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UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : BORUSSIA DORTMUND VS LILLE – 04/03/2025 (PHOTO – KARIM ADEYEMI CELEBRATES WITH HIS TEAM-MATES)
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!
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : PSV EINDHOVEN VS ARSENAL – 04/03/2025 (PHOTO – MARTIN ODEGAARD CELEBRATES)
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!
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – ASTON VILLA VS CLUB BRUGGE – 04/03/2025 (PHOTO – ASENSIO CELEBRATES)
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...
FA CUP : NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS IPSWICH – 03/03/2025 (PHOTO – PENALTY HERO MATZ SELS CELEBRATES)
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...
FA CUP : NEWCASTLE UNITED VS BRIGHTON – 02/03/2025 (PHOTO – DANNY WELBECK CELEBRATES)
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 ...
FA CUP : MAN UNITED VS FULHAM – 02/03/2025 (PHOTO – PENALTY SHOOT-OUT HERO LENO CELEBRATES WITH FULHAM)
WHAT A MATCH IT WAS BETWEEN MAN UNITED VS FULHAM YESTERDAY! MAN UNITED MADE 452 PASSES, WITH A 76% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 20 SHOTS, WITH 9 ON TARGET, IN A FAST-MOVING MATCH, BUT BERND LENO’S GOALKEEPING GLOVES WERE WELL AND TRULY ON, AND HE MANAGED TO SAVE ALL BUT ONE OF THE POWERFUL MAN UNITED STRIKES, WHEN, AT 71 MINS. BRUNO FERNANDES BROKE THROUGH AND SCORED A BLINDER! FULHAM AND LENO CELEBRATE FULHAM MADE 666 PASSES WITH AN 87% PASS ACCURACY, WITH 60% POSSESSION, AND HAD 12 SHOTS WITH 6 ON TARGET, BUT WITH ONANA’S GOALKEEPING GLOVES EQUALLY WELL-FITTED, ONLY ONE GOAL GOT PAST HIM, WHICH WAS FROM CALVIN BASSEY AT 45 +1 MINS. SO, WITH NO FURTHER GOALS, THE GAME WENT INTO EXTRA-TIME, AND THEN PENALTIES, WHEN BERND LENO CUT SOME SERIOUS SHAPES WHILST SAVING 2 MAN UNITED PENA...
FA CUP : PRESTON NORTH END VS BURNLEY (PHOTO – MILUTIN OSMAJIC CELEBRATES)
THERE WERE 10 SHOTS A PIECE FOR PRESTON AND BURNLEY YESTERDAY, WITH 4 SHOTS ON TARGET FOR PRESTON, INCLUDING 3 CRACKING GOALS FROM ROBBIE BRADY T 31 MINS., MILUTIN OSMAJIC AT 44 MINS, AND WILL KEANE AT 73 MINS. PRESTON MADE 291 PASSES, WITH A 71% PASS ACCURACY, AND BURNLEY MADE 372 PASSES, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, PLUS, IT WAS A VERY FEISTY GAME WITH FOULS-A-PLENTY ON BOTH SIDES – 21 FOR PRESTON AND 17 FOR BURNLEY – BUT WITH NO FURTHER GOALS, THE GAME CULMINATED IN A 3 – 0 WIN TO PRESTON WHO NOW GO INTO THEIR FIRST FA CUP QUARTER FINAL SINCE 1966!
FA CUP : CRYSTAL PALACE VS MILLWALL – 01/03/2025 (PHOTO – EDDIE NKETIAH CELEBRATES)
AFTER EVERYONE WAS ABLE TO DUST THEMSELVES DOWN FROM MILLWALLS GOALKEEPER LIAM ROBERTS’ OUTRAGEOUS HIGH-TACKLE ON JEAN PHILIPPE MATETA AT 8 MINS. YESTERDAY WHICH ACTUALLY LOOKED LIKE A KARATE KICK, LEAVING MATETA BEING TREATED ON-PITCH FOR 9 MINUTES, AND THEN STRETCHERED OFF TO HOSPITAL FOR WHICH HE WAS RED-CARDED, THE GAME ADJUSTED INTO AN ENERGETIC AFFAIR! CRYSTAL PALACE MADE 608 PASSES, WITH AN 86% PASS ACCURACY, WITH 17 SHOTS, AND 6 ON TARGET WITH 2 SPECTACULAR GOALS FROM DANIEL MUNOZ AT 40 MINS., AND EDDIE NKETIAH SCORING A CRACKER AT 81 MINS! MILLWALL MADE 185 PASSES, WITH A 54% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 6 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM WES HARDING AT 45 +13 MINS. BUT WITH AN UNFORTUNATE OWN GOAL FROM JAPHET TANGANGA AT 33 MINS., THE GAME ENDED IN A 3 – ...
FA CUP : BOURNEMOUTH VS WOLVERHAMPTON – 01/03/2025 (PHOTO – BOURNEMOUTH CELEBRATE)
BOURNEMOUTH MADE 624 PASSES, WITH AN 84% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 68% POSSESSION, WITH 31 SHOTS AND 10 ON TARGET, WITH A STUNNER FROM EVANLISON AT 30 MINS. YESTERDAY (01/03/2025), WITH WOLVES MAKING 325 PASSES, WITH A 67% PASS ACCURACY, WITH 9 SHOTS INCLUDING 1 STUNNER ON TARGET FROM CUNHA. BOURNEMOUTH’S MILO KERKEZ THOUGHT HE HAD MADE IT 2 – 0 AFTER SCORING A GOAL IN AT THE FAR POST, BUT A 7 MINUTE VAR CHECK PUT PAID TO THAT, WITH FANS A BIT SHOCKED AT THE LENGTH OF TIME IT TOOK TO CLARIFY! AS THE MATCH ENDED IN A 1 – 1 DRAW, IT WENT TO EXTRA TIME, WHEN CUNHA EARNT HIMSELF A RED CARD FOR MUCH ARGEY-BARGEY WITH KERKEZ, AND WAS SENT OFF IN THE 120TH MINUTE! A DRAMATIC PENALTY SHOOT-OUT ENSUED, WHICH BOURNEMOUTH WON 5 – 4, AND WILL NOW MOVE INTO THE FA CUP QUARTER-FINALS! W...
PREMIER LEAGUE : ASTON VILLA VS CARDIFF – 28/02/2025 (PHOTO – RASHFORD AND ASENSIO CELEBRATE)
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 ...
PREMIER LEAGUE : WEST HAM VS LEICESTER CITY – 27/02/2025 (PHOTO – TOMAS SOUCEK CELEBRATES)
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...
PREMIER LEAGUE : TOTTENHAM VS MAN CITY – 26/02/2025 (PHOTO – ERLING HAALAND CELEBRATES)
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 ...
