English Premier League – Matchweek 8 – Saturday, October 3/15-Sunday, October 4/15

With Manchester United on top of the board, it’s Matchweek 8 in the English Premier League!Here’s the schedule (with Canadian channels) of this weekend’s fixtures:

—– Saturday’s Games —–

—– Crystal Palace v West Bromwich Albion —–

68th minute: Crystal Palace’s Yannick Bolasie’s header from very close range to the bottom-right corner gave the home team a 1-0 lead!

89th minute: Crystal Palace’s Yohan Cabaye converted from the penalty spot, putting Crystal Palace up 2-0!

FINAL SCORE: CRYSTAL PALACE 2 – 0 WEST BROM ALBION

—– Aston Villa v Stoke City —–

55th minute: Stoke City’s Marko Arnautovic scored the only goal of the game, slotting it past the goalkeeper and in off the post!

FINAL SCORE: ASTON VILLA 0 – 1 STOKE CITY

—– AFC Bournemouth v Watford —–

28th minute: Bournemouth’s Glenn Murray headed the ball past Heurelho Gomes to put the home team up 1-0!

45th minute: Watford’s Odion Ighalo equalized the score, taking advantage of a poor pass by Artur Boruc!

FINAL SCORE: AFC BOURNEMOUTH 1 – 1 WATFORD

—– Manchester City v Newcastle United —–

18th minute: Newcastle’s Aleksandar Mitrovic opened the scoring with a header, marking his first goal for the Magpies!

42nd minute: Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero evened the score with a header of his own!

49th minute: Aguero converted a pass by David Silva and left-footed a shot into the bottom-right corner of the net to give City a 2-1 lead!

50th minute: Aguero scored again, assisted by Kevin De Bruyne!  Now 3-1 Man City!

53rd minute: De Bruyne volleyed in Man City’s fourth goal of the game!

60th minute: Aguero nets his fourth of the game, with another assist by Silva!  Man City leading 5-1!

62nd minute: Aguero ties a Premier League record by scoring five times in a single match!

FINAL SCORE: MANCHESTER CITY 6 – 1 NEWCASTLE UNITED

—– Norwich v Leicester City —–

28th minute: Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy’s converted penalty opened the scoring as the visitors take the early lead 1-0!

47th minute: Leicester City’s Jeffrey Schlupp fired home the Foxes’ second goal of the game!

68th minute: Norwich’s Dieumerci Mbokani turned in Jonny Howson’s cross to half Leicester’s lead down to 2-1!

FINAL SCORE: NORWICH 1 – 2 LEICESTER CITY

—– Sunderland v West Ham United —–

10th minute: Sunderland’s Steven Fletcher stroked home Yann M’Vila’s low corner to give the Black Cats a 1-0 lead!

22nd minute: Sunderland’s Jeremain Lens gives the home team a 2-0 lead!

First-half stoppage time: West Ham’s Carl Jenkinson got one in before the break to narrow Sunderland’s lead to 2-1!

57th minute: Lens received his second yellow card of the match and is sent off the field!

60th minute: West Ham’s Dimitri Payet levelled the score with a right-footed shot to the bottom-right corner of the net!

FINAL SCORE: SUNDERLAND 2 – 2 WEST HAM

—– Chelsea v Southampton —–

10th minute: Chelsea’s Willian’s 30-yard delivery found the top far corner after bouncing off a post!

44th minute: Southampton’s Steven Davis scores his first goal in over 600 days, tying the match 1-1!

60th minute: Southampton’s Sadio Mane’s squeezed the ball past Asmir Begovic, giving the Saints a 2-1 lead!

72nd minute: Southampton’s Graziano Pellè sealed the win!

FINAL SCORE: CHELSEA 1 – 3 SOUTHAMPTON

—– Sunday’s Games —–

—– Everton v Liverpool —–

41st minute: Liverpool’s James Milner’s header found Danny Ings, who headed the ball into the net!

First-half stoppage time: Everton’s Romelu Lukaku lashed home a rebound to even the score!

The Merseyside derby ends in a draw!  It also saw the end of Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, who has resigned his post!

FINAL SCORE: EVERTON 1 – 1 LIVERPOOL

—– Arsenal v Manchester United —–

6th minute: Arsenal’s Alexis Sánchez puts the ball in the net from close range to open the scoring early!

7th minute: Arsenal’s Mesut Özil scored a minute later, making it 2-0 Arsenal!

20th minute: Sanchez scored his sixth goal in three matches with a right-footed drive to the top-right corner!  Arsenal now leading 3-0!

FINAL SCORE: ARSENAL 3 – 0 MANCHESTER UNITED

—– Swansea City v Tottenham Hotspur —–

16th minute: Swansea’s André Ayew header gives the home team a 1-0 lead!

27th minute: Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen’s free kick goes in and ties the match!

31st minute: Tottenham’s Harry Kane gives away an own-goal to put Swansea up 2-1!

65th minute: Eriksen ties the match once again with a free kick!

FINAL SCORE: SWANSEA CITY 2 – 2 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR

Once again, a look at the final scores of Matchweek 8:

And here’s how the table looks after the weekend’s action:

Matchweek 9 commences Saturday, October 17!

English Premier League – Matchweek 7 – Saturday, September 26/15 to Monday, September 28/15

Another weekend, another round of fixtures in the English Premier League!  It’s Matchweek 7, and Manchester City on top of the table with 15 points!

Eight games were played on Saturday!  Let’s begin with the early game….

—– Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester City —–

25th minute:  Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne (#17) scored his third goal in as many games following a pass by Yaya Toure!

45th minute:  Tottenham’s Eric Dier struck from distance to tie the match!

50th minute:  Tottenham’s Toby Alderweireld’s header gave the Spurs the lead, 2-1!

61st minute:  Tottenham’s Harry Kane finally scored his first goal of the season, padding Spurs’ lead to 3-1!

79th minute: Tottenham’s Eric Lamela’s composed finish lifted his team to a 4-1 lead!

FINAL SCORE:  TOTTENHAM HOTSPURS 4 – 1 MANCHESTER CITY

—– Leicester City v Arsenal —–

13th minute:  Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy scored his fourth goal in as many matches!

18th minute:  Arsenal’s Theo Walcott poked home Héctor Bellerín’s cross to tie the game at 1-1!

33rd minute:  Arsenal’s Alexis Sánchez scored from very close range to put the Gunners ahead 2-1!

57th minute:  Sánchez scores again, heading in his second goal of the game!  Arsenal ahead 3-1!

81st minute:  Sánchez completes the hat trick, scoring his third with a strike from distance!  Arsenal leads 4-1!

89th minute:  Vardy shaves a goal off Arsenal’s lead with his sixth goal of the season!

93rd minute:  Arsenal’s Olivier Giroud added a goal to his team’s total to finish the game!

FINAL SCORE:  LEICESTER CITY 2 – 5 ARSENAL

—– Liverpool v Aston Villa —–

2nd minute: Liverpool’s James Milner scored his first competitive Liverpool goal to open the scoring!

59th minute: Liverpool’s Daniel Sturridge’s first goal since returning from injury gave the Reds a 2-0 lead!

66th minute: Aston Villa’s Rudy Gestede got his team on the scoreboard from very close range!  Liverpool leads 2-1!

67th minute: Sturridge re-established Liverpool’s lead, finishing a delightful one-two with Coutinho!  Liverpool leads 3-1!

71st minute: Gestede got his second goal of the game to keep it close!  Liverpool leads 3-2!

FINAL SCORE:  LIVERPOOL 3 – 2 ASTON VILLA

—– Manchester United v Sunderland —–

4th minute of First-Half Stoppage Time: Manchester United’s Memphis Depay took a pass from Juan Mata to slot it in from close range!  Man U leads 1-0!

46th minute:  Manchester United’s Anthony Martial fired in a cross that hit Wayne Rooney’s right knee and flew into the net!  Man U leads 2-0!

90th minute:  Manchester United’s Ashley Young crossed from the left for Mata to fire high into the net, making it 3-0!

FINAL SCORE:  MANCHESTER UNITED 3 – 0 SUNDERLAND

—– Southampton v Swansea City —–

11th minute: Southampton’s Virgil van Dijk collected his first Saints goal with a header from very close range!

54th minute: Southampton’s Dusan Tadic made it 2-0 Saints with a left-footed shot from a difficult angle!

61st minute: Southampton’s Sadio Mané places the ball beyond goalkeeper  Lukasz Fabianski, for a 3-0 Southampton lead!

83rd minute: Swansea City’s Gylfi Sigurdsson ensures his team avoids the shut-out by converting a penalty shot!

FINAL SCORE: SOUTHAMPTON 3 – 1 SWANSEA CITY

—– Stoke City v AFC Bournemouth —–

12th minute: Bournemouth’s Callum Wilson was taken off the pitch on a stretcher due to injuries received from an unfortunate challenge from Philipp Wollscheid.

32nd minute: Stoke City’s Jonathan Walters gave the home side the lead with a tap-in goal!

76th minute: Bournemouth’s Dan Gosling tied the game when he pounced on a loose box inside the box to drive home the equalizer!

83rd minute: Stoke City’s Mame Biram Diouf sealed the win with a header in the late going!

FINAL SCORE: STOKE CITY 2 – 1 AFC BOURNEMOUTH

—– West Ham United v Norwich —–

9th minute: Norwich’s Robbie Brady gets his first goal for the club, capitalizing on a misplaced pass by West Ham’s Mark Noble!

33rd minute: West Ham’s Diafra Sakho evened the match, tucking away Dimitri Payet’s low right-wing cross!

83rd minute: Norwich’s Nathan Redmond gave his team a 2-1 lead with only seven minutes left in regulation time!

3 minutes into final stoppage:  West Ham’s Cheikhou Kouyate tied the match, redirecting Andy Carroll’s header into the net!

FINAL SCORE: WEST HAM UNITED 2 – 2 NORWICH CITY

—– Newcastle United v Chelsea —–

42nd minute: Newcastle’s Ayoze Perez’s fine strike off the post gave the Magpies a 1-0 lead going into the half!

60th minute: Newcastle’s Georginio Wijnaldum’s brilliant header allows the home team to go ahead 2-0!

79th minute: Chelsea’s Ramires fires an absolute screamer into the top left corner to cut Newcastle’s lead in half!

86th minute: Chelsea’s Willian swings in a free kick and it goes straight in, tying the game at 2-2!

FINAL SCORE: NEWCASTLE UNITED 2 – 2 CHELSEA

—– Watford v Crystal Palace —–

71st minute: Crystal Palace’s Yohan Cabaye scored from the penalty spot to give the boys in red and blue a 1-0 lead which they wouldn’t relinquish!

FINAL SCORE: WATFORD 0 – 1 CRYSTAL PALACE

—– West Brom v Everton —–

41st minute: West Brom’s Saido Berahino took advantage of poor Everton defending to open the scoring with his second goal of the season!

54th minute: West Brom’s Craig Dawson heads home Chris Brunt’s superb deep corner to give the home team a 2-0 lead!

55th minute: Everton’s Romelu Lukaku heads the ball past the goalkeep to cut West Brom’s lead to 2-1!

75th minute: Everton’s Arouna Koné beat the offside trap, fired low past Boaz Myhill, and tied the match at 2-2!

84th minute: Lukaku scores his second of the match, tapping home Gerard Deulofeu’s cross at the second attempt to put Everton ahead 3-2!

FINAL SCORE: WEST BROM 2 – 3 EVERTON

That was 41 goals over three days!  After the dust settled, here’s how the table looks after Matchweek 7:We have a new leader on top in Manchester United!

Next weekend: Matchweek 8 Saturday, October 3 – Sunday, October 4/15!

English Premier League – Matchweek 6 – Sunday, September 20/15

Entering play on Matchweek 6 Sunday, Manchester City had a three-point lead on West Ham and Leicester City:

—– Tottenham v Crystal Palace —–

Tottenham evened themselves up with Crystal Palace in the standings with a 1-0 win!

In the 68th minute Christian Eriksen released Son Heung-Min, who fired a shot underneath Palace goalkeeper Alex McCarthy and into the back of the net!

—– Liverpool v Norwich —–

Liverpool’s struggles continue as they held on to tie Norwich 1-1!

In the 48th minute, Liverpool’s Danny Ings collected a pass from Alberto Moreno and tapped it under John Ruddy for a 1-0 Reds lead!

In the 61st minute, Norwich tied it up with a Russell Martin lob over Simon Mignolet!

—– Southampton v Manchester United —–

Wayne Rooney returned to the pitch as Manchester United won 3-2 over Southampton!

Graziano Pellè scored in the 13th minute, firing home a rebound from Sadio Mané!

Anthony Martial evened the score in the 34th minute!

Martial scored his second of the game in the 50th minute, giving Man U a 2-1 lead!

In the 68th minute Juan Mata made it 3-1 after retrieving Martial’s rebound and sticking it in the back of the net!

Southampton valiantly fought back, with Pellè netting his second of the match in the 86th minute, but the Saints came up short in the end!

Here’s the table after Matchweek 6 activity!  Man U’s win has put them two points behind leading Manchester City!  Stoke City, Newcastle and Sunderland continue winless this season!

Matchweek 7 commences Saturday, September 26 with eight Saturday matches, and a fixture on both Sunday and Monday!

English Premier League – Matchweek 6 – Saturday, September 19/15

Welcome back to The DeanBlog’s recap of the English Premier League!  Here’s how the table looks leading into action for Matchweek 6:

Here are the fixtures for the weekend (including Canadian television coverage):

—– Chelsea v Arsenal —–

Chelsea finally found a winning form, while Arsenal ended the match down two men, as Chelsea won 2-0!

In the 31st minute Arsenal’s Santiago Cazorla picked up a yellow card on a bad foul. We’ll get back to him shortly!

Into stoppage time in the first half, Diego Costa and Gabriel Paulista clashed and both were given yellow cards.  Gabriel kicked backwards into Diego Costa and got upgraded to a red card!

In the 53rd minute Kurt Zouma headed in Fabregas’ free-kick to put Chelsea ahead 1-0!

Back to Mr. Cazorla…he gets his second yellow (thusly a red card) for a sliding challenge on Fabregas!

Early in stoppage time in the game, a deflected effort from Eden Hazard gave Chelsea a 2-0 lead and the win!

—– Aston Villa v West Bromwich Albion —–

It was the West Midlands derby, and visiting West Brom snatched a 1-0 victory from Aston Villa!

In the 39th minute Saido Berahino diverted James Morrison’s shot past goalkeep Brad Guzan to give West Brom the lead, and eventually, the match!

—– Bournemouth v Sunderland —–

Bournemouth recorded their first Premier League home win with a 2-0 final over struggling Sunderland!

Callum Wilson scored his fifth goal of the season, taking a feed from Dan Gosling and slamming the ball into the back of the net!

Five minutes later, Matt Ritchie caught a corner kick on his chest, and volleyed home the ball from around twenty yards out, to put Bournemouth ahead 2-0, never to look back!

Sunderland’s Younes Kaboul picked up a yellow for a bad foul against Wilson in the 43rd minute, and dragged down Wilson again in the 74th minute to ring up his second yellow – and the red!

—– Newcastle United v Watford —–

Newcastle continue to linger near the bottom of the standing, losing to Watford 2-1!

Ten minutes into the match, Odion Ighalo scored his third of the season, steering the ball through the legs of defending Daryl Janmaat and giving Watford a 1-0 lead!

Ighalo then scored in the 28th minute, receiving a pass from Troy Deeney and weaving past Tim Krul, putting Watford ahead 2-0!

Newcastle attempted a comeback when in the 62nd minute Janmaat took a pass from Moussa Sissoko, sending a low strike into the bottom-left corner!  Watford’s lead was cut down to 2-1, but that was all Newcastle could muster!

—– Stoke City v Leicester City —–

Leicester City continued their amazing unbeaten run with a come-from-behind 2-2 draw against Stoke City!

Bojan Krkic gave Stoke the lead thirteen minutes in, taking a pass from Marko Arnautovic and slipping it pass the goalkeeper!

Seven minutes later, Stoke was up 2-0 when Jonathan Walters intercepted a back-pass from Wes Morgan and slotted the ball low past Kasper Schmeichel!

In the 51st minute Leicester’s Daniel Drinkwater burst into the box, took a pass from Riyad Mahrez, stopped to line up a shot and got taken out by Marko Arnautovic! Mahrez took the penalty shot and scored, halving Stoke’s Lead to 2-1!

 

Jamie Vardy scored his fourth of the season and tied the match up, latching onto a pass from Robert Huth and slotting it past Jack Butland!

The match may have been tied but Leicester stretched their unbeaten streak to ten games!

—– Swansea City v Everton —–

Swansea captain Ashley Williams and his team held off a hot Everton squad for a 0-0 draw!

In end-of-game stoppage time, Kevin Mirallis came in for Everton as a substitute but almost immediately received a red card when he caught Modou Barrow on the ankle!

—– Manchester City v West Ham United —–

The home fans were ready to watch their beloved Manchester City win their sixth-straight game, but instead were treated to a stunning 2-1 loss to West Ham!

Six minutes into the match Victor Moses netted a sublime opener (and his first Premier League goal) from about twenty-five yards out, giving the Hammers a 1-0 lead!

Diafra Sakho padded West Ham’s lead to 2-0 in the 31st minute!  Dimitri Payet sent the corner in, Winston Reid won the header, and from around six yards out Sakho stabbed the ball home!

In first-half stoppage play, Manchester City finally got on the board with Kevin De Bruyne’s first Premier League goal!

West Ham was able to hold tight for the win, and become the first team to win away at Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester City in the same Premier League season!

After all of today’s action, here’s the updated standings:

Three games tomorrow to play:

• Tottenham v Crystal Palace
• Liverpool v Norwich
• Southampton v Manchester United

A Man U win will put the squad in second!  Crystal Palace could tie for second with a win!  Should be an interesting day on the pitch!