Football Blog (Page 205)

[ad_1] Arsenal are firmly in control of their Champions League group as a Lina Hurtig brace saw the Gunners to a 3-1 victory over Zurich at the Emirates on Thursday evening. Jordan Nobbs marked her first start of the season with a stunning solo strike and Hurtig opened her Arsenal account with a header, before Seraina Piubel netted with 14 minutes remaining to make things interesting. However, Hurtig put the game beyond doubt minutes later to leave the Gunners as the only side in Group C with maximum points, after Juventus and Lyon drew 1-1 earlier on Thursday evening. Having stunned reigning champions Lyon lastRead More →

[ad_1] Chelsea manager Graham Potter returns to his former stomping ground at the weekend when he takes his team to the Amex Stadium to face Brighton. Potter oversaw an excellent start to the season with the Seagulls, which saw him poached by Chelsea in early September. It hasn’t been plain sailing for either club since then, with Brighton failing to win any of their five games since Potter left. Potter has had it slightly better in west London, particularly in the Champions League after a third straight win this week, but are without a win in their last two domestically. Credit: 90min.com[ad_2]Read More →

[ad_1] Arsenal were humbled by PSV Eindhoven on matchday five of the Europa League group stage, missing the opportunity to tie up top spot with a game to spare and seeing a run of nine consecutive games without defeat come to an end. Joey Veerman and half-time substitute Luuk de Jong scored the goals for PSV, who had the ball in the net five times – impressive duo Cody Gakpo and Xavi Simons had three disallowed between them. PSV had struggled to make much of anything happen in the reverse fixture in north London last week, but had the first opportunity here when Aaron RamsdaleRead More →

[ad_1] The public focus on Wrexham has started to soar again as people work their way through the first series of ‘Welcome to Wrexham’, the docu-series that chronicles the first season of Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds’ ownership of the club. The Welsh town of Wrexham is not one that tends to make headlines outside of the region but that has changed with the new ownership. The positive attention could drift away though if the high-profile owners do not start to deliver tangible success on the pitch. Despite being located in Wales, Wrexham are part of the English football system. They have been outside theRead More →

[ad_1] St. Louis CITY SC have announced they’ll open their brand new CITYPARK stadium with a friendly clash against Bundesliga giants Bayer Leverkusen in November. The match will take place Wednesday, November 16, and will see the club’s MLS NEXT Pro team, St. Louis CITY 2, take on Leverkusen fresh from winning the Western Conference in their first-ever season. A source has confirmed to 90min that members of the St. Louis City first team will also be available for the match. For the first time, fans will be able to take in live action from their 22,500-capacity CITYPARK stadium, which will be the home ofRead More →

[ad_1] A royally in-form Newcastle United host Aston Villa in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon. The Magpies earned their fourth win in five games with what Eddie Howe described as ‘probably the best’ performance of his tenure as Newcastle’s manager against Tottenham last weekend. Howe took the reins at St. James’ Park only after Unai Emery turned the club down last November. A year on, Aston Villa succeed where Newcastle’s pursuit had failed, appointing the former Villarreal manager on Monday. Here’s everything you need to know about the meeting between these two clubs. Newcastle: 1 WinAston Villa: 2 WinsDraws: 2 Newcastle: WWDWWAston Villa: DDLLW Newcastle have collected 12 pointsRead More →

[ad_1] After a promising start to the season amid hopes of potential trophy challenges, Tottenham have taken just one point from the last nine available to them in the Premier League and Champions League. It’s their worst three-game run under Antonio Conte, and the developing wounds were stripped of their fresh bandages late on Wednesday night. Spurs thought they had scored a 95th-minute winner at home to Sporting CP to ensure qualification to the Champions League last 16 as the victors of Group D. But after a lengthy and dubious three-minute VAR check, Harry Kane’s strike was ruled out for offside. Such late drama cameRead More →

[ad_1] Promoted Bournemouth host Tottenham Hotspur in the Premier League on Saturday afternoon. Both clubs come into the contest deflated by distant officials. West Ham consigned Bournemouth to a second consecutive defeat on Monday night which left Gary O’Neil bemoaning the ten VAR decisions – by his count – which have gone against the Cherries during his interim reign. Spurs were denied a dramatic stoppage-time winner from Harry Kane by the referee’s video-aided assistant late on Wednesday evening. Tottenham’s home draw with Sporting CP halted a sequence of consecutive defeats but leaves their Champions League future hanging in the balance. Here’s everything you need toRead More →

[ad_1] Former Chelsea and Birmingham winger Karen Carney MBE is the first 2022 inductee into the Barclays Women’s Super League Hall of Fame. The 35-year-old is the fifth WSL legend to join the Hall of Fame, following in the footsteps of former England teammates Kelly Smith, Fara Williams and Rachel Yankey, as well as Emma Hayes, her former manager at Chelsea. Carney began her senior career at Birmingham at the age of just 14 and was later part of the Arsenal side that won an unprecedented quadruple in 2007. Following a spell in the United States with Chicago Red Stars, she returned to Birmingham forRead More →

[ad_1] Manchester United rejected a request from Ralf Rangnick to sign six players, including Erling Haaland and Luis Diaz, back in January. The club sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer after a poor start to the 2021/22 campaign and hired Rangnick to serve as interim manager until the end of the season, at which point he would move into a consultancy role. The Austrian failed to improve the club’s fortunes though, suffering a number of poor results and eventually guiding Man Utd to their worst ever Premier League points tally. He often stated that the squad needed ‘open heart surgery’ and that serious investment on the transferRead More →