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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : ASTON VILLA VS PSG – 15/04/2025 (PHOTO – JOHN MCGINN SCORES FOR ASTON VILLA)
ASTON VILLA HAD A WHOPPING 17 SHOTS LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST PSG, WITH 9 ON TARGET, IN AN AMAZING COMEBACK, INCLUDING THREE STUNNERS FROM YOURI TIELEMANS AT 34 MINS., JOHN MCGINN AT 55 MINS., AND EZRI KONSA AT 57 MINS. PSG HAD 14 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING TWO CRACKERS FROM ACHRAF HAKIMI AT 11 MINS., AND NUNO MENDES AT 27 MINS., BUT WITH NO FURTHER GOALS, THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 3 – 2 WIN TO ASTON VILLA! (BUT HEARTBREAK, AS THEY WILL NOW HAVE TO EXITE THE COMPETITION AS PSG WON 4 – 5 ON AGGREGATE.) “I’M PROUD OF MY TEAM” SAID UNAI EMERY AFTER THE MATCH
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : BORUSSIA DORTMUND VS BARCELONA – 15/04/2025 (PHOTO – SERHOU GUIRASSY CELEBRATES)
BORUSSIA DORTMUND MUST BE FEELING CHIPPER TODAY, AND ESPECIALLY SERHOU GUIRASSY AFTER NETTING HIS BRILLIANT HAT-TRICK, MAKING HIM THE HIGHEST SCORING AFRICAN PLAYER IN A SINGLE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE CAMPAIGN! FIRSTLY, WITH A CLINICAL SHOT FROM A PENALTY AT 11 MINS., AND THEN ANOTHER STUNNER AT 49 MINS., FOLLOWED BY A SUPERB GOAL AT 76 MINS! DORTMUND HAD 18 SHOTS, WITH 11 ON TARGET IN FACT, AND BARCELONA HAD 7 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, BUT WITH NOTHING REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET APART FROM AN UNFORTUNATE OWN GOAL FROM RAMY BENSEBAINI AT 54 MINS., THE MATCH ENDED IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO BORUSSIA DORTMUND, WITH DORTMUND FANS STANDING TO APPLAUD THEIR PLAYERS AT THE FINAL WHISTLE AFTER THEIR INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE DURING THE MATCH. BARCELONA WILL NOW GO THROUGH BECAUSE OF THEIR FIRST LEG ADVANTAGE...
OSCAR PIASTRI WINS THE BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2025 (PHOTO – LANDO NORRIS CONGRATULATES OSCAR PIASTRI)
OSCAR PIASTRI HAS WON THE BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2025! ANYONE WANT TO SEE HOW HE DID IT? WATCH ALL THE HIGHLIGHTS HERE! HERE IS MARTIN BRUNDLE’S FULL GRID-WALK FROM THE BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2025
MAX VERSTAPPEN WINS THE JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2025
WATCH HERE AS MAX VERSTAPPEN STORMS TO VICTORY AT THE JAPANESE GRAND PRIX IN 1:22:06.983, WITH LANDO NORRIS SECOND (+1.423), OSCAR PIASTRI THIRD (+2.129), AND CHARLES LECLERC FOURTH (+16.097) – STAY TUNED FOR MORE…! TED’S NOTEBOOK FROM THE JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2025
HIGHLIGHTS OF FP1, FP2 AND QUALIFYING AT THE JAPANESE GRAND PRIX WEEKEND
ANYONE WANT TO SEE THE FP1 AND FP2 PRACTICE SESSIONS FROM A SUNNY JAPAN WHICH TOOK PLACE OVERNIGHT AND EARLY THIS MORNING? STAY TUNED FOR MORE EXCITEMENT! QUALIFYING HIGHLIGHTS OF THE JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2025 HERE IS TED’S QUALIFYING NOTEBOOK FROM THE JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
PREMIER LEAGUE : NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS MAN UNITED – (PHOTO – ANTHONY ELANGA CELEBRATES)
MAN UNITED MADE A WHOPPING 649 PASSES WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 69% POSSESSION), AND 23 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET IN LAST NIGHT’S MATCH AGAINST NOTTINGHAM FOREST! NOTTINGHAM FOREST MADE 310 PASSES, WITH A 73% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 8 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANTHONY ELANGA’S UNBELIEVABLE OPENER AT 5 MINS. WHEN HE DANCED THE BALL 85 METRES UP THE PITCH (IN 9 SECONDS), AND POWERED IT INTO THE GOAL FROM ABOUT 45 METRES! IT WAS ASTONISHING! AND WITH NO OTHER GOALS THROUGHOUT THE MATCH ANTHONY’S GOAL WAS THE MATCH-WINNER, WITH NOTTINGHAM FOREST WINNING 1 – 0. ANTHONY ELANGA SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH “IT’S ABOUT ATTACKING THE SPACE AND GETTING TO THE EDGE OF THE BOX AS QUICK AS YOU CAN, THAT’S WHERE YOU CAN HURT THE OPPOSITION, I SAW THE SPACE...
FA CUP QUARTER-FINAL : PRESTON NORTH END VS ASTON VILLA – 30/03/2025 (PHOTO – MARCUS RASHFORD AND ASTON VILLA CELEBRATE)
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL SUNNY AFTERNOON IT WAS FOR THE MATCH BETWEEN PRESTON NORTH END VS ASTON VILLA ON 30/03/2025! AND WHAT A SUPERB TIME FOR MARCUS RASHFORD TO SHOW YET AGAIN JUST WHAT HE’S MADE OF! SCORING 2 BEAUTIFUL GOALS AT 58 MINS., AND THEN 63 MINS. (THE LATTER, FROM AN EXPERTLY TAKEN “DOUBLE-BLUFF / STUTTER” STYLE PENALTY) – AN EXTREMELY CONFIDENT LOOKING RASHFORD ONCE AGAIN ‘CAME INTO HIS OWN’, AND WITH A 3RD GOAL FROM HIS TEAM-MATE JACOB RAMSEY AT 71 MINS., ASTON VILLA WERE ABLE TO SHOW OFF THEIR WORLD CLASS SKILLS TO THEIR HAPPY TRAVELLING FANS! (WHO HAD BEEN A TAD DISCONCERTED EARLIER BY THE AMOUNTS OF BALLOONS WHICH FELL ON THE PITCH!) PRESTON TRIED THEIR VERY BEST, MAKING 212 PASSES, WITH A 70% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 4 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET, B...
CHAMPIONSHIP : SHEFFIELD UNITED VS COVENTRY – 28/03/2025 (PHOTO – GUS HAMER CELEBRATES)
IT WAS ALL-ACTION LAST NIGHT IN THE MATCH BETWEEN SHEFFIELD UNITED VS COVENTRY, WITH SHEFFIELD MAKING 365 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAVING 16 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING THREE SHOTS WHICH SUCCESSFULLY REACHED-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET FROM GUSTAVO HAMER (WHO SKILFULLY AIMED THE BALL OVER THE COVENTRY WALL AND DOWN INTO GOAL, WHICH ONE COULD NOW SAY ‘IN A WORLD CLASS “REECE JAMES-ESQUE” FASHION’) AT 19 MINS., ANOTHER CRACKER FROM TYRESE CAMPBELL AT 30 MINS. (BELOW) AND A STUNNER FROM RHIAN BREWSTER AT 62 MINS (BELOW) COVENTRY MADE 517 PASSES, WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY (AND INTERESTINGLY, HAD 59% POSSESSION), WITH 11 SHOTS AND 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A SUPERB LATE GOAL FROM JACK RUDONI AT 90 +2 MINS. (BELOW) WHICH, BY THEN, WAS TOO LATE TO SUPERSEDE SHEFFI...
CARABAO CUP : LIVERPOOL VS NEWCASTLE UNITED – 16/03/2025 (PHOTO – NEWCASTLE CELEBRATE WINNING THE CARABAO CUP)
WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CARABAO CUP FINAL BETWEEN LIVERPOOL VS NEWCASTLE UNITED YESTERDAY, WHERE NEWCASTLE MADE 227 PASSES, WITH A 62% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 17 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING 2 CRACKERS FROM DAN BURN AT 45 MINS., AND ALEXANDER ISAK AT 52 MINS. LIVERPOOL MADE 450 PASSES WITH A 79% PASS ACCURACY AND HAD 7 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A SUPERB LATE GOAL FROM FEDERICO CHIESA AT 90 +4 MINS., BUT IT WASN’T ENOUGH TO EQUALISE BY THEN, AND THE MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 1 TO NEWCASTLE, SECURING THEIR FIRST DOMESTIC TROPHY IN 70 YEARS! WITH THEM SHORTLY AFTERWARDS LIFTING THE CARABAO CUP MUCH TO THE DELIGHT OF THEIR 32,000 STRONG TRAVELLING FANS AND SUPPORTERS BACK HOME!
WOMEN’S CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : CHELSEA VS MAN CITY – 27/03/2025 (PHOTO – THE CHELSEA GIRLS CELEBRATE)
CHELSEA MUST BE FEELING CHIPPER TODAY, AFTER THEIR RESULT IN THE MATCH AGAINST MAN CITY LAST NIGHT! ALTHOUGH, IT WAS MUCH-OF-A-MUCHNESS WITH PASSES AND POSSESSION, WITH MAN CITY MAKING 387 PASSES, WITH A 74% PASS ACCURACY, (AND 49% POSSESSION), AND CHELSEA MAKING 389 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, (AND 51% POSSESSION), HOWEVER, WHEN IT CAME TO SHOTS, CHELSEA HAD 22 SHOTS, WITH 11 ON TARGET, INCLUDING THREE SUCCESSFUL STUNNERS FROM SANDY BALTIMORE AT 14 MINS., NATHALIE BJORN AT 38 MINS., AND MAYRA RAMIREZ AT 43 MINS. MAN CITY HAD 11 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, BUT WITH NO FURTHER GOALS IN THE GAME, IT CULMINATED IN A 3 – 0 WIN TO CHELSEA, (3 – 2 ON AGGREGATE.) CHELSEA WILL NOW FACE BARCELONA IN THE LAST FOUR OVER TWO LEGS, BUT SADLY FOR MAN CITY, THEIR CHAMPIONS LEAGUE JOURNEY I...
WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS : NORTH MACEDONIA VS WALES – 25/03/2025 (PHOTO – WALES SALUTE THEIR FANS)
THERE WAS MUCH LATE DRAMA LAST NIGHT IN THE MATCH BETWEEN NORTH MACEDONIA VS WALES! IT WAS A CAGEY (AND NOISY) AFFAIR THROUGHOUT, THE 90 MINS. WITH BOTH SETS OF LOYAL FANS IN THE STADIUM ON THE EDGE-OF-THEIR-SEATS, WAITING FOR THEIR HEROES TO SCORE (AND TRYING TO DISTRACT THE OTHER SIDE WHEN THEY WERE ‘ON-THE-BALL’.) NORTH MACEDONIA MADE 246 PASSES, WITH A 66% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 8 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKING LATE GOAL FROM BOJAN MIOVSKI AT 90 + 1MINS., BOJAN MIOVSKI SCORES FOR NORTH MACEDONIA AT 90 +1 MINS. WHICH MANY THOUGHT FOR A BRIEF MOMENT MEANT THAT THE MATCH WAS OVER-AND-DONE-WITH! BUT NOT TO BE, BECAUSE SHORTLY AFTERWARDS (AT 90 +6 MINS.) WALES’ GOLDEN BOY DAVID BROOKS SCORED AN ABSOLUTE STUNNER! DAVID BROOKS SCORES FOR WALES AT 90 +6 MIN...
WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS : ENGLAND VS LATVIA – 24/03/2025 (PHOTO – HARRY KANE CELEBRATES)
WHAT A NIGHT FOR ENGLAND LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST LATVIA! ENGLAND MADE 686 PASSES, WITH A 94% PASS ACCURACY, (PLUS 74% POSSESSION) AND HAD 27 SHOTS, WITH 8 ON TARGET, INCLUDING WHAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS A “BECKHAMESQUE WONDERGOAL” FROM REECE JAMES AT 38 MINS, WHEN HE CURLED IN A FREE-KICK RIGHT OVER THE LATVIAN WALL AND DOWN INTO THE BACK OF THE NET! IT WAS AMAZING! IT WAS HARRY KANE’S TURN NEXT WITH A CLASS ACT AT 68 MINS. REECE JAMES CELEBRATES HIS ‘WONDERGOAL’ AND THEN OVER TO EBERECHI EZE, WHO CAME ON FROM THE BENCH JUST AFTER AN HOUR, WITH SHEER DELIGHT ON HIS FACE EBERECHI EZE (R) AND ENGLAND CELEBRATE HIS CRACKING GOAL AND, WITH SOME CREATIVE PLAY, SCORED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS AT 76 MINS. LATVIA WERE NO WALK-OVER THOUGH, AND THEIR VIGILANT, WE...
