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Archive for March, 2009

Steven Gerrard scored a hat trick as Liverpool thrashed visiting Aston Villa 5-0 on Sunday.

In Premier League, Manchester United tops the standings with 65 points, followed by Liverpool at 64 and Chelsea.

Steven Gerrard said: “It’s more than we expected,” Gerrard said. “Villa are a fantastic team and have been going well this season.”

Dirk Kuyt took just eight minutes to score against Aston Villa, then Albert Riera scored the second goal in the 33th minute.

In the 39th minute Steven Gerard scored again from penaty.

Steve Gerrard struck the resulting free kick low into the bottom corner of Friedel’s net, in the second half(50th minute).

Liverpool crush Aston Villa when Fernando Torres as he surged forward to meet Alonso’s ball and Gerrard dispatched another penalty in the 65th, and he score.

Liverpool-Aston Villa 5-0

English football hopes that the four Premier League clubs Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea or Arsenal who have made it to the quarterfinal draw will avoid each other on Friday and maybe all make it to the semifinals.

Defending champion Manchester United and Barcelona go into the draw as the bookmakers’ joint favorites at 5-2.

Both teams are in first rank of Premier League and respectively in Primera Division.

Steven Gerrard said.”We are not running scared of anybody. We will take who we get, and believe that we are going to go through,”, “If you are asking me about a fear factor in the Champions League, then I think it is the other seven teams in the draw who are going to have concerns about coming up against us after that Real Madrid result.”

Manchester United ousted Italian champion Inter Milan in the previous round and Chelsea knocked out Juventus which means there are no Italian sides left in the competition.

Porto and Villarreal are the outsiders of the eight, who are made up of five winners, two runners up and a semifinalist.

The first legs of the quarterfinals on Champions League are April 7-8 and the returns are April 14-15.

Rafael Benitez signing a contract that will keep him at the English Premier League soccer club until 2014.

Rafael Benitez said on Liverpool Web site: “My heart is with Liverpool Football Club, so I’m delighted to sign this new deal,”, “I love the club, the fans and the city and with a club like this and supporters like this, I could never say no to staying.”

Rafael Benitez signed with Liverpool in 2004 when he come from Valencia.

Arsenal beats Hull City 2-1 and go to the FA Cup semifinals on Tuesday.

Arsenal will meet Chelsea in a semifinal on 18.04.2009.

Hull scored first at Emirates Stadium in the 13th minute when defender Andy Dawson’s lofted pass found Nick Barmby in the area and his shot deflected off Arsenal defender Johan Djourou .

The equalizer arrive in the 75th, when Robin van Persie scored for an easy tap-in.

Then Gallas scored in the 84th minute, and help Arsenal to pass in the semifinals on FA Cup.

Arsene Wenger denied that Gallas was offside, he said: “The ball was deflected by the fist of the goalkeeper, consequently the ball comes from an opponent and it’s a normal goal,”, “Djourou first, the goalkeeper after, and then it was a foul on Gallas. Penalty. In fact, we should have got two goals.”

Liverpool 4-1 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford.

The win cuts Manchester United’s lead over Liverpool to four points, although the defending champions still have a game in hand.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored from the penalty spot in the 23rd minute to put the hosts ahead, but Liverpool’s Fernando Torres answered right back five minutes later and Steven Gerrard scored again in the next minutes.

Fabio Aurelio scored in 77th minute when he shot inside the near post, leaving goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar no chance.

Andrea Dossena then capped the scoring shortly before in90th minute.

Manchester United rallied to reclaim a seven-point lead in the Premier League.

W. Ronney and Dimitar Berbatov scored to secure a 2-1 win at Newcastle last night after Van der Sar’s run of shutouts ended at 1,311 minutes. Van der Sar allowed his first Premier League goal since November.

Alex Ferguson said: “Coming from 1-0 down was a good result for us, it required a lot of grit,”, “We could have been 2-0 down. Obafemi Martins hit one by the post, and it was a hairy spell for us.”

Also the match from Premier League, Stoke defeated Bolton 2-0, J. Beattie score in the 14th minute and R. Fuller score in 73th minute.

Hull and Tottenham won to help their chances of staying in the top flight.

Manchester City beat Aston Villa 2-0, West Ham won at Wigan 1-0 and Blackburn and Everton draw 0-0.