Reina
Johnson Skrtel Agger Insua
Lucas Mascherano
Benayoun Kuyt Riera
Ngog
Goals:
Ngog 13'
Chucho 26'
Jerome 45+3'
Gerrard 71' (pen)
The beach ball season rolls on. That's seven league games without a win against Birmingham.
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by FRANCO PANIZOÂ

The Americans Abroad must have known this was the final weekend before the U.S. national team's two European friendlies, because there was a plethora of positive performances and five different goal scorers in one of the most successful weekends in recent memory.

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Any Liverpool fan would remember the skills and talent of Danish turned honorary Scouser, Jan Molby. Voted in at no. 16 on the list of 100 Players Who Shook The Kop, he was a player with as immense a talent as was his waistline. Before the elegant Xabi Alonso, Liverpool fans marvel at the sublime passing skills and long range shooting of Jan Molby. Click to continue reading...

About six weeks ago I did a piece predicting West Ham to win the Premier League based on their league position this year and Manchester United's league position last year after 5 games.

That prediction hasn't been working out too well (hopefully you didn't think I was serious...although I'm pretty sure I still managed to annoy some Millwall fans.

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Arsenal 2 Liverpool 1 (Carling Cup 4th round)

Hello Gooners. Well that was close as well, just like the previous two games. Where was the 3-1 I predicted? As it turns out we didn't need that third goal.

You won't agree but for me Liverpool probably shaded it by virtue of the opportunities they created.

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I didn't put up a Weekend Round-up yesterday because I figured with the midweek round tomorrow, it would be pointless to update everything twice. So we'll dive in straight to Goals of the Week. Not as great as last week, but still some good goals, especially Daniele Mannini's one-time volley vs.

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It was a great weekend in the Premier League for Chelsea. Not only did the Blues finally hit top gear to crush Blackburn 5-0, Liverpool took three points off Manchester United while Man City and Arsenal both dropped points having surrendered two goal leads.
Chelsea now sit two points clear at the top of the table with the joint best goal difference and, whilst more difficult games are on the horizon (not least Man Utd next month), things are looking bright.

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It was a great weekend in the Premier League for Chelsea. Not only did the Blues finally hit top gear to crush Blackburn 5-0, Liverpool took three points off Manchester United while Man City and Arsenal both dropped points having surrendered two goal leads.
Chelsea now sit two points clear at the top of the table with the joint best goal difference and, whilst more difficult games are on the horizon (not least Man Utd next month), things are looking bright.

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Raul

The forgotten man in Real Madrid's offensive rotation reminded La Liga fans that he is still among the best goal scorers. With Cristiano Ronaldo out for a while it is Raul's time to shine and prove once again in his career that he is as valuable as any player on the squad.

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This is going to be a good goals of the week post. There are many nice goals, and in particular the goals from Stankovic and Dessena are awesome to watch. Goals after the jump.

Dejan Stankovic vs. Genoa Stankovic notices that Amelia makes an error on the clearance and moves to the right, hitting the ball on the volley from way out and it sailed over Amelia and into the net.

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Will be awarded to the player who scores the best goal off a balloon lying on the pitch.A lot of painstaking research on the net over a period of five whole minutes has turned up two candidates.One is Darren Bent.His sublime effort is on view in the last post.This second candidate is a player from Sheffield United who also used a balloon to good effect.

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[101 Great Goals] This goal is already being declared by many the goal of 2009. It just might be. What is almost entirely certain is that it's the best goal ever to come from a Serie D Brazilian side. (For those without basic alphabet skills D is the fourth tier.) One bicycle kick is good. Two bicycle [. Click to continue reading...

Fabio Cannavaro -- the frustrated one -- has been cleared of his doping allegations.
Turns outs his bee sting alibi had legs.
I also heard he slammed Italian media and said he's retire if his country wins the World Cup again.
Now the links:

• Argentina dudes asked Peru to throw game?

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Another Arsenal left-back who swings both ways England under-21s beat Macedonia 6-3 last night despite Kieran Gibbs' best efforts to ensure the game ended in a draw. The Arsenal youngster put England in the driving seat by nodding in team-mate Theo Walcott's cross (video above). But he saved his best goal for Macedonia as he lashed in [. Click to continue reading...

Thanks to a late goal from new loan signing Marlon Harewood, Newcastle United managed to avoid defeat, and with it, go three points clear at the top of the Championship.

It wasn't all plain sailing though and QPR proved they were no pushovers. They went in front on the 7th minute after a mistake from Jose Enrique allowed Ben Watson to slide the ball past Steve Harper.

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Liverpool's dynamic duo of Fernando Torres and Steven Gerrard are fast being accepted as the world's best goal-scoring double act.
Liverpool have recorded six successive victories in all competitions ahead of Tuesday's clash with Fiorentina in the Champions League.
Fiorentina moved into fourth spot in Serie A on Saturday with a 1-0 win at Livorno, while Liverpool thrashed Hull 6-1 with a hat-trick from Torres and one from Gerrard. Click to continue reading...

I almost felt sorry for Hull City who we destroyed 6-1. A hat-trick from Torres, a wonder (did he mean it) goal from Gerrard, plus a brace from Babel. It's a great result, which leaves us with the best goal difference in the league.
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Liverpool are up to third in the league and have the best goal difference. Are we back to our best? http://www.lfc-news.co.uk/pollsarchive/ Cast your vite today in our new poll! Click to continue reading...

Lionel Messi

It has been claimed many times by many different people, Messi is quite simply "the man" as we say here in the states. Messi continues to fuel Barca's ridiculous offense and who knows maybe the club can potentially win the treble two straight seasons even though it had never been done by any La Liga squad ever before last season.

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Keeper close to scoring best goal by a goalie ever! Notts County (with new boy Sol Campbell making his first start) were trailing 2-1 to Morecambe in the dying minutes of their League Two encounter on Saturday. Goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel decided to set up camp in the Morecambe penalty area during a sustained spell of pressure. Click to continue reading...

As the playoff race has heated up in Major League Soccer, so have the goals that have been scored. This week we saw plenty of good goals but only a select amount were above the rest.

The best goal for me was either Sainey Nyassi's run against New York or Brad Davis' strike against RSL.

(Note QuickKicks on the league site did not have the Columbus/Chicago goals)

Order of video: David Beckham, Edson Buddle, Brian Ching, Yura Movsisyan, Brad Davis, Dax McCarty, Jimmy Conrad, Sainey Nyassi, and John Wolyneic.

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This Wednesday England's national squad will play in a big match against Croatia.  Both clubs are at the top of the Group Six table and England is currently four points ahead of their upcoming opponent and have played in one less match. In fact England is not only in first place in their group table, they have arguably been the best club in all of the European brackets.

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Serie A is back which means Goals of the Week is back! You can't always expect the first day of the season to have the greatest goals, as the teams are just starting to get all their summer rust off and haven't hit their peak yet. But there were still some nice goals for us to watch this past weekend.

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Well these are the clubs that earned their way to the top next season. It would be a long road for these clubs, but at the end of the day all three organizations must be pleased with their hard work and next season will vie for a spot in the top tier of Spanish football.

Tenerife

Tenerife, the third ranked Segunda Division club, secured the last promotion spot by only three points.

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Well first up I think it's only right to indulge in a moment of smugness from this lofty perch atop the country's pile. While I don't think any of us are daft enough to make fanciful predictions after four days of the season, the cockerel is crowing, and the morning-after smugness in the office has proved particularly gratifying.

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Well their is the lucky clubs and the unlucky ones too. Unfortunately, sometimes the gap is so small between these clubs that it is hard to say where exactly it all went wrong. They say football is a game of inches, but sometimes it much more precise then that. These were the teams that let it slip in between their fingers.

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Let's get right to it and preview the mid-week fixtures. We preview (I) the best match from a neutral's perspective (II) the most fantasy friendly fixture (III) an analysis of studs and duds and (IV) a prediction of a weekly best 11 lineup - complete with substitute selections - a new feature. Click to continue reading...

Briefly we hear at SATO would like to take you through the Segunda Division of La Liga. We are aware that the second tier is not always as exciting as the moves that clubs like Real Madrid and Barcelona are making, but keep in mind that many of the stars of tomorrow are possibly playing in the secondary league today.

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2009/2010 Individual Awards

Best Manager

We hear at the PLTO believe that Carlo Ancelotti has the perfect coaching style to mesh with the Blues squad. Ancelotti is well known for coaching successful teams at AC Milan and now that the coach has taken over the Blues you can expect the Blues misfortunes to quickly turn around as well.

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I am sure that it is no surprise that Barcelona is winner's of the 2009 LLTO La Liga's Best Squad. And why not?  Barca has already taken home every other significant trophy this season, so a fourth probably won't be too much for the squad to handle. The only question to ask now is: Is Barca the best squad ever?

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Great piece at ESPN.com on former Husky and ex-Galaxy player Ty Harden and his comeback with the Colorado Rapids.
I definitely got to know him well in college and wrote a couple stories on the talented defender.
Fantastic story. Even better guy.
Now the links:

• SWP gets a motorcycle ride.

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The clip showing the best goal of the week, and a strong candidate for goal of the year (not to take anything away from the signal efforts of Davy Arnaud, Dwayne DeRosario, Clint Mathis etc.) has, in addtion to an astonishing piece of skill, a very cool moment at the very last couple of seconds.
As the ball starts to "bite" and head toward the upper 90, David Beckham, standing behind the play, raises his fist. Click to continue reading...

This coming Saturday is set to be best pre-season friendly (and fun day) ever, in my opinion. Not only do Bolton Wanderers take on Scottish Premier League side Hibernian Football Club at The Reebok Stadium but there is a 'Legends Match' too.

Bolton Wanderers verses Hibernian is being billed as Jussi Jaaskelainen's testimonial.

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It is never easy picking the dishonorable awards, but Luis Fabiano is the unfortunate winner of the 2009 LLTO Most Disappointing Player. And to be honest it was a really hard choice to select the star Brazilian player, but let's face it when you're one of the best players in the world, the regular standards or expectations do not apply.

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EL SUPER RATON

Any one following the recent Gold Cup surely heard his name thrown around. He plays for a lowly national squad and an un-heard of club in the U.A.E. None the less he was the tournaments second best goal scorer tallying 3 goals and 1 assist. It is none other then El Super Raton, Blas Perez.

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