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I know that the majority of our problems are defensive ones, and we actually looked OK going forward yesterday, but I have to ask where is Chu Young Park? He was on the bench for the games against Swansea City and Borussia Dortmund, but he did not get on as Marouane Chamakh came on as [...]

Fernando Torres has undoubtedly hit the nadir of his career. This week, he was dropped all together from Spain's 18-man squad and was subsequently demoted to the bench for Chelsea's Premier League match against Sunderland. He also appeared to lose...
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Strong start. Eased off. Conceded a sloppy goal and some chances. Regrouped. Equalized. Pushed on and closed the game out by adding a couple more. Entertaining. Encouraging. Much needed.

It was a youthful line-up and an even younger bench. Le Boss also started with a fluid 4-4-2 giving Park and Chamakh having a great deal of freedom to move.

The new adidas adiZero F50 miCoach - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Is it a football boot? Is it a football boot with a brain? Or is it just adidas finally putting a microchip in their adiZero F50s?

Yes, no and of course. The new adidas adiZero F50 miCoach (165g, retails price starts at £200, out in November), thanks to a built-in microchip and tracking software available for your smartphone as well as an online portal, promises to enable both professional and amateur footballers to analyse their personal speed, distance and work rate.

Arsenal's defence at full stretch

Three points in the bag. Move up to 11th in the league (still early days to consider any significance of the table). No injuries suffered during the game. No red card accrued during the 90 minutes. Andrey Arshavin opened his accounts for the season and another clean sheet kept by Wojciech Szczesny (not that it was his effort alone, those in front of him helped of course).

Is It Time To Bench Jamie Carragher? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Carragher without a doubt has been one of the most reliable and consistent players for Liverpool over the past decade. The veteran defender even now is brilliant with his abilities, however the major concern is that with his age the errors are increasing as well.

Is It Time To Bench Jamie Carragher? - originally posted on Soccerlens.com

Carragher without a doubt has been one of the most reliable and consistent players for Liverpool over the past decade. The veteran defender even now is brilliant with his abilities, however the major concern is that with his age the errors are increasing as well.

Arsenal travel to Borussia Dortmund to kick off the Champions League group stage tonight. Facing the German champions after a challenging start to the season and a crucial if somewhat underwhelming 1-0 win at the Emirates against Swansea City on Saturday is a tough task, but that's the scenario. No use wishing what might have been.

Premier League team news - ESPN Soccernet: Here is the important news from behind the link along with the fantasy implications that the news implies: Arsenal Song and Gervinho are back from suspension which means a few things: 1) Frimpong and Arshavin will almost definitely head to the bench; 2) The defense will be better with Song in front of Mertesacker and Koscielny (and Rovers doing

Poor start, poor ref, four nil – a day to forget for Liverpool

Liverpool lost 4-0 away to Spurs, the White Hart Lane curse continuing as the Anfield side ended the game with nine men. At least now we know why Steve Clark refuses to give Kenny a game in training when numbers aren't even; he's preparing them for days like this – and still has preparation to do.

Roma goalie Stekelenburg

Well, quite a weekend. Too weird for words.

Kenny leaving Kuyt off. Rooney doing a Beckham penalty. Torres missing one complete sitter, missing another relatively easy chance and scoring a beauty. Van der Vaart coming off the bench. Drenthe coming off. Heitinga staying on.

While Del Piero tries to stare you down for giving him evils about being on the Juventus bench, let us take you through some Serie A highlights from the weekend!

1. AS Roma defeated Parma 1-0 with the sole goal coming from Osvaldo.

Lot of talk in the press over the last two days about Frank Lampard reportedly walking away from the bench when being an unused substitute in Saturday's 4-1 win over Swansea City.

Lampard has failed to make Andre Villas-Boas' starting line-up for three of the last four matches. But the game against Swansea was the first time he has not come off the bench.

'The bench was nearer to my kids': Carlos Tevez's top 10 excuses

So Carlos Tevez now says it was all a misunderstanding and he did not refuse to play at Bayern last night. No word yet on how the misunderstanding occurred... but here are our Twitter Army's suggestions at some excuses he might come up with.

Carlos Tevez created quite the sideshow during Manchester City's UEFA Champions League loss to Bayern Munich on Tuesday after refusing to enter the match as a substitute.

After acknowledging that he wouldn't go into the match, the Argentine striker is now backtracking a bit with his latest public comments.

Euro joy for starlets

Adam Morgan came off the bench to fire a brace and help keep Liverpool's NextGen Series hopes alive in a 3-0 victory over Molde at Anfield on Thursday night.

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Liverpool 3-0 Molde: Alex Morgan double seals NextGenSeries win

Alex Morgan came off the bench to hit a brace as Liverpool defeated Molde 3-0 and increase their chances of progressing from the NextGen Series group stage.

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Jordan Henderson scored an excellent goal while captaining England U21s to a 6-0 Euro qualification victory over Azerbaijan on Thursday night.
The 21-year-old bent a right-foot shot beyond the goalkeeper to cap a mature display in the centre of the park.
Jon Flanagan also impressed on his U21 debut, playing 90 minutes and looking every inch a Premier League player.

At the end of last season it seemed that Niko Kranjcar's time at Spurs was at an end. After winning goals against Bolton and Sunderland he was consigned, in the main, to the subs' bench and after highlighting his lack of first team action, it seemed almost certain that he would be moving on.

Everyone knows that it's impossible to keep everyone happy. No one would argue with this. Life teaches us this at every turn. But someone who has far more varied choices with far more reaching consequences may beg to differ. A feisty Scotsman better known as Fergie should be completely oblivious to this.

Everyone knows that it's impossible to keep everyone happy. No one would argue with this. Life teaches us this at every turn. But someone who has far more varied choices with far more reaching consequences may beg to differ. A feisty Scotsman better known as Fergie should be completely oblivious to this.

Oliver Holt's big match verdict: Lamps is going out but England's future looks bright

Frank Lampard has been a fine player for England, a stalwart of the midfield for more than a decade who has won 86 caps. He deserves better than for his omission from the side to be hailed as a barometer of change but that was his fate here in Sofia.

2014 Word Cup qualifying started off well for Tinidad and Tobago, with a 1-0 win over Bermuda beginning the process.

Philadelphia Union midfielder Keon Daniel started Trinidad's victory off on the bench, but was substituted into the game in the 36th minute of the game. Daniel replaced Khaleem Hyland well before the start of half time for reasons beyond a tactical change.

In January 2001, Gerrard Houllier signed one of Europe's most renowned and exciting creative players. Liverpool fans everywhere rejoiced at the prospect of having such a rare talent in the team, the ideal player to complement Michael Owen and Robbie Fowler. Joy quickly turned to frustration though as Houllier criminally underused the player and inexplicably wasted his considerable talent.

Of late, it seems that Chelsea fans are beginning to question the role Frank Lampard has in the side at the moment as being honest we haven't seen Frank at anywhere near his best so far this season.
As you can imagine with news that Frank Lampard was on the bench for England's 3-0 win over Bulgaria last night, the knives have come out for him regarding his England career.

Spain producing a stirring comeback to overturn a two goal deficit as they beat Chile 3-2 in St Gallen, Switzerland. Cesc Fabregas was the hero of the night coming off the bench and bagged a brace as Vicente Del Bosque's men put on a superb second half display. Despite losing their number 1 ranking in [.

Saturday's matches saw Giovanni Moreno finally return to the Argentine Primera in the same stadium he left off in, as he came off the bench in the second half for Racing away to All Boys. He instantly improved Racing's game, ... Continue reading →

Tim Krul, Yohan Cabaye and Jonas Gutierrez were all on the bench in the first games of the International break. Joan Edmundsson played full game against Italy Tim was on the bench in Holland's 11-0 trouncing of Sam Marino, who are ranked 203rd of 203 football countries by FIFA, and Holland are ranked number [.

I think most people agree that as long as referees are humans not super robots, and as long as FIFA insists to keep football almost the only sport without technology assistance for referees, we will keep debating if the ball crossed the line or not, was it an offside or not, penalty or not, scored by hand or head .

Tomorrow is Labor Day here in the United States. So naturally, I've been thinking about how we measure work performance in football. It's also a long weekend, with most people off from work for three days. If they spending it catching up on the Premier League season so far, they could be forgiven for scratching their heads upon finding out that last year's top scorers in the Premier League Dimitar Berbatov and Carlos Tevez have yet to start a singe match this season.

Fabio Capello has confirmed that he will not include Andy Carroll in his starting XI in his current shape.
Carroll was named in the England squad for the games against Bulgaria and Wales.
But the Liverpool striker was not deemed fit enough to feature in Sofia and was not even on the bench for the 3-0 win.

West Brom's top scorer from last season Peter Odemwingie has suffered a setback in his bid to return from a niggling ankle injury, with Roy Hodgson confirming the striker's return date is yet unknown. The Nigerian first sustained the injury during West Brom's pre-season, although the striker did come off the bench for 15 minutes against Chelsea.

Frank Lampard not finished, warns John Terry

England captain John Terry has warned Chelsea team-mate Lampard should not be written off despite falling to the bench in Friday's match in Bulgaria.

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iSub Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli risked the wrath of Italy coach Cesare Prandelli after being caught playing with his iPad on the substitutes' bench for their match against the Faroe Island. Balotelli, a dab hand at benchwarming so far this season, decided to shun watching his team-mates in action in favour of some action [.

Arsene Wenger's appeal against a two-match suspension has been rejected by Uefa and he will now be banned from the dugout for the start of Arsenal's Champions League group stage campaign.

Wenger was originally given a one-game ban for the first leg of the Gunners' play-off round tie against Udinese, following criticism of Swiss referee Massimo Busacca in the defeat to Barcelona last season.

Total joke this is. The UEFA Appeals Body has rejected the appeal lodged by Arsenal and Arsène Wenger against the two-match suspension handed to the manager after the play-off first leg against Udinese.

Wenger will now be suspended for Arsenal's next two Champions League matches, against Borussia Dortmund and Olympiacos FC on 13 and 28 September.

Total joke this is. The UEFA Appeals Body has rejected the appeal lodged by Arsenal and Arsène Wenger against the two-match suspension handed to the manager after the play-off first leg against Udinese.

Wenger will now be suspended for Arsenal's next two Champions League matches, against Borussia Dortmund and Olympiacos FC on 13 and 28 September.

By Alan Duffy

With Luis Suarez, Stewart Downing and Co. setting Anfield alight, Liverpool's £35million man Andy Carroll has found himself somewhat out of favour with King Kenny Dalglish, while for England's recent game in Bulgaria, he wasn't even named on the bench.

Kelmend Isaj (Monroe) started his college soccer career in the best way possible.

The forward came off the bench for the Edgewood College men's team in Friday night's season opener and scored on a 20-yard shot with his first touch. Isaj added another goal just before halftime and senior goalkeeper Kyle Koenig (Sheboygan South) made two saves as the Eagles blanked Lawrence 3-0 at Breese Stevens Field.