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Arsenal wins 3-1, and already looks at the final.
London and the Emirates stadium were ready for a European night of football, and Arsenal and Valencia did not want to disappoint the fans. Both teams offered a great show, with direct and vibrant football during the 90 plus minutes. The game started really well for Valencia. Valencia’s coach Marcelino surprised everybody with the 6 defenders he put on the field at the beginning of the game. Arsenal’s squad did not know how to react and Valencia looked very confortable, stealing the ball with ease and creating chances with counterattacks. In the 9th minute Diakhaby jumped over the defenders to put the ball inside the net for the 0-1. The initiative of the game did not change until Lacazette’s goal in the 18th minute. This goal gave Arsenal courage to start moving the ball ...
High expectations for the Europa League semi-finals 2019
This 2019, the Europa League semi-finals look more exciting and competitive than ever before. Tonight, four of the best teams in Europe will be fighting for a spot in the final. Who will be able to make the difference tonight? The semi-finals of the Europa league are here already. The new UEFA tournament is always under the shade of the Champions league, until the last stages of the competition. In these stages some of the best teams in Europe usually confront each other to become kings of the second most important football tournament in Europe.
Messi, «The Beast» 600 goals and counting.
Messi scored his 600th career goal, to lead Barcelona to the Champions League final. The champions league is bringing so many surprises this year, so everything was expected from last night match. However, the greatest player in the world had different plans, and after his promise to Barcelona’s fans to bring the European cup to the city, he did not want to disappoint them.
Virgil van Dijk wins the PFA Player of the Year award
Dutch duo Virgil van Dijk and Vivianne Miedema have won the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year awards for 2018-19. The centre-back becomes the second Liverpool player in as many years to take the award, beating out a host of Manchester City stars. Liverpool defender Van Dijk, 27, beat Raheem Sterling, Bernardo Silva, Sergio Aguero, Sadio Mane and Eden Hazard in the vote by his fellow players. Van Dijk succeeds Liverpool team-mate Mohamed Salah, who won in 2017-18, and is the first defender to take the award since Chelsea centre-back John Terry in 2004-05. Miedema, who helped Arsenal clinch their first Women’s Super League title since 2012 earlier on Sunday, follows Chelsea and England striker Fran Kirby. Netherlands international Miedema is the top scorer ...
Juventus and PSG crowned themselves as champions
Juventus and PSG crowned themselves as champions. Neymar returns after injury and Ronaldo makes his legend bigger. After some weeks of unexpected results, Juventus and PSG won their games respectively this weekend. These wins make both teams season champions in Italy and France. Even the critics started to put some pressure during the last few weeks, it was inevitable that PSG and Juventus ended up as season champions. It is PSG 8th ligue 1 title and Juventus 37th Serie A title. Neymar came back after his injury problems and could help his team to rise the French trophy for the 6th time in the last 7 seasons. In Italy Ronaldo became the first player to ever win the premier league, La liga and the serie A. Now he has the challenge of winning the champions league with three different teams. ...
Pogba opens the door to a possible future in Real Madrid
F.C. Barcelona only needed, Luke Shaw’s own goal in the first half to win the first leg of the quarterfinals Champions league. In the first half, United gave the ball to Barcelona, and waited for a mistake or a counterattack to surprise the defense leaded by Gerard Pique. It was not until the second half that Solskjaer’s squad started to put some preassure to get a goal and tie the game, however it was too late already. Paul Pogba was one of the most active players for Manchester United, but it was not until the mixed zone after the game that he became the center of attention. Pogba has been linked to a possible transfer to Real Madrid at the end of the season since a couple of weeks ago. Zidane´s return to the white house, and the horrible season that Real Madrid is having this sea...
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...
All U.S. Open Cup games will be broadcasted on ESPN+
The U.S. Open Cup will have more exposure than ever starting in 2019, with ESPN+ and U.S. Soccer agreeing to terms on a deal that will feature every match of the tournament on the streaming platform. The Lamar Hunt U.S. open cup will be running its 106th edition this year. The deal, which runs through 2022–the same year U.S. Soccer and MLS’s current TV rights deal expires–will begin the first week of May, with the first round of the cup, which includes 38 amateur teams. The second round includes twenty-five USL professional teams, but it is not until the third round scheduled for May 29 that MLS teams join the competition. The Executive Vice President of ESPN, Burke Magnus said “The U.S. Open Cup is America’s version of what is truly unique about soccer around the world. Knockout f...
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...
Los fans «dejan de lado» la USMNT por malos resultados
Las asistencias a los juegos de la selección de Estados Unidos han caído un 11% entre el ciclo mundialista de 201/2014 y el ciclo de 2014-2018. Hay una gran crisis para la USMNT. En los últimos cuatro años la selección de Estados Unidos entró en una caída deportiva, misma que los llevó a quedar fuera de la Copa del Mundo de Rusia 2018, pero lo más importante es que esta caída se reflejó en la desilusión de los fanáticos que lo reflejaron en las gradas. Según datos de World Soccer Talk, el promedio de asistencia rumbo a Brasil 2014 fue de 36,697 espectadores por partido en 43 juegos disputados, mientras que para el mundial de Rusia 2018, el promedio fue de 32 mil espectadores por partido, esto a pesar de tener un encuentro más que en el ciclo mundialista anterior. Debido a las malas entrada...
The «new» 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup
The countdown to the 2019 Concacaf Gold Cup is well underway, and things are shaping up nicely for the 15th confederation championship this summer. The 15th edition of the Concacaf Gold Cup runs from June 15-July 7, with 15 cities across the United States hosting a vast majority of the games. As the seeded team in Group D, the USA already knows the locations and dates for its first-round schedule, as well as the path the team will need to take in order to claim a record-tying seventh confederation championship. With the Concacaf Nations League Qualifiers finished, we now know the full field for the 2019 Gold Cup. Canada, Jamaica and eight other nations join the six countries to reach the 2018 World Cup Qualifying Hexagonal — United States, Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Panama and Trinidad ...
Sara Serrat, la portera que escribe relatos
Sara Serrat (Huelva, 1995) trabaja como monitora de deportes en la cárcel de Huelva. Es la portera del Sporting de Huelva de la Liga Iberdrola, equipo con el que entrena cuatro veces a la semana. Tiene una escuela de porteros en la ciudad andaluza y acaba de presentar, además, un libro de relatos titulado Parando Letras. Un ajetreo considerable para una mujer de 23 años que vive del deporte y ha encontrado en la escritura el refugio a sus incertidumbres. Sara Serrat posa en el Estadio Colombino de Huelva. En los relatos se atisba cierta preocupación por el paso del tiempo, las dificultades a las que se enfrentan los miembros de su generación y muy poco, o casi nada, de su papel como portera de fútbol. “Escribo desde la pasión, desde el deseo de dar soluciones al lector a sus miedos, a sus ...