The Losers Predictions of the Weekend

What a fiery week this was (isn’t it always when Manchester is divided)?
The richest club in the world (not through financial savvy), took on then biggest team in the British Isles... And what an outcome that was.
Life has been breathed back into the Carling cup.

In this week of FA Cup games, the only Premier League game taking place is between the cup’s first major casualty and... Hull.

Manchester united vs. Hull City: last season, this game ended in a seven goal thriller. If you stake money on a repeat, you’ll be a fool. Only some weeks back at The Kingston Communications stadium (phew), the game was decided by one Wayne Rooney who now needs just one goal to equal his best ever haul in the premier league. Don’t bet against him hitting the back of the net.
Hull will hope Boaz Myhill can reproduce the performance he delivered at White Hart Lane last weekend to earn them a point.
In my opinion, that will be asking too much of him...
...Home win

Liga BBVA Roundup

Valladolid (17) play host to league champions and bearers of all things good, Barcelona (1). And they’d be missing the services of Manucho who promised to score forty goals. God only knows the scoring rate he’ll have to be on when he leaves his nation and back to Iberia. Having extended their lead at the top, Barça will simply win again to throw down the gauntlet for Real Madrid.

Tenerife (18) welcome (in the opposite sense of the word) Valencia (3) and will try everything possible to dent the best away record in the league. If only Valencia hadn’t dropped points at home to both Madrid and Barça, it could have been different at the top.
Try as they will, Tenerife will succumb to the firepower of the Mestalla paupers (not the players) and maybe the diving prowess of David Villa. Valencia’s front four will be too strong for the home defence. Only an away win will result.

Espanyol (14) vs. Real Mallorca (4): The home side haven’t had it rosy in the past few weeks and now, they host high-flying Mallorca who find themselves in the giddy position of fourth. Sure the Mallorca team is an effective one but they find it difficult to play away from home. That meaning that Espanyol will take all three points from this game.

Madrid (2) will host Malaga (16) in a battle to find out which of the ‘m’ teams is deserving of the name ‘Real’. With Gonzalo Higuain and Rafael van der Vaart out for considerable periods, they star-studded team would have to prove it’s worth, like they almost did at San Mamés. They’ll win their game to stay (albeit just) with Barcelona.


I’m sure that a new team (Mallorca) has stepped into the top four in Spain. That because our dear Sevilla have refused to come out of their slump.
But there is a game at the Riazor that could prove the cracker (not in terms of goals, mind) of the weekend as Deportivo La Coruña host Athletic Bilbao. There is sufficient evidence to believe that the game will end in a stalemate.

In the Serie A, there is the Milan Derby at the San Siro (Giuseppe Meazza stadium depending on your persuasion) and the team in Red and Black have the chance to close the gap on their rivals and the match may peter in an anti-climax with the result being... a draw