Capital One Cup 🏆

In today's blog I will be discussing the Capital One cup, won yesterday by the deserving Manchester City. Of three games to be discussed today, the first will be Liverpool vs Southampton's 6-1 win. The Reds were never really expected to be winners in any case, even to a team like So'ton, but they ended up with marvelous victory with Sturridge's 2 goals, Origi's hat trick, Ibe's goal, and Mane's puny Southampton goal that let up to the final, along with their 1-0 win to Stoke . Next up are the Everton vs City games. Man City showed their dominance to the league after their 3-1 win, but Everton strikes back two weeks later and beats the legendary team 1-0. Manchester continued on through the cup, though, with only one loss. And to complete the Cup is the highly anticipated Man City against Liverpool game. The Reds ended up drawing City at 45', but by 120 minutes ET it was 1-1. This led to penalties, which, after all of Mignolet's efforts ended 1-1 (4-1) to Manchester, giving them their well-deserved trophy.

Injuries/ Recoveries

This week will be a bit different in this blog. Rather than the usual matches, today we'll discuss the occasional [crucial] injury blog that could cost some teams a championship. First is the infamous flop by the name of Arjen Robben. He is injured for Bayern for a currently unspecified amount of time. His injury took place during the Bayern v Wolfsburg game in the 51st minute. He was taken off to reveal that he had torn his left abductor muscle and can't play for now. He says he needs playing time, but all he got was ten minutes and his replacement (RM Douglas Costa) was brought on. Two days ago, Man City legend Kevin de Bruyne injured his knee, but not too severely. However, he watched City struggle in his absence, getting smashed by Chelsea in the Capital One Cup. His knee brace was already removed, and he can't be back on the pitch soon enough. Other effective injuries of City are Bony and Navas' injuries, but are expected to soon recover from their minor injuries. Finally, there are some returning players. A vast majority are coming from Man Utd, a team classified as injury prones. The players waited for and anticipated the most for are Wayne Rooney, Martial, De Gea, and Chris Smalling, who might just bring ManU back up on the BPL Table when they return tomorrow. Tune in next week for a set of transfers/ transfer rumors!

UEFA Cup

Hello friends and welcome to the UEFA edition of the blog; this week will include matches in the UEFA Championship of 2016. Up first is February 19th's match where players like David Luiz were brought against former allies: PSG 2-1 Chelsea. With the negative connotation Chelsea has set for themselves this season, it was anticipated like Germany vs Brazil. But, thought everybody felt they could have done much better than just 2-1, PSG claims to be very thankful for their win and, of course, hope to win the Cup. Another Europa UEFA match was Real Madrid vs Roma, declared as a biased match. Thought it wouldn't make a difference towards their 2-0 loss, Roma should've earned a penalty in the second half, which could have at least put them back in the game. Anyway, both goals were exceptional, Ronaldo scoring with a cut-in from the left, Jesé scoring a terrific solo effort four minutes after coming onto the pitch. As is anticipated though, Real will eventually have to overcome the obstacle known as Barça this Cup, as they are advancing with their 6-1 win to Celta Vigo. This was a magnificent scoreline, as Barcelona was only drawing up until halftime, where Messi scored with a finesse and Guidetti brought it back for Celta in the 38'. Apparently, their defenses started to fall apart in the second half, as home managed to score Suárez yet another hat trick, Neymar earned himself a goal, and even Rakitic got in on the action. Overall, these winning teams are the ones I believe have a real chance at the victory of the 2016 UEFA Cup.

Lewandowski+Leicester+Rivalries

This week I'd just like to include an extra match that happened in late 2015, but it was such an unbelievable match that I must write about it. Starting, though with some recent matches is Manchester City vs. the not well known Leicester City; 3-1. This game pushed the infamous Leicester into FIRST place in the entire BPL, and nudges the well-deserving Manchester City into fourth. In this game, Leicester 's win was almost certain after the for goal. They scored three goals, and only one was scored for MCI, by Sergio Agüero. Entering the next two games, I will show the progress between rivals Barça and Real Madrid. Visitors Barcelona won 2-0 against Getafe by Neymar and Messi (of course), leaving them at the top of the La Liga table with 53 points. Just behind with 50 points is Real Madrid, who played a 2-1 victory to Granada, their second team of rivals. In a nutshell, Benzema scored the first goal in the first half to put Real in the lead, which was soon equalized by El Arabi of Granada. Luckily, a Modric "wonder strike" gave Madrid the final lead and the victory. Finally, to the legendary game I wanted to mention: Bayern vs Wolfsburg 2015. This game was set forth with a goals by Wolfsburg which could not be rid until the second half, where Lewandowski scored a wonder strike to equalize the game. Exactly one minute later, another goal to set the lead was scored by Lewandowski. And again. And again. And again. Full time, Bayern wins 5-1, all Bayern goals scored by their striker. The wondrous part is: these were all scored in under ten minutes, breaking an all-time record, achieving Lewandowski a "record-breaker" card in the popular video game known as Fifa 16.