Barclays Premier League Round 1 Review

So the First Game Of Each team In Premier League has been done!Let's Rewiew What happened where..!!

West Brom 3-0 Liverpool

It was a nightmare start for Liverpool under new boss Brendan Rodgers as Steve Clarke’s West Brom dismantled them 3-0 at the Hawthorns. To add insult to injury Liverpool had also Daniel Agger sent off for a foul on Shane Long in the box.
Goals from Zoltan Gera, Peter Odemwingie and Romelu Lukaku meant that Brendan Rodgers and Liverpool have to go back to the drawing board and find a solution to correct the path if they ever want to challenge for the Premier League gold.
Brendan Rodgers must make new signings before the end of the transfer market or else it will be another disappointing season for the Reds. A new striker and a winger is badly needed, Adam Johnson’s availibility in the market should alert the Reds’ board.

Queens Park Rangers 0-5 Swansea City

It was a remarkable debut for Michael Laudrup. The Dane orchestrated a huge win for the Swans with Spanish striker Michu scoring a brace. The Welsh team was very impressive in at Loftus road and never really looked back after taking the lead in the first half. On the other side, QPR boss Mark Hughes has a lot of work to do if he wants to avoid relegation this season. Despite his signings, the team looked bad and many question marks were raised regarding the defending and goalkeeping.
Michu and Dyer scored two and highly rated Scott Sinclair added the fifth to make to wrap up a five star performance.

Arsenal 0-0 Sunderland

A negative performance by Arsenal aside from Santi Cazorla’s good performance, the Gunners never really threatened the Sunderland goal despite having more possession. Walcott, Podolski, Gervinho were all ineffective while Ligue 1 top-scorer Olivier Giroud missed a glorious opportunity in the second half. Martin O’Neill on the other side should be happy with the point he got in the Emirates, his team was very good defensively but he really must start improving his attacking options.
Overall, Arsenal seem to be in need for more investments, the departure of Robin van Persie and Alex Song did affect the team; it could be another long season for Arsenal if they continue this way.

West Ham United 1-0 Aston Villa

Excellent return to the Premier League for the ‘mighty’ Hammers; A single Kevin Nolan goal was enough to give all three points for Sam Allardyce. Paul Lambert on the other side needs to invest especially in attack, his team looks weak and out of sorts up front and may struggle just like they did last season under Alex McLeish.
The Hammers are looking good and could’ve won it 2-0 but new signing Maiga missed a glorious opportunity despite getting past Shay Given, but a last gasp defending saved the Villans from further embarrassment.

Reading 1-1 Stoke City

Spoils were shared at the Madjeski stadium in the opening day, but credit to Reading they fought until the end and they could’ve even get a winner but Ian Harte’s free-kick went inches wide off goal.
Stoke as usual played their traditional long ball game, and somehow debutant Michael Kightly gave them the lead following a howler from Australian custodian Adam Federici. But the Royals bounced back and got themselves a penalty kick in the 89^th minute, Adam Le Fondre stepped up and comfortable scored his team’s first goal in the Premier League.
I don’t think Reading will repeat the heroics of the last time they were newly promoted with Steve Coppell, but still they look a decent team. On the other side, Stoke seem to be the same, a mid-table finish will be expected from them.

Fulham 5-0 Norwich City

Poor Chris Hughton! On his return to Premier League management, he was hammered five times against his former boss Martin Jol. The Canaries look a shadow of their former selves under Paul Lambert and the Cottagers took advantage of it with five goals. A brace from new signing Mladen Petric were followed by Damien Duff, Steve Sidwell and Ales Kacaniklic.
Fulham look good this season, Petric is expected to deliver the goals for them in place of Clint Dempsey who will leave the club before the closure of the Transfer window, a top ten finish looks to be on the books for the Cottagers who start their second season under form Spurs boss Martin Jol. Norwich meanwhile will struggle this season, they didn’t make many changes to the team of the last season but no matter what the changes, the Canaries are expected to struggle.

Newcastle United 2-1 Tottenham Hotspurs

Two Champions League chasing clubs clashed heads at the Sports Direct Arena. Alan Pardew got the better of Andre Villas Boas and also got sent off but despite that Spurs looked good and once the reinforcements arrive they look even sharper than before.
Demba Ba ended his barren run before Jermain Defoe added on his international success with England with a good goal; but brilliant Hatem Ben Arfa got himself a penalty kick and converted it calmly past Brad Friedel for the win.
Both teams are expected to be chasing European spots, Tottenham look better than the Magpies but everything can be expected from the Black and White team who managed a fifth place finish last season.

Wigan 0-2 Chelsea

Not so convincing despite the win for Chelsea, Wigan did give them rough times throughout the game and could’ve even scored two or more in the second half. The positive for Chelsea was the brilliant performance of highly rated new-signing Eden Hazard who had a hand in both goals; first he brilliantly played a through ball to the Branislav Ivanovic before single handedly conceding a penalty. However, the negative point for the Blues was the anonymous performance of Spanish international Juan Mata who was left behind Hazard’s shadow while Fernando Torres was isolated alone up front despite having a glorious chance cleared off the line by Ivan Ramis.

As for Wigan, they look good particularly Victor Moses who could leave the club to join Chelsea this week, but with Ryo Miyaichi replacing him, surely many teams will struggle when they come to the DW Stadium.
Surely a top three finish for Roberto Di Matteo’s Chelsea, while Roberto Martinez’s Wigan will struggle but I see them escape relegation.

Manchester City 3-2 Southampton

All of a sudden we remembered the ‘famous’ QPR game on the last day last season. 2-1 down City raced back and won 3-2. Samir Nasri was the savior this time, while the last time savior Kun Aguero was stretched off following a serious injury in the 13^th minute.

Newly promoted Southampton played very well at the Etihad Stadium and managed to score twice, and both scorers were substitutes. Club top-scorer Rickie Lambert cancelled Carlos Tevez’s opener before new signing Steven Davies gave the Saints the lead. However, Eden Dzeko and Samir Nasri made sure that the Champions will not be disappointed on the opening day with two late goals to salvage all three points.

City are favorites to win the title again, but they need reinforcements in the back. Southampton meanwhile look exciting and the addition of Uruguayan Gaston Ramirez will give them more options up front.

Everton 1-0 Manchester United

Marouane Fellaini stole the show in this game and spoiled Robin van Persie’s first ever game as a Manchester United player! The towering Belgian caused United all kinds of problems in the back and it was his header that gave the Toffees all three points in the second half. 

Injuries in the back meant that ‘natural’ midfielder Michael Carrick had to be deployed in the center of defense alongside Captain Nemanja Vidic and David Moyes exploited that perfectly. Everton played their long balls to Fellaini who won every single challenge and could’ve at least grabbed a hat-trick. The Red Devils started without new signing Robin van Persie but Shinji Kagawa was looking good despite the lack of spaces available in the middle. The Mersysiders dominated the first half and David De Gea had to make three outstanding saves to deny the home side, he also had to thank they post and the woodwork but Fellaini was hot and rose high to power a header from Leighton Baines corner.

Sir Alex’s men improved after conceding but failed to score when they had the chances.
Everton were brilliant in this game and the fans will hope to see the same for the remainder of the season, On the other hand United will get better surely once the defenders come back, a win against Fulham at Old Trafford next week will surely make things right but no one knows what can happen.