{"id":28720,"date":"2012-11-26T12:44:39","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T10:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=28720"},"modified":"2024-02-17T15:44:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T12:44:23","slug":"english-premier-league-game-week-13man-utd-says-hi-harry-chelsea-hate-benitezweekly-report-all-matches-highlights-epl-news-video-28720","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/english-premier-league-game-week-13man-utd-says-hi-harry-chelsea-hate-benitezweekly-report-all-matches-highlights-epl-news-video-28720\/","title":{"rendered":"English Premier League Game Week 13:Man Utd says hi Harry, Chelsea hate Benitez,weekly report all matches highlights \/ EPL News Video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Manchester United on top,\u00a0Chelsea fans does not want Rafa Benitez, Tottenham dont lost London Derby this time.<\/h1>\n

Manchester United 3 Queens Park Rangers 1: Harry Redknapp should strive for defence<\/h2>\n

Manchester United \u00a0have erected a statue in honour of Sir Alex Ferguson \u2013 QPR have been playing like 11 statues since the beginning of the season.<\/p>\n

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Longevity is an alien word as far as managers are concerned in Shepherd\u2019s Bush, incumbents passing through with the regularity of an underground train.<\/p>\n

The latest sat in the stand after signing autographs, deciding that the Match of the Day studio or a winter in Ukraine weren\u2019t for him.<\/p>\n

With Harry Redknapp watching on while the sacked Mark Hughes contemplates another big pay-off, QPR left the Old Trafford public wondering for long periods how they had only collected four points from their first 12 games.<\/p>\n

With some of the old guard, like Clint Hill and Shaun Derry, back in harness after largely being discarded following a summer of excess in the transfer market, there was spirit, determination and belief \u2013 ingredients absent in QPR\u2019s descent to the foot of the Premier League.<\/p>\n

And revitalised Rangers merited their lead just after the break, Jamie Mackie taking full advantage of a neat link-up from a corner between Kieron Dyer and Adel Taarabt, having earlier had a headed goal correctly ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n

When Anders Lindegaard could only push out Dyer\u2019s cross-shot, Mackie pounced for his first goal of the season. While the QPR contingent celebrated around him, Redknapp remained motionless but was maybe contemplating the \u00a31million bonus for keeping the club up which forms part of his two-and-a-half year deal.<\/p>\n

Incredibly for a team that normally carries everything before them, it was the 13th time United had trailed this season. But in the space of eight frantic minutes, they again redeemed themselves to leave Redknapp to conduct an inquest into some shambolic defending when he begins work at training.<\/p>\n

Fingers could be pointed at Anton Ferdinand, who came off the bench just before a goal torrent which painted a false picture of the game.<\/p>\n

He was culpable twice from Wayne Rooney corners, which again brought United back from the brink.<\/p>\n

The first was headed down by Danny Welbeck for Jonny Evans to come storming into the six-yard box for the equaliser, while Darren Fletcher was left with too much space to direct another header past a static QPR defence.<\/p>\n

Once the ball hit the back of the net you could see the unbridled emotion which gushed from Fletcher and his delighted team-mates.<\/p>\n

Scotland\u2019s popular captain has been fighting a bowel disorder which had threatened his career. His first appearance since his illness struck 12 months ago encompassed a goal to savour. Football\u2019s gods do have a heart after all. Not that QPR were in the mood to join in the adulation \u2013 not when their top-flight existence is threatened.<\/p>\n

Four minutes later, however, it was all over for a side under the stewardship of Hughes\u2019 assistants, Mark Bowen and Eddie Niedzwiecki, as Anderson, brought on to add some energy to a United midfield which had been largely dormant, combined with another substitute, Javier Hernandez, with devastating effect. The Mexican\u2019s clinical finish might have ensured United returned to the top of the table, but QPR \u2013 unlike in the sad surrender against Southampton a week earlier which sealed Hughes\u2019 fate \u2013 didn\u2019t throw in the towel.<\/p>\n

They still attacked with speed and guile, and it needed a goal-line clearance from Rafael to keep out a Hill header. By then Redknapp was on his way home, Bowen revealing that the former Spurs boss had no input into the game.<\/p>\n

He explained: \u201cI haven\u2019t spoken with Harry and he didn\u2019t speak with the players. Friday was a desperate day. I\u2019ve spoken to Mark and he\u2019s obviously disappointed, but that\u2019s football. It\u2019s a results-driven business.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe did well against United until the roof caved in through individuals not doing their jobs from set-plays.\u201d<\/p>\n

United boss Ferguson had expected a difficult afternoon, stating: \u201cWe thought QPR would have a sudden surge of determination and enthusiasm. It happens all the time when a team loses its manager.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something United haven\u2019t had to experience for 26 years \u2013 not that the rest of the kneejerk Premier League have been taking note.<\/p>\n

Watch Manchester United vs Queens Park Rangers match video:<\/strong><\/p>\n[media id=727 width=610 height=340]\n

Chelsea 0 Manchester City 0:Its not easy Rafael Benitez job with this supporters<\/h3>\n

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Rafa Benitez is just the man to transform poor Fernando Torres, to bring the best out of the misfiring \u00a350 million Spaniard? Well, all the best plans take time, they say.<\/p>\n

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Rafa is the man who knows Fernando best, the man who he rates as the best coach he has ever worked for, the only man who can get inside the striker\u2019s head.<\/p>\n

It probably isn\u2019t easy to get there, to be fair. Three other Chelsea managers have tried and failed and seen their dismissal notices drop on to the doormat as a result.<\/p>\n

In Benitez\u2019s first match in charge since being appointed as Chelsea\u2019s ninth manager in nine years, Torres was marginally livelier, worked harder than he has done in recent games, but as ever, he fluffed the best chance he had. He remains a work in progress for Benitez.<\/p>\n

But there was no question Chelsea\u2019s new interim manager made an impact in one way at a sodden Stamford Bridge. And we are not talking about the hail of booing from all around the ground that greeted him when he walked out of the tunnel.<\/p>\n

As a former Liverpool manager who was less than complimentary about Chelsea, he had been promised a fierce welcome from fans who are going to take a while to accept him. And it was surely as brutal a greeting as any manager has ever had in British football, only cut short because of the minute\u2019s applause for former FA Cup-winning manager Dave Sexton, who has died aged 82.<\/p>\n

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No, it was more in the grinding out of this goalless draw that steadied the ship after a dreadful week by even Chelsea\u2019s standards.<\/p>\n

Their first clean sheet for 10 games, a gutsy, gritty performance where the best players on show were the defenders, Ashley Cole in particular, but also Branislav Ivanovic and Cesar Azpilicueta.<\/p>\n

Welcome to the world of Benitez. Organisation, discipline, tactical plans which are excellent at stopping other teams playing. You know \u2013 that exciting flowing football Roman Abramovich had ordered his team to play this season, the style that they apparently did not show enough of last season, even though they won the Champions League under the hapless Roberto Di Matteo. We\u2019ll put that on hold for a while.<\/p>\n

Di Matteo went at 4am last Wednesday because his team had lost their way in the league and are on the brink of going out of the Champions League. Benitez is here to put the train back on the tracks, and it may not be pretty.<\/p>\n

That is not to say there were radical changes yesterday to the template which Di Matteo set out for this team at the start of the season. Torres was restored, and an unwell Gary Cahill was left out as David Luiz partnered Ivanovic in the centre of defence.<\/p>\n

But Chelsea sat much, much deeper than under Di Matteo. Those skilful forwards this time chased back and harried, the second balls were mostly won. What developed was a war of attrition.<\/p>\n

Top-of-the-table City still had the better chances and should have won. David Silva nodded over when he should have scored early on, and Petr Cech saved well from Pablo Zabaleta.<\/p>\n

The downside of all the organisation and diligent defending was Chelsea managed just two shots on target all game, the first when Luiz\u2019s low free-kick was saved by Joe Hart. Those sceptical fans are going to want more than that, Rafa.<\/p>\n

Silva missed an even better chance when he headed straight at Cech from six yards. But Chelsea did improve. Juan Mata fed Torres 10 yards out and the crowd held its breath…but he fired over. Luiz nodded over and saw another effort deflected wide, and then Cole cracked in a drive that Hart tipped superbly over. But these were mainly breakaways, with City for long periods camped around the Chelsea penalty area, frustrated time and again by a tackle, and quite often a poor final pass.<\/p>\n

Right on the whistle, substitute Mario Balotelli raced through, ran straight into Luiz, and was booked for diving. Immovable objects, you see. Rafa loves them.<\/p>\n

It was the first time Chelsea have not scored at Stamford Bridge since May 2. Maybe it will change against Fulham on Wednesday, maybe Rafa will have got inside Fernando\u2019s head. Maybe. But what is certain is that Chelsea will be solid. Fasten your seatbelts.<\/p>\n

CHELSEA (4-2-3-1):<\/strong> Cech 7; Azpilicueta 7, Ivanovic 7, Luiz 7, Cole 8; Ramires 6, Mikel 6 (Romeu 79); Mata 6, Oscar 7, Hazard 6 (Moses 71, 6); Torres 6.<\/p>\n

MAN CITY (4-3-3):<\/strong> Hart 7; Zabaleta 8, Kompany 7, Nastasic 6, Kolarov 7; Toure 7, Barry 6, Milner 7; Silva 7, Dzeko 6 (Tevez 69, 6), Aguero 6 (Balotelli 86) 6. Booked: Zabaleta, Balotelli, Kolarov.<\/p>\n

Referee:<\/strong> C Foy (Merseyside).chelsea 0\u00a0man city 0<\/p>\n

Watch Chelsea vs Manchester City match video:<\/strong><\/p>\n[media id=728 width=610 height=340]\n

Tottenham Hotspur 3 West Ham United 1:\u00a0AVB has not lost the derby this time<\/h4>\n

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The ball from Kyle Walker hit the chest of Jermain Defoe at much the same time as Winston Reid clattered into the back of him out by the touchline, 35 yards from goal.<\/p>\n

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The England striker stood firm, turned and rode a challenge from George McCartney that ripped a trench in the White Hart Lane turf. The evocative smell of wet mud immediately assailed the nostrils.<\/p>\n

Mark Noble\u2019s half-hearted lunge was more easy to evade and Defoe had time to pick his spot and fire off a low drive into the bottom corner of the net before McCartney could get back at him a second time.<\/p>\n

The press box here is just behind the two dugouts \u2013 closer to the action than the artificial panoramas afforded at most Premier League grounds.<\/p>\n

So it was a privilege to be that close to a piece of individual skill that should act as a reminder in these difficult times of why we all love this game. Thank Goodness for that because it set a course in an unsavoury London derby that meant, at the end of it, the best team won.<\/p>\n

Even Andre Villas-Boas smiled as he recalled the moment just before half-time. \u201cIt was very similar to the goal he scored against Reading,\u201d the Tottenham manager said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTurning away from the defender and taking it on. In one-on-one situations, he\u2019s immense. He\u2019s an incredible striker. His moment of form is immense. And he\u2019s enjoying his football. \u201cWhen we see strikers of this nature, their hunger for goals is exactly what you want and request.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t ask for any more. And it was decisive, because it unlocked the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tottenham had come within an inch of that after 12 minutes when Gareth Bale strode forward to shoot from 20 yards against the underside<\/p>\n

of the cross\u00babar. But West Ham never seemed to recover from Defoe\u2019s opener and early in the second period he was in the hunt again, forcing James Tomkins to deflect a shot behind.<\/p>\n

Hugo Lloris, an improving, semi-permanent figure now in the Tottenham goal, acted quickly to prevent Matt Jarvis from converting a rare Hammers attack.<\/p>\n

But the crossbar was keeping Tottenham at bay at the other end, Clint Dempsey hitting it square on with his own 20-yard effort after 58 minutes.<\/p>\n

It proved only a temporary reprieve as West Ham only regained possession when Jussi Jaaskelainen picked the ball out of the back of his net. Bale had the presence of mind to steer the ball there despite falling as he met Dempsey\u2019s pass back into the penalty area.<\/p>\n

Six minutes later, it was game over as Sandro, who was later carried off with a stomach injury but is fit for Wednesday\u2019s home game with Liverpool, broke up possession and fed the ball to Dempsey. He, in turn, found Aaron Lennon, whose pace took him round Tomkins\u2019 challenge and through on goal.<\/p>\n

Lennon could have shot. Instead, he squared to Defoe who had the easiest opportunity possible to inflict more misery on a club he professes still to love despite the abuse he has received since leaving them eight years ago. The positive West Ham could take from an uncharacteristically tepid performance was that, at the 11th attempt, Andy Carroll finally broke his scoring duck for the club.<\/p>\n

Perhaps it is appropriate that exactly a month before Christmas he finally got the sort of \u2018Carroll service\u2019 on which he thrives.<\/p>\n

Joey O\u2019Brien\u2019s looping cross was all the invitation he needed to head in from close range for his first goal in 14 games for club and country.<\/p>\n

It was brilliant for him \u2013 \u201cAnd about time too, to be honest,\u201d he admitted \u2013 but little consolation for West Ham, and certainly not for their manager Sam Allardyce.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt hasn\u2019t meant anything to us but it gets him off the mark,\u201d he said. \u201cIt shows the rest of my players if we put the ball in the right area, Andy will score.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the whole story looked like we were a bit overawed and I don\u2019t know why.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve made it easy for Tottenham to win and that\u2019s disappointing for me. We haven\u2019t been anywhere near our best.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t expect that. It really shocked me, but we have to take it on the chin and get better.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want tus to bounce back now. We have not suffered back-to-back defeats yet. It will be a big ask on Wednesday, mind you \u2013 at Manchester United!\u201d<\/p>\n

TOTTENHAM (4-4-2):<\/strong> Lloris 6; Walker 7, Dawson 6, Caulker 6, Vertonghen 7; Lennon 7 (Dembele 79), Huddlestone 6, Sandro 7 (Livermore 86), Bale 8; Dempsey 7, Defoe 9 (Sigurdsson 90). Booked: Defoe. Goals: Defoe 44, 64, Bale 58.<\/p>\n

WEST HAM (4-4-2):<\/strong> Jaaskelainen 6; O\u2019Brien 6, Tomkins 7, Reid 7, McCartney 6; O\u2019Neil 5 (Taylor 55, 5), Noble 5, Diame 6, Maiga 4 (Jarvis 31, 6); Nolan 6 (Cole 68, 5), Carroll 6. Booked: O\u2019Brien, Noble. Goal: Carroll 82.<\/p>\n

Referee:<\/strong> A Marriner (West Midlands).<\/p>\n

Watch Tottenham Hotspur vs West Ham United match video:<\/strong><\/p>\n[media id=729 width=610 height=340]\n

Barclays Premier League game week 13 other Results<\/h5>\n

Sunderland 2 – 4 West Bromwich Albion<\/p>\n

Wigan Athletic 3 – 2 Reading<\/p>\n

Stoke City 1 – 0 Fulham<\/p>\n

Everton 1 – 1 Norwich City<\/p>\n

Aston Villa 0 – 0 Arsenal<\/p>\n

Swansea City 0 – 0 Liverpool<\/p>\n

Southampton 2 – 0 Newcastle United<\/p>\n\n

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