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FA CUP FOURTH ROUND : FRIDAY – 07/02/2025 (PHOTO – HARRY MAGUIRE HEADS THE WINNER INTO GOAL)
CHECK OUT THIS EXCITEMENT FROM LAST NIGHT AT OLD TRAFFORD BETWEEN MANCHESTER UNITED AND LEICESTER CITY IN THE FOURTH ROUND OF THE FA CUP, WHERE THE FIRST GOAL OF THE MATCH CAME FROM BOBBY DE CORDOVA-REID AT 42 MINS., WITH LEICESTER HAVING A TOTAL OF 6 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON-TARGET, (BUT NOTHING FURTHER REACHING THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET), AND WITH MAN UNITED HAVING 13 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM JOSHUA ZIRKZEE AT 68 MINS., WHICH LEFT THINGS ALL SQUARE, UNTIL HARRY MAGUIRE’S ‘FERGIE TIME’ LATE STOPPAGE-TIME GOAL – AND WITHOUT VAR APPARENT AT THIS STAGE IN THE FA CUP, THERE WAS MORE THAN A LITTLE MANAGER ARGEY-BARGEY LEFT HANGING IN THE AIR AS SOME DEEMED HARRY MAGUIRE’S LATE HEADER TO BE OFFSIDE (SEE WHAT YOU THINK.) THE OLD TRAFFORD CROWD WERE LEFT I...
CARABAO CUP SEMI-FINAL : WEDNESDAY – 05/02/2025 (PHOTO – ANTHONY GORDON CELEBRATES)
WELL, WELL, WELL, THE ARSENAL SQUAD SEEMINGLY FORGOT TO PUT ON THEIR “SHOOTING BOOTS” LAST NIGHT, AGAINST AN EXTREMELY ENERGETIC (AND WELL ORGANISED) NEWCASTLE SQUAD, WHO GOT THE BALL ROLLING EARLY DOORS, WITH A SUPERB GOAL FROM ALEXANDR ISAK (ONLY TO BE RULED OUT FOR OFFSIDE BY VAR), BUT WITH THE BIT-BETWEEN-THEIR-TEETH, THEY POWERED ON, WITH A STUPENDOUS GOAL BY JACOB MURPHY FOLLOWING ON SHORTLY AFTERWARDS AT 19 MINS. (WHICH WAS SET UP BY ISAK.) IT WAS ALL-ACTION THROUGHOUT, WITH ARSENAL HAVING 11 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, BUT NOTHING HITTING THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, (AND, INTERESTINGLY, 69% POSSESSION), AND NEWCASTLE HAVING 10 SHOTS, WITH 3 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER STUNNER FROM ANTHONY GORDON AT 52 MINS., MEANING THAT THE GAME ENDED IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO NEWCASTLE (4 –...
PREMIER LEAGUE : SUNDAY – CHELSEA VS MANCHESTER CITY – 18/08/2024
WITH MUCH TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT RAHEEM STERLING WAS LEFT OUT OF CHELSEA’S SQUAD WHILST PLAYING AGAINST MANCHESTER CITY ON 18/08/2024 (INCLUDING FROM HIS OWN CAMP WHO SAY THEY WOULD LIKE “FURTHER CLARITY” ABOUT HIS FUTURE IN THE CLUB) IT DIDN’T DAMPEN THE FACT THAT CHELSEA WERE PLAYING MANCHESTER CITY IN THE NEW SEASON OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE ON A GLORIOUSLY SUNNY AFTERNOON! CHELSEA HAD 10 SHOTS, WITH 3 SHOTS ON TARGET, AND MAN CITY 11 SHOTS, WITH 5 SHOTS ON TARGET, INCLUDING 2 STUNNING GOALS, FROM ERLING HAALAND AT 18 MINS., AND MATEO KOVACIC AT 84 MINS., MEANING THAT THIS SUPERB GAME CULMINATED IN A 2 – 0 WIN TO MANCHESTER CITY, WITH A FANTASTIC START TO THE PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON! BY AMANDA WATERS
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA : FRIDAY – 24/01/2025 (PHOTO – STEVEN SKRZYBSKI CELEBRATES)
THIS WAS AN INTERESTING ALL-ACTION MATCH LAST NIGHT FROM THE GERMAN BUNDESLIGA BETWEEN WOLFSBURG VS HOLSTEIN KIEL, WHERE THERE WERE 22 SHOTS FOR WOLFSBURG, WITH 71% POSSESSION, AND 5 GOALS ON TARGET, INCLUDING 2 CRACKERS FROM PATRICK WIMMER AT 50 MINS., AND JONAS WIND AT 53 MINS., AND WITH HOLSTEIN KIEL HAVING 5 SHOTS, WITH 2 GOALS ON TARGET FROM DAVID ZEC AT 13 MINS., AND STEVEN SKRZYBSKI AT 80 MINS., THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 2 – 2 DRAW!
PREMIER LEAGUE – 04/05/2024 (PHOTO – “THE MONEY SHOT” – ERLING HAALAND’S BICYCLE-KICK)
LET’S HAVE ANOTHER LOOK AT ERLING HAALAND’S MAGICAL MOMENTS IN THE MANCHESTER CITY VS WOLVES MATCH FROM 4TH MAY 2024, WHERE HE NOT ONLY SCORED FOUR FANTASTIC GOALS AT 12 MINS., (FROM A PENALTY), 35 MINS., 45 +3 MINS., (FROM A PENALTY), AND 54 MINS., BUT ALSO PERFORMED SOME OF HIS AMAZING ACROBATICS WITH HIS BICYCLE-KICK AND EXTREMELY HIGH JUMPS, (ALMOST AS THOUGH HE WAS ON A TRAMPOLINE), AND WHEN HE WAS SUBSTITUTED LATE INTO THE MATCH (MUCH TO HIS DISMAY), ALVAREZ CAME ON AND SCORED YET ANOTHER GOAL ALMOST STRAIGHT AWAY AT 85 MINS., AND WITH WOLVES’ HWANG HEE-CHAN SCORING AT 54 MINS., THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 5 – 1 WIN TO MAN CITY! OBVIOUSLY, MAN CITY WERE ALWAYS GOING TO BE TOUGH OPPONENTS, BUT CREDIT SHOULD ALSO BE GIVEN TO WOLVES FOR THEIR GREAT DEFENDING, AND MA...
LEWIS HAMILTON’S FIRST DAY AT FERRARI (PHOTO – LEWIS HAMILTON WEARS HIS NEW FERRARI RACING SUIT!)
CHECK OUT LEWIS HAMILTON’S FERRARI RACING SUIT ON HIS FIRST DAY AT FERRARI!
PREMIER LEAGUE : MONDAY – 20/01/2025 (PHOTO – CUCURELLA AND CHELSEA CELEBRATE)
THIS WAS AN EXCITING MATCH FROM LAST NIGHT BETWEEN CHELSEA VS WOLVES, WITH CHELSEA’S TOSIN ADARABIOYO SCORING THE FIRST CRACKING GOAL AT 24 MINS., AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO WOLVES’ MATT DOHERTY TO EQUALISE WITH A STUNNER AT 45 +5 MINS., SO BY HALF-TIME IT WAS 1 – 1! MUCH MORE ACTION ENSUED THOUGH, WITH CHELSEA HAVING A TOTAL OF 567 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY, 63% POSSESSION, AND 19 SHOTS WITH 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING ANOTHER 2 SUPERB GOALS FROM MARC CUCURELLA AT 60 MINS., AND NONO MADUEKE AT 65 MINS., AND WITH WOLVES MAKING A FURTHER 333 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, AND 9 SHOTS, WITH 4 ON TARGET (INCLUDING MATT DOHERTY’S) THIS EXCITING MATCH ENDED IN A 3 – 1 WIN TO CHELSEA!
SPANISH SUPER CUP FINAL : SUNDAY – 12/01/2025 (PHOTO – LAMINE YAMAL AND BARCELONA CELEBRATE)
WHAT A FEAST FOR THE EYES THIS MATCH WAS YESTERDAY, WITH SOME OF THE BIGGEST NAMES IN FOOTBALL SHOWING JUST WHAT THEY WERE MADE OF! THERE WERE FIVE CRACKING GOALS FROM BARCELONA’S LAMINE YAMAL AT 22 MINS., ROBERT LEWANDOWSKI (FROM A PENALTY) AT 36 MINS., RAPHINHA, (SCORING A BRACE) AT 39 & 48 MINS., AND ALEJANDRO BALDE ALSO SCORING AT 45 +10 MINS., AND WITH REAL MADRID’S KYLIAN MBAPPE SCORING A STUNNER AT 5 MINS., AND RODRYGO SCORING A BRILLIANT GOAL AT 60 MINS., THE SPARKLING SPANISH SUPER CUP FINAL ENDED UP IN A 5 – 2 WIN TO BARCELONA!
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : MAN CITY VS SALFORD CITY – SATURDAY (11/01/2025) (PHOTO – DIVIN MUBAMA AND JAMES MCATEE CELEBRATE)
WELL, WHAT A NIGHT FOR MAN CITY IT WAS LAST NIGHT AGAINST SALFORD CITY! JEREMY DOKU GOT THE BALL ROLLING WITH A CRACKER, AT JUST 8 MINS., (THE FIRST PART OF A BRILLIANT BRACE), WITH DIVIN MUBAMA (WHO WAS MAKING HIS DEBUT) FOLLOWING ON WITH A BEAUTY AT 20 MINS., NICO O’REILLY SCORING ANOTHER BEAUT AT 43 MINS., JACK GREALISH, SCORING A STUNNER FROM A PENALTY AT 49 MINS. FOLLOWING SOME ARGEY-BARGEY, (WHILST ALSO MAKING A GOOD ASSIST, WHICH PEP MADE SURE TO POINT OUT AFTERWARDS), AND WITH JAMES MCATEE FINISHING WITH A HAT-TRICK AT 62 MINS., 72 MINS., AND 81 MINS. (AND JEREMY DOKU COMPLETING THE SECOND PART OF HIS BRACE INBETWEENTIMES AT 69 MINS.) THIS EXCITING MATCH CULMINATED IN AN 8 – 0 TRIUMPH TO MAN CITY! SALFORD CITY FOUGHT BACK THOUGH SHOWING OFF THEIR SKILLS WITH TWO EXCELLE...
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : SATURDAY – 11/01/2025 (PHOTO – TOSIN ADARABIOYO CELEBRATES)
WE HAVE PLEASURE IN PRESENTING THE EXCITING FA CUP ACTION FROM YESTERDAY! ENJOY! FA CUP THIRD ROUND : CHELSEA VS MORECAMBE 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BRISTOL CITY VS WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : LEICESTER CITY VS QUEENS PARK RANGERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BOURNEMOUTH VS WEST BROMWICH ALBION 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BRENTFORD VS PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : BIRMINGHAM CITY VS LINCOLN CITY 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : MIDDLESBROUGH VS BLACKBURN ROVERS 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : EXETER CITY VS OXFORD UNITED 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS LUTON TOWN 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : NORWICH CITY VS BRIGHTON AND HOVE ALBION 11/01/2025 FA CUP THIRD ROUND : COVENTRY CITY VS SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY 11/01/20...
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA : FRIDAY – 10/01/2025 (PHOTO – PATRIK SCHICK CELEBRATES)
CHECK OUT THIS FIVE-GOAL-THRILLER FROM LAST NIGHT BETWEEN BORUSSIA DORTMUND VS BAYER LEVERKUSEN! WITH THE NEWS THAT FOUR OF BORUSSIA DORTMUND’S REGULAR BACK FOUR WERE OUT DUE TO ILLNESS, AND NEEDING TO BE REPLACED BY LESS EXPERIENCED PLAYERS, IT CERTAINLY SEEMED TO PUT A ‘SPRING-IN-THE-STEP’ OF THE LEVERKUSEN SQUAD, WITH THEIR FIRST GOAL COMING IN LESS THAN 30 SECONDS FROM NATHAN TELLA TO GET THE PARTY STARTED! THIS WAS FOLLOWED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BY ANOTHER GOAL FROM AN ON-FORM PATRIK SCHICK (THE FIRST GOAL OF WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A BRACE), AND THEN IT WAS OVER TO BORUSSIA DORTMUND’S JAMIE GITTENS TO SCORE A BEAUT AT 12 MINS! (SO, WITH 3 GOALS IN THE FIRST 15 MINS. THE CROWD WERE ALREADY EXTREMELY LIVELY AND HAPPILY ENTERTAINED!) AND THEN IT WAS LEVERKUSEN’S...
FA CUP THIRD ROUND : FRIDAY – 10/01/2025 (PHOTO – MORGAN ROGERS SCORES FOR ASTON VILLA)
EVERYONE THOUGHT THAT NEW-MANAGER-ON-THE-BLOCK GRAHAM POTTER HAD PULLED OFF SOME KIND OF TECHNICAL WIZADRY AFTER LUCAS PAQUETA SCORED AN ABSOLUTE BLINDER AT ONLY 9 MINS. INTO THE MATCH BETWEEN ASTON VILLA VS WEST HAM LAST NIGHT, WITH A TOTAL OF 11 SHOTS WITH 2 ON TARGET, (INCLUDING PAQUETA’S), 326 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY. AND ASTON VILLA HAD A TOTAL OF 16 SHOTS, WITH 5 ON TARGET, INCLUDING AN AMAZING GOAL FROM ONANA AT 71 MINS., WHO FOUND HIMSELF IN EXACTLY THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME FOLLOWING SOME COMPLICATED PLAY, AND EASILY ABLE TO JUST CHIP THE BALL OVER THE LINE AND THROUGH SEVERAL PAIRS OF WEST HAM LEGS. ALTHOUGH THE CORNER ITSELF WAS DEEMED TO BE CONTROVERSIAL, IT DOESN’T TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE BRILLIANCE OF HIS GOAL. (SEE WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT THE C...
