15

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Thoughts On Atletico Madrid-Real Zaragoza Game

Atletico Madrid had been struggling all season and still has not gotten their first win 5 games into their La Liga campaign. Real Zaragoza has been having a good start to their return to La Liga already having 7 points

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Thoughts On Houston-Kansas City Game

The Houston-Kansas City match was somewhat of a grudge match as the recently traded Kei Kamara returned to Houston. Kansas City was fighting to give themselves a legitimate shot at reaching the playoffs while Houston was looking to clinch their

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Thoughts On Chelsea-Liverpool game

This was the most anticipated game of the week in England. Chelsea were looking to rebound after losing against Wigan last week and a sub par performance against APOEL in Cyprus during the midweek. Liverpool blew away Hull City last

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Thoughts On Manchester United-Sunderland

It was an ugly performance by Manchester United and I had a feeling that they were going to struggle and Darren Bent’s seventh minute goal pretty much confirmed it would not be a smooth ride. Throughout the entire first half,

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Thoughts On Houston-Pachuca Game

Houston’s chances of qualifying for the knockout stage took a serious hit by losing at home to Pachuca 1-0. The deciding goal came in the 23rd minute from Edgar Benitez who took a cross down in the box unmarked and

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Thoughts On Manchester United-Wolfsburg game

Manchester United completed a 2-1 come from behind victory over German champions Wolfsburg at Old Trafford. It took United a while to get settled in the match but they controlled much of the play and after Wolfsburg took the lead

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