Premiership Football Results Round-Up Week26
Posted on February 21, 2009
Filed Under Premiership 08/09
Saturday 14th Febuary 2009
Portsmouth 2-0 Man City
Manchester City’s poor form away from home continued as they were thrashed by Portsmouth in the second half of the game. Robinho’s nightmares were far from over and Bellamy’s fluctuating performance continued as City couldn’t capitalize on their chances. On loan midfielder, Pennant showed his Liverpool skills and gave pin-point passes to Nugent to begin the nightmare from the 2nd minute. Pompey players exposed the City defense more than 11 times unsuccessfully in the first half. James marked his 536th record Premier League appearance with a clean sheet. Given was tested time and again by Nugent until City got their first big chance in 22nd minute. Bellamy, Bridge and Robinho made an impressive move only to see the ball curl over the cross-bar. Crouch and Kranjcar immediately paired up on the other end to deceive Kompany and give City yet another scare. In the second half Pompey went to an all-attack stance and the move paid off with a charismatic solo goal from centre-back Johnson. He collected the rebound of his initial effort to scrape the ball in the top corner. Johnson’s partner Hreidarsson was charged up to see his partner’s efforts and headed a second for Pompey just 5 minutes later. Johnson was about to make it 3-0 for Portsmouth just 2 minutes before FT when his genius efforts were cleared off the line.
Wednesday 18th Febuary 2009
Man Utd 3-0 Fulham
Manchester United strengthened their chances of a hat-trick as they went 5 points clear as League leaders. Solid as ever, Man Utd defeated Fulham 3-0 at Old Trafford. The visitors could manage to avoid the red tribe’s attacks for 11 minutes only. Schwarzer who has been in an impressive form this season let Scholes pile driver squirm past him and Fulham’s defense midfield began to crumble. With the trio of Ronaldo, Berbatov and O’Shea continuously shelling all power-bombs from both sides, Schwarzer had lost his nerves due to the number of attacks and was making a mockery of simple saves. Scholes passes allowed Berbatov to launch 2 on-target shots in the first half again but Schwarzer made good saves only to see the net bulge again in the 29th minute. Berbatov struck with elegance and had a disallowed goal again. In the second half, Sir Ferguson injected fresh blood using all three substitutes in a matter of 8 minutes. Rooney finally came back from his hamstring injury in place of Berbatov and scored with his first touch. He capitalized on a Park’s pass and steered the ball in the far corner to complete a dominating victory. It is now 14 games in a row since Van Der Sar last conceded a goal.
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