Week 2 Round Up

Consistent only in their inconsistency. That's one thing common to both The Plastic Armchair an Aston Villa. While The Armchair again maxed out at 5 correct predictions Villa showed that they will at best be challenging for 5th after losing to Stoke.

So what were the big upsets an headline makers of Matchday 2.

Well the shock result would be the Cottagers home win against the Gunners. The 1-0 defeat has prompted many of the pundits to write off the gunners title chances. I for one did not have to wait for the result - instead the minute I saw Emanuel Eboue being deployed as a defensive mid. Arsenals incompetence in front of the goal reached new limits with only 1 (yes thats ONE) of their 20 shots being on target. With all due respect to Ze Professors youth development skills, the need of the hour for Arsenal is to purchase an experienced partner for Cesc.

The other notable result came from Stoke City's rather entertaining match with Villa. The final result was 3-2 but what was noteworthy was Stoke's desire to play football. Even though the winning goal was scored off a long throw, Stoke for the majority of the match kept the ball down on the grass. In fact I nominate this Fuller effort for team goal of the week.

ManU an Chelski both won their possibly tricky away fixtures 1-0. The dominant ManU had 2/3rds of the possession in their match against Portsmouth. Their goal was scored by from another dimension - Darren Fletcher. I am willing to bet my liver and kidneys against him scoring for the third game running against Zenit St. Petersburg (the Euro SuperCup).

Chelski meanwhile reverted to type with an ill gotten victory over Wigan athletic. Deco made it 2 goals in 2 matches for the Russians with a stinging free kick in the 4th minute. Seeing how Chelski went into a shell quite like the Gunners did the week before (when they scored in the 4th minute), the top coaches will soon tell their squads not to score in the 4th minute.

Another match of note was Tottenham v/s Sunderland. This match typified why the much maligned Darren Bent is much maligned. Twas quite a keen contest - which is something that a team aspiring to challenge for Europe would not like to hear especially considering the other team is expected to finish in the bottom half of the table. An oh !! The match was on the Spurs homeground - WHL. For now, Magic Wande is hiding behind the "my top player is destabalizing my squad" excuse. But its only a matter of days before Berba moves to ManU. Hmm, lets see, lets see.