Monday, February 6, 2012

Weekend Results: Tights, Tongues & Transparency Issues

Did you absorb the endure 48 hours in your bootleg bedding cave, bistro nachos and demography in as abundant action as accessible amid able-bodied adapted naps? We did.

In fact, we *may* accept kept our duvets on for the cruise to work. If you saw us on the tube, we can alone apologise.

EPL

Well, that’s an absorbing shape, isn’t it? Image: REUTERS/Eddie Keogh.

Manchester City’s 3-0 achievement over Fulham adequate their three point point advance at the top of the EPL – a advance that Manchester United bootless to cut afterwards a affronted improvement adjoin Chelsea. The Blues were 3-0 up afterwards fifty minutes, alone for two Wayne Rooney penalties to put Sir Alex’s boys appropriate aback in it. Javier Hernandez completed the improvement in the 84th, but United were clumsy to get the bewitched fourth and accretion adequation at the top.

Also accomplishing their bit to complicate things appear the top were Newcastle, who exhausted Aston Villa 2-1 to bastard into the fifth position. This was at the amount of Arsenal, who brought a resurgent Blackburn Rovers aback to apple with a 7-1 shaped thump. RvP denticulate a hat-trick, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (2), Mikel Arteta and Thierry Henry aswell award the net.

Arsene will be even added afflicted if Liverpool exhausted Spurs tonight because again his ancillary will bead to seventh.

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La Liga

Anyone accept assurance language? We don’t, but are added than blessed to aspect our own acceptation to Sergio’s argot n’finger bulletin board. Image: REUTERS/Juan Medina.

Real Madrid just about maintained their seven point advance at the top of La Liga via a 1-0 win over Getafe, while abutting rivals Barcelona kept clip with a 2-1 home win over Real Sociedad. The Ramos™ fabricated the aberration from a Mesut Ozil bend and this time chose to bless with a altered (but still awful erogenous) allotment of his bod.

Draws were the adjustment of the day in La Liga otherwise, with Athletic Bilbao captivated at home by Espanyol, Levante vs. Racing Santander and Sporting Gijon vs. Osasuna both finishing 1-1.

Meanwhile, Real Zaragoza circumscribed their position at the basal of the table by demography the advance adjoin Rayo Vallecano, again accident the bold 2-1. Oops.

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Serie A

No argot for Baby Bojan. But then, he’s a affable boy. We’ll anon assault that out of him. Image: Paolo Bruno/Getty Images.

AS Roma vs. Inter provided the standout aftereffect in Serie A this weekend, with Luis Enrique’s boys dishing out a 4-0 assault to Inter. But in a achievement of luck that has eluded Inter for a lot of of the season, anybody abroad in the top 5 flubbed their lines, acceptation that admitting the ample defeat they abide fifth.

Top boys Juventus drew 0-0 with disturbing Siena, AC Milan and Napoli aggregate the aforementioned scoreline while third abode Udinese absent 3-2 at Fiorentina. Lazio aswell suffered a 3-2 defeat at Genoa, although they gave their action a alarm with a additional bisected fightback.

Cesena vs. Catania was adjourned due to snow, abacus to an accretion aback log of amateur in hand, including the alone bout vs. Roma.

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Bundesliga

Jakub Blaszczykowski uses his argot for concentration. Which is interesting. Image: REUTERS/Alex Domanski.

Borussia Dortmund snatched the action from appellation rivals Bayern Munich with a 2-0 abroad win over Nuremburg on Friday night. Bayern could alone administer a 1-1 draw adjoin twelfth abode Hamburg, which leaves them two credibility off the pace, while Schalke are akin on 41 points, accepting fatigued 1-1 with Mainz.

Borussia Monchengladbach abide in fourth afterwards a 0-0 draw with Wolfsburg, but the abundance of draws in the alliance did some a favour: Augsburg and Freiburg becoming a point anniversary afterwards 2-2 after-effects adjoin Hoffenheim and Werder Bremen respectively. Both are still in the basal three, but it’s progress, isn’t it?

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Ligue 1

Well accost there, Jussiê Ferreira Vieira. Where accept you and your adjustable acquaintance been all our lives? Image: PIERRE ANDRIEU/AFP/Getty Images.

With both Caen vs. Auxerre and Sochaux vs. Lille adjourned due to the weather, Marseille vs. Lyon was the alone bold to go advanced bygone but both clubs absent the befalling to accomplish up some arena in the appellation race, cartoon 2-2. A fuller accoutrement agenda was played on Saturday, with leaders Paris St German assault Evian Thonon Gaillard 3-1 and Montpellier actual additional afterwards a 1-0 win over Brest.

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We realise that some of you may still be adversity the afterwards furnishings of Super Bowl exposure, but amuse try to abide on affair in the comments.

We managed it.

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