Monday, January 12, 2009

English Premier League

Half of the EPL season is over and i just want to look at the teams at this stage...

MANCHESTER UNITED:-  Obviously i will start with my favourite team, the current English champions, european champions and now the world champions are pretty much in the path to regain all those tropies again. Currently placed third in the league(not bcos they have played badly but bcos they have played less matches) and are about face inter milan in the champions trophy, I can forsee a bright season ahead for the red devils.. Only cause for concern is the forwards, tevez seems to have lost his form and berbatov needs to improve his finishing drastically and you dont expect rooney to score more goals, even man city(who r placed 15th) hav scored more goals than the devils, apart from that the midfield and defence is as strong as ever.

Liverpool:- The current league leaders! Its just a one man army,ten players on the field are just lookin to pass the ball to their messiah, thats steven gerrard. They must thank god that steven was arrested just for an assault, if he had been arrested for a murder then they would have been relegated. Gerrard is a busy man now he has to attend the court hearings, visit jails, in between play football and have to score all the goals for liverpool, poor guy. They have some talented palyers like mascherano, torres, kuyt etc but still they somehow manage to end up every season without trophies.

Chelsea:- Their two year old home record is broken and their moral seems to be broken as well. One of the feared striker in the world drogba isn't scoring and one who is scoring(anelka) doesn't have coach's support. scholari was brought in to the improve the fortunes of the club, they came second in every competition last season, but they wont even manage to do that, this season. Am not putting my money on them to win the epl.  

Aston villa:- The most improved side in the epl compared to the last season. They will certainly play champions trophy next season and I wont be too much surprised if they managed to win the epl this time. Players like young brothers, barry, agbonlahor are the force to reckon with. They are placed above arsenal and righty so, Aston villa has replaced arsenal in the so called 'top 4'.

Arsenal:- I always hated william gallas, but now I love him because he publicly humiliated the club, the manager and the players. Their title chances are all but over. They have had 4 captains in as many matches, this tells about the instability. No one considers them as a threat anymore(even bfor they weren't). Teams like hull city, stoke, fullham ,burnley have all defeated arsenal.

Tottenham Hotspurs:- They showed lots of promiss before the season began with talented bunch of players, now they are left rotting at the bottom of the table. This shows no matter how talented your team is ,if their is no co-ordination in the team you are going to lose. They managed to rope in germain defoe, who I think is the best striker in England, hope this would change their fortune.

Hull City:- The sensation of the season, they beat some top clubs with ease. even if they lost they have gone down fighting. Phil Brown should win the manager of the season award hands down. They came here just to survive,  now they are doing much more than that.

Teams like everton, wigan too have fared well. My Biggest dissapiontment has been the exit of the legend Roy keane. Hope he returns back to Man utd when sir Alex decides to quit. We can expect a trilling end to the season with all top 4 teams having a chance to win the league.

1 comment:

Mohan said...

Hi, very nicely written. Thanks,

But you forgot to mention, Aston Villa has humiliated arsenal with a 3-0 win, earlier in the season. Liverpool have chances to win the trophy. It will be Liverpool and ManU fighting it out in the end. Chelsea will be nowhere in the picture. I think AVFC may come third and Chelsea will be fourth. Lets hope for that.

The future is Claret and Blue!
But, I would not mind if it was red!

Thanks again, mate.