Emmanuel Adebayor’s brace lifted Arsenal to a 3-1 win at Manchester City to move into first place in the English Premier League.
Man U fell two points back after needing a late Carlos Tevez goal to gain a single point against Tottenham in a 1-1 tie.
Chelsea fell six points behind Arsenal after settling for a 1-1 tie against Portsmouth. Nicolas Anelka netted for the Blues but new Portsmouth striker Jermaine DeFoe equalized.
The most shocking result came from Spain, where Almeria dropped Real Madrid, 2-0, to deliver a lifeline chasers Barcelona and Espanyol.
There was plenty other action, including the scoreless draw between Tim Howard’s Everton and Brad Friedel’s Blackburn, as well as Michael Bradley scoring his 12th league goal in Heerenveen’s 7-0 thrashing of Vitesse Arnhem.
Share your thoughts on all the weekend’s European action below:
Anyone know where I can watch highlights of Bradley’s latest goal for heerenveen??
I love you, Almeria! 🙂
Michael Bradley is a beast. 4 on the league table as a CM is ridiculous. He very well might be the first US Superstar once he’s at a club that people give an ‘F’ about. (Sorry Heerenveen fans–I’m not an Eredivisie hater, just know how most snobs think)
I just hope daddy lets him play like he does for club rather than having him sit back so much. We need that extra attacking flair.
Alright Arsenal! Keep it up!
kpugs
I generally agree with your posts, but I disagree on the Spurs – Man U game. I thought it was a good game. Spurs defense was active and smart. They were up to the challenge of running down Man U’s chances. Spurs also had some attractive attacks. I think they ran out of legs late, which prevented them from getting the second goal.
All in all, I thought it was an entertaining game and that Spurs is pretty close to being a good side. (What ugliness there was came from some cynical fouls and dives from Man U, in my opinion.)
Couple of things. It is Arsenal or Man U for the EPL.
If Michael Bradley keeps scoring we should play him up front for the USMNT (Just Kidding) but maybe he gets forward a little more.
I really like the roster and if Bob plays the players based true positions then we should se something like this up front. What you guys think?
Jozy
Freddy
Convey, Rico, Bradley, Donovan
Michael Bradley’s now tied for fourth for goals scored in the Eredivisie.
http://www.eredivisie.com/subpage.aspx?l1=1667&l2=1676&action=rankings&nonzeros=8
Rosters Announced for US vs. Mexico…
http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_5177348.html
Adu, Freddy
Altidore, Josmer
Bocanegra, Carlos
Bradley, Michael
Clark, Ricardo
Convey, Bobby
Corrales, Ramiro
Davis, Brad
Dempsey, Clint
Donovan, Landon
Edu, Maurice
Feilhaber, Benny
Guzan, Brad
Holden, Stuart
Howard, Tim
Lewis, Eddie
Moor, Drew
Noonan, Pat
Onyewu, Oguchi
Parkhurst, Michael
Pearce, Heath
Robinson, Eddie
Not so great that the Toffeemen couldn’t take advantage of what else has gone on in this league today. Lost a huge chance to gain on some points.
Very, very solid squad for the U.S. I’m sure we’ll all wait for Ives’ post to unload our comments. But I really like who Bradley has called in.
Ives, Chelsea are now 6 points behind Arsenal, not 8.
Thanks for the link, crash2180. That looks like a good roster.
U.S. roster released:
http://www.ussoccer.com/articles/viewArticle.jsp_5177348.html
Michael Bradley: Representin’
Arsenal fans SHOULD feel lucky. I watched both matches, Arsenal didn’t play all that well, and Man United played terribly.
Arsenal weren’t terrible…they played mediocre football but they took their chances, which is all you really need to do to pull off a result.
Spurs/United was an ugly match. United had the possession but few decent shots, whereas Spurs seemed content with their one goal and that cost them, along with Keane’s terrible finish after Berbatov set him up one on one with Vandersar.
I’m surprised at the ManU result. Arsenal fans like myself should consider ourselves lucky that they dropped points to Tottenham. Portsmouth played really well in the game that I saw – DeFoe looked really dangerous. I really think he should be more of an option for England.