Yo soccer fans

Arsenal finally secured the 4th place after Aston Villa had lost at Man City at Vill Park. Aston Villa had perform above expectation and find themselves fighting for champion league spot. With this defeat, Aston Villa are now 5 games without a win and they are slowly revealling their weakness and also proves that they are still not ready for Champion League yet. They still had chance of course but it will be a bit difficult for them because their back-ups are not strong. Aston Villa had always rely on the same starting eleven to perform above expectation and gets result, players like Barry, Agbonlahor, Young, Carew, Milner, Knight, Laursen, etc, once any players had injuries or had perform below par, their results will be generally affected. If Martin O'Neill side wants to get into the Champion League, they need to buy in more experience player to increase their back-ups so that they can rotate the players and give the player a much needed rest. It's still a tight battle between Arsenal and Aston Villa for the 4th spot but in term of form, Arsenal are now 15 games unbeaten and things are looking gd for Arsenal especially in a few weeks time, all the main players are back. Walcott and Eduardo are back from injury, Fabregas and Adebayor still need at least a week or so to return to pitch, therefore, I think they might secure the top 4.

10th Man City 35pts
11th Tottenham 35pts
12th Bolton 33pts
13th Hull City 33pts
14th Sunderland 32pts
15th Blackburn 30pts
16th Newcastle 29pts
17th Portsmouth 29pts
18th Stoke City 29pts
19th Middlesbrough 27pts
20th West Bromich 22pts


Relegation battle is much exciting compare to previous season. About 10 teams are fighting for relegation and any point are vital for the teams that are situated at the bottom half of the table. Stoke City had yet again lost against Everton, they are now 18th in the table, same pt with Portsmouth (1 game in hand) and Newcaslte and 1 pt below Blackburn. West Bromich are of course bottom of the table with 22 pts with 1 game in hand in which today they are facing West Ham. Middlesbrough weekend 1-1 draw against Portsmouth means they are now 27pts, just 2 pts below 18th, 17th and 16th place. Sunderland now with 32pts at 14th place, with Hull City and Bolton just 1pt above Sunderland with 33pts. Tottenham and Man City both had 35pts which are quite safe but still need to be cautious because as I said, they are just 6pts clear of relegation zone. You can see clearly how tight it is and it won't be suprise that they need to fight until the very last match to decide whose going to be down and clearly the whole England will be concentrating on their teams regardless of Champion league spot, UEFA cup spots, CHampion or relegation battle.