Football Blog (Page 74)

[ad_1] Jonas Eidevall was left admiring a ‘brutally efficient’ Chelsea, after Arsenal again saw a series of chances go begging against the Blues during their 2-0 FA Cup defeat on Sunday. Arsenal dominated for much of the first half at Kingsmeadow, with Ann-Katrin Berger pulling off a number of fine saves to deny Frida Maanum, Katie McCabe and Caitlin Foord. Stina Blackstenius also blazed a glorious opportunity over when one-v-one. The Gunners were made to pay as Chelsea took the lead with their first real sighting of goal through Sophie Ingle. Sam Kerr added a second 10 minutes into the second half to condemn ArsenalRead More →

[ad_1] Manchester United full-back Luke Shaw has described his side’s 2-0 victory over Newcastle United in Sunday’s Carabao Cup final as the ‘start’ of ‘our own history’ at the club. Shaw was at the club when Manchester United last won a piece of silverware back in 2017, but missed out through injury when a team led by Jose Mourinho lined up for the Europa League final against Ajax. The left-back was also absent from the squad that won the Carabao Cup earlier that season too. When United reached the final of Europe’s second-tier competition in 2021, Shaw played the full 120 minutes and scored hisRead More →

[ad_1] Manchester United have won the Carabao Cup after being Newcastle 2-0 in an entertaining game at Wembley. It was the first trophy of the Erik ten Hag era at Man Utd and ends their five-year wait for silverware. Newcastle, meanwhile, have still failed to win a domestic trophy since 1955. The game was an absorbing one, with Newcastle starting brilliantly and passing through the Man Utd lines in assured style. However, they were unable to land a blow on the Red Devils, who slowly grew into the game and took the lead through a Casemiro header. Pledgeball’s Katie Cross & Canaries Trust’s Sarah GreavesRead More →

[ad_1] Manchester United defender Millie Turner was presented with a special shirt on the pitch ahead of her team’s FA Cup victory over Durham, commemorating her landmark 100th appearance for the club just prior to the February international break. In that win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, Turner became only the third United player to reach the landmark when she joined Ella Toone and Katie Zelem. The 26-year-old, who briefly spent time in the club’s youth system before starting her senior career at Everton, was recruited in 2018 when United’s first-team squad was reformed. She has been an important player throughout that time and has goneRead More →

[ad_1] Harry Kane has played in plenty of London derbies in his career, and the striker has scored in a fair few of them. While they only really have big rivalries with Arsenal and Chelsea, Spurs have a number of local (ish) derbies against sides with whom they share a city. Here’s how Kane has fared against them all for his club. Kane has scored in the majority of matches he has played for Spurs since bursting onto the scene in 2014, so it’s no surprise that he’s regularly found the back of the net in London derbies. In total, he’s played in 101 gamesRead More →

[ad_1] The League Cup holds a unique, almost paradoxical place in the hierarchy of the English footballing pyramid. Bowing out of the early rounds of England’s demonstrably second-tier cup competition scarcely prompts a crisis but as soon as you win the trophy it’s importance explodes. Alan Hardaker, the brains behind the tournament’s creation in 1960 – 89 years after the FA Cup launched – argued: “If the FA Cup is football’s Ascot, the League Cup Final is its Derby Day.” 23 different teams have hoisted aloft this particular pot but which club has charged down the final furlong more often than the rest? Liverpool snuckRead More →

[ad_1] In the Carabao Cup final between Manchester United and Newcastle, Loris Karius will make his first appearance in English football in almost five years. The German looked destined for the top when, aged 23, he signed for Liverpool in the summer of 2016. It was hoped that he’d be their first-choice goalkeeper for the foreseeable future. That didn’t work out, though, and he slipped into football obscurity. Here’s the full story of what exactly happened to him during his first spell on English shores. Karius joined Liverpool in the summer of 2016, being signed from Bundesliga side Mainz for a fee of just underRead More →

[ad_1] Chelsea head coach Graham Potter has revealed that Tottenham counterpart Antonio Conte has previously offered him advice over WhatsApp. The Blues travel to Spurs on Sunday lunchtime in a crunch Premier League clash, with the visitors looking to register just their second win of 2023. Conte will not be present as he is at home in Italy recovering from gallbladder surgery. Assistant coach Cristian Stellini will lead from the touchline instead. Speaking ahead of Sunday’s London derby, Potter claimed that Conte texted him after Spurs’ victory at Brighton last season to offer him some advice. In an exclusive interview with 90min, Joe Cole talksRead More →

[ad_1] Brentford goalkeeper David Raya has insisted that he wants to compete for titles and play in Europe, while he revealed why he turned down two offers of a new contract from the Bees. Since Brentford’s promotion to the Premier League in 2021, Raya has established himself as one of the division’s top stoppers. The 27-year-old has been capped twice by Spain and was part of their squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, despite being a relative unknown in his home country having spent his whole professional career in England. But Raya’s time at Brentford could be coming to an end. 90min understands thatRead More →

[ad_1] Jurgen Klopp has leapt to the defence of his Liverpool players, insisting they should not be judged compared to past campaigns. The Reds have performed well below expectations this season having nearly completed an unprecedented quadruple in 2021/22. A dismal week in their campaign ended with a 0-0 draw at Crystal Palace on Saturday night, moving above Brighton into seventh place but having now played a game more than the Seagulls. But Klopp argued that the point earned at Selhurst Park was a good one and claimed that Liverpool are now ‘suffering’ from such lofty expectations they have set themselves. On this edition ofRead More →