Manchester united recorded a terrific 3-1 loss away at West Ham, in London, on Saturday afternoon in an English Premier League clash.

The win handed West Ham their first ever win at home, this season.

It is West Ham who drew first blood in the fifth minute via Felipe Anderson. Anderson flicked past De Gea after a low cross from Zabaleta!

The lack lustre united squad found themselves, two goals down with to minutes to the break. Andriy Yarmolenko’s shot was deflected into the net by Manchester united’s defender, Lindelof, in the 43rd minute for an own goal. The game went into the break with West Ham two goals up.

West Ham’s Marco Arnautovic completed the route by striding through on goal and coolly slotting home in the 74th minute.

Manchester United’s consolation came in through Marcus Rashford who brilliantly sent a back-heel flick into the net for a 2-1score line in the 71st minute.

It was another pretty frustrating game for Manchester’s Romelu Lukaku who mustered just three touches inside West Ham’s area in the f
Manchester now lie 7th in the log with 10 points from 6 matches.

Jose Mourinho made four changes to the Manchester United side that drew with Wolves last weekend, as Ashley Young, Nemanja Matic, Scott McTominay and Anthony Martial earn starts.

Alexis Sanchez and Jesse Lingard were absent from the squad completely, as Marcus Rashford returned from suspension to take a place on the bench.

Three back-to-back victories had seemed to bring Manchester United back on track but troubles in the dressing room have started to pour out of control.
Amid poor relationships between Paul Pogba and Jose Mourinho, United were held to a disappointing 1-1 at home to new boys Wolves and were then knocked out of the Carabao Cup in a penalty shootout to Championship side Derby.

The under fire Manchester United boss had this to say on his team’s overall performance, today: “I can have complaints with quality and mental approach. You have to try always and that is my nature as a football professional.”

West Ham
1. Fabianski
5. Zabaleta
4. Balbuena
23. Diop
26. Masuaku
41. Rice
20.Yarmolenko Substituted for Snodgrass at 72’minutes
16. Noble
14. Obiang
8. Felipe Anderson substituted for Diangana at 90+3’minutes
7. Arnautovic Substituted for Antonio at 83’minutes
Substitutes
11. Snodgrass
13 . Adrián
21. Ogbonna
24. Fredericks
27. Pérez
30. Antonio
45. Diangana

Man Utd
1. De Gea
18. young booked at 78mins
39. McTominay
12. Smalling
2. Lindelöf Substituted for Rashford at 57’minutes
23. Shaw
27. Fellaini
31. Matic
6. Pogba Substituted for Fred at 70’minutes
9. Lukaku
11. Martial Substituted for Mata at 71’minutes

Substitutes
3. Bailly
8. Mata
10. Rashford
13. Grant
17. Fred
21. Herrera
36. Darmian

Referee: Michael Oliver

Attendance:
56,938

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Nairobi County Governor, Hon Mike Sonko, has offered 150 buses to ferry fans to watch the Harambee stars versus Ethiopia African Cup Of Nations, AFCON, clash on Sunday 14 october 2018. Through a press statement, Hon. Sonko says: “The decision was reached following the national government ‘s decision to allow Kenyans to watch the Sunday game (October 14, 2018) free of charge.” The presser, dated 11/10/2018, was written by Mr. Elkana Jacob, the Director of the Governor’s Press Service.

Earlier, today, the Ministry of Sports announced that there shall be no gate charges for the all important clash, on Sunday. Kenya will book a ticket to next year’s AFCON finals if they beat the Ethiopians, on Sunday. Governor Sonko’s gesture ‘is in a bid to support Sports culture in the country and ensure Kenyans are able to cheer their team to win the match against Ethiopia’.

The security sector should now come up with elaborate plans and measures to prevent crowd trouble due to inflated numbers of Kenyans expected to throng the Moi International Sports Centre, Kasarani, on Sunday. Elsewhere, the Harambee Stars Kipper, Victor Wanyama, has passionately rallied Kenyans to come out in masses to support the local boys. He says if Kenyans create an atmosphere like that witnessed in Ethiopia for their team, on Wednesday, then the Stars will definately carry the maximum points from Sunday’s match.

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These are the top ten women’s teams in Africa and Worldwide. No African team features in the top ten in the world! Kenya’s Harambee Starlets features nowhere.

Top 10 teams  in Africa:

1. Nigeria

2. Ghana

3. Cameroon

4. South Africa

5. Equatorial Guinea

6. Ivory Coast

7. Morocco

8. Algeria

9. Senegal

10. Mali

World’s top 10 Women’s soccer teams:

1. USA

2. Germany

3. England

4. France

5. Canada

6. Australia

7. Japan

8. Brazil

9. Sweden

10. Netherlands

HOW THE FIFA/COCA-COLA WORLD RANKING IS DONE

General Considerations

In the FIFA Women’s World Ranking (WWR) teams are ranked according to a value that is a measure of their actual strength. One of the benefits of this is that a considerable amount can be learned about the ranking value (or rating points) of a team.

Reasons for FIFA Women’s World Ranking 

• Promotion of the Women’s Game
• Realistic Assessment: Putting Everyone in their Place
• Statistical Analysis of the state of the Women’s Game
• Equal Importance of Women’s and Men’s Football
• Solid foundation: some 3000 games since 1971

Although a certain amount of mathematics is inevitable, the system used is still easily understandable and enables all interested parties to understand the teams’ movements, or even to calculate the Ranking themselves. Since the first match dates back to a little over 30 years ago (the first women’s international was held on 17 April 1971 when France faced the Netherlands), it has been possible to comprehensively catalogue the data about international women’s football.

FIFA Women’s World Ranking – Key Criteria Used

• Result of the Match
• Home vs away, or neutral ground
• Importance of the match
• Difference in WWR between the teams

Basics of the Ranking method

The basic formula of the WWR is in fact quite simple:

WWR,new = WWR,old + ( Actual – Predicted )

The result of a team’s match is converted into a value: “Actual”. Via some formulae, the difference in rating points (strength) results in a “Predicted” value.

Should the “Actual” value be better, then the new WWR will be higher than the old one. This is fair, as the team will have delivered more than was expected. The underachiever loses the same amount of rating points as their opponents have won; their “Predicted” result is greater than their “Actual” result, i.e. they have not done as well as expected.

A conclusion that can be drawn for this basic rule is that the rating points which a team earns for a win is dependent on the strength of the opponent. A win over an extremely weak team scarcely improves their standing in the WWR, while a win over a stronger team is awarded with a clear increase of the WWR value.

1. Actual Result of the Match

The actual match result is expressed in the “Actual Match Percentage”, A.

Of course winning or losing is the most important criterion, but goal difference and goals scored are also taken into account.

2. Neutral ground or Home vs. Away

To correct the value for a home advantage, the rating points of the Home team are enhanced by a value “H”. A glance at the historical results shows that teams perform better at home than away; the home teams keep 66% of the points, while the opponents return home with 34%. To neutralise this effect, a correction is made by enhancing the rating of the home team by a value of 100 points (corresponding to 64%).

3. Importance of the match

Competitive matches are a more precise measure of the strength of a team than a friendly.

This element is taken into account by introducing the Match Importance “M” factor, which has a maximum difference between competitions of a factor of four.

4. Difference in Rating Points

The difference in rating points between the two opponents is used to predict the result of the match. For each team the predicted match percentage “P” is expressed in a value between 0 and 1 as a function of the difference in rating points.

The scale of the rating points is chosen in such a way that the very best in the world can have rating points exceeding 2000, while absolute beginners score around 1000 rating points.