First Premiership Weekend

First Premiership Weekend

The first weekend of the Barclay's Premier League is now over and it has been a very exciting one. Here is a review of Sunday’s games.

First Day Of EPL: Upset, thrashings, draws and a late Goal!

The long summer wait is finally over. The first day of the Barclay's Premier League was yesterday and what a day it was! There 19 goals in all and included not one but two 5-0 wins.

Here are the results from the games on Saturday 18^th August.

Arsenal 0 - 0 Sunderland

Fulham 5 - 0 Norwich

QPR 0 - 5 Swansea

Reading 1 - 1 Stoke

West Brom 3 - 0 Liverpool

West Ham 1 - 0 Aston Villa

Newcastle 2 - 1 Tottenham

Great win for West Brom

West Brom 3 – 0 Liverpool

Liverpool went into the game undoubtedly the favourites. However, this was not to be the win they had expected, and there will be some fans out there who will be asking questions. In all fairness, West Brom appeared to play the better football and got a deserved win.

A fantastic half volley from Zoltan Gera put West Brom ahead just before half time. The ball was not cleared well enough, and Gera controlled and fired the ball into the top corner.

Shane Long could have made it two when he was fouled by Daniel Agger in the box and was awarded a penalty. Agger was sent off as a result, but Long failed to scored the penalty.

Long was 'fouled' again later in the game, this time by Martin Skrtel. West Brom were given another penalty and this time Peter Odemwingie scored from the spot.

The substitute Romelu Lukaku, who is on loan from Chelsea, scored a third - and by now there was no way back for Liverpool.
Can Liverpool recover from this?
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Newcastle win with Late Penalty
Hatem Ben Arfa was fouled entering the box from the left hand side with just 13 minutes to go. At this time the score was 1-1 and the game looked to be a draw.

Ben Arfa took the penalty himself and drove the ball confidently into the bottom right hand corner and earned a win for his team.
Tottenham started off well and hit the woodwork twice. However, Demba Ba was the first on the score-sheet putting Newcastle 1-0 up with a fantastic goal. Ba controlled the ball with his back to goal at the edge of the 18 yard box, turned and curled the ball into the far corner.
Jermaine Defoe managed to equalise when an Aaron Lennon cross was headed towards goal by a Newcastle Defender. The Defender was under pressure from Defoe causing the mistake. Newcastle Goalkeeper Krul got down to stop the header but Defoe was quickest to the loose ball and scored from close range.
Just 4 minutes later Newcastle were awarded a penalty that they converted to win the game.
Can Newcastle finish in the top 4 this season?

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