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2014-15 Premier League Thread

But Wayne Rooney pulls something similar on Simon Mignolet and doesn't even get a look? :shocked: Yeah, anyone else doubt the F.A.'s on the Man U payroll? Uggh!
 
Skrtel was suspended for 3 games. So both he and Gerrard will miss Arsenal and Newcastle in the league and the Blackburn FA Cup replay.
 
Match week 31 with a bonus. It's an 8 week sprint to the finish

Saturday:
Arsenal v. Liverpool 7:45/12:45 NBCSN - Gerrard and Skrtel are suspended for the Reds.
Man U v. Aston Villa 10:00/15:00 NBCSN
Everton v. Southampton
Leicester v. West Ham
Swansea v. Hull
West Brom v. QPR
Chelsea v. Stoke 12:30/17:30 NBC

Sunday:
Burnley v. Spurs 8:30/13:30 NBCSN
Sunderland v. Newcastle 11:00/16:00 NBCSN

Monday:
Crystal Palace v. Man City 3:00/20:00 NBCSN

Tuesday:
Aston Villa v. QPR 2:45/19:45 NBCSN - this is rescheduled from April 19 due to the FA Cup semifinals.
 
Arsenal 4-1 Liverpool
Everton 1-0 Southampton
Leicester 2-1 West Ham
Man Utd 3-1 Aston Villa
Swansea 3-1 Hull
West Brom 1-4 QPR


Another bad day at the office for Liverpool, puts them 8 points back of United in the hunt for Champions League football.

Hull & Villa getting pulled back towards the relegation zone after wins for QPR and Leicester.
 
Good LORD we were piss-poor today. Sakho, not Toure, should have been in the middle of the back three. Kolo looked uncertain on every possession, and didn't have the pace or physicality to keep up. Moreno's first half was the stuff of nightmares. And then Can lost his mind on that tackle that got him sent off. Lucky it wasn't a straight red.
Going forward, Coutinho was largely invisible and Sterling should concentrate on getting better and not making such an ass of himself in the press. Sturridge's 2nd half appearance was forgettable, and the worst part was, he came on for the only man who showed any life going forward in the first half, Lazar Markovic. Bad, bad day.

Then to make it worse, ManU won. It doesn't surprise me they won, but it still ticks me off that Wayne Rooney played, let alone scored. If Skrtel's stomp got a three-match ban, why not Rooney's? Oh yeah, because he's England's "golden boy" AND a ManU player to boot. Sometimes I really hate the F.A.
 
CHARLIE FREAKING ADAM! Holy crap, what a goal! Beyond midway, had to be about 60 yards, and curled it just over the retreating Thibaut Courtois' outstretched hand (actually, I think Courtois got a glove on the ball, but barely). Goal of the season for sure!
 
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And there goes Costa Hamstring again, twice in two weeks. Its Deja-vu all over again.


Ladies & gentlemen we might just have a Title race after all.
 
Sunderland 1 - 0 Newcastle

Big result for Sunderland today and another wonder goal. Cant remember a weekend with this many great goals in ages. Zamora, Adams & Defoe might have scored the 3 best goals of this season in a 48 hour period.
 
davemess said:
Sunderland 1 - 0 Newcastle

Big result for Sunderland today and another wonder goal. Cant remember a weekend with this many great goals in ages. Zamora, Adams & Defoe might have scored the 3 best goals of this season in a 48 hour period.
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Zamora's and Defoe's (and probably Rooney's too) were more technically difficult than Adam's. But a 65 yarder always wins.

That's Sunderland's 5th straight Derby win over Newcastle. That gives them a little breathing room at the bottom too, up to 15th, 3 points clear of Burnley. A QPR win at Villa Park on Tuesday moves them up to 17th and drops Villa to 18th.
 
Haven't seen Zamora's but Rooney's was the most technically difficult. He had no business even controlling that ball.

Sunderland's clutch win makes Tuesday's match between Villa and QPR that much more critical. Meanwhile, going in the other direction, Middlesbrough has lept to the top of a very congested Championship table. That's going to be an exciting run to the three pots of gold.
 
The Championship race is reaaaallllly tight. Only 7 points between Middlesbrough at top and Wolves in 8th. The top 4 are only sepaarated by 2 points. With 8 matches to go. At the other end, Ipswich Town and Wolves are tied on points with 6th place Derby County but trail on goal differential.
 
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Hull & Villa getting pulled back towards the relegation zone after wins for QPR and Leicester.
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Villa and QPR square off tomorrow in a match of monumental relegation implications. Villa have played halfway decent under Sherwood, but have little to show for it due to their horrendously poor attack and a pretty hefty injury list. QPR have been woeful against everybody except fellow relegationists. Against that lot, they've been just shy of spectacular.

Fingers crossed ... Villa absolutely HAS to get all 3. After this their league schedule looks like ... Spurs, City, Everton, West Ham, Southampton and finally Burnley. If there's more than 5 or 6 points in that lot I'll eat my socks.
 
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Crystal Palace 2-1 Man City

Palace were probably a bit fortunate on the first goal as offside could have been called twice. But Puncheon had a terrific free kick in the 48th for the 2nd goal. With the loss, Man City stay in 4th, 9 behind Chelsea, 2 behind Arsenal and 1 behind Man U. The Manchester Derby will be huge next weekend and it's at Old Trafford.
 
Holy crap! Christian Benteke is a BEAST! Hat-trick of goals, curls in a beauty off the post for the third in the 83rd minute.

3-3 with QPR in the 85th minute.
 
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Ends 3-3. Key point for each, keeping Villa above the drop zone, and pulling QPR up a little closer.

NBC commentators just said season's last week-end could come down to all three drop zone spots up for grabs. When's the last time that happened?
 
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Love the BBC's "Live Reporting" of this match

Aston Villa 3-3 QPR
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QPR defender Clint Hill: "It was a heck of a game to watch I suppose. We were disappointed with the first half but going up 3-2 with five minutes to go you think you have the three points but they go up and score from the free-kick.
"The positive is we got a point at a difficult place to go and we have dragged teams into the relegation fight.
"I'm glad to have got my first Premier League goal, it has been bugging me for years, I am 37-year-old."



Aston Villa 3-3 QPR
21:42
Aston Villa striker Christian Benteke: "Of course we wanted more than a point. It is always nice to get a hat-trick but it is shame we didn't get the three points. I think we deserved three points - we were better than them.
"We know it is a hard situation and that every point is crucial. We have just got to keep fighting."


Aston Villa 3-3 QPR


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Christian Benteke has scored a hat-trick but he looks like he has lost a cup final. He squats down on the pitch, staring dead ahead, absolutely exhausted and no doubt frustrated that Aston Villa only have a point after a draining 90 minutes.


Aston Villa 3-3 QPR


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Premier League title race? Pffftt, the bottom of the table is where it is at.
A brilliant game played between two determined, attack-minded sides.
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Cali Ed said:
Ends 3-3. Key point for each, keeping Villa above the drop zone, and pulling QPR up a little closer.

NBC commentators just said season's last week-end could come down to all three drop zone spots up for grabs. When's the last time that happened?
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Been awhile. I know there was a big buildup two years ago when two of the relegation slots were in play on the final day.

And I feel like Benteke ... they blew it ... again. And if he'd have played half as hard as he did yesterday on about 10 other occasions, we wouldn't be in this mess in the first place.
 
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