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GOALLESS DRAW

GOALLESS DRAW

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A Premier League match played between QPR and Everton at the Loftus Road Stadium on Sunday has ended in a draw. After gaining one point from this match, Everton has moved up to no. 4 in the Premier League points table with 15 points in 8 matches, while, the position of QPR hasn’t got affected by the result of the match.  The Rangers are still at the bottom of the table with only 3 points in 8 matches.

QPR had lost its previous three Premier League matches in a row and they were under huge pressure before this match. It was very important for them to win this match. Although, they didn’t manage to secure victory, they surely played better than the previous matches.

In the post match press conference, Mark Hughes said, “It was certainly a better performance from the boys. It would have been wonderful to walk away with a win, but, unfortunately, we didn’t manage to do so.”

“The body language of the players was fantastic. They gave their 100%, but, we should also give due credit to the opposing team. Everton is a very strong side and they have got some high quality defenders. Overall, I am quite happy with the performance of the boys today.”

The Rangers made a fantastic start to the match and managed to take the lead in the 2nd minute of the match. Junior Hoilett was the one who took QPR ahead in the match. But, the scores got levelled when Julio Cesar scored an own goal in the 33rd minute.

Both the teams failed in scoring another goal in the remaining time and the match finished without any result. QPR will play against Arsenal in its next match at the Emirates Stadium on 27th of October.

HUGHTON BACKS AVB

HUGHTON BACKS AVB

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The Norwich city manager Chris Hughton has said that he expects the Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas to be successful in the future, and has said that the club should be giving the Portuguese more time than his former club Chelsea. The Portuguese manager was recently brought to the Premier league by Chelsea last season. He did not have the best of starts to the life in English football after he was sacked less than a few months in charge of Chelsea. He was accused of trying to change things too rapidly at the club, while many criticised his man management skills as well.

It has been many months since Andre Villas-Boas last tasted success in the Premier league. He was expected to be a major arrival at the club in the summer, but he has started the new Premier league season with three consecutive matches without any victory. Tottenham’s latest disappointment came in the 1-1 draw with Norwich during the weekend. This fixture was a source of merry for the Norwich fans. Chris Hughton did an excellent job with Birmingham last season, while he has been doing extremely brilliant task this time around as well.

“I’m sure he will be very successful. He’s a very good manager but when you are at a club like Tottenham, expectations are always high. I took over from a very successful manager after three very good years but you have to try to instill something different. Either a different voice or playing style. I’ve tried to improve the squad without taking away all the good things of the last few seasons,” said the Norwich manager Hughton in a recent interview. He is also said that Tottenham would struggle a little due to the loss of players like Luka Modric, who have been extremely influential in the last few seasons.

BE MORE GREEDY

BE MORE GREEDY

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Norwich city manager Chris Hughton has said that the strikers he has at the club should be more greedy in front of goal in order to score more goals. Chris Hughton was left frustrated after the 0-0 draw with Championship club Hull city recently.

Only a few days remaining before the start of the new Premier league season and Chris Hughton has said that the players should improve a lot in terms of goalscoring if they are to achieve the heights of last season. They will play in the final pre-season match of the campaign against German club Borussia Moenchengladbach, before starting their proper Norwich City fixtures on August 18th.

Chris Hughton has summarized the pre-season for the club by saying that it has been extremely solid only for the lack of a few more goals from the strikers. However, he also admitted the fact that his strikers will not be able to score a lot of goals if they are not greedy in front of goal. It is often said that players should not be greedy and that they should always look towards putting the team in front, but Chris Hughton has said that it is important for the strikers to be in and amongst goals. Norwich will be beginning the new season on the road against Fulham.

“An area we’d like to improve on over this pre-season period is our goals tally. We looked very solid as a unit, got into some good areas but it would have been nice to see a couple of goals. It’s perhaps just being a little bit more decisive, making that clinical pass, and being a little bit more greedy in front of goal. You want to go into that game making sure you show some of the qualities you’d like to take into the season,” said the former Birmingham city manager ahead of the Borussia Moenchengladbach match.

VIDIC RETURNS TO TRAINING

VIDIC RETURNS TO TRAINING

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The captain of the Manchester United, Nemanja Vidic, took part in the full training session on 24th July, which is a positive sign for the club. Vidic had injured his knee while playing in a match against Basel in the Premier League last season. Since then, he hasn’t played any match for Manchester. Vidic was running well in the training session and he looked in no trouble.

However, the manager of Manchester, Sir Alex Ferguson, has said that Vidic’s fitness would be analyzed next week and then any decision would be taken about his return. He said that Vidic would return in the team only when he would get 100% fit. As per Ferguson, a player should not make a come back when he is 75-80% fit. Such players tend to discover their injury again. So, a player should come back only after regaining the full fitness. He said that Vidic is a vital player of the club and the club is not going to take any risk with the fitness of its captain.

However, Steve said that Vidic is recovering well and he would definitely be fit for the Scandinavian tour. On that tour, Manchester has to play against Barcelona and Valerenga. According to Steve, if Vidic gets fit on time, it would be very nice for the team. But, at the same time, he said that if Vidic doesn’t get 100% fit before the first match, Manchester has very talented reserve players, who can fill his spot.

Apart from Vidic, Manchester has also been struggling with the injuries of some other players. Jonny Evans and Darren Fletcher are also not 100% fit. But, Steve is pretty hopeful of the team’s chances in the upcoming season. Meanwhile, captain Vidic himself has said that his knee is getting better day by day and hopefully, he would be fit to play in the opening match.