Arsene Wenger reckons in two or three years this Arsenal team will be graduating with honors. If he can teach them where the goal is, he might be right. For while these young Gunners can pass the opposition to death they need to spend a considerable amount of time at finishing school. Robin van Persie’s […]
Arsene Wenger reckons in two or three years this Arsenal team will be graduating with honors. If he can teach them where the goal is, he might be right. For while these young Gunners can pass the opposition to death they need to spend a considerable amount of time at finishing school. Robin van Persie’s […]
This is a huge week in European soccer with Champions League games tonight and tomorrow. With three games between English and Italian teams, bragging rights for the best league in Europe is up for grabs. Gazing into my crystal ball, these are how I expect the games to go: Arsenal v Roma: Arsenal is having trouble […]
Uefa Champions League, First knock-out round, first leg Venue: Emirates Stadium Date: Tuesday, 24 February Arsenal will be without Andrey Arshavin for their last 16 Champions League first-leg tie against Roma on Tuesday. The Russian is ineligible having played for Zenit St Petersburg in the competition, while strikers Emmanuel Adebayor and Eduardo are injured. Arsene […]
Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson has all-but written off Real Madrid’s chances of winning this season’s Champions League.Ferguson believes Barcelona and the three other English teams involved in the competition are the biggest threats to his side’s hopes of retaining the trophy. Madrid, according to the Red Devils manager, do not have enough pace […]
Winners Manchester United Seven points clear with 12 matches to go after a tenth successive league win. With United also boasting a considerably superior goal difference, Liverpool effectively now require the leaders to lose three matches (and win all their fixtures) to overhaul the champions. It isn’t going to happen. Chelsea Finally, a victory when […]
AC Milan consolidated third place in the Serie A table with a laboured 1-0 victory over Cagliari on Sunday. With both leaders Inter Milan and Juventus winning on Saturday, Carlo Ancelotti’s side needed three points to keep up the pressure on the top two. And although it was not pretty football at the San Siro, […]
Midfielder Santi Cazorla believes Villarreal have put their recent dip in form behind them, and are beginning to reproduce the excellent football of their early campaign. Villarreal, runners-up in La Liga last season, lost just twice in their first 21 games of the season in all competitions. But the run came to an end just […]
Ajax took a smash-and-grab win from their trip to Florence with a goal from Kennedy Bakircioglu giving Marco van Basten’s side a 1-0 win over last year’s semi-finalists Fiorentina. It had been one-way traffic for much of the night at the Stadio Artemio Franchi, but Bakircioglu’s 60th-minute strike against the run of play showed the home […]