Despite all claims that Rafa Benitez is going to finish out the season at Liverpool, Soccernet decided to do a list of possible contenders to replace him. That is certainly not a good sign if you are the manager and…
Despite all claims that Rafa Benitez is going to finish out the season at Liverpool, Soccernet decided to do a list of possible contenders to replace him. That is certainly not a good sign if you are the manager and…
I’ve been wanting to play around with this stuff for a while and I’ll give it a try tomorrow. I’ll be starting early in the morning at 7:30 and cover Stoke City-Liverpool, Manchester United-Burnley, and Everton-Manchester City games. Feel free…
This week has been filled with gloom and doom for the two biggest clubs in English football Manchester United and Liverpool. The week started with reports of Manchester United’s money issues. The Glazers announced a plan to raise 500m pounds…
This may be a little bit based on my affinity for Atletico Madrid but they stormed back to win 5-1 over Recreativo Huelva. The win gave Atletico a 5-4 win on aggregate. For me this game embodied what being an…
The biggest news of the day has to be Liverpool’s elimination from the FA Cup by Reading. The loss pretty much was the worst possible outcome for a team that has both underperformed and been unlucky. They were hit with…
This was a bit of a lackluster game especially after watching the exciting 4-4 game between Angola and Mali. The goals were not particularly inspiring as all were from corner kicks and often involved poor marking or a rather bad…
United will be disappointed that they could not defeat Birmingham as they dominated the game in terms of possession. United started off the game absolutely dominating possession but were not creating chances to trouble Joe Hart. Despite that Birmingham took…
The big news in this game at least from an American’s point of view was that this game marked the debut for Landon Donovan, who I paid particularly close attention to during this game. Everton started off very well putting…
The weather is wreaking havoc in Britain as this weekend’s fixtures have been postponed due to weather making travel conditions to the stadium to hazardous. Fulham-Portsmouth, Burnley-Stoke, and Bolton-Sunderland have all been postponed and Liverpool are requesting that their fixture…
In soccer there is always a challenge to somehow use statistics to figure out how things are going. I decided to give it a try by looking at the possession numbers as well as the offense and defense efficiencies. I…
