Matches played Oct. 24 and 25.
Upsets
Chesterfield 2-1 West Ham
Notts County 2-0 Southampton
Port Vale 0-0 Norwich City
(Port Vale win 3-2 on pens)
Sheffield Utd 2-4 Birmingham
Wycombe W 2-2 Doncaster
(Wycombe win 3-2 on pens)
As Expected
West Brom 0-2 Arsenal
Leicester 2-3 Aston Villa
Crewe Alex 1-2 Man Utd
MK Dons 0-5 Tottenham
Everton 4-0 Luton Town
Leeds 1-3 Southend
Watford 2-1 Hull City
Premier v Premier
Newcastle 3-0 Portsmouth
Blackburn 0-2 Chelsea
Charlton 1-0 Bolton
Liverpool 4-3 Reading
Sat - 21 Oct 06
Wigan 4 - 0 Manchester City
Emile Heskey, Henri Camara and Antonio Valencia scored goals for Wigan. Manchester City defender Richard Dunne added scored an own-goal.
Charlton 0 - 0 Watford
No goals scored by the bottom two sides.
Chelsea 2 - 1 Portsmouth
Andriy Shevchenko and Michael Ballack both scored for Chelsea within a few minutes of each other about ten minutes into the second half. Benjani Mwaruwari netted a goal for Portsmouth in the 69th minute.
Everton 2 - 0 Sheffield Utd
Blades’ defender Claude Davis was sent off in the 32nd minute for bring down Andy Johnson in the box. Mikel Arteta and James Beattie scored for the Toffees.
Aston Villa 1 - 1 Fulham
Villa remains unbeaten.
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Sun - 22 Oct 06
Manchester Utd 2 - 0 Liverpool
Scholes scores on his 500th start for Man Utd and defender Rio Ferdinand scores again. Liverpool never seemed to be really in the game after the first 5 or 10 minutes.
Blackburn 0 - 1 Bolton
Campo scores in the second half to earn Bolton the three points.
Middlesbrough 1 - 0 Newcastle
Ayegbini scores in the 84th ninute to win it for Boro.
Tottenham 1 - 0 West Ham
West Ham’s woes continue.
Reading 0 - 4 Arsenal
Henry netted a brace as the Gunners routed Reading.
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English Premier League Standings
Top Five
1. Manchester United, 22 pts.
2. Chelsea, 22 pts.
3. Bolton, 22 pts.
4. Arsenal, 17 pts.
5. Portsmouth, 16 pts.
Bottom Five
16. Newcastle Utd, 7 pts.
17. Sheffield United, 6 pts.
18. Watford, 5 pts.
19. West Ham, 5 pts.
20. Charlton, 4 pts.
East Conference
DC United (1) at Red Bull New York (4)
2:00pm ET, Saturday Oct. 21
TV: Direct Kick, HDNet
These teams do not like each other. United finished the regular season a little flat and Red Bull was invigorated with some youthful talent.
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NE Revolution (2) at Chicago Fire (3)
1:00pm ET, Sunday Oct. 22
TV: Fox Soccer Channel
The Fire won the regular season match-up with 2 wins, a draw and a loss. Noonan and Twellman are slightly injured for the Revs but are listed as Probable.
West Conference
FC Dallas (1) at Colorado Rapids (4)
9:00pm ET, Saturday Oct. 21
TV: ABC
Dallas also finished a little flat but won the regular season meetings with the Rapids with three wins, a draw and no losses.
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Houston Dynamo (2) at Chivas USA (3)
1:00pm ET, Sunday Oct. 22
TV: ESPN2
They split the regular season: each side won once with two draws. This is just Chivas’ second season and they are in the play-offs. This is the Dynamo’s first season in Houston, previously they were the San Jose Earthquakes.
Play-off Format
In each conference the number one seed plays the number four seed while the number two seed plays the number three seed. Two games are played, one at each team’s home field. Aggregate goals are used and if necessary extra time and a penalty shoot-out after the second game.
The winners then go on to face each other in a similar fashion (2 games, home-and-home).
The conference winners play in the MLS Cup which is just one game with extra time and a penalty shoot-out if necessary.
Sat - 21 Oct 06
Wigan v Manchester City
Wigan have lost two straight and City have drawn two straight.
Charlton v Watford
Charlton have lost five straight and sunk to the bottom of the table. Watford are not much better, they have not won in their last six games (3 draws, 3 losses) and are just aboce Charlton in the table.
Chelsea v Portsmouth
Second (Cheslsea) versus fourth (Portsmouth).
Everton v Sheffield UtdThe Toffees suffered their first loss of the season at Boro last week. The Blades drew City to climb out of the relegation zone.
Aston Villa v Fulham
Villa have not lost in thier last six matches however they have only two wins in that time. Fulham are coming off a win over Charlton.
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Sun - 22 Oct 06
Manchester Utd v Liverpool
These old rivals face each other for the first time this season with Man Utd in first place and Liverpool mid-table.
Blackburn v Bolton
Bolton are in third place and have won three straight. Blackburn have won three and drawn two in their last five matches.
Middlesbrough v Newcastle
Boro won last week over Everton. The Magpies have lost two straight and last won four rounds ago.
Tottenham v West Ham
The Spurs drew Villa last week and beat Portsmouth the round before that. West Ham have lost four straight.
Reading v Arsenal
Reading’s only loss in their last five matches was last week against mighty Chelsea. The Gunners have won four straight.
All I can say is that Henry was robbed of a goal in the 85th minute, he did not handle the ball and the play was on-side.
Saturday - 14 Oct 06
Wigan 1 - 3 Manchester Utd
Wigan score early (minute 5) but Man Utd got three second half goals to win it.
Arsenal 3 - 0 Watford
The Gunners easily handle the Hornets despite missing a few key players.
Aston Villa 1 - 1 Tottenham
Villa draw a ten-man Spurs.
Liverpool 1 - 1 Blackburn
Craig Bellamy nets a second half goal to earn Liverpool the draw.
Manchester City 0 - 0 Sheffield Utd
The draw pulls the Blades out of the relegation zone.
Middlesbrough 2 - 1 Everton
Boro end the Toftees unbeaten streak.
Portsmouth 2 - 0 West Ham
The Hammer’s woes continue as they lose their sixth straight game.
Reading 0 - 1 Chelsea
The Blues win on a Frank Lampard free-kick but Petr Cech and Carlo Cudicini were carried off the field. Cech suffered a fractured skull and was unconscious.
Sunday - 15 Oct 06
Newcastle 1 - 2 Bolton
Bolton got two goals in three minutes from El Hadji Diouf to come from behind and beat Newcastle.
English Premier League Standings
Top Five
1. Manchester United, 19 pts.
2. Chelsea, 19 pts.
3. Bolton, 17 pts.
4. Portsmouth, 16 pts.
5. Arsenal, 14 pts.
Bottom Five
16. Sheffield United, 6 pts.
17. Wigan, 5 pts.
18. West Ham, 5 pts.
19. Watford, 4 pts.
20. Charlton, 3 pts.
Match This Week
Fulham v Charlton
Monday Oct. 16, 2006.
(match played Oct. 14, 2006)
Here’s something you don’t see often:
With the game scoreless, Juan Pablo Angel missed an penalty kick for Aston Villa. I mean really missed it, it was several feet wide of the top right corner. Now that’s not very unusual, but just several minutes later he scored an own goal for the Spurs in the 76th minute. It was off of a corner kick, short of the near post. No Spur player was near it and the Villa goal keeper was stepping up to make the easy catch, however for some reason Angel ran in to head the ball out of touch but it went in his goal instead. He must have felt awful.
All was not lost. The penalty kick was the result of a red card on the Spurs so they were playing a man down and Gareth Barry got the equalizer for Villa in the 81st minute.
The first half was fairly even except for Wigan’s early goal - 5th minute Leighton Baines (D) from free-kick, taken short and set-up from just outside 18 yard box right of the D.
The second half mostly belonged to Man Utd. In a five minute span the Red Devils netted two goals, one by Nemanja Vidic - a header off of a corner kick, 62′ - and the other by Louis Saha. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer put the game away with his goal in added time.
~ Full Time Stats ~
Wigan 1 - 3 Man Utd
Shots (on goal): 6(2) , 12(5)
Fouls: 7 , 8
CKs: 2 , 5
Off-sides: 3 , 2
ToP: 32% , 68%
YC: 0 , 2
RC: 0 , 0
Saves: 4 , 2
Saturday - 14 Oct 06
Wigan v Manchester Utd
Wigan have not won in their last four matches (2 draws, 2 losses) and Man Utd are atop the table having won 4 of their last six matches.
Arsenal v Watford
Freddie Ljungberg, Emmanuel Eboue and Julio Baptista are all out for the Gunners but they should still be able to handle newly promoted Watford who are winless so far this season.
Aston Villa v Tottenham
The Spurs are coming off a win over Portsmouth and Villa, sixth in the table, a draw with Chelsea.
Liverpool v Blackburn
The Rovers have won three straight and Liverpool lost 2-0 last round to Bolton.
Manchester City v Sheffield Utd
Last round the Blades earned their first win of the season to lift them off the bottom of the table. City have also picked things up of late with a win (West Ham) and a draw (Everton).
Middlesbrough v Everton
Boro have lost two straight to Sheffield and Blackburn. Everton have drawn three straight.
Portsmouth v West Ham
The Irons have lost three straight and Portsmouth two straight.
Reading v Chelsea
Reading have not lost in their last four matches (3 wins, 1 draw) and Chelsea sit in second place in the table (behind Man Utd by goal differential).
Sunday - 15 Oct 06
Newcastle v Bolton
The Magpies have not won in three matches (2 losses) and Bolton have won two straight over Liverpool and Portsmouth.
The last week or so has been slow for me soccer-wise as the top European leagues took a break for Euro 2008 qualifying. The Premier League starts up again this weekend and there is an MLS match on TV.
More info: US TV Schedule.
French Defense, final position, white resigned.
October 6, 2006
Here’s the PGN:
Event “Let’s play chess”Date “2006.10.06”White “wbay77”Result “0-1”BlackElo “1368”Mode “ICS”
1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Ne4 5. Nxe4 dxe4
6. Be3 f5 7. Ne2 g6 8. Nf4 Bg7 9. Bc4 Qe7 10. O-O c5
11. Bb5+ Bd7 12. Bc4 cxd4 13. Qxd4 Nc6 14. Qc3 Bxe5 15. Qd2 O-O
16. Rad1 Rad8 17. Qe2 Kg7 18. g3 Bf6 19. Rd2 a6 20. Bb6 Rdc8
21. Rfd1 Ne5 22. Bd4 Nf3+ 23. Kg2 Nxd2 24. Rxd2 e5 25. Nh5+ gxh5
26. Be3 Bc6 27. Qxh5 Bd7 28. Qh6+ Kh8 29. Be2 Bg7 30. Qh5 Be8
31. Qh3 Bg6 32. Rd1 Rxc2 33. Rd2 Rxd2 34. Bxd2 f4 35. f3 e3
36. Bc1 Qc5 37. Bxe3 Qxe3 38. Kf1 Bd3 39. Bxd3 Qxf3+ 40. Kg1 Qxd3
41. Qg2 f3 42. Qf2 Qd1+ 43. Qf1 Qxf1+ 44. Kxf1 f2 45. h4 e4
0-1
After this win my rating is 1377 (57th percentile).
W 39, L 29, D 0
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