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NORWICH LOSE OUT

NORWICH LOSE OUT

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Norwich City has been defeated by West Ham United in a Premier League match played at Boleyn Ground on Tuesday. West Ham won the match by 2-1. This was West Ham’s seventh victory in the ongoing Premier League. With the help of this win, West Ham managed to maintain its 11th position in the points table. West Ham currently has 26 points in 20 matches.

On the other hand, this was the 8th defeat for Norwich City in the competition. However, the defeat didn’t take Norwich City down in the points table. Norwich City is still at the 12th position in the points table.

The West Ham players were playing on their home ground and they didn’t disappoint the home fans who turned up in large numbers. They were thoroughly professional in their approach and provided a lot of entertainment to their fans.

West Ham United was off to a blistering start in the match. The Irons earned a penalty in the 3rd minute of the match and Mark Noble didn’t make any mistake in capitalizing on that chance. He outthought the Norwich goalkeeper and smashed the ball into the net. The Norwich goalie dived in the wrong direction.

The Irons doubled their lead in the 26th minute of the match. It was Joey O’Brien who scored the second goal for West Ham. Noble passed the ball to Carlton Cole who set it up for O’Brien. O’Brien got into a good position before sweeping the ball into the net.

Norwich City managed to reduce the lead to 1-2 towards the end with the goal of Russell Martin, but, that was too little, too late. West Ham played sensibly in the remaining few minutes and walked away with the win.

Norwich City’s next match will be a FA Cup encounter against Peterborough United on Saturday.

ALLEGRI STAYS

ALLEGRI STAYS

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The current AC Milan manager Massimiliano Allegri will remain as the manager of the team at least till the end of the season according to the AC Milan vice president Adriano Galliani. AC Milan have been struggling a lot in all competitions this season. However, the manager Massimiliano Allegri has not been entirely at fault because he has lost a number of crucial players from last season. One of the most important has been the striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, but fans have been calling for the dismissal of the manager following a poor run of results that left the club closer to the relegation zone until recently.

Following the 1-0 win over Juventus recently, AC Milan have moved to the 10th position in the table. There still remains a long way to go for the club before they can challenge for the top three spots in the Italian Serie A table. However, Massimiliano Allegri will remain as the manager of the team at least till the end of the season. There have been a lot of rumours that AC Milan are extremely keen on bringing in the former Barcelona manager Pep Guardiola, who is currently on sabbatical till the end of the season. Milan have also recently qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League.

“I’ve always thought that he had the situation in hand. He’s had two great years, winning the Scudetto, then second place, the Supercoppa and a Champions League quarter-final place. I have always been against changing coaches in the middle of a season. I’m committed to Allegri. He has the situation under control and I will defend him with all the energy I have,” said Adriano Galliani in a recent interview. He also quashed rumours that the striker Alexandre Pato was to leave the club in January.

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.