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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 : LIVERPOOL VS NEWCASTLE – 26/02/2025 (PHOTO – ALEXIS MAC ALLISTER CELEBRATES)
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
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 – HARRY MAGUIRE CELEBRATES)
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 : SUNDAY – 23/02/2025 (PHOTO – ALEXANDER ISAK CELEBRATES HIS BRACE)
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 : BOURNEMOUTH VS WOLVES – 22/02/2025 (PHOTO – CUNHA CELEBRATES)
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!
