the Bar Weekend

On a weekend where I went down to Bloomington, Indiana to celebrate my bar victory, there were some pretty interesting results in Europe.

First, Liverpool drop 0-2 at Chelsea. Drogba is just a beast. When he feels like playing and really gets into the game, he can boss anybody around. The win coupled with Manchester United's draw puts Chelsea back on top of the Premier League. Manchester United's Sir Alex Ferguson found a new way to shoot his mouth of after the 2-2 draw at home with Sunderland. He accused the ref of being out of shape and unable to keep up with the game. Ferguson is often criticized by other mangers like Wenger, Mourinho, and Benitez for shooting his mouth off and not ever feeling the consequences like other mangers would. This time, it seems the FA is more serious about giving Sir Alex some sore of touchline ban. If they don't, don't be surprised at a pretty big backlash from some of the other teams and managers.

The thing I take away from the Prem this weekend is how good Fabregas is and wondering if Arsenal have any way of holding on to him at the end of the season. Arsenal are scoring an unbelievable amount of goals this year and Fabregas just really seems like the straw that stirs the drink on that team. If he goes to Barcelona next year, the scariest team in the world would get a whole helluva lot scarier.

Oh Spain. The big game of the weekend was Real Madrid at Sevilla. C. Ronaldo was on the bench for Real with an injury and it really showed for Madrid as their attack looked much weaker. Benzema looked ineffective and was subbed off for the Argentine Gonzalo Higuain who to his credit was more involved than the Frenchman he replaced. Guti had a terrible first half and was able to somewhat redeem himself. Even after that game I still like Guti and I feel like he has a lot to offer that team after a few recent frustrating years mostly on the bench. The man of the match for Real was Iker Casillas. Iker made some absolutely incredible saves and appears to be head and shoulders the best keeper in the world right now. Real could have easily lost this game 4-1 or 5-1. Sergio Ramos had his hands full all night with Sevilla. Navas and Perotti kept destroying Real on the wings. As far as Real have come, they still are not there yet...and Sevilla made a big statement that they are a team to look out for and spoil the 2 horse race between Barcelona and Real Madrid.

Inter go tops in Italy after Juventus laid an egg at Palermo and surprising Antonio Cassano and Sampdoria fell to 2nd on goal difference after a draw with Parma.