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English Premier League Points Standings: May 11

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LONDON (Sporting Alert) — English Premier League results and standings heading into Monday night’s clash between Arsenal and Swansea City at Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal head into the matchup six points Manchester City in the race for second place, but have two games in hand.

The Gunners will move to 73 points with a win, but still have Manchester United to play and they are still looking for a top three finish.

Swansea City are sitting eighth in the points standings with 53 points and they still have dreams of playing in the Europa League next season. The Swans target Southampton and Tottenham, who are both heading in the wrong direction.

Champions Chelsea lead the standings with 84pts, 11 ahead of Man City (73), with Arsenal (70) and Manchester United (68) rounding out the top four.

Liverpool stay fifth with 62pts and are virtually out of the Champions League qualifying places, following their 1-1 draw with the Blues at Stamford Bridge on Sunday.

The Reds were hoping to beat Chelsea to keep things interesting in the race with Manchester United for fourth, but fell behind early and failed in their bid to get a winning goal.

“I think we got off to an awful start. A disappointing goal from our perspective,” Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers told Sky Sports.

“We got ourselves back into the game, a good header from Stevie was well worked and I thought in the second half we were outstanding, we just lacked that bit of quality in the final third.”

Tottenham (58), Southampton (57) Swansea (53), Stoke (50) and West Ham United (47) complete the top 10.

In the relegation battle, QPR were officially relegated from the EPL, following a 6-0 hammering at the hands of Manchester City, with Sergio Aguero netting a hattrick.

QPR join Burnley as the early droppers, with the likes of Sunderland, Hull City, Newcastle United, Leicester City and Aston Villa all hoping to be selected for that one non-magical slot.

Monday May 11 Fixture

Arsenal v Swansea City (1:00 p.m. CT)

Sunday, May 10

Chelsea 1 Liverpool 1
Manchester City 6 Queens Park Rangers 0

Saturday, May 9

Aston Villa 1 West Ham United
0 Crystal Palace 1 Manchester United 2
Everton 0 Sunderland 2
Hull City 0 Burnley 1
Leicester City 2 Southampton 0
Newcastle United 1 West Bromwich Albion 1
Stoke City 3 Tottenham Hotspur 0

Standings P W D L F A Pts

C1 Chelsea 36 25 9 2 70 28 84
2 Manchester City 36 22 7 7 77 36 73
3 Arsenal 34 21 7 6 66 33 70
4 Manchester United 36 20 8 8 61 36 68
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5 Liverpool 36 18 8 10 50 39 62
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6 Tottenham Hotspur 36 17 7 12 55 53 58
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7 Southampton 36 17 6 13 48 30 57
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8 Swansea City 35 15 8 12 43 44 53
9 Stoke City 36 14 8 14 42 44 50
10 West Ham United 36 12 11 13 43 43 47
11 Everton 36 11 11 14 46 48 44
12 Crystal Palace 36 11 9 16 43 50 42
13 West Bromwich Albion 36 10 11 15 34 47 41
14 Aston Villa 36 10 8 18 30 50 38
15 Leicester City 36 10 7 19 41 54 37
16 Sunderland 35 7 15 13 30 50 36
17 Newcastle United 36 9 9 18 37 61 36
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18 Hull City 36 8 10 18 33 49 34
R19 Burnley 36 6 11 19 27 53 29
R20 Queens Park Rangers 36 7 6 23 39 67 27

Live commentary: Man United at West Ham – Team News

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LONDON (Sporting Alert) — Live text commentary and live score updates from the English Premier League game between West Ham United and Manchester United at Upton Park.

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Man United manager Louis van Gaal has named Wayne Rooney, Adnan Januzaj, Angel di Maria, Robin van Persie and Falcao all in his starting lineup, as the Red Devils look to move back into third-place in the league table standings.

Adnan Januzaj, who missed the last game with a minor injury will play in an advanced role with Di Maria in support of Falcao and Van Persie, with captain Rooney and Daley Blind playing in midfield.

In what is expected to be a back-four defensive line, Antonio Valencia, Phil Jones, Marcos Rojo and Luke Shaw will play in front of David de Gea.

Amongst the substitutes for the visitors are Juan Mata, Chris Smalling, Ander Herrera, Marouane Fellaini and James Wilson.

Meanwhile, for West Ham United, there is no Andy Carroll, as the England forward is out injured. Diafra Sakho has been named in the starting lineup in the English Premier League for the first time since the New Year’s Day fixture.

Enner Valencia will partner Sakho, with Cheikhou Kouyate, Mark Noble, Stewart Downing, Kevin Nolan, Alex Song and James Tomkins all starting as well for the Hammers.

The home side’s substitute bench includes the likes of Matthew Jarvis, Joey O’Brien and Carlton Cole.

Manchester United will move back into the top three with a win on Sunday, while a defeat would see them staying fourth behind leaders Chelsea, Manchester City and Southampton.

There have been suggestions that Van Gaal needs to start playing Rooney in a more attacking position to get the best out of him, but the Man United manager says the club skipper has never complained about having to play in midfield.

“I don’t think that he has ever complained about where he has to play,” he said on Sunday. “I also thinks he likes playing in midfield because he’s on the ball more often, so he’s enjoying it.”

It will be interested see the production of Januzaj in an advanced position on Sunday, after making his feelings well-known to the manager last week that he wasn’t a defender and feels out-of-place playing as a wing-back.

West Ham XI: Adrian, Jenkinson, Tomkins, Kouyate, Cresswell, Song, Noble, Nolan, Downing, Sakho, Valencia. Subs: Jaaskelainen, O’Brien, Oxford, Amalfitano, Jarvis, Cole, Lee.

Man Utd XI: De Gea, Valencia, Jones, Rojo, Shaw, Blind, Rooney, Di Maria, Januzaj, Van Persie, Falcao. Subs: Valdes, McNair, Smalling, Herrera, Mata, Fellaini, Wilson.

English Premier League Fixtures, Live Scores – Week 9

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LONDON (Sporting Alert) — The following are the English Barclays Premier League games taking place this weekend.

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Champions Manchester City will get the action going with an early kick-off against a very confident West Ham United side at Boleyn Ground.

West Ham are currently in the top four in the table standings and are riding high on recent results and will surely make life very difficult for the visitors.

But one of the highlighted fixtures in Week 9 is Sunday’s clash between Manchester United and leaders Chelsea at Old Trafford.

Chelsea remains undefeated on the season and will start the game as the favourites against a Manchester United side which is struggling to keep clean sheets at the moment.

Elsewhere, in the EPL this weekend, Sunderland will entertain Arsenal, eagerly waiting to get back on the playing field, following their embarrassing 8-0 thrashing suffered at the hands of Southampton the last time out.

Arsenal come into this contest on the back of a late 2-1 Champions League victory in midweek, but manager Arsene Wenger is calling on his team to improve its performance from the last outing.

Liverpool, looking to bounce back from the midweek Champions League defeat to Real Madrid, play Hull City at Anfield, Tottenham Hotspur take on Newcastle United at White Hart Lane – coming off a big win in the Europa League – while the struggling Queens Park Rangers will face a Aston Villa side heading in the wrong way in the EPL table standings.

Premier League Fixtures

Saturday, October 25 (EST)
West Ham United v Manchester City (7:45am)
Liverpool v Hull City (10:00am)
Southampton v Stoke City (10:00am)
Sunderland v Arsenal (10:00am)
West Bromwich Albion v Crystal Palace (10:00am)
Swansea City v Leicester City (12:30pm)

Sunday, October 26 (EST)
Burnley v Everton (9:30am)
Tottenham Hotspur v Newcastle United (9:30am)
Manchester United v Chelsea (12:00pm)

Monday, October 27 (EST)
Queens Park Rangers v Aston Villa (3:00pm)

Manchester City are English Premier League champions

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Manchester City players celebrate winning the EPL title

MANCHESTER (Sporting Alert) — Manchester City easily defeated West Ham United 2-0 in the final game of the season to lift the English Premier League on Sunday.

“It’s a very special time. My first year is not easy to get used to English football but I think I managed a great group of players,” winning manager Manuel Pellegrini said.

“It was a very special because we’ve never been at the top of the table but six games away I told my players we needed to change and they believed in me. They are a special group.”

The accomplishment on Sunday saw Man City winning the EPL title for the second time in three years.

“I feel amazing. It’s been a hard season and we’ve come out the other end the best way possible,” Joe Hart, Manchester City goalkeeper said on BBC Radio Manchester.

“This has been a hard slog but we’ve beaten some great teams and we’re really proud with what we’ve achieved.

“This is football at its best – I love the game, I love this club and I’m ready to go this summer.”

Liverpool came from behind to beat Newcastle United 2-1, but had to settle for second place, while third place Chelsea defeated the relegated Cardiff City 2-1.

English Barclays Premier League Live Streaming Final Day Fixture

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LONDON (Sporting Alert) — The following is the list of games on the final day of action in the 2013-14 English Barclays Premier League on Sunday. Below is the live streaming information and link for the TV channels streaming these games on Sunday.

English Barclays Premier League Live Streaming Final Day Fixture on NBCSports | Live Radio Commentary | Live Scores and Updates

Leaders Manchester City are one win away from lifting the title this year and Manuel Pellegrini side is full of confidence heading into the home clash with West Ham United.

Second place Liverpool will be hoping for Manchester City slip-up and a victory for them against the struggling Newcastle United at Anfield.

Manchester City lead the EPL standings with 83 points, two more than Liverpool, who have vowed to keep battling all the way through to the end.

Elsewhere on the EPL fixture on Sunday, Manchester United, hoping for a Europa League place, take on Southampton, while Tottenham face Aston Villa also looking for the sixth-place finish that would see them winning that Europe place.

Norwich City will take on Arsenal knocking that anything less than a victory would see them relegated from the league.

Times Are In (EST): Barclays Premier League Fixture
Sunday, May 11
Cardiff City v Chelsea (9:00 AM)
Fulham v Crystal Palace (9:00 AM)
Hull City v Everton (9:00 AM)
Liverpool v Newcastle United (9:00 AM)
Manchester City v West Ham United (9:00 AM)
Norwich City v Arsenal (9:00 AM)
Southampton v Manchester United (9:00 AM)
Sunderland v Swansea City (9:00 AM)
Tottenham v Aston Villa (9:00 AM)
West Bromwich Albion v Stoke City (9:00 AM)

English Premier League points standings on May 10

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LONDON (Sporting Alert) – English Premier League points standings heading into the fins set of fixtures on Sunday May 11.

Heading into Sunday’s schedule, leaders Manchester City will clinch the EPL title with a win over West Ham United. Manchester City are on 83 points from 37 games, two more than second place Liverpool, who will win the title with a victory and a Man City defeat.

Chelsea, out of the title race, are in third place on 79 points, while Arsenal are in fourth place with 76 points.

At the other end of the table, Fulham and Cardiff City are already relegated, but the battle for survival intensifies with West Bromwich Albion and Norwich City next in line.

Elsewhere, Manchester United and Tottenham are still battling for a place in the Europa, with Spurs needing just a draw against Aston Villa to seal sixth place.

English Premier League points standings 
Standings P W D L F A Pts
1 Manchester City 37 26 5 6 100 37 83
2 Liverpool 37 25 6 6 99 49 81
3 Chelsea 37 24 7 6 69 26 79
4 Arsenal 37 23 7 7 66 41 76
5 Everton 37 20 9 8 59 39 69
6 Tottenham 37 20 6 11 52 51 66
7 Manchester United 37 19 6 12 63 42 63
8 Southampton 37 15 10 12 53 45 55
9 Newcastle United 37 15 4 18 42 57 49
10 Stoke City 37 12 11 14 43 51 47
11 Crystal Palace 37 13 5 19 31 46 44
12 West Ham United 37 11 7 19 40 49 40
13 Swansea City 37 10 9 18 51 53 39
14 Sunderland 37 10 8 19 40 57 38
15 Aston Villa 37 10 8 19 39 58 38
16 Hull City 37 10 7 20 38 51 37
17 West Bromwich Albion 37 7 15 15 42 57 36
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18 Norwich City 37 8 9 20 28 60 33
R19 Fulham 37 9 4 24 38 83 31
R20 Cardiff City 37 7 9 21 31 72 30

English Barclays Premier League HT Scores – Mar 1

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LONDON (Sporting Alert) — Here are the half-time scores in the English Barclays Premier League on Saturday. Four games are currently underway with the clash between Southampton v Liverpool coming up later.

Three of the four games live at the moment are locked at 0-0, while Newcastle United lead Hull City on the road.

Moussa Sissoko and Loic Remy are the scorers for Newcastle, who are still hoping to play in Europe next season.

The current scores involving Arsenal who are drawing with Stoke City and Chelsea, who are being held at Fulham, will be encouraging for Manchester City, who are not in action today because of the Sunday’s League Cup final against Sunderland.

Premier League half-time scores
Everton 0-0 West Ham United
Fulham 0-0 Chelsea
Hull City 0-2 Newcastle United
Stoke City 0-0 Arsenal

Radio Commentary, Live Soccer Scores: West Ham v West Brom

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LONDON (Sporting Alert) — West Ham United manager Sam Allardyce made two changes from the side that was beaten in the last outing, while West Bromwich made six adjustments for today’s English Premier League clash.

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Jussi Jaaskelainen has earned a recall and starts in goal ahead of Adrian, who conceded six goals in two games in the clashes against Manchester United and Arsenal. Razvan Rat also comes in to replace James Collins, who misses the game because of a calf injury.

West Brom interim manager Keith Downing, meanwhile, makes six changes from the side that drew 1-1 at Tottenham on Boxing Day, with Nicolas Anelka and Saido Berahino, Billy Jones, Gareth McAuley, Youssouf Mulumbu and Chris Brunt all earning recalls.

Craig Dawson, Steven Reid, Claudio Yacob, Morgan Amalfitano, Zoltan Gera and Matej Vydra were the ones making way.

West Ham v West Brom

West Ham: Jaaskelainen, O’Brien, Rat, Tomkins, McCartney, Noble, Diame, Joe Cole, Nolan, Jarvis, Carlton Cole
Subs: Collison, Maiga, Adrian, Taylor, Diarra, Demel, Chambers

West Brom: Foster, McAuley, Lugano, Olsson, Billy Jones, Morrison, Mulumbu, Brunt, Ridgewell, Berahino, Anelka
Subs: Yacob, Sinclair, Myhill, Amalfitano, Vydra, Dawson, Sessegnon

Referee: Mike Dean (Wirral)

West Ham v Arsenal lineups and live soccer scores

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Santi Cazorla of Arsenal
Santi Cazorla of Arsenal

LONDON (Sporting Alert) — Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger makes one adjustment from the starting team that faced Chelsea on Monday for the Boxing Day clash with West Ham United.

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The only change sees Tomas Rosicky being replaced in midfield by Santi Cazorla from the side that play to a 0-0 draw at home with fellow English Premier League title rivals Chelsea.

Keeping their places in the side for the Gunners are Theo Walcott, Mikel Arteta and Thomas Vermaelen, who keeps his place to partner with Per Mertesacker as Laurent Koscielny still battle with a knee injury.

Mathieu Flamini stays on the bench alongside the fit again Lukas Podolski.

For West Ham United, manager Sam Allardyce has handed starts to Carlton and Joe Cole.

Jussi Jaaskelainen stays on the bench with Adrian starting in goal.

West Ham v Arsenal

West Ham: Adrian, O’Brien, Collins, Tomkins, McCartney, Noble, Diame, Joe Cole, Nolan, Jarvis, Carlton Cole
Subs: Rat, Collison, Maiga, Taylor, Diarra, Demel, Jaaskelainen

Arsenal: Szczesny, Sagna, Mertesacker, Vermaelen, Gibbs, Arteta, Ramsey, Walcott, Ozil, Cazorla, Giroud
Subs: Podolski, Monreal, Flamini, Fabianski, Bendtner, Jenkinson, Gnabry

Referee: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire)

Rooney Starts: Manchester United v West Ham Live Soccer Scores

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MANCHESTER (Sporting Alert) — Wayne Rooney returns and does starts for Manchester United in today’s English Premier League clash with West Ham United at Old Trafford. Follow Live Soccer Scores Here.

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Rooney missed the midweek League Cup win over Stoke City with an injury, but has return to lead the attack and will again play alongside fellow England international Danny Welbeck, who scored twice against Aston Villa in the last EPL fixture last weekend.

Tom Cleverley and Phil Jones play in the center of the midfield, while Jonny Evans and Chris Smalling are paired at center-back.

Ryan Giggs, Javier Hernandez, Ashley Young, Darren Fletcher and Shinji Kagawa all start on the bench.

West Ham, meanwhile, keeps faith with goalkeeper Adrian, who played in midweek in the League Cup win over Tottenham, with Jussi Jaaskelainen starting on the bench.

Modibo Maiga, a scorer in midweek, Mohamed Diame, Matthew Taylor, Ravel Morrison and Matthew Jarvis are all in the West Ham starting XI.

Manchester United v West Ham

Manchester United: De Gea, Rafael Da Silva, Smalling, Evans, Evra, Jones, Cleverley, Valencia, Rooney, Januzaj, Welbeck
Subs: Giggs, Hernandez, Young, Fletcher, Kagawa, Buttner, Johnstone

West Ham: Adrian, Demel, Tomkins, Collins, McCartney, Noble, Diame, Taylor, Morrison, Jarvis, Maiga
Subs: Rat, Collison, O’Brien, Diarra, Jaaskelainen, Carlton Cole, Joe Cole

Referee: Mike Jones (Cheshire)

Suarez ahead of EPL lead scorers, ready for Liverpool clash with West Ham

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LIVERPOOL (Sporting Alert) — A red hot Luis Suarez is ready to duplicate his last goalscoring performance for Liverpool FC when the Reds take on West Ham United at Anfield Saturday.

Suarez, netted four times in the 5-1 victory over Norwich City in midweek to take his tally to 13 goals and ahed of the EPL lead scorers this season.

The Uruguay forward has been sizzling thus far this season and he is clear favourite, according to SkyBet to break the deadlock on Saturday, odds-on to find the back of the net at anytime, and 8/1 to fire home another hat-trick.

He has been hailed by many pundits and his manager Brendan Rodgers even believes, on current form, he is in the same class as Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

On Saturday Liverpool FC will be hoping their star man will deliver another performance like his last as Rodgers’ side look to keep the pressure on Arsenal and Chelsea.

Liverpool FC starts as the 2/7 favourites to win the game, as well as 15/2 to score five or more for the sixth time in the Premier League under Rodgers.

But the Reds will continue to be without striker Daniel Sturridge, who is out with an ankle sprain, while full-back Jose Enrique (knee) also remains on the sidelines.

West Ham forward Andy Carroll returns to training, after a foot injury, but the England international will not be available to face his former club.

In other West Ham team news, talented midfielder Ravel Morrison is out because of suspension, while forward Mladen Petric (calf) and defender Winston Reid (ankle) remains doubtful.

EPL LEAD SCORERS

1 Luis Suárez Liverpool 13
2 Sergio Agüero Manchester City  11
3 Daniel Sturridge Liverpool  9
4 Romelu Lukaku Everton  8
5 Aaron Ramsey Arsenal  8
6 Loïc Remy Newcastle United  8
7 Wayne Rooney Manchester United  8
8 Olivier Giroud Arsenal  7
9 Yaya Touré Manchester City  7
10 Robin van Persie Manchester United  7
11 Eden Hazard Chelsea 6
12 Álvaro Negredo Manchester City 6

Liverpool FC (from): Jones, Mignolet, Agger, Cissokho, Flanagan, Ilori, Johnson, Kelly, Sakho, Skrtel, Toure, Alberto, Allen, Gerrard, Henderson, Ibe, Lucas, Aspas, Coutinho, Moses, Sterling, Suarez.

West Ham (from): Adrian, Henderson, Jaaskelainen, Collins, Demel, McCartney, O’Brien, Rat, Tomkins, J Cole, Collison, Diame, Diarra, Downing, Jarvis, Noble, Nolan, Taylor, C Cole, Maiga, Petric.

Match Appointments
Referee: Michael Oliver.
Assistants: S Burt, D England.
Fourth Official: P Dowd.