"Arsenal were pretty solid for about 52 seconds"
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Funny quotes from liverpool vs Arsenal clash
"Arsenal were pretty solid for about 52 seconds"
Liverpool set pieces efficiency
There were two set pieces within the first 10 minutes for Liverpool, and two goals, both created by Gerrard and scored by Skrtel.
So continues the curious case of Liverpool’s set pieces. How can a side known for being weak at defending set pieces be so prolific at scoring from them?
With 22 already notched, Liverpool have now scored more goals from set pieces (including penalties) than any other Premier League side this season (as of the end of the match). More than a third of the Reds’ 63 league goals this season have come from set pieces.
By contrast, they have conceded seven goals from set pieces, approaching a fourth of their 30 goals against, and that’s not counting penalties.
Week by week, Steven Gerrard continues to provide strong evidence that he is the Premier League’s finest set piece taker; today’s two assists today won’t have done that reputation any harm.
Liverpool demolished Arsenal in a 5-1 drubbing
Liverpool showed why they are on second on the goals list and why their attack in one to be feared by stunning leaders Arsenal with four goals in the opening 20 minutes on the way to a resounding 5-1 victory at Anfield.
Martin Skrtel and Raheem Sterling scored twice each, and Daniel Sturridge added one goal for Liverpool, who moved within five points of Arsenal with the victory.
Luis Suarez, who leads the Premier League with 23 goals this season, did not score but assisted on one goal and hit the woodwork with a first-half volley.
Mikel Arteta scored Arsenal's lone goal, a penalty, in the second half.
Arsenal entered the match two points clear atop the table, but fell to second and Chelsea won later Saturday.
The hosts needed less than a minute to make the breakthrough, Skrtel poking in Steven Gerrard's first-minute free kick from the left. Skrtel then made it 2-0 in the 10th minute, scoring from a corner with a fine header into the top corner. Arsenal looked shocked, and Liverpool continued to tear Arsenal apart with incisive attacking play. Suarez hit the post in the 13th minute with a powerful volley, and Kolo Toure steered the rebound wide with the goal gaping.
Sterling grabbed Liverpool's third in the 16th minute following a giveaway by Mesut Ozil, and Sturridge made it 4-0 four minutes later after another Ozil mistake. After halftime, Sterling tucked in Liverpool's fifth in the 52nd minute, finishing off his own rebound after Wojciech Szczesny had initially saved.
The only blot on Liverpool's big day came in the 69th minute, when Arteta converted a penalty after Gerrard had fouled Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the box. Sterling came close to completing his hat-trick in the 86th minute, but Szczesny saved one-on-one to keep the score at 5-1.
Shots: 22-11
On target: 12-6
Passing: 78%-87%
Possession: 42%-58%
Martin Skrtel and Raheem Sterling scored twice each, and Daniel Sturridge added one goal for Liverpool, who moved within five points of Arsenal with the victory.
The hosts needed less than a minute to make the breakthrough, Skrtel poking in Steven Gerrard's first-minute free kick from the left. Skrtel then made it 2-0 in the 10th minute, scoring from a corner with a fine header into the top corner. Arsenal looked shocked, and Liverpool continued to tear Arsenal apart with incisive attacking play. Suarez hit the post in the 13th minute with a powerful volley, and Kolo Toure steered the rebound wide with the goal gaping.
Sterling grabbed Liverpool's third in the 16th minute following a giveaway by Mesut Ozil, and Sturridge made it 4-0 four minutes later after another Ozil mistake. After halftime, Sterling tucked in Liverpool's fifth in the 52nd minute, finishing off his own rebound after Wojciech Szczesny had initially saved.
The only blot on Liverpool's big day came in the 69th minute, when Arteta converted a penalty after Gerrard had fouled Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in the box. Sterling came close to completing his hat-trick in the 86th minute, but Szczesny saved one-on-one to keep the score at 5-1.
Shots: 22-11
On target: 12-6
Passing: 78%-87%
Possession: 42%-58%
Thursday, February 6, 2014
EPL vs Serie A vs La Liga vs Bundesliga part 2
In the previous update , we look on the basis of worldwide viewership and the overall worth of the football clubs to demarcate leagues.
Now we will look into the quality of player's aspect to rank the leagues.
The quality of a player is of course subjective, but over the course of three different surveys, the Premier League trails behind its rivals.
It fares well in the The Guardian’s list of the best 100 players in the world from last year, contributing 29 players compared to 26 from La Liga, 18 from the Bundesliga and 17 from Serie A.
But the Premier League suffers with the statistical analysis of Opta and Football Observatory published in The Daily Mirror, which sought to find the top 50 players in Europe’s leading five leagues broken down into the best 10 strikers, attacking midfielders, defensive midfielders, central midfielders and full-backs.
The Premier League comes in at the bottom of the five leagues with just seven players represented, compared to 14 from La Liga, 11 from Serie A, nine from the Bundesliga and eight from France’s Ligue 1.
The best way to judge that is by reviewing their votes for the FIFPro World XI team of the year since it began in the 2005-06 season.
Once again, it makes for sorry reading for the Premier League which has only been represented in the FIFPro World XI team of the year 18 times, compared to La Liga, which has had a player in the team 52 times. Serie A has contributed 13 players, and the Bundesliga has only been represented on three occasions.
The great success of the Premier League is that it manages to be the best league in the world without the best players.
The power and enduring appeal of the Premier League is not in the quality of its football but rather in the excitement it provides and its inherent competitiveness.
At this stage of the season, the gap between the top five in the Premier League is by far the smallest of any of the leading European leagues.
Just 10 points separate Arsenal in first and Everton in fifth position, while in La Liga this gap is 17 points, in the Bundesliga it is 20 points and in Serie A it grows to a mammoth 24 points.
The Premier League is far from perfect, but when you take into account its global audience, sponsorship appeal, wealth generated through television rights and competitiveness, it can still call itself the most popular and powerful league in the world.
Now we will look into the quality of player's aspect to rank the leagues.
The quality of a player is of course subjective, but over the course of three different surveys, the Premier League trails behind its rivals.
But the Premier League suffers with the statistical analysis of Opta and Football Observatory published in The Daily Mirror, which sought to find the top 50 players in Europe’s leading five leagues broken down into the best 10 strikers, attacking midfielders, defensive midfielders, central midfielders and full-backs.
The Premier League comes in at the bottom of the five leagues with just seven players represented, compared to 14 from La Liga, 11 from Serie A, nine from the Bundesliga and eight from France’s Ligue 1.
The best way to judge that is by reviewing their votes for the FIFPro World XI team of the year since it began in the 2005-06 season.
Once again, it makes for sorry reading for the Premier League which has only been represented in the FIFPro World XI team of the year 18 times, compared to La Liga, which has had a player in the team 52 times. Serie A has contributed 13 players, and the Bundesliga has only been represented on three occasions.
The great success of the Premier League is that it manages to be the best league in the world without the best players.
The power and enduring appeal of the Premier League is not in the quality of its football but rather in the excitement it provides and its inherent competitiveness.
At this stage of the season, the gap between the top five in the Premier League is by far the smallest of any of the leading European leagues.
Just 10 points separate Arsenal in first and Everton in fifth position, while in La Liga this gap is 17 points, in the Bundesliga it is 20 points and in Serie A it grows to a mammoth 24 points.
The Premier League is far from perfect, but when you take into account its global audience, sponsorship appeal, wealth generated through television rights and competitiveness, it can still call itself the most popular and powerful league in the world.
EPL vs Serie A vs La Liga vs Bundesliga
When determining the most powerful league in the world, it's important to take many things into consideration.
With the rise of Bundesliga due to current exploits of BVB and Bayern Munich, the reigning European Champions, and La Liga currently plays host to the vast majority of the current World Cup winners as well as the two most outstanding players of this generation, the English Premier League remains the most powerful league in the world.
The Premier League derives most of its power from the simple truth that more people want to watch it than any other league.
On average each Premier League game has a global audience of 12.3 million people, Per Football-Marketing.com, which far outstrips La Liga, the Bundesliga and Serie A. In fact if you added together the average global audience for these leagues, La Liga with 2.2 million (via EPFL-Euroleagues.com), the Bundesliga (via 2012's economic report) with two million and Serie A (via Alessandro Baroncelli and Raul Caruso) with 4.5 million, it still wouldn’t overtake the all powerful Premier League.
As reported in The Daily Mirror, the German-based SPORT+MARKT found that the Premier League commands the biggest television audience in the world, giving the Premier League an unprecedented power to negotiate both its centralised television-rights deal and the clubs' individual sponsorship deals.
This worldwide appeal plays a significant role in the Premier League having more teams than any other league in the top 20 richest football teams, a list which is published annually by Deloitte Football Money League.
While La Liga contributes just three teams, and Serie A and the Bundesliga account for four teams each, once again the Premier League comes out on top with six teams, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.
more updates coming soon.......
The Premier League derives most of its power from the simple truth that more people want to watch it than any other league.
On average each Premier League game has a global audience of 12.3 million people, Per Football-Marketing.com, which far outstrips La Liga, the Bundesliga and Serie A. In fact if you added together the average global audience for these leagues, La Liga with 2.2 million (via EPFL-Euroleagues.com), the Bundesliga (via 2012's economic report) with two million and Serie A (via Alessandro Baroncelli and Raul Caruso) with 4.5 million, it still wouldn’t overtake the all powerful Premier League.
As reported in The Daily Mirror, the German-based SPORT+MARKT found that the Premier League commands the biggest television audience in the world, giving the Premier League an unprecedented power to negotiate both its centralised television-rights deal and the clubs' individual sponsorship deals.
This worldwide appeal plays a significant role in the Premier League having more teams than any other league in the top 20 richest football teams, a list which is published annually by Deloitte Football Money League.
While La Liga contributes just three teams, and Serie A and the Bundesliga account for four teams each, once again the Premier League comes out on top with six teams, Manchester United, Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.
more updates coming soon.......
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