THE LIONESSES MUST BE FEELING HAPPY AFTER THEIR SUPERB PERFORMANCE AGAINST WALES RECENTLY! GEORGIA STANWAY GOT THE PARTY STARTED WITH A CRACKER FROM A PENALTY AT 13 MINS., WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY GOAL AFTER GOAL FROM THE LIONESSES. NEXT, IT WAS ELLA TOONE’S TURN TO SCORE AT 21 MINS., FOLLOWED SHORTLY AFTERWARDS BY LAUREN HEMP AT 30 MINS., ALESSIA RUSSO AT 44 MINS., BETH MEAD AT 72 MINS., AND AGGIE BEEVER-JONES WITH THE FINAL ENGLAND GOAL AT 89 MINS! WALES’ HANNAH CAIN SCORED A STUNNER, AFTER A SUPERB ASSIST FROM JESS FISHLOCK AT 76 MINS. ALSO, MEANING THAT THIS EXCITING GAME ENDED IN A 6 – 1 TRIUMPH TO ENGLAND! UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 : ENGLAND VS WALES – 13/07/2025 THE LIONESSES ARE QUARTER-FINAL BOUND AFTER THEIR WIN AGAINST WALES! THE LIONESSES EXPLAIN WHAT I...
PHEWEE! WHAT A MATCH THIS WAS LAST NIGHT! AN EXTREEEEEMLY PHYSICAL MATCH FROM THE GET-GO, WHICH HAD US COVERING OUR EYES AT TIMES, WITH THE SHEER SCALE OF THE CHALLENGES!! GERMANY DIDN’T HAVE A GREAT START TO THE MATCH, AFTER STAR PLAYER KATHRIN HENDRICH WAS SENT OFF AT 13 MINS. FOR PULLING THE HAIR OF GRIEDGE MBOCK AFTER A VAR REVIEW, LINING UP GRACE GEYORO TO SCORE THE RESULTING PENALTY, PUTTING FRANCE 1 – 0 UP AT 15 MINS! (KATHRIN VISIBLY ADMONISHED HERSELF FOR HER OWN ERROR AFTER SHE LEFT THE PITCH, LOOKING DEVASTATED, ESPECIALLY AS SHE WILL NOW MISS THE NEXT MATCH ALSO!) BUT AMAZINGLY, GERMANY ADAPTED, EVEN AFTER LOSING A PLAYER AT THIS EARLY STAGE, AND SEEMED TO GALVANISE THEMSELVES, AND BRIDGE THE GAP WITH THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL SKILLS, (AND SOME CREATIVE THINKING FROM CHR...
IT WAS SWEDEN WHO GOT THE BALL ROLLING IN THE MATCH BETWEEN THE LIONESSES AND SWEDEN LAST NIGHT WITH A GOAL AT 2 MINS. FROM KOSOVARE ASLLANI, WHICH DELIGHTED THE SWEDISH FANS, BUT MUST HAVE PREPARED THE LIONESSES FOR THE EXTREMELY COMPETITIVE GAME WHICH WOULD LIE AHEAD. SWEDEN MADE 365 PASSES IN TOTAL, WITH A 58% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 6 CORNERS, WITH 14 SHOTS AND 7 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A THUMPING GOAL FROM STINA BLACKSTENIUS AT 25 MINS! ENGLAND MADE 536 PASSES, WITH A 74% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 60% POSSESSION), AND 18 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, AND AFTER SHOWING SUCH RESILIENCE THROUGHOUT THE MATCH AGAINST SWEDEN’S WELL-ORGANISED DEFENCE, THE LIONESSES WERE ASSISTED SOMEWHAT AFTER THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FRESH LEGS OF CHLOE KELLY, MICHELLE AGYEMANG, ESME MORGAN AND BETH MEAD AT 78 MINS.,...
LET’S HAVE ANOTHER LOOK BACK AT SOME OF THE EXCITING F A CUP ACTION FROM 27/02/2024, INCLUDING THE MATCH BETWEEN LUTON TOWN VS MAN CITY, WHERE FIVE GOALS FROM ERLING HAALAND AT 3 MINS., 18 MINS., 40 MINS., 55 MINS., AND 58 MINS RESPECTIVELY (HELPED BY FIVE ASSISTS FROM KEVIN DE BRUYNE), AND ANOTHER STUNNING GOAL FROM MATEO KOVACIC AT 72 MINS., AND TWO SUPERB GOALS FROM JORDAN CLARK AT 45 MINS AND 52 MINS. FOR LUTON TOWN, CULMINATED IN A 6 – 2 TRIUMPH TO MANCHESTER CITY IN THIS EIGHT GOAL THRILLER! IF ANYONE WAS IN ANY DOUBT ABOUT WHETHER ERLING HAALAND WAS BACK TO HIS BRILLIANT BEST AFTER HIS INJURY PROBLEM – JUST PUT THIS MATCH ON REPLAY! HE IS A MACHINE. F A CUP – LUTON TOWN VS MANCHESTER CITY – 27/02/2024 THE MATCH BETWEEN BOURNEMOUTH VS LEICESTER CITY HA...
IT IS WELL INTO THE UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS COMPETITION NOW, AND IT SEEMS THAT THE RIGOROUS SCHEDULE CAN TAKE IT’S TOLL ON EVEN THE HARDIEST OF TEAMS – (i.e. EAT, TRAIN, PLAY – REPEAT) AND DARE I SAY, IT CERTAINLY SEEMED TO BE THE CASE IN THE SPAIN VS SWITZERLAND MATCH LAST NIGHT! SPAIN HAD 2 UNSUCCESSFUL PENALTIES, WITH THE 1ST FROM MARIONA CALDENTEY, WHICH WENT WIDE, AND THEN, ALSO FROM ALEXIA PUTELLAS, FOR WHICH SWITZERLAND’S GOALY LIVIA PENG WAS READY-AND-A-WAITING! SPAIN DID PUT ON A DOMINANT PERFORMANCE HOWEVER, WITH 658 PASSES, WITH AN 88% PASS ACCURACY AND 73% POSSESSION. BUT SWITZERLAND HELD THEIR OWN, PUTTING UP A BOLD DEFENCE AGAINST THE SPANISH LADIES, MAKING 259 PASSES, WITH A 70% PASS ACCURACY, AND 4 SHOTS, WHICH WERE, ALAS FOR THEM, NOT TO BE! BUT TH...
WHAT A THRILLING MATCH BETWEEN JUVENTUS VS MAN CITY IN THE FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP YESTERDAY – AND IF YOU DIDN’T GET TO SEE IT – WE ARE PLEASED TO BE ABLE TO PRESENT IT TO YOU HERE! IT WAS A 7-GOAL-THRILLER NO LESS, WHICH HAD THE LIVELY CROWD (MANY OF WHOM ARE ALREADY IN LOVE WITH THE MAN CITY PLAYER’S – SO MUCH SO, THAT THEIR CHILDREN WERE DRESSED SIMILARLY AND ADORNING ‘UNUSUAL’ HAIRSTYLES) – IN RAPTURES! JUVENTUS MADE 241 PASSES, WITH AN 80% PASS ACCURACY AND HAD 5 SHOTS, WITH 2 HIGHLY ACCURATE ONES ON-TARGET, FROM TEUN KOOPMEINERS (FOLLOWING ON FROM JEREKY DOKU’S OPENER 2 MINUTES EARLIER), AND DUSAN VLAHOVIC AT 84 MINS! MAN CITY MADE 769 PASSES, WITH A 93% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 77% POSSESSION), AND 24 SHOTS, WITH 11 ON TARGET, INCLUDING 4...
IF IT WAS TREATS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR IN THE FORM OF INDIVIDUAL FOOTBALLING SKILLS, THEN THE LIONESSES OFFERED A SMORGASBORD IN THEIR MATCH AGAINST JAMAICA ON 29/06/2025! FIRSTLY ELLA TOONE SCORED A CRACKER AT 10 MINS., (WHICH WAS TO BE THE FIRST GOAL OF A BRILLIANT BRACE, NETTING THE SECOND AT THE END OF THE FIRST-HALF IN STOPPAGE TIME AT 45 +4 MINS.), THEN IT WAS LUCY BRONZE’S TURN TO SCORE A SPECTACULAR GOAL AT 32 MINS., WHICH WAS FOLLOWED BY A REGULAR ‘GOALATHON’. FROM THE LIONESSES, WHICH LEFT LITTLE TIME FOR THE JAMAICAN LADIES TO COME UP FOR AIR! GEORGIA STANWAY FOLLOWED LUCY BRONZE’S GOAL WITH A BEAUT AT 59 MINS., AND ON THEY CAME, WITH ALESSIA RUSSO SCORING ANOTHER CLASS GOAL AT 71 MINS., AND AGGIE BEAVER-JONES’ SPECTACULAR GOAL AT 85 MINS., AND THEN ...
ANOTHER LOOK AT SOME OF THE EXCITEMENT FROM THE WOMEN’S FA CUP IN APRIL 2024 WITH TWO FANTASTIC MATCHES BETWEEN THE TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR LADIES VS LEICESTER CITY, AND MANCHESTER UNITED VS CHELSEA. LEICESTER CITY’S JUTTA RANTALA SCORED A SPIFFY OPENER AT 12 MINS. WITH MANY SHOTS ON TARGET TO FOLLOW (SIX FOR TOTTENHAM AND FIVE FOR LEICESTER CITY), UNTIL TOTTENHAM’S JESSICA NAZ SCORED A STUNNER AT 83 MINS., WITH ANOTHER SUPERB LATE GOAL BY MARTHA THOMAS AT 118 MINS., CULMINATING IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO TOTTENHAM IN A VERY EXCITING MATCH! WOMEN’S FA CUP : TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR WOMEN VS LEICESTER CITY WOMEN – 14/04/2024 AND CHECK THIS MATCH OUT – IT WAS MANCHESTER UNITED’S FIRST EVER WIN OVER CHELSEA! MAN U’S LUCIA GARCIA SCORED ALMOST STRAIGHT ...
ERLING HAALAND SIGNED A 9.5 YEAR CONTRACT WITH MANCHESTER CITY A LITTLE WHILE BACK, LET’S GO BEHIND THE SCENES AGAIN WITH MANCHESTER CITY AS THEY PREPARE FOR THE MATCH WHICH MADE HISTORY FOR THEM BY BECOMING PREMIER LEAGUE CHAMPIONS FOR FOUR YEARS IN A ROW…! BY AMANDA WATERS
THIS WAS A HIGHLY ENERGETIC, EXCITING WATCH LAST NIGHT! NORWAY MADE 374 PASSES IN TOTAL, WITH A 77% PASS ACCURACY, AND HAD 7 CORNERS, PLUS 9 SHOTS, WITH 1 ON TARGET FROM ADA HEGERBERG AT 66 MINS! ITALY MADE 382 PASSES, WITH A 78% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 7 CORNERS, PLUS 13 SHOTS WITH 6 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A BRILLIANT BRACE FROM CRISTIANA GIRELLI, WITH THE 1ST STUNNER AT 50 MINS. SO, AFTER NORWAY’S ADA HEGERBERG REACHED-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET AT 66 MINS., (WHICH WAS REDEMPTION FOR HER, AFTER PREVIOUSLY MISSING A PENALTY) EVERYONE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE A 1 – 1 DRAW! BUT NOT-TO-BE, BECAUSE JUST-LIKE-THAT, AT 90 MINS., CRISTIANA GIRELLI PULLED ANOTHER-ONE-OUT-OF-THE-BAG, WITH A MATCH-WINNING HEADER! SO THIS EXCITING MATCH CULMINATED IN A 2 – 1 WIN TO ITALY, MEANING NORWAY ARE NO...
IT WAS ‘ALL-GO’ OVER AT THE NETHERLANDS VS FRANCE MATCH LAST NIGHT WITH A 7-GOAL-THRILLER! FRANCE MADE 317 PASSES WITH A 75% PASS ACCURACY, HAD 5 CORNERS, AND 20 SHOTS, WITH 10 ON TARGET, INCLUDING 5 CRACKERS FROM SANDIE TOLETTI AT 22 MINS., MARIE-ANTOINETTE KATOTO AT 61 MINS., DELPHINE CASCARINO AT 64 MINS., AND 67 MINS., RESPECTIVELY AND A LATE PENALTY FROM SAKINA KARCHAOUI AT 90 +2 MINS! THE NETHERLANDS MADE 347 PASSES, WITH A 76% PASS ACCURACY, (HAD 53% POSSESSION), 4 CORNERS, AND 11 SHOTS WITH 4 ON TARGET, INCLUDING A STUNNER FROM VICTORIA PELOVA AT 26 MINS., AND WITH A VERY UNFORTUNATE OWN GOAL FROM SELMA BACHA AT 41 MINS., THIS DYNAMIC MATCH ENDED IN A 5 – 2 WIN TO FRANCE! UEFA WOMEN’S EUROS 2025 : NETHERLANDS VS FRANCE – 13/07/2025
AFTER THE TERRIBLE NEWS OF DIOGO JOTA’S DEATH, IT WAS TOUCH-AND-GO AS TO WHETHER THE MATCH WOULD GO AHEAD AT ALL LAST NIGHT BETWEEN SPAIN VS PORTUGAL! (DIOGA JOTA WAS A HIGHLY REVERED INTERNATIONAL IN THE PORTUGAL MEN’S TEAM, PLAYING 49 TIMES AND SCORING 14 GOALS, AND ALSO A NATIONS LEAGUE WINNER) BUT GO-AHEAD IT DID, WITH THE PORTUGUESE LADIES SHOWING UP AND TRYING THEIR VERY BEST SEEMINGLY TO HONOUR THE WONDERFUL LEGACY OF DIOGO JOTA, BUT OBVIOUSLY WITH HEAVY HEARTS, AMIDST GREAVING AND SHOCKED FANS. SPAIN, OBVIOUSLY REALISING THAT THEY HAD A JOB-TO-DO, NO MATTER WHAT PERFORMED TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY (JUST AS THEIR FANS WOULD HAVE EXPECTED), WITH GOALS COMING QUICK-AND-FAST, WITH A BRACE FROM ESTHER GONZALEZ AT 2 MINS., AND 43 MINS. RESPECTIVELY, VICKY LOPEZ AT 7 MINS.,...