Fernando Torres scored a 90th-minute winner as Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-1 and moved into second place above Liverpool on goal difference in the Premier League. It was a very up an down game for Torres. He missed an absolute sitter early in the first half but then he left Clichy for dead with a […]
Premier League
Borussia Dortmund took the honours in the Ruhr derby at Schalke, while Bayern Munich beat Hertha Berlin by the odd goal in five and Bayer Leverkusen also won. Schalke won both derbies last season but BVB went ahead in the 14th minute when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang tucked in Marco Reus squared pass on 14 minutes. Nuri […]
Barcelona maintained their unbeaten start to the season as they beat Real Madrid 2-1 in the first El Clasico to the season to move six points clear of their bitter rivals, Both big money summer signings Gareth Bale and Neymar both made their Clásico debuts, and it was the Brazilian who had the biggest impact […]
Ten-man Arsenal beat Crystal Palace 1-0 while Liverpool maintained their hold on second place as Luis Suárez hit a hat-trick as Liverpool were too good for West Brom. It was a mixed 20 minutes for Arsenal’s Mikel Arteta as he scored a penalty to put Arsenal 1-0 at Palace before he was sent off for […]
Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain while Real Madrid maintained their perfect group stage records in an interesting night of Champions League football. PSG were very impressive, thrashing Anderlecht 5-0 in Belgium as Zlatan Ibrahimović scored a brilliant 20-minute hat-trick. Ibra went onto become only the 11th player to score four or more in a Champions […]
The David Moyes era is not off to a good start as Manchester United were held to a 1-1 draw at home to Southampton. United’s teenage winger Adnan Januzaj celebrated his new five-year contract by creating the game’s opening goal in the 26th minute with a superb through ball for Wayne Rooney. Rooney’s shot was […]
Chelsea have reportedly told Atletico Madrid that on-loan goalkeeper and Barcelona target Thibaut Courtois is available next summer at a price of €24m (£21m). Courtois has been on loan to the La Liga side for three years and has developed into one of the best young goalkeepers in the world. AS Sport is reporting that […]
Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas has says that he may have to leave Real Madrid in January if he wants to play in next summer’s World Cup. The Real Madrid captain has spent his entire career at the Santiago Bernabeu, but he finds himself behind Diego Lopez from the Madrid starting XI and […]
Fascinating interview in the Daily Mail of Jose Mourinho. In it, Mourinho talks about what he has done to get John Terry back playing well on a consistent basis. ‘He’s recovering his self-esteem. In the last few years he was not playing a lot, he had problems on the pitch, he had problems outside the […]