Wigan 0-2 Chelsea
The European Champions got their Premier League campaign off in Sunday's early kick off as they traveled up north to face Roberto Martinez's Wigan side. Despite the fact Wigan had survived last season they were relatively lucky and only missed the drop by 7 points whilst having one of the worst defensive records in the Premier League. Whilst Chelsea had "only" managed 64 goals last season it was expected they'd get off to a flying start with Fernando Torres looking to have regained his form with an excellent Euro 2012 (where he won the Golden Boot).
Things got off to a perfect start for Chelsea who need less than 2 minutes to open their scoring for the season as Eden Hazard and Branislav Ivanovic linked together to break the dead lock with Ivanovic finishing the move. Just minutes later Chelsea doubled their lead through a Frank Lampard penalty and it appeared as if Chelsea were going to really tear Wigan a new one whilst filling their boots, in fact it appeared as if Robert Di Matteo's men could even claim top spot above Fulham and Swansea. Sadly for Chelsea, and football fans, the second goal effectively killed the game and Chelsea choose to just hold on to their lead rather than give Wigan the hammering that they appeared to be there for.
Whilst new signing Eden Hazard was the star man for Chelsea, setting up Ivanovic's goal and being fouled for the penalty he seems like the sort of player who, despite being talented won't like the physical part of the English game. The number of times he went down was alarming and whilst some were dives he was also given a hard time. I imagine defenders will be viewing him as a serious target on this showing. Hazard went off with around 30 minutes remaining and was replaced by fellow new boy Oscar who was close to adding a third for the Blues.
Wigan fans should be worried, they have struggled in recent seasons and the way they started this game they will be struggling again. They should however feel very fortunate that Chelsea didn't seem to want to add to their early goals or this could have ended up like a cricket score. Despite losing Wigan did fight back well and actually had more shots and more corners than the visitors with Victor Moses looking very threatening despite some awful service. Wigan fans should be worried, though their team does have some promise as long as Martinez can get them working well as as a team from the opening whistle to the final whistle.
Despite winning 2-0 Chelsea fans should be feeling very annoyed at their team in all honesty. Wigan were really there for the taking and should have been beaten out of sight, though Chelsea's change from offensive minded team in the first 10 minutes to a counter attacking team afterwards really was frustrating. The fans however have to be pleased by the fact Hazard was such a key player and appears to be the sort of player who will have a hand in everything going forward, be it scoring or providing, he did however look a bit lightweight and went down far too easily. The 3 points were the key and they managed to bag them, but they weren't hugely impressive aside from the opening 10 minutes.
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Sunday, 19 August 2012
Premier League Week 1-Results (Sunday)
Manchester City 3-2 Southampton (Tevez-40, Dzeko-72, Nasri-80: Lambert-59, Davis-68)
Wigan 0-2 Chelsea (Ivanaovic-2, Lampard-7 Pen)
Highest Scoring Game-5 Goals (Manchester City 3-2 Southampton)
Penalties-2
Scored-1 (Lampard v Wigan)
Missed-1 (Silva v Southampton)
Total Goals-7 (in 2 game so far)
Wigan 0-2 Chelsea (Ivanaovic-2, Lampard-7 Pen)
Highest Scoring Game-5 Goals (Manchester City 3-2 Southampton)
Penalties-2
Scored-1 (Lampard v Wigan)
Missed-1 (Silva v Southampton)
Total Goals-7 (in 2 game so far)
Premier League Week 1-As it Happens (Sunday)
Yellow Card
Southampton get their second yellow card as Morgan Schneiderlin cynically breaks down a Manchester City counter attack and receives a yellow card, surprisingly the first non-celebration booking of the match.
Yellow Card
Samir Nasri becomes the first Manchester City player to have his name taken as his celebration for scoring City's third goal gets him a booking.
Goal!
Normal service has resumed as the Etihad stadium as Manchester City reclaim the lead with goal from Samir Nasri it's now seeming like City could well bag themselves another few goals. The class has started to show by City who have now started to finish their chances.
Manchester City 3-2 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Lambert (59)
Davis (68)
Džeko (72)
Nasri (80)
Goal!
Southampton's lead didn't last for long at all as the champions show their resolve and equalise within 4 minutes through Edin Džeko who finally manages to put away a chance after missing a huge number of chances. Man City are now looking like a team who mean business after being embarrassed by Southampton's goals. Looks like their could be more goals in this!
Manchester City 2-2 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Lambert (59)
Davis (68)
Džeko (72)
Goal!
Have we got an upset on our hands? Southampton take the lead with a little over 20 minutes left to play thanks to an excellent counter attack finished off by Steven Davis. What a shock this could be.
Manchester City 1-2 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Lambert (59)
Davis (68)
Yellow Card
Southampton's Danny Fox was shown a yellow card for his part in the Southampton celebration following their very unexpected equaliser.
Goal!
City have had a lot of chances to finish this off with Dzeko missing a number of easy chances and now they've been made to pay as substitute Ricky Lambert scores Southampton's equaliser. Will City rue their missed chances or will this stir them on to finishing off the newly promoted club?
Manchester City 1-1 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Lambert (59)
Goal!
Carlos Tevez finally puts Manchester City ahead as the Champions finally break through a resolute Southampton defense. So far Southampton have genuinely held their own and this will have to hope that the flood gates don't open as a result of this goal.
Manchester City 1-0 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Penalty
Carlos Tevez is fouled in the penalty area by Jos Hooiveld giving David Silva a chance to put Manchester City in the lead from the spot...and he's fluffed it. Awful penalty by the Spaniard that was very easily saved by Kelvin Davis.
Ouch!
Manchester City's talented forward Sergio Agüero was tackled fairly but went down nastily and appears to quite badly injured. He's been taken off and City replace him with Edin Džeko.
Result
Wigan 0-2 Chelsea
Yellow Card
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard collects the 4th yellow card of the day.
Substitution
Chelsea make the first substitution of the game as they take off new signing Eden Hazard and replace him with fellow new boy Oscar. Still 2-0 though the Blues almost scored a 3rd with a Fernando Torres effort cleared off the line just before the substitution.
Yellow Card
Wigan pick up their second booking of the game, and the first of the second half as James McArthur gets his name taken by the referee.
Yellow Card
The goals have stopped at the DW but the cards have seemingly just began as Chelsea pick up their first booking thanks to David Luis.
Yellow Card
The first booking of the day goes to Gary Caldwell of Wigan as the Latics try to over-turn a nightmare of a start to their campaign.
Penalty
Chelsea get a chance to double their lead as they get awarded a penalty....and Frank Lampard opens his account for the year as he smashes it in. Awful start for Wigan but the dream start for Chelsea.
Wigan 0-2 Chelsea
Ivanaovic (2)
Lampard (7)-Pen
Goal!
Within just 2 minutes we have out first goal as Branislav Ivanaovic puts Chelsea in an early lead. This really could be a worrying day if your Wigan, as Chelsea really did just slice through them there.
Wigan 0-1 Chelsea
Ivanaovic (2)
After yesterday's hugely exciting start to the Premier League with no less than 19 goals, 4 penalties and 2 red cards we are back again with 2 games. Wigan v Chelsea (13:30) is the first of those games with Man City v Southampton (16:00) closing out the games for the weekend. Enjoy folks! As with yesterday this page will be updated with all the goals, cards and penalties.
Southampton get their second yellow card as Morgan Schneiderlin cynically breaks down a Manchester City counter attack and receives a yellow card, surprisingly the first non-celebration booking of the match.
Yellow Card
Samir Nasri becomes the first Manchester City player to have his name taken as his celebration for scoring City's third goal gets him a booking.
Goal!
Normal service has resumed as the Etihad stadium as Manchester City reclaim the lead with goal from Samir Nasri it's now seeming like City could well bag themselves another few goals. The class has started to show by City who have now started to finish their chances.
Manchester City 3-2 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Lambert (59)
Davis (68)
Džeko (72)
Nasri (80)
Goal!
Southampton's lead didn't last for long at all as the champions show their resolve and equalise within 4 minutes through Edin Džeko who finally manages to put away a chance after missing a huge number of chances. Man City are now looking like a team who mean business after being embarrassed by Southampton's goals. Looks like their could be more goals in this!
Manchester City 2-2 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Lambert (59)
Davis (68)
Džeko (72)
Goal!
Have we got an upset on our hands? Southampton take the lead with a little over 20 minutes left to play thanks to an excellent counter attack finished off by Steven Davis. What a shock this could be.
Manchester City 1-2 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Lambert (59)
Davis (68)
Yellow Card
Southampton's Danny Fox was shown a yellow card for his part in the Southampton celebration following their very unexpected equaliser.
Goal!
City have had a lot of chances to finish this off with Dzeko missing a number of easy chances and now they've been made to pay as substitute Ricky Lambert scores Southampton's equaliser. Will City rue their missed chances or will this stir them on to finishing off the newly promoted club?
Manchester City 1-1 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Lambert (59)
Goal!
Carlos Tevez finally puts Manchester City ahead as the Champions finally break through a resolute Southampton defense. So far Southampton have genuinely held their own and this will have to hope that the flood gates don't open as a result of this goal.
Manchester City 1-0 Southampton
Tevez (40)
Penalty
Carlos Tevez is fouled in the penalty area by Jos Hooiveld giving David Silva a chance to put Manchester City in the lead from the spot...and he's fluffed it. Awful penalty by the Spaniard that was very easily saved by Kelvin Davis.
Ouch!
Manchester City's talented forward Sergio Agüero was tackled fairly but went down nastily and appears to quite badly injured. He's been taken off and City replace him with Edin Džeko.
Result
Wigan 0-2 Chelsea
Yellow Card
Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard collects the 4th yellow card of the day.
Substitution
Chelsea make the first substitution of the game as they take off new signing Eden Hazard and replace him with fellow new boy Oscar. Still 2-0 though the Blues almost scored a 3rd with a Fernando Torres effort cleared off the line just before the substitution.
Yellow Card
Wigan pick up their second booking of the game, and the first of the second half as James McArthur gets his name taken by the referee.
Yellow Card
The goals have stopped at the DW but the cards have seemingly just began as Chelsea pick up their first booking thanks to David Luis.
Yellow Card
The first booking of the day goes to Gary Caldwell of Wigan as the Latics try to over-turn a nightmare of a start to their campaign.
Penalty
Chelsea get a chance to double their lead as they get awarded a penalty....and Frank Lampard opens his account for the year as he smashes it in. Awful start for Wigan but the dream start for Chelsea.
Wigan 0-2 Chelsea
Ivanaovic (2)
Lampard (7)-Pen
Goal!
Within just 2 minutes we have out first goal as Branislav Ivanaovic puts Chelsea in an early lead. This really could be a worrying day if your Wigan, as Chelsea really did just slice through them there.
Wigan 0-1 Chelsea
Ivanaovic (2)
After yesterday's hugely exciting start to the Premier League with no less than 19 goals, 4 penalties and 2 red cards we are back again with 2 games. Wigan v Chelsea (13:30) is the first of those games with Man City v Southampton (16:00) closing out the games for the weekend. Enjoy folks! As with yesterday this page will be updated with all the goals, cards and penalties.
Saturday, 18 August 2012
Premier League Week 1-Predictions (Sunday)
If anyone saw yesterday's predictions (thankfully no one really did) they'll be aware that my predictions...flat out sucked. The only thing I was close to getting correct was the Arsenal v Sunderland game (I predicted 1-1 and the actual outcome was 0-0), thankfully I don't think I could ever do that badly again, so the only way is up.
With 2 matches today I'll try again and hopefully I'll manage to get at least 1 of these right.
Wigan v Chelsea (13:30)-I really can't see Wigan having an easy season this year, despite the fact they have the excellent Roberto Martinez in charge they players and funds sadly aren't there for Wigan to be a team that can really hold their own. Roman Abramovich at Chelsea has really opened the purse strings over summer and Roberto di Matteo seems to have the trust of the players, after all he did lead them to the Champion League trophy last year. If I'm a Wigan fan here...I avoid the TV, Radio, Newspaper for the next day or two as I imagine this is going to be an annihilation by Chelsea who will be looking to hit the floor running.
Wigan 0-7 Chelsea
Manchester City v Southampton (16:00)-Manchester City are lucky. Not only do they have bottomless pockets thanks to their owners but they also know what they will also know what need to do to climb to the top spot in the Premier League for the end of the weekend. With this in mind, and with the fact that they are playing Premier League new boys Southampton I really imagine this is going to look like the proverbial lamb to the slaughter. Southampton were very good last season in the Championship, Man City however were very, very good in the Premier League, the difference in class will tell here. I wouldn't be hugely surprised if we saw records fall here as City try to send a message to the rest of the league.
Manchester City 10-1 Southampton
We saw a lot of goals (19) on Saturday spread across 7 games, I really wouldn't be surprised if we saw more in these 2 games than we saw in them 7. This is a day that could see genuinely stupid scorelines.
With 2 matches today I'll try again and hopefully I'll manage to get at least 1 of these right.
Wigan v Chelsea (13:30)-I really can't see Wigan having an easy season this year, despite the fact they have the excellent Roberto Martinez in charge they players and funds sadly aren't there for Wigan to be a team that can really hold their own. Roman Abramovich at Chelsea has really opened the purse strings over summer and Roberto di Matteo seems to have the trust of the players, after all he did lead them to the Champion League trophy last year. If I'm a Wigan fan here...I avoid the TV, Radio, Newspaper for the next day or two as I imagine this is going to be an annihilation by Chelsea who will be looking to hit the floor running.
Wigan 0-7 Chelsea
Manchester City v Southampton (16:00)-Manchester City are lucky. Not only do they have bottomless pockets thanks to their owners but they also know what they will also know what need to do to climb to the top spot in the Premier League for the end of the weekend. With this in mind, and with the fact that they are playing Premier League new boys Southampton I really imagine this is going to look like the proverbial lamb to the slaughter. Southampton were very good last season in the Championship, Man City however were very, very good in the Premier League, the difference in class will tell here. I wouldn't be hugely surprised if we saw records fall here as City try to send a message to the rest of the league.
Manchester City 10-1 Southampton
We saw a lot of goals (19) on Saturday spread across 7 games, I really wouldn't be surprised if we saw more in these 2 games than we saw in them 7. This is a day that could see genuinely stupid scorelines.
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