Quick Review for GW 8 (Sunday's matches)

I think among all matches in GW 8, the match between Blackpool vs Manchester City was the most entertaining game among all... ManCity won 3-2 thanks to 2 goals from Tevez and a superb solo performance from David Silva that sealed ManCity's win over Blackpool.

Tevez's the man, but who really caught my eye in this match is David Silva


(I really thought he will be a high-profile fluke in BPL)

Tevez scored a brilliant first touch goal assisted from a cross by David Silva, scored another deflected goal and David Silva scored the third goal with a superb solo performance which is really top class, superb footwork that led all Blackpool's defenders tackling air and finally drilled a curving shot into the left of the goal.

The first thing in my mind when Silva played his first few match for ManCity in the BPL is, will he be another fluke like many foreign players did, where they excelled superbly in their previous clubs but can't adapt to the pace and playing style of the BPL (eg: Shevchenko, Robinho, etc)

Silva wasn't cheap, signed for 24 million Euros from Valencia during the summer. I really think that he will be a fluke as he seems ineffective and his fantasy value dropped $0.5.

But since the game against Red Bull Salzburg where ManCity won 2-0, Silva seems has started to adapt Mancini's tactics and ManCity's playstyle. He contributed regularly in attacks and finally he scored his first BPL goal in such a classy way (plus an assist too)

If he continues to play like that, with a starting place guaranteed, he definitely will be filling one of my midfielder slot with a price tag of $8.5 only, as ManCity are playing regularly with a sole striker (Tevez) and Silva is like a second striker that plays behind the main striker and sometimes outwide (like he did in Valencia behind David Villa)

Meanwhile for Blackpool, have produced some entertaining and constructive playstyle too. They did try hard to come back but it was too late and ManCity are too rich to lose a game against a newly-promoted team with that amount of money invested into the squad. However, if Blackpool continue to play like this, it will NOT BE A PROBLEM for them to survive in the top flight. (Hey, Adam is a bargain buy too!)

Everton 2 - 0 Liverpool (New owner, same old problems)

(He is in deep sh*t as Liverpool are in 19th place now after 8 games)

While Spaniard like Arteta and David Silva shined in Sunday's matches, Torres can't produce like he did in the past two seasons. He really tried hard, but Everton's defence are too tough for him to handle alone with minimum supports.

Cahill and Arteta each scored one. Both's goal are piledrivers, too fast even for a world-class keeper like Reina to stop in time.

Liverpool really failed to threaten the Everton goal line and Howard looked pretty comfortable, saved some well attempted shots from Torres. New signings like Joe Cole, Raul Meireles, Paul Konchesky all are so-so only. N'Gog, Babel and Jovanovic were subbed into the game between 70th-80th minutes but nothing they can do to save the game. (They aren't any high-profile supersubs either)

New owner for Liverpool, great news! Same old problems for Liverpool, bad.. bad news!! Since the arrival of Roy Hodgson (which I consider is a downgrade compared to dictator Benitez), all his signings aren't high profile as well other than Joe Cole and Raul Meireles. The worst signing definitely will be Poulsen!