It was a sad moment for the whole United Kingdom as the longest serving monarch Queen Elizabeth II passed on.
The queen died on Thursday, 8th September 2022, Balmoral Castle, United Kingdom after 70 years on the Throne.
As a mark of respect for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the English premier league and The English football association paid tribute to her majesty the Queen, by postponing all Matchweek 7's fixtures.
We all missed the premier league for that weekend as we all as well mourn the death of the Queen.
Finally EPL is back for game week 8 (relieved I was bored without my lovely weekend football)
Seven of the 10 Matchweek 8 fixtures will be played, with three postponed due to events surrounding The Queen’s funeral.
Matches Postponed are :
Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal Palace - due to planned industrial action on the rail network. While chelsea vs Liverpool and Manchester United vs Leeds United were postponed with concerns over a lack of police resources due to Queen Elizabeth II's funeral, which takes place on Monday – less than 24 hours after the game was scheduled to kick off.
The EPL game week 8 kicked off on Friday, 16th with Aston Villa hosting the Saints (Southampton) at the Villa park and Nottingham Forest hosting Fulham
Both matches were played simultaneously as players were seen wearing the black hand ban , standing a minute silence and singing of the national anthem to pay tribute to the longest served monarch Queen Elizabeth II, right before the kickoff.
Aston Villa narrowly escaped with a one -zero win over Southampton, thanks to Jacob Ramsey's wonderful finish which made the difference.
On the other side at the Nottingham Forest football club stadium, City ground, Awoniyi scored to put the tricky tress ahead right into half time , but The Cottagers came back stronger after the break leading by 2 goals
At the 70mins the whole fans was seen clapping which represents the 70years reign of her majesty.
O'Brien of forest pulled one back at the 77th minutes to end the game at 2-3. Fulham won the match, three points and 3 goals without their bully striker Mitrovic getting on the scoresheet.
Saturday 17th approaches with a more interesting features as we see the citizens (Manchester City) devour wolves in a Molineux mauling, Jack Grealish was off the mark in the first minutes, followed by the current highest goal scorer Haaland in the 16th minutes as Foden added the 3rd on the 69th minutes before the 70min appreciation clap oviation signifying her 70years reign.
The interesting day continued as the draw specialist (NewCastle United) were seen frustrated by the cherries (Bournemouth) a lovely second half display by the cherries saw Billings scores in the 62min while Isak equalised in the 67mins from the spot kick.
The match ended in a 1-1 draw at piece. As we look forward to the highlight of the day between Tottenham Hotspur and the Foxes ( Liecester City) in a thrilling 8 goals encounter.
The first half saw a thrilling 4 goals from both teams as the first half ended in a 2-2 . Courtesy of goals from kane, Dier ; Tielemans, and Maddison
The best half of the game started brilliantly as spurs added the third from Bentacur capping on an error from Ndidi, before sloting home the ball. Son was introduced in the fifty- eight minutes as Brazilian Richardlison made way, With his first screamer in the seventy two minutes aiming for the top right corner and with a second ten minute later curling home the ball into the net with his left foot and the third.
Son with a thirteen minute son-sentional hatrick claiming the match ball.
The win pushed spurs up the table leveled with Manchester City as we await the results of Brendford and Arsenal on Sunday.
The kickoff started at exactly 12:00pm on Sunday as Brendford and Arsenal followed suit in paying tribute to the queen with the black hand ban, a minute silence and singing of the nation's anthem before kickoff.
Arsenal's Gabriel Jesus rise to gun down the Bees ,
The match ended in a three goal dominant win from the Gunners, with the first goal coming from Saliba, the second from Jesus heading home a fine pass from xhaka.
Viera on his PL(premier league)full debut scored a screamer in the 49min to dead the game.
Fifiten years old nwaneri made his debut at arsenal making him the youngest premier league player to ever play, the youngest in Arsenal history and the youngest in English top division
The last match of the week between Everton and West Ham United start at 14.15
The Maupay difference came in , in the 53rd minutes, scoring his First goal for Everton.
Neal Maupay has scored in all three of his PL starts against West Ham - against no side has he scored more goals in the league than against the Hammers
What a week EPl is always fun to watch