Football
Edwin Van der Sar stays at Manchester United
Edwin van der Sar is expected to sign a new one-year contact with Manchester United worth around £5million. Sir Alex Ferguson's scouts will delay by at least 12 months any need for the club to find a successor for the 39-year-old goalkeeper after they have been busily assessing suitable goalkeepers over the past year.
Exciting battle for Premier League survival
Bottom of the Premier League tighter than ever. Many football writers and bloggers usually tend to concentrate on the top of most European leagues. But, for a proper balance, we should also talk about the battle for Premier League survival this season. Actually, the fight for survival can be more exciting than the battle at the top.
Didier Drogba footballer of the week
Love him or hate him, Chelsea's striker, Didier Drogba, is an incredible talent. The Cote d'Ivoire strongman made his return from the African Cup of Nations last week versus Burnley and on Sunday scored two and just missed a hat-trick by the skin of Manuel Almunia's crossbar with a stunning free kick that just wasn't to be.
The big game in Spain FC Barcelona vs Real Madrid
In last 10 games between FC Barcelona and Real Madrid, Madrid won 5 games, Barcelona 3 and 2 football games finished a draw. Last victory for Barcelona against the Madrid team was in 2005-2006 at Bernabeu. At home last victory was on 2004-2005 season.
Internazionale vs Junvetus, the Italian derby
Intenazionale Milano did not lost any game at home this season, while Juventus lost away just at Napoli.
Best football team in Rome is?
This weekend Rome host the big derby Roma vs Lazio. Will be the 129 game between this two teams, finished until now with 54 draws, 42 games won by Roma and 32 by Lazio. Just at Roma we have 30 draws, 22 Roma victories and 12 victory for Lazio.
TSG Hoffenheim, the magic team in Budesliga
The new name in Bundesliga, Hoffenheim, is in the top teams this season.
This season Hoffenheim did not lost a game at home in six games, 5 victories and a draw. Away they have three victories and three lost games.
Another day with great games in Champions League like Real vs Juve and Celtic vs Man United. But except this games other football teams will try to get points and of course money.
4 november is time to win for a few teams in Champions League from first groups. There will be some tough games where no one can predict the winner like Liverpool vs Atletico or Roma Chelsea.
After a bad start in Prmiera Division, lost at Numancia and draw at home with Santander, FC Barcelona start to win game after game, and a lot of them at a big difference.
Udinese, the new leader in Serie A
After stage 9 in Serie A football we have a new leader, Udinese who won the away game at Catania with 0-2, goals scored by A.Sanchez in the first half and F. Quagliarella in the second half. Udinese become the leader after Internazionale made a draw at Fiorentina.
The big game in Premier League this weekend is Chelsea vs Liverpool, the teams in the top of UK standing. Both team are unbeaten this season in Premier League, they have 6 victories and 2 draws.
This year in UEFA football CUP the big favorite is AC Milan, a team present in last season in Champions League where play and win the final lately.
Champions League games - 22oct
Yesterday 21 oct we assist at games with a high goal rate, 36 goals in 8 games. Most goals were scored at Villareal followed by Lyon at Bucharest and Arsenal at Fenerbahce. For those who gamble I think it was a surprise that only 2 games were finished under 2.5. This is the past, what about today.
Champions League Football - 21 oct
Tonight, UEFA Champions League host football games in Group E, F, G and H. Since we are just at matchday 3, mathematically all teams have chances to hope for a place to play in Champions League spring. A safe position right now have be Real Madrid with 6 points and will have tonight a game with Juventus, perhaps will be the most followed football game tonight.
Easy WC qualify games - bookmaker say it
In the last few days we read a lot of articles regarding this weekend European football qualify games for South Africa. There are a lot of opinions about different games. I checked what bookmakers say about this, and for today 11 oct I found two big favorites and two equal games.
World Cup Football Qualify in 11 oct 2008 will have a double derby in European Group 7.
Las week in Premier League we had another surprise by Arsenal who almost lost the game away at Sunderland. In last 4 minutes of the game Sunderland score a goal, Arsenal score in minute 93. I think bookmakers made again money after last week lost for Arsenal
In UK Championship matchday 8 we have just a game wihout goal, and 7 team not score goal. Reading have the biggest victory with 4 goals against Swansea City
In Europe top football championships (12 sep-14 sep) home team have a lot of victories.
