Premier League News: the title race heats up and a legend returns to Newcastle
Come ogni settimana, eccoci all'appuntamento tradizionale con Gareth. Ecco le ultime dalla Premier League, il campionato inglese, raccontate dal nostro esperto britannico. A te la parola, Gareth!The Premier League has been an exciting place over the last couple of weeks. Manchester United surrendered their lead at the top of the table to Liverpool, even if it was for less than 24 hours.
Liverpool were within two points of United going into last weekends fixtures and with their game against Fulham on the Saturday night they had the opportunity to overtake United at the top. They made hard work of it but the Israeli Yossi Benayoun scored a last gasp winner to send Liverpool to the top of the table.
United faced Aston Villa at Old Trafford on Sunday and the betting odds were stacked against Villa, who have been in a very bad run of form lately. However, in the 75th minute Villa had a 2-1 lead and were the better side for the majority of the game. United turned their lead on its head though, with goals from Cristiano Ronaldo and Federico Macheda. Macheda is a 17-year-old Italian, United bought (or stole) from Lazio and he made an immediate impression in his first game for Alex Ferguson’s side. His first touch was sublime and he hit his shot on the turn, curling it into the corner of the goal. It was fantasy stuff from the 17-year-old and it looks as if, yet again, Ferguson has acquired one of Europe’s top-prospects.
At the other end of the table West Bromich Albion and Middlesbrough are both heading towards relegation. West Brom saw themseleves on the wrong end of a 2-0 score line against fellow strugglers Stoke, while Middlesbrough were hammered 4-1 by Bolton Wanderers. They both face massive uphill struggles to get out and having seen both sides play this season I doubt many will be betting on their survival. Newcastle United occupy the third relegation place and they face a very difficult run in. Newcastle have appointed former England legend, and the clubs all time top goal scorer, Alan Shearer to take over managing the team for their final fixtures in a last ditch attempt to secure survival. Shearer has no experience as a manager but he should instil a bit of passion into the side, whether or not that will be enough to keep them up is open too debate but personally I think it could be a case of too little to late. Newcastle face Stoke at the weekend and it is a massive game for both sides, should Stoke win they will have pretty much secured their own survival and Newcastle will have a massive task getting out of the bottom three. If Newcastle win the game it could be the kick start they need, but only Manchester United, Chelsea and Everton have managed to win away at Stoke this season so it is not an easy task for Shearer.
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