Friday 6 March 2015

Midweek review, Liverpool's late charge



All of the top seven sides in the Barclay's Premiership recorded wins. Chelsea beat West Ham to maintain there title bid and they still have a game in hand over Man City. The fight for the four champions league places still rages on. I was over the moon with Liverpool's 2-0 win over Burnley continuing there excellent form. They are the form team of the year in 2015 with 7 premier league wins out of 9, collecting 23 points out of a possible 27 with no lose. Liverpool are on the charge!
Further down the table Stoke's 2-0 win was a highlight as it was there third successive win in the league and it saw them rise from 10th to 8th place. Mark Hughes is doing a fantastic job there.
As for Everton Martinez there boss was right to say no when asked if Everton where too good to go down. Everton have not win since the 31st of January when they beat Crystal Palace 1-0 thanks to a Lukaku goal. They definitely need a good run of form to take them away from the relegation battle.
The biggest win personally of the mid week premiership games was Aston villa's 2-1 win over West Brom. What Foster was doing in the final moments of the game no one knows, he basically gifted the penalty to Aston Villa. However it seemed as though Benteke had ice running in his veins when he took the penalty in the dying moments of the game. That goal was Benteke's 3 goal in the league and the first in 2015, the last time he scored was against Man utd way way back on the 20th of December 2014. To be fair he recently came back from an Achilles injury and his form has been patchy of late. Neither Agbonlahor or Weimann have come up with the goods between them they have 8 goals this season and goals around other areas of the team have dried up. The fact that Villa have only scored 15 goals this season in the league is a real worry but hopefully there first win over west brom and the injection of enthusiasm from Tim Sherwood can propel them up the table.