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Bunkero:
Nice tips. In addition, buying those items that usually skyrocket during December period now is another way to help u save more. For example, i plan on buying my Son's Xmas clothes and shoe this November, along with bag of rice, Oil, Maggy and Onions.
Cos by 1st and second week of December, the price of these things would have increased drastically.

olakehinde007:
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Here is a list of top four strikers in the premier league that are performing beyond everybody's expectations.

1. Xherdan Shaqiri
Liverpool signed Xherdan Shaqiri from Stoke city as a backup to their trio of Mohamed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firminho but in recent weeks the Swiss international player has become an important player under Jurgen Klopp after an impressive start to his Liverpool career.
Although many may not have expected that the 27year old Swiss international player would be making such huge impact at Liverpool, the Liverpool winger have now scored and assisted four (4) goals in just 8 premier league games this season since he joined from Stoke City in the summer. Xherdan Shaqiri has adapted perfectly to life in Anfield and has shown versatility as he is capable of playing in the midfield as well as in attack.

2. Callum Wilson
Bournemouth front man, Callum Wilson has contributed to 10 (6 goals and 4 assists) goals in his 12 premier league appearances for Bournemouth this season. Callum Wilson has started the season on a very strong foot and an impressive goal-scoring form and is just two (2) goals away from reaching his highest Premier league goal-scoring tally. Callum Wilson's impressive form in the front of goal has been noticed by the England national team and the Bournemouth striker was recently called up to the England national team squad in recognition of his brilliant effort.
Callum Wilson's tally of six (6) goals is only bettered by three players in the premier league while his tally of four (4) assists is also only bettered by three players. It is not surprising to Bournemouth doing well in the league as they sit comfortably in the 6th position on the premier league table as at least two of their players are in blistering impressive form.
It is now also more glaring that the Bournemouth striker Callum Wilson is enjoying his best career season yet as he is now the focus of transfer talks, rumors, and speculations.
Bournemouth will do well to hold on to the impressive and in-form England striker.

3. Ryan Fraser
Another Bournemouth player enjoying a bright and impressive run of form as the new season began is winger Ryan Fraser. Ryan Fraser has disappointed his doubters and critics with weeks upon weeks of impressive standout performances. The Scottish international winger has now achieved his best goal/assists tally in any season yet after scoring and/or assisting nine (9) goals.
This season, only Chelsea's Willian (35) and Manchester City's David Silva (34) have created more goal-scoring chances than Bournemouth's Ryan Fraser (33) and no premier league player has yet provided more assists than Ryan Fraser (6).
Although Ryan Fraser was signed by Bournemouth some five years ago, it appears that this might be his best performing season for the Cherries.

4. Glenn Murray
Another player that is enjoying an unexpectedly fantastic and impressive goal-scoring start to the 2018/2019 season is 35year old Brighton striker, Glenn Murray. Murray hit his top goal-scoring form about 3months towards the end of last season when he scored six (6) premier league goals between January and March 2018.
Although Brighton signed Jurgen Locadia in the January transfer window and Florin Andone in the summer transfer window, Glen Murray have being able to ward off competition for the top spot and remain the first choice striker in Brighton's attacking line up as he continued on his sharpness in front of goal from where he left off last season. Glenn Murray has now scored more goals than Jurgen Locadia and Flodin Andone put together this season. Talks of a possible call-up to the England national team squad have even resurfaced somewhat unexpectedly for the 35year old Brighton striker due to his fine form.
So far this season, Glenn Murray's six (6) premier league goals is only bettered by Chelsea's Eden Hazard (7), Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (7), and Manchester city's Sergio Aguero ( while only five premier league players have won more aerial duels than the Brighton striker's 61.
In the 12 games that Glenn Murray have played this season, 50% of his 16 shots were on target and 38% of the shots were converted into goals.



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adisabarber:
Man U will never win the EPL with Mourinho in charge

olakehinde007:
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The much anticipated and awaited Manchester derby has come and gone. Plenty of talking points from the much one-sided Matchday 12 “Super Sunday” game. There was much fanfare as the home fans were delighted with a near perfect and brilliant display of attacking football by their team, Manchester City as goals from the diminutive trio of David Silva, Sergio Kun Aguero and Ilkay Gundogan was more than enough to seal an impressive win and 3points for the City side.

On the other hand, it was a lackluster and lackadaisical performance as usual for the visiting Manchester United side who traveled without their record signing Paul Pogba selected for the game due to some injury. Although Anthony Martial did score a parity goal, it was not enough to even share a point with Manchester city side as the intensity and purpose of play of the home side was on a different level entirely.

Here, I took a deep dive into the analysis of the “Super Sunday” Manchester derby and highlight the high profile mistake made by Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho that made them lose the derby to Manchester city.

1. Starting 3 central/defensive midfielders. No attack-minded midfielder
It is very evident that Jose Mourinho never learns or he is just plain stupid and adamant because there is no way he can justify selecting and starting the trio of defensive-minded midfielders in Nemanja Matic, Marouane Fellaini, and Ander Herrera together in the same game against an impressive attacking side like Pep Guardiola’s Manchester city. It is evident that Jose Mourinho switched into an ultra-defensive mode which he has been heavily criticized for all his career. With the absence of Paul Pogba who withdrew late before the game due to some injury, Mourinho should have gone for the attacking option of Juan Mata or even Fred who was impressive in his last game against Bournemouth, but No, Mourinho never learns.

2. Starting Jesse Lingard instead of Juan Mata
Like I have said before, Jose Mourinho never learns. I still do not understand why Jesse Lingard is getting a derby start ahead of the impressive, and inform creativity that is offered by Juan Mata. Juan Mata’s fantastic free-kick ignited a comeback against Juventus in the midweek’s UEFA Champions League game in Italy but No, Mourinho refused to start him (instead starts him from the bench) and plays an out-of-form and somewhat confused Jesse Lingard in his place. It was a really stupid mistake on Mourinho’s part not to have started Juan Mata over Jesse Lingard on Sunday as Juan Mata (and Anthony Martial) is Manchester United’s best attacking and creative options right now.

3. Not pressing high enough to get the ball back when they are not in possession
Manchester City made an impressive total of 643 passes while the visiting Manchester United side made a paltry 319 passes during the Manchester derby on Sunday. This is so because Manchester United did not press the home team high enough so as to get the ball back when they are not in possession thereby affording Pep Guardiola’s Manchester city side too much time on the ball and dictate the pace, style, and rhythm of the game.
In sharp contrast, Pep Guardiola’s Manchester city side pressed Manchester united high on the ball whenever they lost possession of the ball and always get the ball back quickly so as not to allow Manchester United players much time on the ball. Pep Guardiola’s strategy was to starve Manchester United of the ball, limit their creative chances with the ball, frustrate them from possession and it worked perfectly all thanks to Jose Mourinho’s stupid defensive mentality.


Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City team is not an unbeatable team especially when they do not have a certain Kevin De Bruyne, you just need to press them high on the ball, starve them of the ball (which is a difficult and almost impossible thing to do) and attack, attack and attack them.

Manchester City team is not Invincible!!!

tee59:
I see nothing worth my comment here.

WinningEleven:
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gbadamosiomidin:
u poeple re funny almost kissed not dat dey don bang am self

olakehinde007:
Hello everybody,
Something just happened right now. I heard a bone-chilling gist from a female colleague of mine.

Alright, so as I arrived at the office this morning and was settling in to my day job, a female colleague was browsing through some images on the internet on her laptop when she saw one image where two guys are on the bed backing each other with one being sad-faced and yet another image of two guys in what appears to be a school where one of them is placing the hand on the other guys shoulder while the other was looking at him seductively in a gay-ish manner.

So, as she was looking at the images, I overheard her mumble some words in irking and exasperation when she said: "OMG, what is this?", then she later added: "And I was almost kissed by a girl recently and I rejected it". So I got very curious and interested, I wanted to hear the full gist and story, how did it happen? where did it happen? who tried to kiss her? when did it happen? So I asked her, she was very free and relaxed in answering my questions as the conversation went on although she didn't disclose to me why she rejected that kissing advance made towards her.

So this female colleague of mine is a Student of the University of Lagos, who was on her Students Industrial Work Experience Scheme (SIWES) Industrial training with my company somewhere around the Yaba area of Lagos.

She narrates her ordeal: On this beautiful day, she was in her hostel room outside the Unilag campus. As usually experienced by many Nigerians, there was no light and she had to use her laptop and charge her phones. So she decided to visit a female friend who also happens to be a fellow student at the University of Lagos in her house where there is light so she can charge and use her gadgets. When she got to her friend's house, she met her in the company of her roommate who was packing her bags in preparation to travel back home for the holiday. She sat down, opened her laptop and told her friend that she had come to charge her laptop and watch Game of Thrones. After watching the movie a bit, the inevitable also happened - the same thing that made her leave her hostel to come to visit her friend in the first place, "almighty NEPA" took the light - and she had to shut down her laptop after a little while.

It was at this point they started discussions on random stuff to pass the time. Of course, your guess is as good as mine, their discussion was mostly centered around guys, relationships, romance, and all the other "girl talks". So as the discussion went on, the topic of kissing came up somewhere along the line, and my female colleague asked her friend how many guys she has kissed - which she laughed off and didn't bother to answer. Then, my female colleague was like "I haven't had my first kiss", then her friend replied that there is no big deal or anything serious in kissing. Then her friend dropped the bombshell by saying "I can even kiss you now if you won't mind", as she stood up to sit beside her on the bed. She later had to shrug off her friend who stood up and tried to demonstrate to her how to kiss. She felt awkward afterward and they had to change the topic for discussion and went back to her hostel after a while.

In all this time as she narrates her experience, I stood there looking at her and I kept wondering about what might be going through her mind while all of these was happening. I asked her why she didn't allow her friend to kiss her or teach her how to kiss, but she declined and refused to answer. She said it was for a reason personal to her as she was not comfortable talking about that with me.

I'm very curious right now. I have never seen or heard firsthand from anyone who is romantically attracted to someone of the same sex (either for a male or female), so her experience interests me and it got me very curious. So I want to hear from your experiences.

If you have or have heard of any such experiences, please feel free to hit me up in the comments and share your experience.

Nbote:
D only things learner were d 1 and last points U listed.. Man Utd's high pressing and counter amounted to shit... Juventus held United down until d introduction of Mata and Fellaini.. D one lesson from d Match is it's neva over until d last minute..

Zehavi:
Mancity nor be Juventus op

olakehinde007:
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Matchday 4 games of the 2018/2019 UEFA Champions League season have been played, and as usual, it failed to disappoint as there were a lot of exciting and entertaining matches. Qualification into the next round of games has been confirmed for some teams while elimination is confirmed for some others.
The biggest game of the night was the Group H match between Juventus and Manchester United in Italy with Juventus enjoying possession and dominating a large part of the game. Cristiano Ronaldo scored a beautiful volley in the 65th minute to give the home side Juventus the lead, but the visiting Manchester United side put in a great fight for a dramatic comeback in Italy to win the game by scoring two goals within a short space of 4minutes.

Here are the highlights and talking points of the game while also analyzing the tactical aspects and tactical changes made in the game.

1. Victor Lindelof is showing the defensive stability and maturity Man United sorely needs
Since his arrival in Manchester, victor Lindelof has struggled to adapt settle into the team and has thereby had to endure a not so pleasant start to life at Old Trafford. His obvious inability to physically challenge a player and win duels was properly exploited by opposing teams who put up a more physical presence around him in and around the box.
However, after a few decent runs of games, it appears that Victor Lindelof has finally adapted his game and settled in properly to solve Manchester United’s defensive woes. The 22year old Swede is now more composed and assured while in possession and calmly decides which defensive action to take whenever he is required to.
In the game against Juventus on Wednesday, he courageously dealt with all the duels that he was involved in and was very disciplined to make sure that the Juventus side had very few clear chances. Victor Lindelof is now providing the defensive stability, maturity, and assurance that the Man United team desperately need at the back.
Victor Lindelof made 8 clearances in last night’s game against the Old Lady (the most amount of clearance by any player on the pitch). He had an 88.2% passing accuracy.

2. High pressing and counterattack
It was very obvious that Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho had a tactical change in the approach of the game evident in his choice of selection of attacking players to lead the Man United forward line.
It is said that when Romelu Lukaku is not playing, Man United plays with more mobility and fluidity in attack. French forward, Antonio Martial is a sure starter as he is supposed to be starting all of Manchester United’s game week-in-week-out because of his recent goal-scoring form. Jose Mourinho’s tactical plan was to press the opposition high up the pitch and squeeze the Juventus side out of possession with his selection of Jesse Lingard in attack and Ander Herrera in midfield.
Herrera recorded 2 tackles, 3 clearances, and 1 block as he offered more defensive stability in an often imbalances Manchester United midfield. Alex Sandro’s attacking runs down the Man United right side was also kept in check by the constant pressure mounted by Jesse Lingard on the right side of Man United’s attack.

3. Super subs
Jose Mourinho sure deserves some praises for Manchester United’s comeback victory against Juventus last night. The tactical changes that he made which hugely turned the game around in Man United’s favor proved that he still has that tactical mastery that made him be called “The Special One”.
Mourinho brought in Juan Mata to improve Man united’s creativity in midfield and supply more crosses into the Juve box in the aftermath of Cristiano Ronaldo’s opening goal. Marouane Fellaini was also introduced in the game to try and ruffle the Juve defense and receive crosses from Juan Mata. This super subs proved to be very influential to Man United winning the game as Manchester united scored an equalizing goal from a superb Juan Mata free-kick from 20yards out after about 5minutes of coming off the bench. Marouane Fellaini also had a big impact in the second goal for Man United as he hassled the Juventus defenders while trying to connect with a beautifully delivered free-kick from Ashley Young which resulted into an Alex Sandro own goal.
Jose Mourinho thus proved that class is indeed permanent and he still has the tactical genius and acumen to be categorized up there with the top managers in the world of football even thought his tactics has been criticized and labeled as “outdated”.

This is the sort of great fighting spirit and attitude and performance that Manchester United fan all around the world want to be seeing every week and every game. We hope the lads can keep up this performance.

olakehinde007:
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The Premier League did produce a lot of goals and excitements as well as poignant events during the Match Day 11 round of games. Many fantasy premier league football managers would have picked up some massive FPL points from their attackers while it might be very difficult to pick up FPL points from defensive players.

Only three teams (Fulham, Watford and Cardiff City) out of the twenty premier league teams did not score a goal during the premier league week 11 round of games. Even Newcastle United got their first 3points in the 2018/2019 premier league season with a 1nil win over Watford on Saturday. Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City side also showed no mercy or any sign of slowing down when they trashed and humiliated Mark Hughes’ Southampton side by six goals.

Below is a highlight of the top performers in the Fantasy Premier Leagues team of the week in a 3-4-3 formation:

GOALKEEPER – Kasper Schmeichel (Leicester City FC)
Despite the tragic death of the Leicester City chairman Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha and four other people including the pilot in an helicopter crash last week which left the entire football world, Leicester City FC management and staff, players and fans alike terrible sad and emotionally downcast, the Danish goalkeeper still put in a solid and excellent performance in front of goal in their weekend game against Cardiff City. Kasper Schmeichel was able to see off the barrage of threat from Cardiff city and protected his goal, thereby earning an important win for Leicester and a clean sheet to his name.

DEFENSE – Benjamin Chilwell (Leicester City FC)
Benjamin Chilwell’s role was very pivotal to Leicester City’s one-goal win against Cardiff City. Benjamin Chilwell provided the assist for what happened to be the only goal (and the winning goal) in the game against Cardiff City on Saturday. His left-footed cross from the by-line into the Cardiff city box was met by Demari Gray who scored from a close 12yards. This is Benjamin Chilwell’s first clean sheet for Leicester city.

DEFENSE -Seamus Coleman (Everton FC)
The Irish defender who recently returned after spending a long time on the sidelines as a result of injuries has once again secured and cemented his place in the heart of Everton’s defense. The Everton captain silenced his doubters and critics by scoring a fantastic goal in the Toffees 3-1 win over Brighton on Saturday when he smashed home a low driven shot into the far post from outside the Brighton box. The goal is Seamus Coleman’s first goal since January 2017 and summarizes a sterling performance by the team captain at Everton’s Goodison Park stadium.

DEFENSE -Federico Fernandez (Newcastle United)
Federico Fernandez played a key role in frustrating the attacking moves of Watford in their game on Saturday. Fernandez helped Newcastle United to win their first game in the 2018/2019 English Premier League season, thereby moving the team out of the relegation zone. Federico Fernandez would have to continue to put in such an excellent performance week-in-week-out for Newcastle to comfortably move out of the relegation zone and distance themselves from the other bottom three teams in the relegation zone.

MIDFIELD – Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)
Raheem Sterling was incredibly superb for Manchester city in their game against Mark Hughes’ Southampton side on Sunday. Raheem Sterling was a constant problem for the Southampton defense to deal with. He scored two goals for himself and provided another two goals for his teammates in a humiliating 6-1 defeat of Southampton at Manchester City’s Etihad stadium. Raheem Sterling is in a blistering form under manager Pep Guardiola and is unplayable by both club and country.

MIDFIELD – Richarlison (Everton FC)
Richarlison scored two goals on either side of Seamus Coleman’s goal for the Everton side at Goodison Park on Saturday to help his Everton team clinch an important win against Brighton Hove & Albion. Although the 21-year-old Brazilian player had previously missed many chances in The Toffees last two games, it appears that Richarlison seems to have found his goal scoring boots once again and is looking set to be the highest goal scorer for Everton this season with his blistering speed ad eye for goal.

MIDFIELD – Leroy Sane (Manchester City)
Leroy Sane was incredibly superb for Manchester city in their game against Mark Hughes’ Southampton side on Sunday. Like his teammate Raheem Sterling, the German winger’s electrifying pace and brilliance were too much of a problem for the Southampton defense to deal with. Leroy Sane provided two goal assists and scored one goal in the humiliating 6-1 defeat of Southampton at Manchester City’s Etihad stadium to seal off a great evening of fantastic and exciting football by Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City side.

MIDFIELD – Felipe Anderson (West Ham)
Felipe Anderson helped his West Ham United side to an impressive 4-2 win over Burnley on Saturday by scoring two goals. The West Ham’s record signing is fine goal scoring form as he scored in their home win against Manchester United a few weeks ago.

FORWARD – Alvaro Morata (Chelsea)
Alvaro Morata appears to have found his goals scoring form once again as he has now scored four goals in his last four premier league games for Chelsea after enduring a goal drought that went on for many weeks. The Spanish born player scored twice in Chelsea’s 3-1 win against Crystal Palace on Sunday to pile more pressure on league leaders Manchester City in the race for the apex position on the premier league table.

FORWARD – Sergio Kun Aguero (Manchester City)
It is almost guaranteed that the diminutive Sergio Aguero would be in the thick of the action every time that Manchester City scores up to six goals in a single match. Sergio Aguero provided two assists and scored one goal when his Man City side thrashed Southampton in a humiliating 6-1 defeat on Sunday. Aguero has now scored seven goals in the premier league this season while providing six goal assists along the way.

FORWARD – Raul Jimenez (Wolves)
Raul Jimenez scored his third goal of the season for Wolves against an overconfident and relaxed Tottenham side on Saturday. Jimenez scored one goal and provided another when he helped his Wolves side to almost embarrassing Tottenham with a superb comeback in the last 30minutes of the game on Saturday after going down 3nil in the firs half. The game ended in an unfortunate 3-2 defeat for Wolves, but they could have played a draw and shared the points if Raul Jimenez’s goal was not disallowed.

Source: https://davepartner.com/blog/2018/11/06/highlights-fpl-fantasy-premier-league-match-day-11-team-of-the-week/

Hundreddegrees:
Chelsea has been unbeaten in all competitions this season... My blood is BLUE FOREVER

olakehinde007:
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