Author: AJW
UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : REAL MADRID VS ATLETICO MADRID – 04/03/2025 (PHOTO – MBAPPE CONGRATULATES DIAZ)
IT WAS ALL-ACTION OVER AT THE REAL MADRID VS ATLETICO MADRID MATCH LAST NIGHT, WITH REAL MADRID MAKING 642 PASSES WITH A 92% PASS ACCURACY (AND 52% POSSESSION), AND HAVING 13 SHOTS, WITH 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING TWO STUNNERS FROM RODRYGO WITH AN EARLY OPENER AT 4 MINS., AND ANOTHER FROM BRAHIM DIAZ AT 55 MINS! ATLETICO MADRID MADE 602 PASSES, WITH AN 89% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 6 SHOTS, WITH 2 ON TA...
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...
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 ...
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 A...
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’ CRACK...
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 ...
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 C...
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 P...
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, W...
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 ...
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. WH...
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 C...
