English Premier League Results November 1st 2009

Here are the EPL results for this weekend!

Sunday November 1

16:00 Birmingham City 0 – 0 Manchester City

Saturday October 31

12:45 Arsenal 3 – 0 Tottenham Hotspur
15:00 Bolton Wanderers 0 – 4 Chelsea
15:00 Burnley 2 – 0 Hull City
15:00 Everton 1 – 1 Aston Villa
15:00 Fulham 3 – 1 Liverpool
15:00 Portsmouth 4 – 0 Wigan Athletic
15:00 Stoke City 2 – 2 Wolverhampton Wanderers
15:00 Sunderland 2 – 2 West Ham United
17:30 Manchester United 2 – 0 Blackburn Rovers

UEFA U-21 European 2009 Tournament Final

Final Result: Germany U-21 4-0 England U-21

After watching the UEFA U-21 European 2009 tournament, what can one conclude from the final result?

The result is obviously fantastic for Germany, the team’s performance and points per-game can be considered as good, though not perfect. Their win over England is a good victory for the team, and there is no use in arguing about the lousy England performance, you can only beat the team in front of you after all. However, we will not see these set of players play together as a team again. Many of them will be too old for the next tournament and so they will not be available. Coach Horst Hrubesch will return to his U20 team and will be replaced by Rainer Adrion.

Hrubesch had the better tactics and an excellent defensive strategy to give Germany their UEFA Euro Under-21 title. He let Hummels play in front of the back line and permitted Khedira to act as a forward. Not only did he achieve aerial supremacy over England but the Germans dominated the field.

Mesut Özil is an exceptional midfielder. Unluckily, he was not able to exert his potential skills because in the preceding games he played up front. Just like England’s Theo Walcott, he showcased some of his technical abilities but seemed to always deliver the final pass with no one in the box to finish it. Özil could have proved his authority in the games if he had been allowed to play in Germany’s midfield.

Sandro Wagner is a notable striker. In the first 80 minutes of the final game, he demonstrated the reason behind the Hrubesch early game strategy: a skillful midfielder is a better target man than an average striker. He did however score two goals in the last ten minutes of the game, and you cannot argue with that!

Germany’s territorial advantage overawed their opponent. The final game illustrated the scenario of how a team that had 12 minutes less time on the ball than their rival could come out as the superior and prevailing team. England looked full of confidence before this display, I am intrigued to see how this affects them in their next match.