PREMIER LEAGUE MONTHLY REPORT - FEBRUARY

 

It’s the end of the month, and you know that means: REPORT TIME, BABY!!!! During the second half of the month, while I was watching over matches and writing down what to say, I was sucked into playing Tomb Raider I-III Remastered trilogy to the point where I completely forgot to start preparing for an upcoming game review. To summarise my time with the remaster, it’s been great. There are issues, but not big enough to hinder the experience. I might make a review of the collection in the near future. All in all, things are not all gloomy and doomy as I will pick up the slack and gather enough material to start my review of the game that was teased in my Tomb Raider III review.

Now let’s get moving to the report of February. WHAT A MONTH! It was actually exciting to watch all matches. Plenty of thrills and upsets, shocking performances, and huge surprises. Let’s see what happened in February…

 

 

WOLVES vs. MAN UNITED

 

Contender for match of the season. This one was wild!

Rashford and Højlund scored in the 5^th and 22^nd minute respectively, and United were pushing in for a 3^rd, but that just didn’t happen in the first half. Second however, “The Wolves” started to hunt down their hunter. Pablo Sarabia bit “The Red Devils” from the white spot in the 71^st minute. Then McTominay struck back in the 75^th. Kilman caught on with the red squad in the 85^th minute and Pedro Neto finished it off in the 95^th. Wolverhampton were able to chase down their guests and deny them their victory… IS WHAT I WOULD’VE SAID IF KOBBIE MAINOO DIDN’T SHUSH THEM DOWN IN THE DYING MOMENTS OF THE GAME!!! WHAT A MADLAD, THAT ONE!!!

So yeah. Pretty good game. Shame that shit can’t be said for our defeat on home grounds against Fulham. I just pray we finish Top 4 as a possible way to salvage this shitshow of a season.

 

 

NEWCASTLE vs. LUTON

 

This team just cannot catch a break. It’s like someone’s put a curse on them to barely be able to scrape a point.

I mean take a look at their match against Newcastle: They concede two goals early on, then they respond with additional two, then another two goals in the second half. 2-4 is the score so far. All they have to do is either defend or push for a 5^th.

Nope. Nada. Trippier in the 67^th minute and Barnes in the 73^rd minute equalise and the game ends after a few minutes.

I really want Luton to stay in the League. They have the capacity to do so much. It actually pains me to see them like this. I respect Nottingham Forest, but lads, please… Drop a few points so Luton can stay up.

 

 

ARSENAL vs. LIVERPOOL

 

The first huge match of the month. And it went as expected… With Arsenal humiliating Liverpool.

Saka scored the first goal of the game, followed by Magalhaes in the 45^th (although he scored for the wrong team). Then Martinelli in the 67^th, and finally, all hopes for equalising were tarnished by Kiwior and Trossard, with the former assisting in the tarnishing.

Brilliant play by “The Gunners”. Outperformed the reds with pure and elegant class. And sadly due to a bad foul, Konate was shown a 2^nd yellow, meaning he received a red in the 88^th minute and walked alone home.

I would like to point out that this is a cheeky banter on my side because trying to make a comeback in the 90^th minute or in stoppage time is impossible to do… Unless you’re Manchester United, of course.

 

 

MAN CITY vs. CHELSEA

 

I WAS EXPECTING A COMEDY SHOW! NOT AN EPIC MATCH!!!

Leave it to Chelsea to make the biggest surprise of the month. Given their mediocre performance with their $1 billion team, everyone is seeing Chelsea as an easy target to win games against, use them as a warm-up for bigger games, or just mock them. Huge percentage falls in the last category.

Now Sterling scoring in the 42^nd minute (assisted by Nicolas Jackson) is fine on its own, but having Chelsea defend and attack was NOT FINE. We’re used to seeing Chelsea stumble left and right, being humiliated by everyone, the players playing without passion. But this Chelsea was quite different. They really wanted to slow down the current champions of England with everything they had.

And they almost succeeded, had it not been for Rodri and those meddling “citizens”.

Did I forget to mention that Haaland missed every chance he had and that I lied about Chelsea playing well?

Did I also forget to mention Chelsea lost the Carabao Cup final to 12 year olds?

 

 

SHEFFIELD UTD vs. BRIGHTON

 

R.I.P. Sheffield. Sent to The Championship too soon…

 

 

STANDINGS

 

I honestly enjoyed this month’s fixtures. They were fun and exciting. Let’s hope March will give us even better games than the ones we had.

Oh and I do promise that my upcoming review is in the works. I just gotta finish the last few levels of the Remastered collection before doing it.

 

Ѓорѓи “GioGio” Илиев