Here is the roster selected by Bob Bradley for next week’s friendly with South Africa. It is a young group and I will have more reaction to it later. Goalkeepers: Bradley Guzan (Aston Villa, ENGLAND), Dominic Cervi (Celtic, SCOTLAND) Defenders:…
Here is the roster selected by Bob Bradley for next week’s friendly with South Africa. It is a young group and I will have more reaction to it later. Goalkeepers: Bradley Guzan (Aston Villa, ENGLAND), Dominic Cervi (Celtic, SCOTLAND) Defenders:…
Chelsea rebounded from their loss to Liverpool this weekend with a 1-0 win over Fulham in a west London derby. Chelsea took the lead in the first half when Michael Essien headed in a cross from Salomon Kalou. Chelsea were…
There was a lot of build up to this game and it was certainly a tense match, but it did not have many outstanding offensive performances as both defenses limited chances in the game. Manchester City came close to scoring…
Here is a brief look at the midweek games in Europe where Italy and England had league games and Spain had cup fixtures. England: Stoke City 3-2 Birmingham Tottenham 1-1 Sunderland Aston Villa 3-2 Blackpool Chelsea 1-0 Fulham Newcastle 1-2…
Despite their performances in the Champions League, Tottenham have struggled for form domestically. They came into this game have only gotten 1 point from their last 3 games but hoped a return to White Hart Lane would see them return…
There is another round of games here in the midweek. There are a London and Manchester derbies in this round and there are chances for redemption with Chelsea and Arsenal attempting to rebound after disappointing losses. Here is a look…
I had calculated the offensive and defensive efficiencies, but this month I decided to use a slightly different metric known as effectiveness. It is calculated by taking all of the games from a given league and determining the average number…
Lazio has been one of the surprise teams in Europe as they came into this game leading Serie A. No matter what the result, they would leave the game as the leaders of Serie A. Roma, on the other hand,…
Finally a top seed advanced in MLS. Los Angeles won 2-1 giving them a 3-1 aggregate win as they knocked out Seattle Sounders FC. Los Angeles got two early goals from Edson Buddle and Omar Gonzalez that gave them the…
The Madrid derby would be the first true test for Real Madrid in the league and they passed it with relative ease as they got early goals from Ricardo Carvalho and Mesut Ozil and were able to cruise comfortably from…
