Arsenal will look to keep pressure on unbeaten Manchester United in the English Premier League title race today with a win against struggling rival West Ham.
That London derby is one of several interesting match-ups today in England, including Chelsea's battle agaist Blackburn and Stoke's match-up against Stuart Holden's Bolton.
In Italy, Napoli takes on Fiorentina in one of the day's better clashes, while Germany offers up a juicy Wolfsburg-Bayern Munich contest. Tonight's schedule features a bunch of Mexican League action, including Herculez Gomez, Jose Torres and Pachuca taking on Toluca.
If you will be watching today's action, please feel free to share your thoughts, opinions and some play-by-play in the comments section below.
Enjoy the action (Today's TV Schedule is after the jump):
TODAY'S SOCCER ON TV
9:30am– GolTV- VfL Wolfsburg vs. Bayern Munich
10am– ESPN3.com- Chelsea vs. Blackburn
10am– Fox Soccer Channel- Manchester City vs. Wolverhampton
10am– Fox Soccer Plus- Stoke City vs. Bolton
Noon– Fox Soccer Plus- Napoli vs. Fiorentina
Noon– DirecTV- Getafe vs. Real Sociedad
Noon– DirecTV- Real Zaragoza vs. Levante
12:30pm– Fox Soccer Channel- West Ham United vs. Arsenal
12:30pm– ESPN3.com- Schalke 04 vs. Hamburg
2pm– ESPN3.com- Athletic Bilbao vs. Racing Santander
2:45pm– Fox Soccer Channel- Inter Milan vs. Bologna
4pm– ESPN3.com- Sevilla vs. Espanyol
4:30pm– GolTV- Palmeiras vs. Botafogo
5pm– Fox Soccer Channel- West Bromwich Albion vs. Blackpool (Delayed)
6pm– Fox Soccer Plus- Wigan Athletic vs. Fulham (Delayed)
6pm– Azteca America- Jaguares vs. Club America
6pm– Univision- San Luis vs. Puebla
8pm– Telemundo- Tigres UANL vs. Necaxa
8pm– Telefutura- Pachuca vs. Toluca
10pm– Galavision- Atlas vs. Queretaro
10pm– Telefutura- Atlante vs. Cruz Azul
Galaxy are supposedly signing Claude Makelele.
Sorry,
I disagree. He is playing for a very good coach and is learning from some very good strikers. Villarreal is a very good club. He needs to be patient. His time last year was wasted at Hull. Bad Club, Bad Coach, Bad results.
Yes, positively amazing. Just a phenomenal goal.
Thanks for the info, i forgot about visas.
i watched for 20 minutes, didn’t even see him (crappy stream, hard to make out diff players)
Nice pk for Tigres.
I agree. There’s only so much “valuable training” that one can endure without getting actual game time…and he’s at that limit.
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anybody know bornstein’s number?
Interesting. Not national team implication interesting, but intersting nontheless…
Not really a holding midfielder but definitely favoring the defensive play.
Truth be told he’s playing extremely passive and shying away from receiving the ball.
Looks nervous and lacking confidence.
He’s listed on Tigres roster wikipedia page as a midfielder.
You mean he’s playing off the main forward?(Sorry I don’t mean to sound stupid :])
Bornstein starting as a withdrawn midfielder.
Interesting.
Castillo started for Puebla tonight, they lost. Bornstein is starting and playing now for Tigres on Telemundo, and Torres and Gomez start on the bench for Pachuca!!!
He gets valuable training, however there are enough teams needing a striker. I think its time to go out on loan.
So what does Altidore exactly do at Villreal?
Yeah, their recent form must be getting to him. Whenever I see him, he looks frazzled, unkempt, and out of sorts.
ESPN lists him as born in Germany… has he ever played for the US team at any level?
I’ve never even heard of this guy and I keep up with our young players abroad.
hah
Russell Brand did not look happy today lol
Dempsey was brilliant today, Etuhu was good as well. Fulham should have won but for a really bad error by Stockdale.
The big anouncement is not about Landon Donovan, its about the Galaxy signing a big name.
should have been 2 Dempsey assists. Poor finish by Damien Duff on a breakaway
They are in a desperate position. I wouldn’t count anything out really. If the manager thinks switching up the lineup will help, then it very well might happen.
You have nothing to lose at this point.
Pretty sure Bradley doesn’t have to worry about playing time. Via a secondhand account, Bradley’s manager is reported to have said (in response to bids for Bradley) something akin to “If he goes, we don’t have a chance to stay up”
He has to get a visa now that his work permit was finally granted…and that might require a trip back to the US. Hopefully he was training with Forest while he waited for a work permit and we can expect him once the visa is sorted.
Don’t jump on me for this, but as someone pointed out above, Michael Bradley does not start and Gladbach wins.
For his sake, hopefully the manager didn’t notice.
Findley didn’t dress for Forest.
West Ham was absolutely painful. Specs didn’t look as terrible as most of the other Hammers, actually. Don’t know if that’s much of a complement, but there you have it.
Tough loss for Bolton. They could have used that. Glad to see Holden on the field again, though.
I remember on the MNT Blog during the October friendlies, they mentioned that he was having some trouble understanding the coaching staff and players at the camp, and that Michael Bradley was kind of helping him out and explaining the direction. I’d imagine that if he doesn’t fully understand soccer words, his grasp of the language can’t be that good.
connection?
maybe a hat trick is just too much to hope for, and so we hope for a brace!
I always hope for a brace, its just the max I will allow myself to hope for. Its always possible with Deuce as well, who tends to score in pairs in big games.
f’in A man, looks like you need something to take your anger and frustration out.
Might as well ask why is a tree good? Why is the sunset good? Why are boobs good?
Holden got the start and went the full 90 and Dempsey bags an assist and is even highlighted here on the fulhamfc website. Pad those states Deuce!
http://www.fulhamfc.com/Club/News/NewsArticles/2011/January/DempseyWiganReaction.aspx
Why do people say this? As long as you’re “hoping”, why not just go for the gold and hope for a hat trick? Are people that eager to show people they know what a ‘brace’ is?
news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/b/blackburn_rovers/9363048.stm
The very end is when the manager talks about Jermaine Jones moving to Blackburn
Guzan kept a clean sheet today for Hull City. I didnt watch it because I refuse to ever watch Hull City games again but good news for Brad.
Avram Grant looks like a man who knows the axe is about to fall
Anyone see Cani’s long range goal for Villarreal?
Wayne Bridge, thanks for coming today.
He scored today.
People need to understand something:
-Fox has the EPL games (almost all of the non-early games)
-ESPN bought some games from Fox. More this year than last year. Most of them are early morning games and midweek games.
-ESPN3.com would broadcast games they either bought and cannot fit in their schedule or games already aired on ESPN2.
-Foxsoccer.tv might be your best bet for legal online games
-ESPN can’t just broadcast a game it doesn’t own when they have nothing on (unless it wants to spend more money).
Spector has been West Ham’s best attacking player.
How many times have I said or read that in my life? Probably once, and that happened 10 seconds ago as I typed it.
Videos of any of those?
Isn’t Hennessy also the Wales no1?
I agree. I believe Marcus will get a few starts soon or by Feb I can imagine because Hennessy is not up to saving them from relegation.
He speaks English, just not very well. There are some interviews with him from the USMNT camp on the ussoccer website.
I am always one to keep it unbiased, but it would be impossible to look good right now.
Their defense is just… words cannot describe how bad they are. A little tough to swallow that this is a top-class professional squad.
The Hammers look horrific. Specs is not doing well in midfield. Thank god it’s half time. Ugly.