Southampton stunned Liverpool at Anfield

Liverpool’s fairy run came to an end as Southampton secured a 1-0 win at Anfield.
The Reds lacked the creative spark of Philippe Coutinho who was injured earlier in the week. Southampton stunned Anfield when taking the lead on 53 minutes.
Dejan Lovren showed tremendous strength to shake off his marker and power a header on goal from a corner. Steven Gerrard attempted to keep the ball out, but he could only divert it into the roof of the net.

Saints could have doubled their lead moments later, but Simon Mignolet produced a superb save to keep out Osvaldo’s drive. With no Coutinho and Luis Suarez, Gerrard is the focal point for Liverpool and he went close to a leveller, but Artur Boruc kept out his free kick. Southampton should have put the game safe, but Mignolet showed exactly why Reds boss Brendan Rodgers brought him to the club in the summer with a brilliant triple save to deny the visitors a second goal.
Raheem Sterling had a late chance to snatch a point, but his touch let him down when in on goal.

Stats 
Shots: Liverpool 10-12 Southampton 
Corners: Liverpool 6-6 Southampton 
Possession : Liverpool 55.3-44.7 Southampton 
Passes Completed:Liverpool 360-268 Southampton 
Fouls Committed:Liverpool 6-9 Southampton

World Cup Qualifiers : Group B

Czech Republic 1-2 Armenia 

Armenia stunned the Czech Republic as, Karlen Mkrtchyan and Gevorg Ghazaryan scored in Prague. Mkrtchyan put the visitors ahead with a first-half wonder-goal , but Tomas Rosicky leveled for the Czechs in the second half . Czech Republic had lot of chances missed, and Ghazaryan made them pay, combining with Yura Movsisyan before slotting past Petr Čech for the winner in stoppage time. Armenia, who beat Denmark, 4-0, in their last match, moved up to fourth with nine points, one behind second-placed Bulgaria. The Czechs also have nine points, but are third based on goal differential.

Italy 1-0 Bulgaria 

Alberto Gilardino scored the only goal in the 38th minute, as Italy grabbed a nervy win at home to Bulgaria. Italy top the group with 17 points with three matches remaining. Another win at home to the Czech Republic on Tuesday would seal automatic qualification as group winners.

Malta 1-2 Denmark 

An own goal by Malta's Ryan Camillieri in the 53rd minute gave Denmark the win. Leon Andreasen put the visitors ahead in the second minute, but Clayton Failla equalised seven minutes before halftime. With nine points, fifth-placed Denmark remain alive in the race for the playoffs.

World Cup qualifiers: Group A

Scotland 0-2 Belgium 

Belgium took a step forward for a berth in Brazil with a win at Scotland. Steven Defour scored in the 38th minute to give Belgium a 1-0 lead. Kevin Mirallas then made it 2-0 in the 89th minute, freeing himself from his marker before powering his shot into the net. The result kept Belgium atop Group A, five points ahead of Croatia with two matches remaining. Scotland prop up the group with five points. Belgium can clinch automatic qualification with a win or draw at Croatia on Oct. 11.

Serbia 1-1 Croatia

The result was a draw, however Serbia were eliminated from contention. Mario Mandzukic opened the scoring for Croatia in the 53rd minute, only for Aleksandar Mitrovic to equalise 13 minutes later. Serbia's Nemanja Matic was sent off in the 75th minute, and Croatia's Josip Simunic followed five minutes later. Croatia must beat Belgium at home next month to have a chance at winning the group.

Macedonia 2-1 Wales

Ivan Trickovski put Macedonia ahead in the 20th minute, but Aaron Ramsey leveled for Wales from the penalty spot six minutes before the break. Aleksandar Trajkovski grabbed the winner 10 minutes from time.
Surprisingly Gareth Bale, the world's most expensive player, remained on the bench for the full 90 minutes. 

La Liga top 2 spenders

After looking at the EPL top spending clubs in our previous post, lets take a look at La Liga top two spending clubs.

Barcelona - £62 million

Barcelona added only one player in the transfer window, a marquee signing in the form of Neymar for slightly over £50 million. But they have to shell out around £12 million for their own striker Bojan Krkic.

Bojan was with AS Roma for two years—the second of which was actually spent at AC Milan—but under the terms of the initial agreement, the Spanish side had to fork out to bring back the one-time wonderkid if Roma decided they didn't want to keep him for a longer period. It's turned out to be a costly deal for the Catalan side, but they will hope the addition of Neymar is enough to propel them to another La Liga title.
One thing they will rue, their inability to sign a Centre Back as their defence could be the weak link.

Real Madrid - £144 million

Having broken their own world record for a transfer fee (which they break again and again) following the capture of Gareth Bale from Spurs.  His £85 million deal makes up the vast expenditure from last season's La Liga runners-up, but they also doled out huge fees on Spanish duo Asier Illarramendi and Isco, both of whom will have big expectations on their shoulders to wrest back the league title from Barcelona this season.
 Casemiro and Dani Carvajal were lower outlays, and Carlo Ancelotti will be hopeful that he now has a balanced squad with enough depth to challenge on all three fronts.
And, let's be honest, if he hasn't, then question marks will be raised over one man above all others.

EPL top 3 spenders

The Premier League outspent the rest of Europe this summer with expenditure in excess of £610 million.Let's take a look at top 3 spenders of EPL. 

Chelsea - £69 m

Chelsea have improved his squad to the tune of nearly £70 million. Andre Schurrle was the big signing at just under £20 million for most of the summer, but the capture of Willian for a whopping £33 million from under the noses of Spurs and Liverpool ends up accounting for almost half of the Stamford Bridge club's total outlay. 

Can Mourinho mould his bloated, attacking midfield-heavy squad into one that can challenge for the Premier League title once more? 

Manchester City - £102 m

Manchester City have been amongst the biggest spenders in the Premier League, but they were pipped to that particular title this time around. However, They crashed through the £100 million barrier, with Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho at £35 million, Ex Sevilla teammates Alvaro Negredo and Jesus Navas , Floreintina Stevan Jovetic and Martin Demichelis, a late signing off Atletico Madrid, will provide depth in defence. 
New manager Manuel Pellegrini will be expected to take his new charges and go one better than Roberto Mancini managed last year when the league was won by rivals Manchester United. 

Tottenham Hotspur -  £107 m

Despite comfortably surpassing the £100 million mark, Spurs have actually barely spent anything at all. Eight senior departures have been offset by seven signings, with an eclectic mix of attackers expected to really push Andre Villas-Boas' men toward the top four this season. 

They will have a huge task on their hands to manage that given the competition, but the likes of Roberto Soldado at £26 million and Erik Lamela at £27 million will give them a big opportunity to do so. 

Of course, the world-record sale of Gareth Bale gave them the funds to do such business—but has it also robbed them of their most potent weapon? 

Is £55 million enough for Bayern?

Having won the treble last season, Germany's finest Bayern Munich in pursuit of remaining the best shelled out over £50 million.
They brought in the best coach in world football and spent more than £50 million to strengthen their squad, primarily spending on Mario Gotze from rivals Borussia Dortmund and also bringing in Thiago Alcantara from Barcelona.

Pep Guardiola's job will be to repeat the success the club attained last year, and they have certainly added more than enough quality over the last few months to claim the best squad in the league once more.
 But is it good enough to conquer Europe again?

Liverpool defeats Man U 1-0

It doesn't come any bigger than this in the Barclays Premier League with Liverpool Vs Manchester United squaring of at Anfield. 

Liverpool made one change of including Martin Skrtel in place of Kolo Toure and he didn't disappoint. From Man united front Wayne Rooney was injured and Kagawa was suprisingly was not even on the bench.
 It started with both sides in attacking mood, but Liverpool were the one who tasted first blood as corner kick from Gerrard was headed superbly into the nets by Daniel Sturridge the birthday boy who has now 3 goals in as many matches in the league this season.
After some flurry of attack tempo game turned to normal.
After the first half, Second half saw lot of counter attacking football which sadly yielded little. Both sides created lots of chances but couldn't score.
Liverpool back four was superb as they didn't allow United to really test Mignolet who has now three clean sheets in three matches.
It was an amazing game of attacking football where Liverpool stood up to huge United pressure in second half and recorded their third consecutive victory.

Squad

Liverpool: Mignolet, Johnson (Wisdom), Skrtel, Agger, Jose Enrique, Gerrard, Lucas, Henderson, Aspas (Sterling), Coutinho (Luis Alberto), Sturridge.
Subs: Brad Jones, Alberto, Sterling, Ibe, Kelly, Flanagan, Wisdom.

Man Utd: De Gea, Jones (Valencia), Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Carrick, Cleverley, Young (Nani), Giggs (Hernandez), Welbeck, Van Persie.
Subs: Anderson, Smalling, Lindegaard, Hernandez, Nani, Valencia, Buttner.