Mid-week Premiership and MLS Wrap-Up

English Premiership

Tuesday, April 17th

Arsenal 3, Manchester City 1

Recently productive DaMarcus Beasley made a strong case for a permanent deal with Citeh by scoring the only goal for City against the Gunners.

Manchester United 2, Sheffield United 0

Man U wants to avoid any more hiccups. A 2-0 win with goals Michael Carrick (who has a match under his ass as of late) and Wayne Rooney. The season increasingly looks like it's going to come down to the wire and it all might hinge on the May 9th matchup been the Devils and Chelski. How's that for dramatic effect?

Wednesday, April 18th

Blackburn 3, Watford 1

After a heart-breaking loss to Chelsea in the FA Cup Semifinals this past weekend, Brad Friedel reversed the morale with his superb performance in goal. His normal, however. Jason Roberts and Benny McCarthy provided the impetus needed to get by Jay Demerit's cellar-dwellers.

Liverpool 2, Middlesbrough 0

Liverpool continued their amazing run of games with a 2-0 win over Gareth Southgate's struggling side. Truth is, it wasn't really Liverpool, it was Steven Gerrard...with both goals. And that's about it.

West Ham 1, Chelsea 4

Chelsea keeps fighting, pulling within 3 points again. Shaun Wright-Phillips, getting a decent amount of time due to Robben's injury, has been showing lately that he deserves a damn starting spot. He put two goals in the pot against the Hammers. Young'un Salomon Kalou scored and so Mr. Drogba (his first in a little while). Tevez scored again but to no avail.

Major League Soccer

Wednesday, April 18th

Real Salt Lake 2, Kansas City 1 (AET)
US Open Cup Qualifier

Jamaican midfielder Andy Williams scored in the 109th minute to propel RSL's tired legs into the US Open Cup. Jeff Cunningham started the scoring converting a 12th minute PK but KC's Sasha Victorine (2 goals in the past 2 games so far) countered with only a couple minutes left.

Other interesting news:

Kamani Hill got a couple minutes of playing time in Wolfsburg's 1-0 German Cup semifinal loss to VfB Stuttgart.

Lionel Messi showed why he is who he is in Barcelona's 5-2 thrashing of surprise kickstarts Getafe. Messi scored two goals to push Barca through to the Spanish Copa del Rey finals. ESPN says "Messi the new Maradona?"

Ajax Amsterdam moved into the Dutch Cup Final by beating RKC Waalwijk 3-1. Romanian Nicolae Mitea, Barca target Wesley Sneijder, and Spaniard Gabri provided the goods.

Olympique Lyonnais continued their tie-fest with a 0-0 deadlock with youth hotspot Rennes.

News News News...

- No formal confirm on the Barros Schelloto and Marvell Wynne trades.
- Shalrie Joseph of the New England Revs could potentially hold-out from playing against the Columbus Crew in ESPN Primetime Thursday. Divas in the MLS. Nice.
- Gregory Coupet, the long-time stalwart keeper for Lyon, may leave France for England reports Eurosport.com if he's not handed a long-term contract to finish out his days in Lyon.
- Ronaldinho. A 100 million Euro allowance. AC Milan says it has that cash laying around for Ronnie to come to Italy.
- Also some semi-concrete rumors on newly minted Toronto FC midfielder Richard Mulrooney heading over to Houston for Kevin Goldthwaite and a first rounder. The truth should come out sooner or later.
- Vice-chairman of Arsenal David Dein has peaced out. Many think it's over the recent rumors of another American takeover. This one led by the, and I quote, "the American pirate" Stan Kroenke who has upped his share in Arsenal to above 10%.