Its different

I being a blogger of football thought of doing something new and adding a little outside knowledge i have of cricket into this post of mine which being in a football post is not at all related with it.

This post is about the Cricket World Cup 2011 and yea im writing this cause it was a real big even of the world

Hosted by three nations : India , Sri Lanka and Bangladesh . India and Sri Lanka reaching the finals respectively and had a cracker of a contest in the finale.

It was a tournament of mixed emotions and started off with two groups. The A group being a tight one and Ireland pulling off the best win of the tournament by an amazing knock by Keving O’brien . Ireland beat England in the match . England with a lot of hard work pulled of an entry in the last 8 where Sri Lanka beat them ruthlessly. The other group had obvious expected qualifiers and was a calm group .

After the round of 8 the semi final clashes looked like this :

1- New zeland vs Sri lanka

2- India vs Pakistan’

1: The first semi included New zeland who were given the underdog tags but the semis tension haunted them as they lost in a semi final for the sixth time . Bad luck kiwis . Sri Lanka in top form beat them easily and bought them back to earth and booked their place in the finals of the world cup .

2: The next match which earned the highest viewer ship ever was a battle not only of the teams but amongst nations . Any india-pak match would have this emotion flowing high as this one did. India pulled off a win .

The finals was between both Asian countries. India pulled a win and beat the small nation sri lanka and became world champions . Sachin got the one trophy he wanted . The team made all the indians proud… These are the world champions : (India)

A note i would like to make on my behalf : Indian players being awarded so much amount for this win which obviously encourages them . If the government can offer half as much as one player got to the whole football team i am sure they would progress too. They should be encouraged and the game FOOTBALL should be breath by all Indians like the game cricket is. I hope whoever read this post like me will put it up on net to improve the facilities and the condition of this beautiful game Football improve in India.

 

Champions League last 4 matches of round of 16 2nd leg

Champions league

Match 1 : Manchester United Vs Marseille : First leg being a boring draw, both the teams would like this to be a more exciting affair.

Manchester United the favorites got out of their bad run by beating Arsenal but Marseille could definitely cause a shocker.

It would be André-Pierre Gignac Versus Van der Sar.

Match 2 : Bayern Vs Inter : Bayern with a 1-0 lead would like to beat Inter as they have that important one goal lead. Last times champions dont look like a team that can defend the title.
Last years finale assembled the same two teams (Bayern and Inter) where Inter won and became European Champions.

Bayern would take this as a chance of sweet and soft revenge and turn their very bad season to a pretty good one.

Match 3 : Chelsea Vs FC Kobenhavn : Chelsea would like to dispose them off easily and move ahead to the quarters. Kobenhavn who had a real nice season at home had lost to chelsea at home thanks to two beauties by Anelka .

Chelsea would like to keep it simple. Kobenhavn having a very bad away record are not likely to create an upset.

So fans i suggest put your bet money on Chelsea and earn big!

Match 4: Real Madrid Vs Lyon : The most interesting match according to me of the night. Lyon who knocked out Real Madrid at the same stage last year look desperate for the win. Both shared the spoils in the first leg scoring 1-1 and Lyon looked hungry for a win but Madrid didn’t look like themselves.

Both the teams would want to go to the next round and its evenly set up.

Real Madrid have the needed away goal. Lets see how it goes.

These two days are set for exciting matches dont miss it !!!

 

Things Arsenal need to do to make this a good season :

Arsenal have many highs and lows in this season so i have chalked out points which i think they should improvise on :

1- Make Almunia keep even after Szczensy in back from injury since he is more experienced.

2- Capitalize on Manchester United’s mistakes this season and also beat them in the league as that would possibly be the league winning match.

3- Beat Manchester United in FA cup and that would make three losses for them in a row and that would definitely hurt them psychologically.

4- Follow me on twitter and take my advice. https://twitter.com/utkarshkhanna . That was just a joke. Anyways they should play more of an attacking style so that there defense does’t come under attack much.

5- Last but not the least, forget about the loss against barca and Birmingham as being out of Champions League in a way gives you more time to concentrate on league so take it positively. GO OUT AND WIN!!!

 

Kolo toure : latest hot topic around

Kolo Toure brother of yaya toure has now on him a charge that can cause him his career. He has been suspected of  takin the drugs. Now City in a little mess because of him would try to solve this problem out. This may not affect the team much but it might affect a player or so in the team.

A club statement read: “Manchester City confirm that the FA has informed Kolo Toure that an ‘A-sample’ provided by him has tested positive for a specified substance.

“As result of this, he has been suspended from participating in all first team and non-first team matches pending the outcome of the legal process.”

An FA statement read: “The FA can confirm that a player has been provisionally suspended from playing pending investigation, having tested positive for the use of a prohibited substance.”

He has been giving silly reasons for this and lets see if he gets out of this problem.