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WHAT A MATCH IT WAS BETWEEN MAN UNITED VS FULHAM YESTERDAY!  MAN UNITED MADE 452 PASSES, WITH A 76% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 20 SHOTS, WITH 9 ON TARGET, IN A FAST-MOVING MATCH, BUT BERND LENO’S GOALKEEPING GLOVES WERE WELL AND TRULY ON, AND HE MANAGED TO SAVE ALL BUT ONE OF THE POWERFUL MAN UNITED STRIKES, WHEN, AT 71 MINS. BRUNO FERNANDES BROKE THROUGH AND SCORED A BLINDER!  FULHAM AND LENO CELEBRATE FULHAM MADE 666 PASSES WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, WITH 60% POSSESSION, AND HAD 12 SHOTS WITH 6 ON TARGET, BUT WITH ONANA’S GOALKEEPING GLOVES EQUALLY WELL-FITTED, ONLY ONE GOAL GOT PAST HIM, WHICH WAS FROM CALVIN BASSEY AT 45 +1 MINS.  SO, WITH NO FURTHER GOALS, THE GAME WENT INTO EXTRA-TIME, AND THEN PENALTIES, WHEN BERND LENO CUT SOME SERIOUS SHAPES WHILST SAVING 2 MAN UNITED PENA...

THERE WERE 10 SHOTS A PIECE FOR PRESTON AND BURNLEY YESTERDAY, WITH 4 SHOTS ON TARGET FOR PRESTON, INCLUDING 3 CRACKING GOALS FROM ROBBIE BRADY T 31 MINS., MILUTIN OSMAJIC AT 44 MINS, AND WILL KEANE AT 73 MINS.  PRESTON MADE 291 PASSES, WITH A 71% PASS ACCURACY, AND BURNLEY MADE 372 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, PLUS, IT WAS A VERY FEISTY GAME WITH FOULS-A-PLENTY ON BOTH SIDES – 21 FOR PRESTON AND 17 FOR BURNLEY – BUT WITH NO FURTHER GOALS, THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 3 – 0 WIN TO PRESTON WHO NOW GO INTO THEIR FIRST FA CUP QUARTER FINAL SINCE 1966!

WEST HAM’S TOMAS SOUCEK COULD NOT HAVE CELEBRATED HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY IN ANY BETTER FASHION YESTERDAY THAN SCORING THE OPENING GOAL OF THE MATCH BETWEEN WEST HAM VS LEICESTER CITY, WITH A CRACKER AT 21 MINS AFTER HE STAYED ALERT FOLLOWING A COMPLICATED REBOUND FROM A SHOT BY KUDUS, WHICH WAS SAVED BY HERMANSEN, AND ENDED UP ON THE END OF HIS BOOT FOLLOWED BY AN IMPRESSIVE GOAL!  JARROD BOWEN CELEBRATES  THERE WERE 8 SHOTS IN TOTAL FOR WEST HAM, INCLUDING 2 ON TARGET, WITH ANOTHER EXPERTLY CRAFTED GOAL BY JARROD BOWEN, WHICH WAS HEADING STRAIGHT IN, BEFORE IT WAS DEFENDED BY LEICESTER’S JANNIK VESTERGAARD, WHO HELPED IT ON IT’S WAY TO THE BACK-OF-THE-NET, JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME AT 43 MINS! (OWN GOAL).  LEICESTER HAD 10 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, BUT WITH NOTHING ACTUALLY REACHI...

THANKS TO TWO SUPERB GOALS FROM DOMINIK SZOBOSZLAI AT 11 MINS. AND ALEXIS MAC ALLISTER AT 63 MINS. (AND DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE MATCH BETWEEN FOREST VS ARSENAL RESULTED IN A GOALLESS DRAW), LIVERPOOL ARE NOW 13 POINTS AHEAD OF ARSENAL AT THE TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE! NEWCASTLE TRIED THEIR VERY BEST, BUT FOUND IT HARD TO EQUALISE LIVERPOOL’S DEXTERITY. THEY HAD 3 SHOTS, AND MADE 366 PASSES, WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY. LIVERPOOL HAD 12 SHOTS, WITH  3 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING THE 2 AFOREMENTIONED GOALS), AND MADE 594 PASSES WITH AN 89% ACCURACY, ALL CULMINATING IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO LIVERPOOL!   BY AMANDA WATERS

PREMIER LEAGUE : NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS ARSENAL – 26/02/2025 THERE WERE 6 SHOTS FOR NOTTINGHAM FOREST WITH 2 ON TARGET, MAKING 268 PASSES WITH A 74% PASS ACCURACY YESTERDAY, WITH ARSENAL HAVING 13 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET, AND MAKING 502 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, RETAINING 66% POSSESSION OF THE BALL.  IT WAS ALSO QUITE FEISTY, WITH 17 FOULS FROM ARSENAL AND 10 FROM FOREST, WITH 1 YELLOW-CARD-A-PIECE.  (AND A COUPLE OF CONTROVERSIAL PENALTY DECISIONS.)  BUT WITH NOTHING ACTUALLY HITTING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, IT WAS STALEMATE (0 – 0), WITH ARSENAL NOW 13 POINTS BEHIND LIVERPOOL AT THE TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE! 

PREMIER LEAGUE – BOURNEMOUTH VS WOLVES – 22/02/2025 MATHEUS CUNHA’S STUNNING FIRST-HALF GOAL FOR WOLVES WAS AN EYE-OPENER FOR BOURNEMOUTH YESTERDAY, (FOLLOWING SOME SLIGHTLY EARLIER BAD LUCK WHEN ILLIA ZABARNYI WAS RED-CARDED AT 31 MINS. FOR SOME ‘STUDS-OUT’ ARGEY-BARGEY ON RAYAN AIT-NOURI’S SHIN) LEAVING THEM DOWN TO 10 MEN.  BOURNEMOUTH HAD 8 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET AND WOLVES HAD 13 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET (INCLUDING CUNHA’S GOAL), AND ALSO HAD 55% POSSESSION, BUT WITH CUNHA’S GOAL REMAINING THE ONLY GOAL OF THE MATCH, IT ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO WOLVES!