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Thoughts On Chelsea-Manchester United Game

This was another interesting game among the big four. The game was fairly open and was back and forth. The first half was mostly a collection of decent build up play but most of the attacks only created half chances

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My Thoughts On The Manchester United-Blackburn Game

Manchester United soundly defeated Blackburn Rovers at Old Trafford. Blackburn sat back and tried to defend and really did very little attacking. United took a while to really set in but absolutely dominated in possession and the last 15 minutes

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My Thoughts On Barnsley-Manchester United Game

There was not much to this game. United were clearly looking to rest most of their starters and give some younger players a chance. However, they still wanted to get to the next round. In terms of that goal, United

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My Thoughts On Liverpool-Manchester United Game

I kind of figured Liverpool would be up for this game, but the United team were pretty poor. The first half was pretty back and forth with Liverpool having the better of play and were able to produce dangerous free

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Thoughts On Manchester United-Bolton Game

Manchester United absolutely dominated Bolton for 75 minutes but the game had an uncomfortable ending with Edwin Van Der Sar needing to make a save to end the game. The game started quickly for United in the 5th minute when

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Thoughts On Aston Villa-Chelsea game

The Premier League returned this weekend and the first game was a good matchup between Aston Villa and Chelsea. Chelsea historically has not had a good record at Villa Park and it continued in this game. Aston Villa was able

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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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Weekly Soccer Wrap Up

So the season in England has finally begun. I meant to start this last week with the Bundesliga but better late than never. I’m going to try to provide weekly updates on the Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga

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Premier League 2009/10 Preview Part 2

As promised I’m going to provide a list of the key player I see for each team in the premier league. I’ll mostly focus on newcomers or players that have new roles in the season.

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