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Manchester United stayed closer to Manchester City with 2-1 win over Arsenal at Emirates Stadium. Goal from Antonio Valencia and Danny Welbeck were enough to see off Arsenal and restore 3 points gap with Premier league leaders. Premier league top scorer,  Robin van Persie scored his 18 premier league goal of the season but was not enough to stop Sir Alex Ferguson club. The gunners lost to United 8-2 in the first round Arsenal vs Manchester United encounter. Earlier Manchester City grabbed a 3-2  late minute win over Tottenham.

Van Persie joined Torres in this week crucial goal miss
Van Persie joined in Torres miss drama this week. Chris Smalling fell down allowed Tomas Rosicky  to snatch the ball and presented Van Persie with goal scoring opportunity, he hit the ball with left foot just ten yards in front of the gaping goal but surprisingly the ball went wide and it his Van Persie miss. What a miss for top striker!!

Arsenal FC vs Manchester United goals summary
Antonio Valencia 0-1 (45')
Robin Van Persie 1-1 (71')
Danny Welbeck 1-2 (81')
Arsenal vs Manchester United video highlights

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Arsenal FC starting lineup and subs:  Wojciech Szczęsny, Laurent Koscielny, Per Mertesacker, Thomas Vermaelen, , Johan Djourou (Nicholas Yennaris), Tomas Rosicky, Alex Song, Robin Van Persie, Aaron Ramsey (Park Chu-Young), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (Andrei Arshavin) and Theo Walcott.

Manchester United starting lineup and subs:  Anders Lindegaard, Jonathan Evans, Chris Smalling, Patrice Evra, Phil Jones (Rafael - Park Ji-Sung), Ryan Giggs, Michael Carrick, Nani (Paul Scholes), Antonio Valencia, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney.

Real Madrid derby 4-1 victory over Atletico Madrid saw them open a six points gap in La liga thank to brace and assist from Cristiano Ronaldo and Getafe 1-0 win over defending champions Barcelona. Cristiano Ronaldo have now moved from 14 goals in top scorers log to 16 La liga goals one more than Lionel Messi.


szólj hozzá: Real Madrid 4-1 Atletico

The premier league top goal scorers in the past ten years only have seven strikers. Thierry Henry won the premier league golden boot four times in the past ten years, in 2001-2002 as Arsenal won premier league trophy and when he won the award for three consecutive years 2003-2004, 2004-2005 and 2005-2006. In the year 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 he also won the European Golden Shoe/boot award with 60 and 50 points respectively. Ruud van Nistelrooy scored many goals for Manchester United but only top the top score list once and gave Man Utd the title. Drogba won it twice 2006–2007 when Chelsea won premier league title and 2009–2010. Last season the top scorer award were shared among Manchester United Dimitar Berbatov and Manchester City Carlos Tévez both on 20 goals. Cristiano Ronaldo score 31 to fire the red devils to the premier league title and lead with most goals scored in on season in the past ten years but Ronaldo ranked third played to have scored many goals in one season since its inception 1992 after Andrew Cole (Newcastle United 1993–1994) and Alan Shearer (Blackburn Rovers 1994–945). But Cole and Shearer played in 42 games season. Cristiano Ronaldo shared 31 goals per season record with Alan Shearer though Ronaldo has high rate of goals scored per game 0.91. None of the top scorer played all premier league games in the past ten years but at least all have played more than 30 games. Andrew Cole is the only played to have played all league matches as he played 42 games in 1993–1994.

Premier league top scorers: Thierry Henry, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Didier Drogba,  Cristiano Ronaldo, Nicolas Anelka, Carlos Tévez,, Dimitar Berbatov

Premier league season for 2011-2012 kick off a week ago and saw Sergio Kun Aguero score double on his debut. Many soccer fans are tipping him for a premier league and European golden boot awards. Will Aguero clinch the post on his first premier league season? Aguero were among top ten scorers in European league top scorer list. Does he have enough to win the European golden shoe? If not who will win these awards?

2001-2002 Thierry Henry 24
2002–2003 Ruud van Nistelrooy 25
2003–2004 Thierry Henry 30
2004–2005 Thierry Henry 25
2005–2006 Thierry Henry 27
2006–2007 Didier Drogba 20
2007–2008 Cristiano Ronaldo 31
2008–2009 Nicolas Anelka 19
2009–2010 Didier Drogba 29
2010–2011 Carlos Tévez 20
2010–2011 Dimitar Berbatov 20

Porto striker Radamel Falcao has signed a new 4 years contact at Porto and ending possibility of joining his former porto coach, Andre-Villas Boas at Chelsea. The Colombian striker was Europa cup top scorer and last season scoring 17 goals and became all-time top scorer for Europa league. Previously the record was held by former Germany coach, Juergen Klinsmann who score 15 goals in 12 game in one season, the goals help FC Bayern Munich win UEFA Cup in 1995–96 season. He helped Porto win treble in 2011; Portuguese Cup, domestic league title and Europa League cup. Falcao have been playing for Colombia national teams since 2007, playing 31 games and scored 9 goals.