European Soccer
French Federation prohibits Neymar to celebrate the title
The French Federation informs the PSG that Neymar and Marquinhos will not be able to celebrate the title when they are sanctioned Neymar will not be able to celebrate the League with PSG . PSG will celebrate this weekend the title won by the French League after the match against Dijon. However, neither Neymar nor Marquinhos , both penalized, can be on the pitch . For this reason the French Federation has warned that it will be severely punished if both players jump onto the pitch to celebrate the title. The regulation prevents a sanctioned player from gaining access to the pitch and that is what the federation reminded PSG, referring to article 4.1.2.of the disciplinary Regulation. The PSG tried to contact the federation’s disciplinary commissions to find a way out, but coul...
Manchester City crowned Premier League champions
After the season-long struggle between Manchester City and Liverpool to determine which club would have the slightly more perfect season and be named Premier League champion, it all came down to today, the final matchday of the season. And while it was tight there for a while, City did as expected and beat Brighton & Hove Albion to win their second consecutive league title. Man City went to Brighton knowing that a win would seal the title. In the only other match that mattered today—the relegation, Champions League, and Europa League places were for all intents and purposes already locked in after last week’s fixtures—Liverpool hosted Wolves knowing they needed to win and to get some help from Brighton to bring their nearly three-decade title drought to an end. This has been the best t...
Tottenham reach Champions League final
A single minute remained, maybe less. Maybe just a few seconds separated Ajax from the Champions League final. Somehow, even as the energy drained from their legs and the tension gripped their minds, this team that glimpses the future and echoes the past, had clung on. And now the clock ticked down through five minutes of injury time, each somehow slower, more agonizing than the last. Tottenham poured forward, pummeling Ajax. Hugo Lloris, the Spurs goalkeeper, trotted upfield for a corner. It came to nothing. That is, traditionally, the final roll of the dice, the last act. Once that has failed, it is over. Eyes drifted to Felix Brych, the German referee, the man who could bring the torture to an end. Ajax had the ball, deep in Tottenham territory. The wait was almost over. Ten months’ wor...
Greatest European night for Liverpool in Anfield’s history
Liverpool pull off epic comeback against Barcelona to book place in Champions League final. Jurgen Klopp hinted that he didn’t believe Liverpool could pull off a Champions League miracle against Barcelona, admitting Monday that «beautiful failure» was perhaps the best his team could hope for against the Spanish champions. Come on, Jurgen, you need to have more faith. Your players have shown they are capable of anything, but nothing can match this: a 4-0 rout of Barcelona when every odd was stacked against them. They were supposed to have learned their lessons from last season’s quarterfinal meltdown in Rome, when a 3-0 defeat saw them crash out in the Stadio Olimpico, but this was worse. Barca collapsed. Perhaps they started the game believing it was won — too complacent,...
Messi set foot in the semifinals with a triumph for history
It is possible that people have first noticed the scars of Messi’s battle: the slightly swollen nose, or the faint trace of a bruise, that blooms around his left eye. Or he could have realized that the rest of the characteristics of the Argentine were much more worrying: Messi’s forehead was puckered. His face frowned. His offense was one scuffed pass, a deflating climax to a wonderful, flowing move down Barcelona’s right flank. A better ball, a little more composure, and Messi would have had a glorious chance to double his team’s 1-0 lead, not necessarily enough to settle this Champions League quarterfinal, to doom Manchester United, but a significant tilting of the balance ahead of next week’s second leg in Barcelona at the Camp Nou. By that stage, though, Messi was in no moo...
Is Choupo-Moting’s open goal miss for PSG the worst of all time?
Unfortunately for the Cameroon international, it mainly revolves around whether he’s guilty of arguably the worst miss to ever grace the beautiful game. With Kylian Mbappe rested for the visit of Strasbourg, Choupo-Moting started for PSG in a game that would have seen the Ligue 1 leaders crowned champions had they won. The 30-year-old made a great start too, scoring the opening goal at the Parc des Princes. Then came Choupo-Moting’s moment of madness. Breaking into the right-hand side of the Strasbourg box, teammate Christopher Nkunku delicately chipped the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper. With the ball slowly advancing towards the open net, Choupo-Moting sensed an opportunity to not only ensure PSG retook the lead but add to his own tally along the way. Except, it didn’t quick w...
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