BORUSSIA DORTMUND HAD 7 SHOTS WITH 1 ON TARGET – AND A MOST SUCCESSFUL ONE AT THAT, FROM KARIM ADEYEMI AT 22 MINS IN THE MATCH BETWEEN BORUSSIA DORTMUND AND LILLE LAST NIGHT! LILLE HAD 9 SHOTS WITH 1 ON TARGET WITH, AGAIN, ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT WITH HAKON HAROLDSSON CELEBRATES SCORING HIS GOAL HAKON ARNAR HARALDSSON REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET IN THE SECOND-HALF AT 68 MINS! IT WAS AN ALL-ACTION MATCH, WITH DORTMUND MAKING 431 PASSES WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, AND LILLE MAKING 576 PASSES, WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY, BUT WITH NOTHING FURTHER REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, THE MATCH ENDED IN AN EXCITING 1 – 1 DRAW!
WHAT A NIGHT FOR ARSENAL LAST NIGHT IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST PSV EINDHOVEN! ARSENAL HAD A WHOPPING 15 SHOTS, WITH 8 SHOTS ON TARGET, INCLUDING 7 WHICH REACHED-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, COURTESY OF JURRIEN TIMBER AT 18 MINS., ETHAN NWANERI AT 21 MINS., MIKEL MERINO AT 31 MINS., MARTIN ODEGAARD WITH A BRACE AT 37 MINS., AND 73 MINS. RESPECTIVELY, LEANDRO TROSSARD’S CRACKER AT 48 MINS., AND RICCARDO CALAFIORI’S STUNNING LATE FINISHER AT 85 MINS! AND WITH PSV’S NOA LANG SCORING A GREAT GOAL FROM A PENALTY, AT 43 MINS., THIS EXCITING GAME FINISHED IN A 7 – 1 TRIUMPH TO ARSENAL!
ASTON VILLA HAD 7 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, AND MADE 409 PASSES, WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY YESTERDAY, INCLUDING TWO STUNNING GOALS FROM LEON BAILEY, WITH AN EARLY OPENER AT JUST 3 MINS. INTO THE MATCH, PLUS MARCO ASENSIO’S CLINICAL PENALTY SHOT AT 88 MINS! CLUB BRUGGE MADE 518 PASSES WITH AN 89% PASS ACCURACY AND HAD 11 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKING SHOT FROM MAXIM DE CUYPER AT 12 MINS. BUT WITH AN UNFORTUNATE OWN GOAL FROM BRANDON MECHELE AT 82 MINS., THIS EXCITING MATCH CULMINATED IN IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO ASTON VILLA. (THEIR SIXTH WIN IN NINE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE MATCHES THIS SEASON!) UNAI EMERY SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH “IT WAS AS WE PLANNED. MY EXPECTATION WAS TO FACE THE DIFFICULTIES WE HAD. WE HAD RESPECT AND TRIED TO ADAPT TO THEM MORE THAN USUAL LIK...
IT WAS IPSWICH TOWN’S GEORGE HIRST WHO SCORED FIRST AT 53 MINS. IN LAST NIGHT’S MATCH BETWEEN IPSWICH TOWN VS NOTTINGHAM FOREST, (MUCH TO THE JUBILATIONS OF THE 2,000 STRONG TRAVELLING CROWD), WITH IPSWICH HAVING 11 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, AND MAKING 502 PASSES, WITH AN 80% PASS ACCURACY. AND THERE WERE 22 SHOTS FOR NOTTINGHAM FOREST WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING RYAN YATES’ CRACKER AT 68 MINS., WITH FOREST MAKING 567 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY. (AND 54% POSSESSION OF THE BALL.) SO, WITH THE MATCH ENDING IN A 1 – 1 DRAW AT 90 MINS., IT WENT INTO EXTRA TIME, AND WITH NO FURTHER GOALS THEN, ONTO SOME EXCITING PENALTIES, WHICH RESULTED IN LAST NIGHT’S PENALTY HERO MATZ SELS SAVING JACK TAYLOR’S ‘SUDDEN DEATH’ PENALTY IN THE SHOOTOUT, AND T...
THE NEWCASTLE UNITED MATCH WAS FULL OF DRAMA YESTERDAY, WITH NEWCASTLE’S ISAK SHOWING JUST HOW IT WAS DONE, ISAK SCORES FOR THE FIRST GOAL SCORING A CRACKER FROM A PENALTY AT 22 MINUTES WHICH SENT MUCH EXCITEMENT AROUND THE STADIUM! INDEED, NEWCASTLE HAD 15 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, MADE 534 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY THROUGHOUT. BUT IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG AFTER THAT FOR BRIGHTON TO EQUALISE WITH A STUNNER FROM YANKUBA MINTEH AT 44 MINUTES! DURING THE MATCH, ANTHONY GORDON WAS SENT OFF FOR VIOLENT CONDUCT JUST BEFORE THE END OF NORMAL TIME, AFTER SOME ARGEY-BARGEY WITH JAN PAUL VAN HECKE WHEN HE CAUGHT HIM IN THE FACE AFTER THEY WENT AFTER THE BALL, AND WILL NOW BE BANNED FOR 3 MATCHES, INCLUDING THE CARABAO CUP. TARIQ LAMPTEY WAS ALSO RED CARDED IN THE 91ST MINUTE (AFTER ...
ANOTHER LOOK BACK AT AN ACTION-PACKED AND BALMY EVENING IN PORTO, WHICH WAS FILLED WITH EXCITED FANS, ON SATURDAY 29TH MAY 2021, WHEN CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB STORMED TO VICTORY AGAINST MANCHESTER CITY, MUCH TO THE DELIGHT OF THEIR OWNER ROMAN ABRAMOVICH CHELSEA CELEBRATE WITH OWNER ROMAN ABRAMOVICH AND MANAGER THOMAS TUCHEL ‘GETS THE PARTY STARTED’ WITH CHAMPAGNE IN THE DRESSING ROOM FOLLOWING THEIR WIN. HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CHELSEA VS MANCHESTER CITY MATCH ON 29/5/2021 THOMAS TUCHEL SHOWS THE TROPHY JUST HOW MUCH IT MEANS TO HIM…! “I MAY HAVE A NEW CONTRACT, I SPOKE TO THE OWNER” – SAYS THOMAS TUCHEL LOVELY INTERVIEW WITH MASON MOUNT FOLLOWING CHELSEA TRIUMPH KAI HAVERTZ AND CAPTAIN CESAR AZPILICUETA ARE OVERWHELMED WITH HAPPINESS AFTER THE MATCH AND SPEAK...
MARCUS RASHFORD AND MARCO ASENSIO ARE BECOMING QUITE THE DOUBLE-ACT NOW, WITH RASHFORD’S SUPERB ASSIST TO ASENSIO AT 68 MINS. RESULTING IN A STUPENDOUS GOAL! ASTON VILLA HAD 25 SHOTS, WITH 10 ON TARGET. (INDEED, CARDIFF’S GOALKEEPER ETHAN HORVATH HAD SAVED 7 ASTON VILLA GOALS BY THE TIME THE RASHFORD/ASENSIO GOAL HIT-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET.) ASENSIO SCORED ANOTHER CRACKER AT 80 MINS. WHICH HAD THE STADIUM IN RAPTURES. AND ALTHOUGH CARDIFF CITY HAD FRUSTRATED VILLA THROUGHOUT THE MATCH WITH THEIR ENERGETIC PLAY AND GREAT DEFENDING, (ALSO HAVING 4 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET) THEY DID NOT MANAGE TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO ASTON VILLA, WHO NOW MOVE INTO THE QUARTER-FINALS! ASTON VILLA BOSS UNAI EMERY SPEAKS AFTER ...
IT WAS GREAT TO SEE ERLING HAALAND BACK TO HIS BRILLIANT BEST (AFTER MISSING THE LAST TWO GAMES DUE TO INJURY) AND IT DIDN’T TAKE LONG TO SEE JUST HOW FIT AND HEALTHY HE WAS! HE WAS PASSED THE BALL BY JEREMY DOKU AND CASUALLY TAPPED IT INTO THE GOAL OFF THE SIDE OF HIS BOOT AT JUST 12 MINS. INTO THE MATCH! TOTTENHAM HAD 11 SHOTS IN TOTAL, INCLUDING 6 ON TARGET, (AND INTERESTINGLY, 56% POSSESSION), AND MADE 529 PASSES WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, AND MAN CITY HAD 12 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET (INCLUDING HAALAND’S) AND MADE 416 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY. BUT WITH NO FURTHER GOALS, ERLING HAALAND’S GOAL REMAINED THE ONLY AND WINNING GOAL OF THE MATCH AND RESULTED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO MAN CITY! PEP GUARDIOLA SPEAKS AFTER THE GAME “THE GAME WAS OPEN IN THE SECOND ...
PREMIER LEAGUE : MAN UNITED VS IPSWICH – 26/02/2025 – (PHOTO – JADEN PHILOGENE CELEBRATES) IPSWICH TOWN’S JADEN PHILOGENE SCORED THE FIRST PART OF A BRILLIANT BRACE AT JUST 4 MINS INTO THE MATCH AGAINST MAN UNITED YESTERDAY, (WITH HIS TEAM-MATE SAM MORSY SCORING AN UNFORTUNATE OWN GOAL A LITTLE AFTERWARDS AT 22 MINS.) MAN UNITED HAD 10 SHOTS WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A FURTHER 2 GOALS, WITH THE FIRST FROM MATTHIJS DE LIGT AT 26 MINS. AND THEN HARRY MAGUIRE AT 47 MINS. (WITH PATRICK DORGU BEING RED CARDED AT 43 MINS., THEREBY GOING DOWN TO 10 MEN!) IPSWICH TOWN HAD 12 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET INCLUDING THE 2ND PART OF JADEN PHILOGENE’S BRACE AT 45+2 MINS., (RETAINING 56% POSSESSION), BUT WITH NOTHING FURTHER REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET THIS EXCITING MATCH E...
PREMIER LEAGUE : NEWCASTLE VS NOTTINGHAM FOREST – 23/03/2025 WELL, IF IT WAS ENTERTAINMENT YOU WERE LOOKING FOR ON SUNDAY, IT DOESN’T COME MUCH BETTER THAN THIS! A SEVEN-GOAL-THRILLER! IT WAS FOREST’S CALLUM HUDSON-ODOI WHO GOT THE PARTY STARTED AT JUST 6 MINS. AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO NEWCASTLE’S LEWIS MILEY TO SCORE AT 23 MINS., FOLLOWED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BY ANOTHER CRACKER FROM HIS TEAM-MATE JACOB MURPHY AT 25 MINS., AND THEN ANOTHER NEWCASTLE TEAM-MATE, ALEXANDER ISAK FOLLOWED ON WITH A BRILLIANT BRACE! ONCE FROM A PENALTY AT 33 MINS., AND ANOTHER JUST A MINUTE LATER AT 34 MINS! AND THEN IT WAS BACK OVER TO FOREST’S NIKOLA MILENKOVIC TO SCORE AT 63 MINS., AND WITH HIS TEAM-MATE SCORING A LATE CRACKER AT 90 MINS., (WHICH WAS NOT ENOUGH TO EQUALISE) THIS...
PREMIER LEAGUE : ASTON VILLA VS CHELSEA – 22/02/2025 – (PHOTO – MARCO ASENSIO CELEBRATES) IT WAS CHELSEA’S ENZO FERNANDEZ WHO GOT THE BALL ROLLING AT 9 MINS. ON SATURDAY INTO THE MATCH BETWEEN ASTON VILLA VS CHELSEA, AND ALTHOUGH THEY HAD 15 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET, AND 446 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, NOTHING FURTHER REACHED-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET. ASTON VILLA MADE 484 PASSES, WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 12 SHOTS, WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNING BRACE FROM MARCO ASENSIO AT 57 MINS., AND 89 MINS., (WHICH WERE ASSISTED BOTH TIMES BY MARCUS RASHFORD) SO THIS DYNAMIC MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO ASTON VILLA! PREMIER LEAGUE : IPSWICH TOWN VS TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR – 22/02/2025 (PHOTO – DJED SPENCE CELEBRATES) TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR LOOKED PR...
THERE WERE 9 SHOTS FOR EVERTON YESTERDAY IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST MAN UNITED, WITH 8 SHOTS ON TARGET, INCLUDING A CRACKER FROM BETO AT 19 MINS., AND ANOTHER FROM ABDOULAYE COUCOURE AT 33 MINS., WITH 9 SHOTS AND 3 ON TARGET FOR MAN UNITED, INCLUDING 1 FROM BRUNO FERNANDES AT 72 MINS., AND ANOTHER STUNNER FROM MANUEL UGARTE AT 80 MINS. THERE WAS A LITTLE CONTROVERSY WHEN EVERTON SAW A PENALTY OVERTURNED BY VAR IN EXTRA TIME, AFTER ASHLEY YOUNG HIT THE DECK FOLLOWING SOME SHIRT-TUGGING FROM MATTHIJS DE LIGT, WITH HARRY MAGUIRE PUTTING A HAD ON HIM, AND REF ANDY MADLEY DECLARED A PENALTY, BUT VAR DISAGREED AND THE MATCH CULMINATED IN A 2 – 2 DRAW! DAVID MOYES SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH SPEAKING OF WHEN THE DECISION HAD BEEN ON THE MAGUIRE FOUL “SO DID THEY LOOK AT THE SHIRT PULL? SO THE...