Aston Villa - Fulham Highlights

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Videira plays the entire game in Hamilton Reserves win

The official website does not discuss his play.

3-5-2

Craven Cottage Newsround recommends this: a history of the 3-5-2 and its relevance today.

Kaiserslautern v. Hansa Rostock

Just finished watching this, but it's not over technically. Heath Pearce just received a straight red, which wasn't entirely fair. He dragged his guy down, but (1) he was not the last man back and (2) his guy was in the process of executing a nifty maneuver of having Pearce's arm locked in his armpit. He was dragging Pearce along with him for twenty yards or so. Isn't that a foul?

Anyway, it was 3:0 to Kaiserlautern at that point. In the battle of Pearce versus Robles, both were completely anonymous. In Robles's case, it was by reason of his goal being not threatened. In Pearce's case, it was because he played the role of whatever is the opposite of a rampaging left back to perfection. He didn't make any egregious errors (even on the red card), but did absolutely nothing to distinguish himself in a positive way either. He did not look to be involved in the first two goals, the second a horrendous error by Hansa, who allowed the scorer behind them on a free kick completely unchallenged (in fact, a defender inexplicably peeled off). On the third, he may have had a role in that he may not have been where he was supposed to be, but I am not sure. Also, I think it was him who failed to pull the trigger in the box, EJ style, after a nice flowing move by Hansa late on. On one occasion, he lost the ball and then got completely burned on the ensuing counterattack.

In conclusion, in this chippy 2.Bundesliga match, Pearce was not up to par, either athletically or technically. Disappointing.

UPDATE: Final score is 6:0. Pearce was dismissed in the 64th minute. The rampage then resumed without interruption.

UPDATE 2: Apparently, Robles was called for a foul in the box, but saved the subsequent penalty in the 72nd minute. I had to read Yanks Abroad to find this out.

Cardiff Players Agree: Eddie Johnson - Man of the Match

Eddie Johnson was man of the match against Crystal Palace?

Who would have thunk?

Some players are "comfortable" on the ball. Some players, think Brede Hangeland, are never on the ball (except to boot it out). Eddie Johnson is the only player I can think of that is emphatically uncomfortable on the ball. I suppose his "link up play," his runs, and his energy (and the latter might be a new one) is what one hopes to get from him.

UPDATE: "He has a terrific touch, good movement and outstanding spring to get up and win aerial challenges in defence and attack."

Fastest Goal in Professional Soccer History?

According to this, yes. It took all of 3.5 seconds. Apparently, according to the linked write up (in Russian), a faster goal, in 2.4 seconds, was scored in a British amateur game in 2004.



This is from the Ukrainian First League (second level of Ukrainian soccer).

Videira Scores In Reserves

From the Hamilton Accies official site:

The Accies reserve team were held to a 2-2 draw by Hearts at NDP on Monday afternoon. Michael Videira gave Accies the lead after half an hour, but Hearts equalised just 6 minutes later through Denis McLaughlin. A late goal by Stephen Ettien looked to have given Accies the deserved victory but Ryan Wallace grabbed an equaliser two minutes into injury time for the visitors. We lined up - Murdoch, Casement, Gibson (Evans 73), Stevenson, McQueen, Taylor, Sorsa, Videira, Lyle (Gow 45), Ettien, Carrigan (Kirkpatrick 24)

The Cell Phone Effect

Here.

Also, see this for a nice graph of this so-called cell phone effect, courtesy of 411mania.com and The New Republic.

Hamilton Reserves lose to Rangers, but Videira's contribution acknowledged

From the official site:

The Accies reserve team went down to a 1-0 defeat to Rangers at a chilly New Douglas Park on Monday night. Tony Stevenson missed an early penalty kick, while substitute Sebastian Sorsa netted late on after good work by Michael Videira only for the goal to be disallowed for offside. Mark McLaughlin had a good run out and was subbed after an hour. Videira was very unlucky to see his powerful shot strike the crossbar with Graeme Smith beaten. The Rangers team included Steven Whittaker, Steven Smith, Lee McCulloch, Chris Burke and Andrius Velicka.

Accies lined up; Murdoch, Stevenson, Gibson (Gow 13), Gillespie (Kirkpatrick 45), McQueen, McLaughlin (Sorsa 68 ), Ettien, Taylor, Thomas, Carrigan, Videira.

AGF Aarhus wins, the Man speaketh...

Highlights.

Jeremiah White, who scored the game-winning goal, is interviewed.