It was a rather dissapointing opening first day to the season with some evenly fought bore draws. While larger teams such as Liverpool and Arsenal failed to come up with the goods. Despite Liverpools domination throughout the match they failed to win as it finished 1-1. Suarez blasted a penalty in to the stands but made up for it a few minutes later by scoring the opening goal. Sunderland debutant Larsson scored a superb equaliser. New boy at the KOP Downing shook the frame of the goal with a superb strike, but close is not good enough to earn them more than one point.
Arsenal were fortunate to leave Newcastle yesterday with one point as they failed to score despite working the ball in to plenty of scoring opportunites they just never looked like scoring really, to make matters worse new boy Gervinho was sent off for slapping Joey Barton. However, Barton should have gone off also after hauling Gervinho to his feet by his jersey after Barton felt Gervinho had gone down to easily in the box. Once Barton felt Gervinho's slap he too went to ground far easier than Gervinho had moments earlier. I would have loved to have seen someone haul Barton to his feet and see how he would have reacted. Barton claimed to the referee and any other player he was close to for the next 10 minutes after the incident that he was punched. Taylor indicated to the referee that Barton had been elbowed by Gervinho despite the fact that Gervinho's elbow was nowhere close to Barton and only used the palm of his hand to give him a little slap. Footballers today need to man up and to stop bothering the poor officials. Song stamped on Barton during the game after Barton fouled him. Barton then moaned to the referee and once the referee waved him away he left the field to moan to the fourth official. Barton later moaned about the stamping on his twitter. The best game on saturday was definetly QPR vs. Bolton as Bolton Wanderers welcomed QPR back to the top flight with a good 4-0 thrashing!
Sunday has not been much better. With Chelsea having a dissapointing scoreless draw against Stoke. Torres still failing to begin a flow of goals for his new side Chelsea, chosen ahead of Drogba for this game, Torres came close with a long range effort but to be honest it never looked to be worrying the goalkeeper. Torres managed to weave his past two defenders but the finishing was woeful from the Spaniard. The only positives to take from Torres' performance was that he was getting himself in to goal scoring positions. Chelsea dominated the game and had a claim for a penalty which could easily have been given. Some great saves from Begovic kept the game level. The finishing from the Chelsea attack was largely dissapointing.
While Manchester United scraped a narrow win against West Brom. While Vidic and Ferdinand limped off injured, Rooney was on target for United's first. De Gea at fault for the West Brom equaliser as he let it slide under his body, he does not look very convincing in goal for Manchester United. It took a bit of luck and two deflection from Ashley Youngs pull back to win it for United.
I cannot wait to see how new boys Swansea cope against Manchester City tomorrow night. The most dissapointing games for me this weekend have to be Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea only managing draws. All three dominated the majority of their matches, Arsenal can keep stringing 300 passes and more together in a game but if they don't a have players willing to take a chance and take a couple of shots on goal they are not going to keep having these boring games all season long. Chelsea are getting there and will score in the next match, credit goes to Stoke's defence for shutting up shop. Liverpool did really well could very well have had more goals, Downing's superb strike could have stole the show for Liverpool. For me Sunderland did not deserve a point, as Liverpool ran riot for a lot of the game and all Liverpool fans can feel a little dissapointed, this has to be their season they have no European football so the focus has to be clearly aimed at the Premier League title challenge. I was actually quit dissapointed with QPR's start, I never expected them to get such a hammering, I had actually thought they would have done rather well, after seeing their performance against Bolton I am not so sure anymore.
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