Premier League Round-Up Sun 23-11-08
Posted on November 24, 2008
Filed Under Premiership 08/09
Tottenham 1 Blackburn 0
Tottenham are still unbeaten at home under Harry Redknapp as they beat 10 men Blackburn at White Hart Lane. The match started with both team playing well with a good match in store but after only 10 minutes Spurs struck with the opening goal. Aaron Lennon took the ball of Martin Olsson at the half way line rushed down to the by-line & put in a great cut back to Pavlyuchenko who make no mistake & fired home. Blackburn could have got back into the game straight away but Benni McCarthy could only send his shot over the bar & that miss was made even worse after 30 minutes as Olsson was shown the red card for 2 bookable offences for two bad tackles on Lennon. Pavlyuchenko could have made it 2 but saw his header hit a post from a David Bentley cross & Ryan Nelsen had to clear off the line from Ledley King. The Brett Emerton had a chance when he lobbed the oncoming Heurelho Gomes but Woodgate got back to clear from McCarthy getting the loose ball & Samba almost got on the end of a Emerton free kick. The second half was just as good as Blackburn tried to get back in to the game Santa Cruz should have done better but headed a free kick straight at Gomes but that’s the best they got as Spurs where looking for a second. Tom Huddlestone curled a 30 yarder just over & Lennon & Bentley got more involved to try & make the 11 against 10 count. Woodgate should have got the second as he headed over Bentley’s free kick but for all the goal mouth action Tottenham could only win the game with the single goal to move them out of the bottom 3 but Blackburn & now fighting in their…
Sunderland 0 West Ham 1
West Ham got there first win in 8 games as they saw off Sunderland to move up to 13th place in the premiership but left Sunderland down in 16th. Sunderland started the game the better of the two & saw Cisse head over a Andy Reid cross & then Kenwyne Jones had his shot blocked by James Collins but for all the early pressure it was West Ham that took the lead in the 20th minute they had a free kick which was taken by Julien Faubert but it only got as far as Nyron Nosworthy who cleared only as far as Valon Behrami on the edge of the penalty area & his shot deflected on Jones & past the keeper Martin Fulop & into the net. Sunderland should have equalised almost immediately as Cisse again wasted a good chance from a Reid cross & then Reid himself curled a shot off the cross bar but they where left angry at the ref as James Collins got away with what looked like two blatant fouls one on Jones in the box & one on Cisse when he was clean through but got away with both!!. Even though Sunderland was dominating the match they could have bin two down just before half timer as Bellamy was clean through went round Fulop squared it to Behrami who smashed the ball onto the cross bar from 6 yards. The second half was all about Sunderland trying to get back into the match Cisse had 2 good chances but wasted them both Bardsley had a 20 yard shot that went just wide but for all their effort & play they didn’t really give Robert Green in the West Ham goal a severe test & they held on to win there first match in 8 where Sunderland have now lost 4 out of the last 5…
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