F1 Season So Far

The F1 season resumes on Saturday in Spa for the Belgium Grand Prix after their summer break. Jamie Davies has made a video review of the season so far. So sit back, relax and enjoy watching the video.

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Liverpool vs Manchester City Highlights

Highlights of Sunday's match between Liverpool and the Premier League champions, Manchester City at Anfield. Commentary from Jamie Davies. Enjoy watching.

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Liverpool 2 - 2 Manchester City

Martin Skrtel's powerful header (centre) opens the scoring

Skrtel slips up and awards Manchester City a point after a heart pumping match.

It was a good and bad day for Liverpool defender, Martin Skrtel. The opening goal of the match came from Skrtel after 34 minutes. A well taken corner from Liverpool skipper, Steven Gerrard, was headed like a bullet from Skrtel as the ball was placed into the centre of the goal.

It took over 28 minutes for the Premier League champions to put themselves back level. A cross in from Carlos Tevez on the right wing bounced off Liverpool's right back, Martin Kelly, which gave access for Yaya Toure to poke in the equaliser from close range.

A couple of minutes later, Liverpool respond quickly. Gerrard had an effort at goal from outside Manchester City's box which got blocked halfway by City's new midfielder, Jack Rodwell. Rodwell's arm was in the way of Gerrard's shot. Liverpool were given a free kick from just a few yards outside the penalty area. Luis Suarez curled the free kick past the wall and into the bottom right corner of the goal. Suarez put Liverpool back in front.

I guess you could say it was a bad debut for Jack Rodwell conceding the free kick which was scored.

With just ten minutes left on the clock Liverpool were holding on to the lead. Skrtel had the possession outside his own box and tries to do a backpass to Liverpool's goalkeeper, Pepe Reina, but ended up passing the ball to the wrong man, as Tevez succeeded past Reina and taped in City's equaliser. Skrtel had no where to hide for the rest of the match. A bad and good day for Skrtel.

Carlos Tevez (left) celebrating his equaliser

In the opening minutes of the match Liverpool and Brazillian midfielder, Lucas had to be substituted off due to an injury. Jonjo Shelvey came on to replace Lucas. Lucas has only just came back from a long term injury and had to miss the most of last season.

Back on Thursday night in the Europa League we saw young Raheem Sterling perform very well for Liverpool in Edinburgh against Hearts, he did not disappoint in today's match. Sterling did a fine delivery from the left wing to find Fabio Borini (who joined Liverpool from AS Roma in July) in the box, but Borini poked the ball wide past the left post. Sterling could become a top player at Liverpool in months to come.

Tevez nearly scored the opening goal of the match in the 19th minute. Tevez was at a very tight angle on the right hand side of the goal kick line, Tevez kicked the ball past Reina and hit the inside left post but was comfortably picked up by Reina.

After so many rumours of Andy Carroll going to West Ham United on loan for the season, Carroll came on for Borini with 6 minutes to go until the final whistle. Carroll had a very good opportunity in the 88th minute, Suarez crossed the ball to where Carroll was just outside the 6 yard box. Carroll headed the ball on target but was headed cleared by Manchester City skipper, Vincent Kompany.

Manchester City goalkeeper, Joe Hart took the goal kick as the referee, Andre Marriner whistled for fulltime.

Liverpool deserved the three points more than the champions today. Liverpool probably played their best performance for the first time for quite a long time. Brendan Rodgers will feel like he has already started improving his squad since becoming the manager back in June. Roberto Mancini should recognise that his team got a draw because of two lucky goals, Toure scoring because of a rebound of Kelly and Tevez scoring because of a poor backpass by Skrtel.

Liverpool's next match is the Europa League second leg qualifier clash with Hearts on Thursday night at Anfield and Manchester City's next fixture is at home to QPR on Saturday evening. Of course the last time Manchester City played QPR at the Etihad was a memorable day for the noisy neighbours.

Match report by Jamie Davies

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Stoke City 0 - 0 Arsenal

Jonathan Walters (left) scores but was called offside

Match report by Jamie Davies

Another point each for Stoke and Arsenal as the match ended goal less.

 With Robin van Persie scoring his first goal for Manchester United against Fulham yesterday, Arsenal could be showing signs that they miss having van Persie in the team. As yet again Arsenal finish the match not scoring a single goal.

After the 7th minute it looked like Stoke had broken the deadlock. Peter Crouch headered the ball downwards to Jonathan Walters inside the Arsenal penalty area, as Walters poked the ball into the roof of the net. But just when the Stoke fans were celebrating the flagsman raised his flag for offside.

A minute after Stoke's goal being denied. One of Arsenal's summer signings, Lukas Podolski had an attempt at goal inside Stoke's penalty area but was blocked by Andy Wilkinson. It could have been a penalty to Arsenal as the ball came off Wilkinson's left arm.

One of Stoke's new signings, Michael Kightly gave Arsenal's third goalkeeper, Vito Mannone a bit of a threat. Kightly had an effort at goal from outside the box with his left foot as Mannone jumped up high and comfortably saved it.

Geoff Cameron, who had just joined Stoke from Houston Dynamo on Friday played his full match debut. The highlight of Cameron's first match for Stoke was attempting a Rory Delap throw, it was quite a far throw in but Marrone didn't find it very difficult and catched the ball. I'm sure Delap would applaud the effort from Cameron.

In the first quarter of an hour in the second half, Olivier Giroud attempted a bicycle kick inside Stoke's penalty area but bounced over the bar.

With 18 minutes left until the fulltime whistle, Arsene Wenger decided to put on some very fast wingers. Theo Walcott went on for Gervinho and Alex Chamberlain came on for Podolski.

In the last 4 minutes of the match both Stoke and Arsenal had a great chance to steal the 3 points. A great pass by Kightly from the left wing found Walters in the box, but Walters wasted the chance by only poking the ball directly to Mannone. 2 minutes later Giroud nearly scored the best goal of the season so far, as Giroud had an attempt at goal from far distance and just went over the bar.

Arsenal can take some positives from today's match as Britannia is a very difficult venue to win at and they have so far not conceded a single goal.

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Wigan Athletic 0 - 2 Chelsea

Frank Lampard (right) celebrates scoring his penalty

Report by Jamie Davies

Two early goals from the European champions, Chelsea, earns them
a good start to the new season.

Chelsea's new summer signing, Eden Hazard was making his Premier League debut. Hazard had a great start to the match. Hazard delivered the ball to Branislav Ivanovic on the right hand side of the Wigan penalty area, as Ivanovic nailed the ball into the bottom right corner of the net.


It only took two minutes for Chelsea to score their opening goal of the Premier League season.

Five minutes after the opening goal of the match, it got worse for the Latics.
A good run in from Hazard caused Wigan's defence some problems. Hazard went into the far right hand side of the penalty area, as Ivan Ramis stuck his right foot out which put Hazard to the ground.

The referee pointed to the spot. Not a good start for Ramis in his Wigan debut.

Frank Lampard took the penalty and slotted the ball under Al Habsi and into the centre of the net.

So after just seven minutes into the match Chelsea were already two nil up. You just couldn't ask for a better start to the season.

12 minutes after Chelsea's second goal, Wigan started to respond. A cross from Emmerson Boyce was headed just over the bar by Franco Di Santo.

Chelsea's next transfer target, Victor Moses started for Wigan despite being linked with the European champions. Seven minutes until the interval, Moses had a shot from outside Chelsea's penalty area and had to be saved by Petr Cech.

Another goal threat from Wigan came in stoppage time before halftime. Di Santo was able to get through Chelsea's defence and go one on one against Cech, but Di Santo's kick didn't have enough power behind the ball, as David Luiz cleared the ball.

After the interval, Roberto Martinez decided to put some forward fresh legs on. Jordi Gomez came on for Shaun Maloney four minutes into the second half.

Chelsea nearly got a three goal lead. Fernando Torres put the ball past Al Habsi as the ball was slowly travelling towards the goal line but was cleared by Ramis. Ramis will be happy with at least one thing from today's match.

Gomez kept Cech busy throughout the second half. Gomez had a strike at goal with a free kick but was comfortably saved by Cech. And a bicycle kick from Gomez inside the penalty area went wide past the right post.

It was a Premier League debut for Chelsea midfielder, Oscar Dos Santos. And Oscar nearly scored his first goal for Chelsea. Oscar strucked the ball like a bullet outside the box which just missed the left post.

It was also a Premier League and club debut for the Latics' striker Arouna Kone after coming on for Di Santo. The only threat that Kone showed was his header past the right post from a corner.

It's a good start for the European champions and it is a better result, as last season Chelsea drew 1-1 to Wigan at the DW Stadium. After today's match the main question is still unanswered, will Victor Moses be joining Chelsea before the end of the summer transfer?

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