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Everton v Arsenal Match Review 22.10.17

Billed as a must win for both teams, at least by the fans, the game started fairly evenly. Arsenal edging it with possession but Pickford was saving everything that was thrown at him. Xhaka lost the ball, it looked a foul to me. Rooney got a hold of it, took a couple of touches, wasn’t closed down and scored a beauty right into the top left corner. I genuinely thought, they couldn’t do a Watford, could they? Eventually, Arsenals possession and pressure paid off. A shot from Xhaka was palmed away by Pickford, Monreal reacted quickest to lash the ball into the net (1-1). Keeping Arsenal out for the majority of the second half to take it all out of Everton, because in the second half they crumbled.

Alexis teed up Ozil who guided the ball into the goal with his head to make it 2-1. Then Ozil became assister and pulled the ball back to Lacazette who neatly made it 3. Sub and ever-popular Arsenal midfielder Wilshere put Ramsey through who scored Arsenal’s 4th before Sanchez nicely rounded it off. Everton did have a second with Niasse after a mix-up between Cech and Monreal but by then they had already conceded 4.

Professional performance by Arsenal who found the wounded beast and completely unleashed on them, in fairness it could have been 6,7,8 if they had been more clinical in the first half. Everton fans even at 1-0 up seemed cagey. This could spell the end for Koeman. Even though Moyes is linked with every available job at present, returning to Everton to manage the superstar he first gave a chance to, would make a beautiful story. Time will tell. Everton meanwhile sit in the bottom three. Something’s gotta change.

Everton 2-5 Arsenal

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Everton v Arsenal Preview 22.10.17

Pre-season many would have billed this as a pivotal match to sustain the top 4 race, it hasn’t worked out that way for either team yet. Despite this an Arsenal win will put them in 5th, level on points with 4th place Chelsea. An Everton win would put them in 13th, just two points off Arsenal. Both managers are under a lot of pressure, with both sets of fans touting this as a must win game.

Last season Everton’s 86th minute winner by Ashley Williams, propelled Arsenal on a downward spiral and they will be wary of this and of Wayne Rooney who was rested mid-week. Despite Everton lacking firepower the ex-Manchester United player has scored more goals against Arsenal than any other player (11). Everton however have only scored 3 goals at home in the league this season (1 from Rooney and 2 from Niasse) and have conceded 5. In the 4 games they have played they have won and lost two apiece. In short Everton are lacking goal threat and lacking the defensive stability. Arsenal on the other hand have an even worse record away from home. In their 4 games they have drawn 1 and lost 3, scoring only one goal courtesy of defender Mertesacker and have conceded 7.

We know Arsenal will have a lot of possession so counter attacking football must be how Koeman will expect his team to breakthrough, Calvert Lewin’s performance may be the difference today. We know with Rooney and Sigurdsson they have experience and excellent delivery but Arsenal’s inconsistent defence are less likely to be worried by that than of a pacey young forward. In terms of Arsenal, the big question is will they play the ball into Lacazette enough, he doesn’t get enough decent service for my liking. Alexis will be set to return today and I can see both on the scoresheet. I’m expecting a decent game and both sides to score but Arsenal to just edge it, 2-1 to the away side.

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Norrköping v Malmö 16/10/17

Taking my first steps into Swedish League football. Every previous time I have watched a Swedish side before it has been against one of the big guns in the Champions League, with the Swedes always being the underdogs. Today was different, I watched a match between IFK Norrköping and Malmö FF. Here was the table before the match:

With three games to go after this match, Malmö fans knew a win today would see their team seal the league title (and in place Champions League qualification for next season). The runner up and the third placed team qualify for the Europa League along with the winner of the Svenska Cupen (their domestic cup). Norrköping knew a win today would take them to 46 points and give them a real chance of qualifying for Europe.

It really was a match of two halves. In the first, it seemed as though Norrköping were winning all the first and second balls, they were latching onto everything. They were quicker, hungrier and much more direct in their offensive play. Malmö on the other hand, when they had the ball were playing at a snails pace. Norrköping were using their wingers well, and broke the deadlock and potentially Malmö’s party, with David Moberg Karlsson (or DMK). He was given the ball near the half way line and made a lovely run and shot from outside the box. The goal keeper probably should have done better, but the home side were in dreamland. For the most part they dominated the first half, though in injury time, Malmö midfielder Lewicki appeared to be pushed to the ground, but no penalty was given.

When I said it was a game of two halves, I meant it. Malmö were incredible in the second half, they were immediately on the front foot and it only took until the 48th minute for them to equalise. It was a lovely team goal, with a nice through ball from Christiansen to Strandberg who finished it off neatly. Lewicki nearly scored a cracker, before Nielson headed in a corner to put his team 2-1 ahead. If the travelling Malmö fans weren’t ecstatic enough by now, after seeing Christiansen cut in and score a goal the superstars could be proud of, they were now! They impatiently waited for the final whistle, as soon as it came they were off. Malmö fans in their droves stormed the pitch to congratulate their team, who had successfully won a 20th league title! The most successful Swedish club side in Allsvenskan history!

My man of the match has to be that Danish fella, Christiansen, he set up the first goal, took the corner that led to the second and scored a beauty. 10/10.

Tailless

So Tailless (the cat app I worked on), is now finally available on both iPhones and Androids,

it’s FREE and available here: http://tinyurl.com/TaillessITUNES http://tinyurl.com/TaillessANDROID Tailless is an interactive story app, it is aimed at children aged 6 - 10. The objective is to help children develop their emotional intelligence during a period in which they are coping with a new world of emotions. Any help sharing / downloading and feedback on the play/apple store would help us greatly!

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Goals.

I set myself a lot of targets all the time. This year I've set a few. Thought I'd write down my thoughts on Tumblr for once! I think it might be Fifa time now :) 1. Write a full length novel 2. Write a musical 3. Learn a song on piano (so that I can play it coherently and sing along to it) 4. Learn a song on guitar, bass, drums and piano (same song) 5. Write my first film (short form) 6. Write my first fairytale. It's good to see progress. 1. I've completed the first 3 chapters (it's getting there, 20 odd to go!) 2. Just started my 11th page, I wrote a killer song for it though which I can't stop singing. 3. 3 minutes of the 3 minute 30 song are learnt, just a couple more days of practising and I should be able to cross that one off. 4. I've got bass and the rhythm guitar down, learnt most of the lead too, just to work out piano then :) 5. That one can be ticked off. Filming begins in December, casting is in the next two weeks (I am excite!) 6. I've written more than one actually, went a bit mad this year, they are so fun to write! Having a few weeks away from fairytales to work on the musical!

Now watching some of this, weekends rock :)

#football

And then I learnt THAT song everyone who learns guitar plays...

Learnt a full song on piano song, even if it was Wake me up which is three chords, saying the words over it is so good. My love for Ed is too strong!

#+#ed sheeran #wake me up

and....can't stop with this. Glorious writing, even though sometimes, the breaking the fourth wall does get repetitive and a little annoying, pretty funny!

#30 rock #tina fey #alec baldwin #jack mcbrayer