4 December
Barclays Premiership League Match
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| We've had a lot of big games lately, Man Utd in the Carling Cup, Paris in the Champions League and now 1st place Arsenal in a big EPL tussle. The only striker that's been hotter than Cisse this year is of course, Thierry Henry. Henry has 17 goals in 21 games so far this season. Meanwhile, Cisse has 16 goals in 26 games. We're able to put our starting 11, minus Alsonso, out on the home pitch tonight, so we're feeling pretty good about our chances. |
| Starting Line-up: 4-1-3-2 |
| Strikers - | Baros / Cisse |
| Midfield - | Kewell / Gerrard / Hamann / Garcia |
| Defense - | Finnan / Hyypia / Carragher / Josemi |
| Keeper - | Kirkland |
| 1st Half Notes |
| About as exciting as a scoreless half gets. Both teams had moments of dominating possession and good attacks but the two best defenses in the EPL really showed up in the first half. We ended up with a 8-4 shot advantage and 4-1 SOG advantage. But those usual break-thru's that Cisse or Baros get just were shut off by Sol Campbell and company. |
| 2nd Half Notes |
Wow. Arsenal's legit. Like real legit. Their rock solid defense continued to hold us down in the 2nd half as theyfound a couple leaks in our's. Just :30 into the half Henry found Bergkamp on a cross to make it 1-0. Then Robert Pires scored on a free kick at the 70 minute mark. Gilberto found him lingering at the top of the box and Pires just turned and shot to ice the game. Is this where we concede the title in classic English fashion?  |
| Final Score: | Liverpool | 0 | - | 2 | Arsenal | |
| Goals - | Dennis Bergkamp 46, Robert Pires 70 |
| Man of the Match - | Jens Lehmann |
| Conditions | Dry 44F |
| Venue | Anfield, Liverpool |
| Attendance - | 45333 |
- After the match the draw for the semi's of the Carling Cup were held. We drew Charlton and the first leg will be played at The Valley on January 12th. Charlton currently sits 10th in the EPL table.
5 December
- We get another offer from an agent today. Jimmy Bullard a 26 yr old attacking mid from Wolves had his agent send us a video. After looking at Bullards scouting report, we threw the video in the garbage.
- League One's Peterborough have made a loan offer to 19 yr old winger
Robbie Foy. Foy just got back from Wrexham in League One. We accept the offer.
- Knowing that we wanted to dump 3rd keeper
Patrice Luzi, we cut our offer in half to £150,000 and three teams bite. Hull, Coventry and Doncaster. Coventry, the only Championship side to send an offer is only offering £41,000 and then 50% of their next sale. This does not seem all that great. I guess the League One teams will have to battle for the Frenchman.
Barclays Premiership Table
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| Pos | P/R | Team | Played | Won | Draw | Lost | For | Ag | GD | Pts |
| 1 | | Arsenal | 16 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 44 | 9 | 35 | 45 |
| 2 | | Newcastle | 16 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 10 | 19 | 37 |
| 3 | | Tottenham | 17 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 17 | 9 | 37 |
| 4 | | Man Utd | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 35 | 15 | 20 | 35 |
| 5 | | Liverpool | 17 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 12 | 19 | 32 |
| 6 | | Man City | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 17 | 9 | 28 |
| 7 | | Blackburn | 17 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 28 |
| 8 | | Chelsea | 17 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 26 | 17 | 9 | 27 |
| 9 | | Birmingham | 17 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 26 | 2 | 26 |
| 10 | | Charlton | 17 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 24 | 28 | -4 | 22 |
| 11 | | Bolton | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 18 | 21 | -3 | 20 |
| 12 | | Everton | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 17 | -3 | 19 |
| 13 | | Fulham | 17 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 29 | -7 | 19 |
| 14 | | Middlesbrough | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 28 | -6 | 17 |
| 15 | | Southampton | 17 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 35 | -15 | 16 |
| 16 | | Norwich | 17 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 10 | 25 | -15 | 14 |
| 17 | | Portsmouth | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 12 | 30 | -18 | 13 |
| 18 | | Aston Villa | 17 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 27 | -16 | 11 |
| 19 | | West Brom | 17 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 30 | -13 | 8 |
| 20 | | Crystal Palace | 17 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 12 | 42 | -30 | 5 |