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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE :  REAL SOCIEDAD VS MANCHESTER UNITED – 06/03/2025 MAN UNITED HAD 373 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 13 SHOTS WITH 5 ON TARGET – (INCLUDING 2 EXCITING ATTEMPTS BY GARNACHO AND A GARNACHO ASSIST/ ZIRKZEE ATTEMPT AND THEN A FURTHER ATTEMPT BY ZIRKZEE UNTIL HE SUCCESSFULLY REACHED-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET WITH A MIGHTY GOAL AT 57 MINS.  (HIS 6TH GOAL THIS SEASON.) OYARZABAL SCORES FOR REAL SOCIEDAD REAL SOCIEDAD MADE 446 PASSES, WITH AN 82% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 13 SHOTS WITH 3 ON TARGET, BUT WITH ONANA ON TIPPETY-TOP FORM, THERE WAS NOT MUCH DOING UNTIL REAL SOCIEDAD WERE AWARDED A PENALTY AFTER BRUNO FERNANDES’ HANDBALL, AND MIKEL OYARZABAL POWERED THE SHOT INTO THE BACK OF THE NET AT 70 MINS – HIS 10TH GOAL THIS SEASON – MEANING THAT ...

UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE :  FEYENOORD VS INTER MILAN – 05/03/2025 INTER MILAN MUST BE FEELING CONTENT TODAY, FOLLOWING THEIR MATCH AGAINST FEYEYNOORD YESTERDAY. INTER MILAN MADE 513 PASSES, WITH AN 89% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 13 SHOTS, INCLUDING 7 ON TARGET, WITH TWO CRACKING GOALS FROM MARCUS THURAM AT 38 MINS. AND LAUTARO MARTINEZ AT 50 MINS.  FEYENOORD MADE 368 PASSES, WITH AN 85% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 8 SHOTS WITH 5 ON TARGET, BUT WITH NOTHING ACTUALLY REACHING-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, THE MATCH ENDED IN AN EXCITING 2 – 0 WIN FOR INTER MILAN!   UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE : BENFICA VS BARCELONA – 05/03/2025 RAPHINHA CELEBRATES  ANOTHER NOTEWORTHY GOALKEEPING PERFORMANCE FROM YESTERDAY WAS THAT OF BARCELONA’S WOJCIECH SZCESNY, WHEN HE MANAGED TO KEEP HIS TEAM IN THE GAME...

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!

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!

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...

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 ...