Arsenal Wins Against Aston Villa

Arsenal hosted the game versus Aston Villa on Sunday, December 27, 2009.  With these teams both in the top four.  It gave the chance for Villa to show what they are really made of and fight for a Champions League spot but it would be quite difficult to play at the Emirates Stadium.  Alternatively, Arsenal was looking for ways to keep their title hopes alive and needed to win for them to keep up with Man U and Chelsea.  

Cesc Fabregas the Arsenal captain came off to inspire the Gunners to a 3-0 win against Aston Villa which drag them back into the title race of the Barclays Premier League.  The Spaniard, who has not played for a while due to a hamstring problem, scored a superb free-kick on 65 minutes then converted another score to breakaway before he was substituted as a precaution.  Abou Diaby scored another in stop time at Emirates Stadium, curling in a from the edge of the area after a run.

Emirates not afraid of Villa

MARTIN O’Neill persists losing the Champions League game last season to Arsenal will have no conflict when they renew hostilities tomorrow.  Arsene Wenger’s players came barging in to get fourth spot after taking advantage of Villa’s late-season fall down during the 2008-09 campaign.  But O’Neill considers both the missing out and November’s win at the Emirates will not count in the showdown on Sunday. 

A year back when they were being talked about imploding and that the team is going to take over them they went on around 18-match run of wins,” he said.  So by the time they manage to come close they did it within a week, but anybody would have done that because we lost to Chelsea, equaled Stoke and also lost to Manchester City, so we only got one point from nine.  The records were good at the Emirates and gives a bit of confidence before the game.  But it’s different from the previous year because the game is different.

Villa Ready For Hiding

Aston Villa is in cloud nine after a good night and getting third place in a German sausage competition.  But chances are, they could be due a big loss soon. As a matter of fact, it may be sooner than they think.  They may be laying it all down on the line and going all out.  There is a big possibility that Arsenal to win today and win with all their might. There is a moment when a team wipes out a rival and it is high time that Arsenal could do that to Villa. 

With out being prejudice to Aston Villa, they are a good team who have high ranking in the league table and they so deserve it too. They arrived into the Emirates with great confidence which is correct. After all, they have won against Chelsea, Manchester United, and Liverpool in this crusade and have a great feel that they can finish the Grand Slam by winning against us.

Preview of Manchester United Vs Aston Villa

The game this weekend for the English Premier League is an interesting match.  It will be one of the big four against one who is looking to break in to the spot.  It will be Manchester United playing host to Aston Villa, this was reported by BBC Sport.  In the league’s positioning this must be the week’s biggest game.  Not to mention the Liverpool and Arsenal games also this week.  Manchester United was given a morale boost when Manchester City beat Chelsea last week. 

This allowed United to come to with in 2 points to Chelsea and come close to the top of the league.  Having their share of problems with injuries but is turned out that it did not obstruct their progress.  While in their last two outings they played with teams who are almost cellar dwellers they still scored 4 goals in the games that secured them good victories.   They will be playing a midweek Champions League game to compete with before going against Villa.  Since they have already qualified for the knock out stages, they could rest players and keep them out of injuries.

Two Masters

Guus Hiddink is the manager both the Russian World Cup Team and the mentor for the Premiere League side Chelsea. Hiddink assumed the position after Luiz Felipe Scolari was summarily dismissed by the executive.

Other managers also think that the dual role would be hard and hopefully it would be for a short term basis only, The issue that comes up would be if either side starts going on a losing skein, there may be comments that the manager may either not be spending too much time fulfilling duties and end up spreading himself too thin. Ultimately, there may be issues as to scheduling conflicts and ultimately physical health.

But many that though this is difficult, but this task is not altogether impossible to do. But it can only be a short term decision and not a long term solution to a particular plan.  These were the observations of Aston Villa manager Martin O’Neill as Guus Hiddink watched O’Neill’s side draw the match with CSKA Moscow in the UEFA Cup tie. This was the prelude to the match between the Blues and Aston Villa at Villa Park. If Villa wins over Chelsea, then Villa would surge ahead of Chelsea by four points in the team standings.

Everton Reaches Quarterfinals with Win over Aston Villa

The Goodison Park was packed to the rafters to see the match between Everton and Aston Villa. The frenzy was fever pitch from the opening whistle as the tie between the two to determine who moves forth in the standings.

Everton drew first blood in the 4^th minute as Jack Rodwell created a chance from a failed goal line clearance to slot the ball into the back of the net. In the 8^th minute Villa equalised when Gabriel Agbonlahor was taken down by Tony Hibbert in the box. Referee Martin Atkinson motioned to the spot and the kick was taken by Milner. Everton keeper figured right but was unable to thwart the shot for the tie.

At the 24^th minute, it was Everton’s turn to take the spot as Steve Sidwell’s challenge on Victor Anichebe was ruled as rough play. Arteta calmly steeped to the spot and wrong footed the Aston Villa keeper to push Everton ahead by a goal. The third goal came at the 76^th minute as Cahill connected on an Anichebe cross to seal the victory.

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