Aston Villa 0-2 Wigan
The only unexpected result from these 6 matches.  Aston Villa has 2 new signing making their debut, Delph and Beye, while Wigan also has 2 new signing too at the lineup, Gomez and Thomas. Villa new signing Downing missed the game with an injury. With all the punter favoring Aston Villa in this match as Wigan lost 4 of their key player this year so far, Heskey, Palacios, Valencia and Cattermole without strong reinforcement replacing them. Didn’t expects the departure of Villa’s Captain Gareth Barry to make so much impact for the team as the team lack of influnce with Wigan seem to dominate the game with more possession and twice as much more shot in total.

Blackburn 0-2 Man City
Although Man City has a poor pre season form with 2 win, 2 draw and 3 lose, the results are quite expected, with around £100 millions being spent in the summer, only a glory victory are allowed from their manager Mark Hughes in their opening match. Both side has 3 new signing at the lineup, Givet, Jacobsen and Nzonzi for Blackburn, Toure, Barry and Adebayor for Man City side. New signing Adebayor found the net at the 2nd min with a long shot just outside penalty box and Ireland calmly put the ball into the net at 91th min to secure the win.

Bolton 0-1 Sunderland
Sunderland summer investment has paid off well. Sunderland has so far spent £24.5 million in bringing 5 new players while Bolton only spent around £8 million with same amount of players. Sunderland has 3 new signing at the lineup, Cattermole, Canas and Bent with Canas taking over the captain role from Whitehead who left for Stoke City. Bolton on the other hand got 2 new defender in the lineup, Ricketts and Knight. Darren Bent scored an early goal at 5th minute to earn Sunderland a win.

Wolves 0-2 West Ham
Quite a balance match, with just player experiences in different. West Ham has teaches newly promote Wolves a lesson of what top flight football is by 2 goals from Noble and Upson in different half. None of the goals come from their striker which is the reason Zola promised fan to bring in another reputatable striker before the transfers market closed. West Ham only including on loan Inter striker Jimenez in their lineup while Wolves has new signing Mancienne, Halford and Milijas features in the lineup.

Stoke 2-0 Burnley
A remarkable 2-0 victory at home has shown their last season home record are not a prank. Although Burnley hold 2/3 of the possession throughout the match, but Stoke has shown their solid defense which bring them 2 goalless draw with Liverpool last season. Stoke only make 1 changes from their usual lineup with new signing Whitehead featuring and Burnley has Mears and record signing Fletcher in their starting 11. A header from Shawcross and own goal by Stephen Jordan in the first half wins the game for Stoke City.

Portsmouth 0-1 Fulham
Fulham has make no changes from their last season lineup which win them the Europa League spot with Portsmouth added in Mokoena and Piquionne in their starting 11. Quite an average match, with Fulham goals come from Zamora lucky attempt from outside the penalty box into the bottom right corner. Seem like the leaving of Johnson and Crouch from Portmouth has reduce the overall team creativity and finishing.

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