My Premier league Team of The Year

Here is my Premier League XI for the 2012/13 season. Please keep in mind that this is my opinion.

Goalkeeper: David De Gea | Manchester United
What a season his had. After been heavily criticised last season, De Gea seems to have finally stepped up to his price tag. He is, by no means, the kind of player that Edwin van der Sar was in his prime, nor anywhere close to Peter Schmeichel, but this season he’s been a cut above the rest.

Left-back: Leighton Baines | Everton
Evertons most consistent player,  He is the kind of left-back that any team would be lucky to have: his work rate is phenomenal and his ability follows suit. He assisted greatly in Evertons persuit of European football.

Centre-back: Jan Vertonghen | Tottenham
Vertonghen has been outstanding, supplying goals as well as defensively being a rock.

Centre-back: Ashley Williams | Swansea
Amazing that in 2008 he was playing in League Two. Williams has been very solid in Swanseas defense this season, His blocks, clearances and interceptions top the charts.

Right-back: Pablo Zabaleta | Manchester City
Zabaleta has been City’s star player this season, and ofcourse the best Right back in the league. He's been very consistent for City.

Left-wing: Gareth Bale | Tottenham
PFA Player of the Year, PFA Young Player of the Year, he’s won games
single-handedly this season and carried Tottenham - on his own at times - to fifth place. Who knows where Spurs would have been  without him.

Centre-midfielder: Michael Carrick| Man utd
An outstanding player this season, very influential team player who knows how to read games. He's been underrated alot but this season everyone agreed that he's definatley one the best midfielders in England.

Centre-midfielder: Santi Cazorla |
Arsenal
Arsenal’s stand out player this season. Santi Cazorla has been a breath of fresh air, bringing some exciting Spanish skills to Arsenal and the league. Also great with both feet.

Right-wing: Juan Mata | Chelsea
Chelseas best player and one of the best in the league, Juan Mata played a major part in helping Chelsea get a spot in next years Champions league.

Striker: Luis Suarez | Liverpool
Suarez would have been the player of the season had it not been for the bite incident. His playing ability makes him one of the best and trickiest forwards in the Epl. Helped put liverpools season back on track with some amazing performances.

Striker: Robin van Persie | Manchester United
He left Arsenal to win a trophy - and did just that. Immediately. When he shoots he scores. Golden boot winner this season (and last season). What more can I say?

Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson | Manchester United
The best manager England has ever seen. Managing to knock liverpool off their perch and win Man utds 20th league title. What he's done for Man utd has been trully amazing.

Substitutes' bench:

Michu | Swansea
£2m was all he costed yet he managed to set the Premier League this season with his 18 goals and two assists. Absolute bargain, expect his price to triple.

Christian Benteke | Aston Villa
Had a fantastic debut season for Villa, he carried them in most games with his great scoring and dribbling ability

Luke Shaw | Southampton
One of the best breakthrough stars the league saw this season and only 18yrs old, Shaw was definately amongst the best left backs we saw this season and makes my bench.

Rafael | Man utd
Had his best season for united, he's been outstanding in defense as well as in attack.

Asmir Begovic | Stoke City
He’s been amazing between the sticks for Stoke. One of the best goalkeepers in the epl, He really helped in making Stokes defense really tight.

Other players who could be on the bench
- Steven Gerrard
- Eden Hazard
- Theo Walcott
- Romelu Lukaku
- Rio ferdinand
- Daniel Agger
- Dempsey
- Yaya Toure

My Premier league Team of The Year

Here is my Premier League XI for the 2012/13 season. Please keep in mind that this is my opinion.

Goalkeeper: David De Gea | Manchester United
What a season his had. After been heavily criticised last season, De Gea seems to have finally stepped up to his price tag. He is, by no means, the kind of player that Edwin van der Sar was in his prime, nor anywhere close to Peter Schmeichel, but this season he’s been a cut above the rest.

Left-back: Leighton Baines | Everton
Evertons most consistent player,  He is the kind of left-back that any team would be lucky to have: his work rate is phenomenal and his ability follows suit. He assisted greatly in Evertons persuit of European football.

Centre-back: Jan Vertonghen | Tottenham
Vertonghen has been outstanding, supplying goals as well as defensively being a rock.

Centre-back: Ashley Williams | Swansea
Amazing that in 2008 he was playing in League Two. Williams has been very solid in Swanseas defense this season, His blocks, clearances and interceptions top the charts.

Right-back: Pablo Zabaleta | Manchester City
Zabaleta has been City’s star player this season, and ofcourse the best Right back in the league. He's been very consistent for City.

Left-wing: Gareth Bale | Tottenham
PFA Player of the Year, PFA Young Player of the Year, he’s won games
single-handedly this season and carried Tottenham - on his own at times - to fifth place. Who knows where Spurs would have been  without him.

Centre-midfielder: Michael Carrick| Man utd
An outstanding player this season, very influential team player who knows how to read games. He's been underrated alot but this season everyone agreed that he's definatley one the best midfielders in England.

Centre-midfielder: Santi Cazorla |
Arsenal
Arsenal’s stand out player this season. Santi Cazorla has been a breath of fresh air, bringing some exciting Spanish skills to Arsenal and the league. Also great with both feet.

Right-wing: Juan Mata | Chelsea
Chelseas best player and one of the best in the league, Juan Mata played a major part in helping Chelsea get a spot in next years Champions league.

Striker: Luis Suarez | Liverpool
Suarez would have been the player of the season had it not been for the bite incident. His playing ability makes him one of the best and trickiest forwards in the Epl. Helped put liverpools season back on track with some amazing performances.

Striker: Robin van Persie | Manchester United
He left Arsenal to win a trophy - and did just that. Immediately. When he shoots he scores. Golden boot winner this season (and last season). What more can I say?

Manager: Sir Alex Ferguson | Manchester United
The best manager England has ever seen. Managing to knock liverpool off their perch and win Man utds 20th league title. What he's done for Man utd has been trully amazing.

Substitutes' bench:

Michu | Swansea
£2m was all he costed yet he managed to set the Premier League this season with his 18 goals and two assists. Absolute bargain, expect his price to triple.

Christian Benteke | Aston Villa
Had a fantastic debut season for Villa, he carried them in most games with his great scoring and dribbling ability

Luke Shaw | Southampton
One of the best breakthrough stars the league saw this season and only 18yrs old, Shaw was definately amongst the best left backs we saw this season and makes my bench.

Rafael | Man utd
Had his best season for united, he's been outstanding in defense as well as in attack.

Asmir Begovic | Stoke City
He’s been amazing between the sticks for Stoke. One of the best goalkeepers in the epl, He really helped in making Stokes defense really tight.

Other players who could be on the bench
- Steven Gerrard
- Eden Hazard
- Theo Walcott
- Romelu Lukaku
- Rio ferdinand
- Daniel Agger
- Dempsey
- Yaya Toure

Liverpool vs Chelsea Match preview

It's that time of the year when Red colides with Blue once again in what is destined to be a thrilling encounter! Added to this emotions are flying out over Rafa Bentiez and Fernando Torres return to merseyside as well as Daniel Sturridge playing against his former club, That's why we love the english premier league after all, for moments like this. Another curious twist comes in; When Benitez was making Liverpool the champions of Europe again in 2005, Brendan Rodgers was less than a year into his role as head of youth.... at Chelsea.

Liverpool come back from two disappointing Draws with West Ham united and Reading F.C and hoping for (ofcourse) 3pts. PFA POTY nominee Luis Suarez will be hoping to add to his 22 league goals and prove why he should win the award, and with 20yr old midfield Phillipe Coutinho proving to be a great buy, liverpool have just enough firepower to fend off the blues, if they take their chances that is. Chelsea will need to shut off the Gerrard - Suarez connection in order to cut liverpools game plan, because as we've seen before when Suarez is isolated liverpool don't play well.

Chelsea's squad will be boosted by the (possible) returns of Ashley Cole and Gary Cahill. Not much changes should be expected in the line up that beat Fulham except upfront where Demba Ba is expected to replace Torres due to Benitez' squad rotation policy. So Juan Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Ramirez and Lampard will fill the Chelsea midfield. Chelseas main threat will be Juan Mata (another POTY nominee) and Eden Hazard, Liverpool will have to make sure they shut them up in order to control the game.

As always, expect a truely entertaining game in merseyside tomorrow! One that might be the last Gerrard vs Lampard match we'l ever see, One you should feel guilty if you miss it.

Likely line ups

Liverpool(4-2-3-1):
----------Reina----------
Johnson----Carragher---Agger---Enrique
---Gerrard------Lucas----------
---Downing----Coutinho----Suarez----
--------Sturridge----------

Chelsea (Possible, 4-2-3-1):
--------------Cech--------------
Azpilicueta---Ivanovic----Luiz---Bertrand
-------Mikel----Ramires----------
-----Hazard-----Mata-------Oscar
------------Ba----------

Match Prediction:

Liverpool 3-2 Chelsea

Stat: In 69 league visits to Anfield, Chelsea have won just nine, while losing 46.

Other stats
- The Reds are four points and 19 goals better off than at this stage last season.
- Only Manchester City have kept more clean sheets this season than Liverpool's 13.
- Luis Suarez needs one goal to become the first Liverpool player to score 30 in a season in all competitions since Fernando Torres in 2007-08.
- Chelsea have five more points than at the same stage last season.
- They (Chelsea) ended a three-match losing streak in away fixtures by beating Fulham 3-0 in midweek.
- Frank Lampard made his 600th appearance for Chelsea in the midweek win over Fulham. He is two goals shy of Bobby Tambling's club record tally of 202.

QPR vs Liverpool Match Preview

Liverpool travel to Loftus road this sunday with the hopes of bouncing back off the humiliation 3-1 loss to Stoke City on boxing day.Both teams see this fixture as a must win & both will see this one as a fixture they can both win.Last season this fixture ended 3-2 after Qpr staged a comeback in a somewhat freaky match that saw Qpr score 3 goals in the last 14minutes of the game.

QPR have been unbelievably poor this season & it's worse considering the squad they have.They have only won 1 match thus far,a record that if continued would make them the worst team in the premier league since Derby county.They currently have the same number of points as Reading and 3pts here would be a massive boost for Harry.Qpr would need to be at their best though as liverpool have the potential ability to outplay them in every area.Andy Johnson,Bobby Zamora,Jose Bosingwa, Julio Cesar and captain Park Ji-Sung are also doubts for Sunday's clash through injury.

Liverpool on the other hand have been too inconsistent this season & a loss here would mean Brendan Rogders would have amassed the same number of points as Roy Hogson.Suarez has been declares fit to play which is a massive boost seeing that he's liverpools most important player.A win for liverpool will depend heavily on how good Suarez and Gerrard will be that night.

Likely line ups

Qpr - Green Fabio, Ferdinand, Hill, Traore, Wright-Phillips, Faurlin, Mbia, Taarabt, Cisse, Mackie

Liverpool-Reina Johnson, Skrtel, Agger, Enrique, Lucas, Gerrard, Allen, Downing, Suarez, Sterling

My Prediction

Qpr 1-3 Liverpool

Qpr have been very poor this season and so has liverpool,but i just can't see Qpr win this one.One thing thats for sure is that Liverpool won't get a clean sheet in this fixture as they have been poor at the back..perhaps a Taarabt or Cisse goal.