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 ...
WEST HAM’S TOMAS SOUCEK COULD NOT HAVE CELEBRATED HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY IN ANY BETTER FASHION YESTERDAY THAN SCORING THE OPENING GOAL OF THE MATCH BETWEEN WEST HAM VS LEICESTER CITY, WITH A CRACKER AT 21 MINS AFTER HE STAYED ALERT FOLLOWING A COMPLICATED REBOUND FROM A SHOT BY KUDUS, WHICH WAS SAVED BY HERMANSEN, AND ENDED UP ON THE END OF HIS BOOT FOLLOWED BY AN IMPRESSIVE GOAL! JARROD BOWEN CELEBRATES THERE WERE 8 SHOTS IN TOTAL FOR WEST HAM, INCLUDING 2 ON TARGET, WITH ANOTHER EXPERTLY CRAFTED GOAL BY JARROD BOWEN, WHICH WAS HEADING STRAIGHT IN, BEFORE IT WAS DEFENDED BY LEICESTER’S JANNIK VESTERGAARD, WHO HELPED IT ON IT’S WAY TO THE BACK-OF-THE-NET, JUST BEFORE HALF-TIME AT 43 MINS! (OWN GOAL). LEICESTER HAD 10 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, BUT WITH NOTHING ACTUALLY REACHI...
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 ...
THANKS TO TWO SUPERB GOALS FROM DOMINIK SZOBOSZLAI AT 11 MINS. AND ALEXIS MAC ALLISTER AT 63 MINS. (AND DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE MATCH BETWEEN FOREST VS ARSENAL RESULTED IN A GOALLESS DRAW), LIVERPOOL ARE NOW 13 POINTS AHEAD OF ARSENAL AT THE TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE! NEWCASTLE TRIED THEIR VERY BEST, BUT FOUND IT HARD TO EQUALISE LIVERPOOL’S DEXTERITY. THEY HAD 3 SHOTS, AND MADE 366 PASSES, WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY. LIVERPOOL HAD 12 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING THE 2 AFOREMENTIONED GOALS), AND MADE 594 PASSES WITH AN 89% ACCURACY, ALL CULMINATING IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO LIVERPOOL! BY AMANDA WATERS
PREMIER LEAGUE : NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS ARSENAL – 26/02/2025 THERE WERE 6 SHOTS FOR NOTTINGHAM FOREST WITH 2 ON TARGET, MAKING 268 PASSES WITH A 74% PASS ACCURACY YESTERDAY, WITH ARSENAL HAVING 13 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET, AND MAKING 502 PASSES, WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, RETAINING 66% POSSESSION OF THE BALL. IT WAS ALSO QUITE FEISTY, WITH 17 FOULS FROM ARSENAL AND 10 FROM FOREST, WITH 1 YELLOW-CARD-A-PIECE. (AND A COUPLE OF CONTROVERSIAL PENALTY DECISIONS.) BUT WITH NOTHING ACTUALLY HITTING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, IT WAS STALEMATE (0 – 0), WITH ARSENAL NOW 13 POINTS BEHIND LIVERPOOL AT THE TOP OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE!
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 : BRENTFORD VS EVERTON – 26/02/2025 JAKE O’BRIEN SCORES FOR EVERTON BRENTFORD HAD 12 SHOTS YESTERDAY, WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNING GOAL FROM YOANNE WISSA AT 45 +4 MINS., PLUS ALSO 458 PASSES, WITH AN 83% PASS ACCURACY (AND 52% POSSESSION), AND WITH EVERTON HAVING 14 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM JAKE O’BRIEN AT 77 MINS., AND MAKING 425 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY, THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 1 – 1 DRAW!
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...
PREMIER LEAGUE – BOURNEMOUTH VS WOLVES – 22/02/2025 MATHEUS CUNHA’S STUNNING FIRST-HALF GOAL FOR WOLVES WAS AN EYE-OPENER FOR BOURNEMOUTH YESTERDAY, (FOLLOWING SOME SLIGHTLY EARLIER BAD LUCK WHEN ILLIA ZABARNYI WAS RED-CARDED AT 31 MINS. FOR SOME ‘STUDS-OUT’ ARGEY-BARGEY ON RAYAN AIT-NOURI’S SHIN) LEAVING THEM DOWN TO 10 MEN. BOURNEMOUTH HAD 8 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET AND WOLVES HAD 13 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET (INCLUDING CUNHA’S GOAL), AND ALSO HAD 55% POSSESSION, BUT WITH CUNHA’S GOAL REMAINING THE ONLY GOAL OF THE MATCH, IT ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO WOLVES!
PREMIER LEAGUE : ARSENAL VS WEST HAM – 22/02/2025 ARSENAL HAD 20 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, AND MADE 642 PASSES, WITH AN 89% PASS ACCURACY, BUT WERE UNABLE TO REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST WEST HAM YESTERDAY. THEY WENT DOWN TO 10 MEN AFTER SOME ARGEY-BARGEY BETWEEN MYLES LEWIS-SKELLY AND MOHAMMED KUDUS AFTER HE KNICKED THE BALL FROM HIM, AND WAS TAKEN DOWN, SO LEWIS-SKELLY WAS RED CARDED AT 73 MINS. WEST HAM MADE 309 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 5 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNING HEADER FROM JARROD BOWEN AT 44 MINS. AND WITH NOTHING FURTHER REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 1 – 0 WIN TO WEST HAM! MIKEL ARTETA SPEAKS AFTER THE MATCH “IT’S VERY PAINFUL. FIRST OF ALL, I CONGRATULATE WEST HAM...