MASTER LEAGUE - BLACKBURN ROVERS vs CHELSEA FC

The master league is upon us once again

My team, Blackburn Rovers had been promoted from the Npower Championship and was on course to take the Premier league by storm, I hoped!

The first 4 games had seen them take 3 wins and a draw. Not a bad start to the newly promoted club. The players seemed to be taking things in their stride, but a bigger challenge awaited them just round the corner.

Everton and Fulham had been the harder clubs to play, but still gained 4 points between the games. The picture  to the right shows who Rovers were up against next.

Was this to be a giant killing game, or were they to be knocked senseless?

Chelsea were just below Blackburn in 4th place. Neither team had lost a game, so who was to gain another 3 points? Or were both to get even honours?

I started Blackburn's lineup as shown. Chelsea had a decent team to play against and it was not looking to be an easy game. Would my strikers play their socks off or, fumble to the pressure of such a big named club?

One thing was for sure, the players were not going down without a fight. As the many managers in BaL normally say........."were taking on a big team, try and do what you do best lads!"                                        

So the game kicked off with a formidable attack from Chelsea. They were fast, and Drogba was damned hard to get the ball away from. It seemed as though he had stuck the ball to his feet!

In the unlucky minute (you know the one I mean.......just a little superstitious!), I managed to slot a delightful goal into an open net, courtesy of Agbonlahor. It wasn't the first shot in that space of time, but I am sure you will see, it was deserved after the effort leading up to it.

I had taken plenty of shots previous to the goal, but did not manage to net any. The keeper was on a fair bit of form. I knew if I kept persisting, at least 1 shot would go in.

As the game went on, I was 1-0 up at half time. In the second half, I seemed to keep a good rhythm, although Chelsea seemed to lose theirs. Their passes were going a miss and each player seemed to be playing dumb when the ball came near. I wasn't sure of any bugs in the game, or generally if their players were a little tired.

The match was looking towards a win for Rovers as the time ran seriously close to 90 Min's. Then........under a stroke of great misfortune, Chelsea ended up with a lucky scramble in the box, to which Drogba assisted Sturridge who scored the equaliser. As the game was about to restart, The commentary mentioned that they had levelled with so little time remaining. This was very true, as when the match restarted, the final whistle blew. Chelsea had grabbed an extremely late equaliser and robbed Rovers of all 3 points. 

Not to worry, at least a point is better than none, plus the rest of the season awaited. I am sure their will be more challenges ahead!

Blackburn managed to stay in 3rd place, but Chelsea had slipped to 7th. I am sure this will change in future weeks, but until then, I am glad to be keeping my place.

Friday's post features Blackburn's first Europa league match against Fiorentina, as well as a few results from the next Premier league games.

Don't forget to come back tomorrow for a round-up of Galarath's career in Become a Legend.

Thanks for visiting

A BIT ABOUT PRO EVO!

Thanks for coming back to my blog which is all about PRO EVOLUTION SOCCER or as some just say PES. Any of you that do come back regularly will know that I post about all areas of my gaming experience within PRO EVO. I just love playing the game. The most up to date version is of course PES 2011, which undoubtedly is the best version yet. The graphics and realistic playability are definitely improved within this version, but there are flaws within the game. 

As I often browse the Internet for other PES related sites and articles, I have noticed that many people moan about the flaws, but still they are very passionate about the game. I ask myself "why do you moan about the game, yet still manage to say its the best football/soccer game ever?". There are many that whinge about the licences within the game and say that its competitor (which I will not name) has all the licences and they should get them! Well to be honest, if you are one of these people, then why do you not realise that the reason why the other game has all the licences is because they have the SOLE rights to them! This means only they can have them! Does this make any sense at all to you? PES does have a couple of the licences, but they do have the option to customise the game. This means you can download an OPTION FILE, for FREE! You then copy and save the names, kits etc and hey presto you have all the right content to aid in your gaming experience with the game you keep saying you love and prefer!

This should help these people I think, but I am sure there will be more that want to moan. I have seen and experienced more flaws, but in this world I have also noticed that no one is perfect. Konami does try to fix these flaws to keep these so called fans happy through the help of online patch updates. The update takes just a few minutes (at most) to download, then install, then hopefully some problems fixed! Definitely a good idea in my eyes, but it still won't silence the moaning fans. 

My ending view is "KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK KONAMI!" and "NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO, THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A MOANER OR TWO!"