Premier League – the Leaders are Showing Off

At a constant struggle for leading the England football Premier League, the Chelsea are the ones that recently achieved it, after confronting and defeating Blackburn with two goals by the Frenchmen Nicolas Anelka; that after not being able to stand out in the Real Madrid joined the “Blues”, with whom has placed himself at the head of the top scorers standings board of the English tournament, with 10 goals after the 12 match day.

With this triumph as visit Chelsea, owner of 3 Barclays Premier League, reaches the first position on the tournament with a total of 29 points. Luiz Felipe Scolari, the present Chelsea’s head coach says he’s very satisfied with the good work that his players had been doing. Scolari has been considered to be one of the best coaches around the world, fact that worth him the call from the English team.

Regardless of the great help that Anelka has given to the team during the season, the Chelsea still feels unsatisfied about the absence of the injured striker Didier Dogba, missing not only the English tournaments but the internationals as well. In search for a talented player to substitute Drogba, Chelsea first tried to negotiate with the FC Barcelona about taking on the Spaniard Luis Faviano, and more recently has talk to Barça to discuss the possibility of acquiring the star Thierry Henry, for whom they would be willing to pay the great amount of £ 8.000.000; even so the player hasn’t show any interest on leaving the “Culés”.

Following Chelsea very close is the Liverpool, since both are holding 29 points. The Reds managed to advance without much trouble, after crushing West Bromwich, in an encounter that didn’t had much excitements either. ‘Liver’ easily obtained the victory with two scores from the Irish Robbie Keane and one from the Spanish Alvaro Arbeloa, who did on the last minute of the game.

Liverpool has acquired an excellent season start, as a result of the work done by their Spanish coach Rafael Benítez, who has found the way to apply his wide knowledge and efficient strategy upon his players. Thanks to the good performance the team has given, Benitez, who had some scrapes with the Reds’ owners, will obtain a renovation of his contract with the team; what according to him will benefit the club and has stated that they will keep the same constancy that had shown until today.

On the other hand, in an exciting game, the Arsenal acquired a victory of 2-1 against Manchester United, with which stole the third spot on the board from the Red Devils. The two splendid scores from the “Gunners” were a piece of work from the French midfielder Samir Nasri. This victory worth perfectly for the Arsenal to recover their motivation, after the tie (4-4) and the loss of 2-1, with the Tottenham and Stoke City respectively; besides the Fenerbahce match for the UEFA Champions League that finished 0-0.

On this occasion the Arsenal put on doubt the capacity of the Manchester United, past season’s champion of the Champions League, that for the third consecutive time miss a success; thanks to the excellent effort done by the midfielder Cesc Fábregas, who had the ability to control the game and pull up his team in the position board.