04/26/24
January 01, 2012
Man City, Man United, Chelsea All Fall in Upsets: A weekend of staggering upsets in the Premiership included a 1-0 Sunderland win over Manchester City in the waning seconds of stoppage time, a 3-2 Blackburn win over Manchester United and a 3-1 Aston Villa victory over Chelsea.
The City-Sunderland game was as one-sided as you'll ever see, while the winner in the last 10 seconds was also offside.
Cracker.
/remembers Sunderland v Leeds in the 1973 Cup Final.
posted by owlhouse at 09:12 PM on January 01, 2012
True that the refs did not have a great weekend either. Still, City are supposed to have enough quality to get past one major bad call.
posted by billsaysthis at 10:06 PM on January 01, 2012
That's what makes this game great - bottom of the table Blackburn can beat United, and Sunderland can put one over City. In what other ball sport can you still lose while having 70 per cent possession and 90 per cent of the scoring attempts?
And the randomness of officials' occassional mistakes makes it even better. At least for the neutral fan.
posted by owlhouse at 10:24 PM on January 01, 2012
This is the best few weeks of the season, with the Boxing Day and New Year's fixtures, and with the 3rd round of the FA Cup next week. May Citeh's fortunes continue in this vein.
posted by etagloh at 11:43 PM on January 01, 2012
In what other ball sport can you still lose while having 70 per cent possession and 90 per cent of the scoring attempts?
It's a puck (not a ball), but the Czech junior hockey team pretty much did that on Friday night. The US out shot them 54 to 29, and lost 5-2.
posted by grum@work at 01:14 AM on January 02, 2012
And it continues with Fulham getting a winner at the death over Arsenal and Lampard* saving AVB's bacon with a late winner for Chelsea over Wolves when it looked to be going the other way.
* Will it be Frank's last thrill for Chelsea supporters? Latest rumor has him joining the LA Galaxy in this transfer window.
posted by billsaysthis at 05:34 PM on January 02, 2012
What a weekend for the Premier League's top 4: loss, loss, draw, loss, #4 passed by #5 and remains ahead of #6 only on goal difference.