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One of Arsenal's most consistent defenders, Bacary Sagna, has suffered his second leg-break in the
one season, and he admitted that the second was due to the weakness from the first break, although
he felt that Johnson stamped on his leg on purpose. He said: "I think Johnson did it on purpose. He
stepped on [.
After four games in twelve days, nobody would argue with an Arsenal player needing time out of club
football for the international break, but it is pleasing to know that for the majority of them, it
couldn't be more unwelcome. Having collected 19 points out of a possible 21 in their last seven
games, Arsène [.
MANCHESTER, England Blackpool are now in contention for European football next season despite being
relegated from the Barclays Premier League on Sunday. Ian Holloway's side went down 4-2 at
Manchester United to end their brief spell in the top flight of English football. But the
Tangerines could feature in the Europa League next year [.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Columbus native and former Crew defender Eric Brunner came back to haunt his old
team on Saturday night, scoring the only goal in a 1-0 Portland victory at JELD-WEN Field. The
second-half goal — a header off a free kick in the 46th minute — helped Portland maintain their
dominance at home [.
LONDON, England Goals from Kim Little and Julie Fleeting saw Arsenal reclaim the FA Women's Cup
with a 2-0 victory over Bristol Academy at the Ricoh Arena. The Gunners had lost out to Everton in
extra-time in last year's final, but they put that heartache behind them to secure a comfortable
win. Saturday's success [.
BERLIN, Germany — Germany star Bastian Schweinsteiger will play no part in a friendly against
Uruguay on May 29 or in two Euro 2012 qualifiers next month because of injury, the German football
federation (DFB) said Friday. The 26-year-old Bayern Munich midfielder, one of the stars of
Germany's strong 2010 World Cup performance, broke a [.
PARIS, France Lille moved to the brink of the Ligue 1 and French Cup double when a second-half
Gervinho goal secured a 1-0 league home win over Sochaux on Wednesday. The northeners, who were
last champions in 1954 and won the French Cup on Saturday, have 72 points with two games left and
lead [...]
PARIS, France — Lyon gave themselves the perfect morale boost for next Tuesday's Champions League
home clash with Real Madrid on Friday as they eased to a 4-0 victory over Nancy. However, while
goals from Yoann Gourcuff, Jeremy Pied, Miralem Pjanic and the outstanding Jimmy Briand saw them
move into provisional second in the league [.
NUREMBERG, Germany — Nuremberg extended its winning run in the Bundesliga to four games on
Friday, when goals from Julian Schieber, Robert Mak and Almog Cohen earned a 3-0 home win over
Eintracht Frankfurt. Frankfurt has yet to win in the Bundesliga in 2011, and has been outscored by
11 goals to none since the [.
ROME, Italy - AS Roma coach Claudio Ranieri was left to fight off loud boos and speculation his
days at the club are numbered after an embarrassing 3-2 home defeat by Champions League knockout
round debutants Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday. Three Serie A games without a win and the club being
up for sale had [.
MILAN, Italy Antonio Cassano scored his first AC Milan goal and Robinho struck twice to help the
Serie A leaders end a run of two straight draws in a 4-0 home thrashing of Parma on Saturday.
Second-placed Napoli made sure the gap stayed at three points, however, with the league's top
scorer Edinson Cavani [.
PARIS, France — Marseille and Lyon both came from behind to breathe new life into their title
challenges on Saturday, with OM beating Sochaux 2-1 and OL overpowering derby rivals Saint-Etienne
4-1. Andre-Pierre Gignac was the match-winner for Marseille at Sochaux, as the defending champions
secured a victory that took them up to second place [.
GENEVE, Switzerland Lionel Messi scored a 90th-minute penalty to give Argentina a 2-1 win over
Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal in the first international meeting of the two players on Wednesday.
Two-time world player of the year Messi also was the dominating early influence and set up Angel di
Maria to give Argentina a 14th-minute lead.
Sunderland new signing Sulley Muntari reckons the Black Cats need to bounce back from a
disappointing few weeks if they want to finish in the Premier League top six. The former Portsmouth
midfielder arrived in the north-east on loan from Inter Milan during January and made his debut in
Sunderland's disappointing defeat to Stoke City [.
BOSTON, Mass Young athletes often dream of becoming professionals. In some cases, they even forgo
college to take their chances on the big time. Leominster's Diego Fagundez is an even rarer
exception. Fagundez is not only going to skip college, he will be bypassing much of high school as
well to pursue a pro [.
MILAN, Italy Internazionale continue to close the gap on neighbours AC at the top of the Serie A
table after a breathtaking 5-3 defeat of AS Roma at the San Siro. Wesley Sneijder's third minute
goal set the tone for a pulsating game with Samuel Eto'o and Fabio Simplicio also on the first half
[...]
MADRID, Spain — Sevilla were held to a 0-0 draw in the Andalusian derby with bottom side Malaga
on Sunday and lost further ground in the hunt for a European place. It has been a disappointing
campaign for Sevilla who have just one win from their last four matches and are six points off a
[...]
UTRECHT, Netherlands FC Twente passed up the chance to go two points clear at the Eredivisie summit
after being held in a 1-1 draw away to FC Utrecht. PSV's defeat to ADO Den Haag on Saturday gave
Twente an opportunity to head top of the league, but teenager Leon de Kogel put Utrecht ahead [...]
LONDON, England — Fernando Torres's Chelsea debut ended in misery when his team lost 1-0 at home
to Liverpool on Sunday, wasting the chance to take advantage of Manchester United's first league
defeat of the season. Torres, who moved from Anfield to Chelsea last week for a reported 50 million
pounds ($80.
ROME, Italy — Alessandro Matri returned to haunt his former club Cagliari on Saturday when he
scored twice in Juventus's 3-1 win. The victory ended a run of three straight defeats and eased the
pressure on Juve coach Luigi Delneri. Matri's goals sandwiched a strike from Cagliari's Robert
Acquafresca before Luca Toni scored a late [.
WOLVERHAMPTON, England Manchester United suffered their first Premier League defeat of the season
in a shock 2-1 loss at bottom club Wolverhampton Wanderers. In a top vs bottom clash that all but
the most optimistic Wolves fan assumed would be a United walkover, two goals from George Elokobi
although Kevin Doyle will try [.
MUNCIH, Germany — Bayern Munich's title aspirations suffered a major blow on Saturday as
relegation-threatened Cologne hit back from 2-0 down to inflict a 3-2 defeat on the defending
champions. Bayern were cruising after first-half goals by Germany striker Mario Gomez, his 16th in
19 league matches, and Turkey midfielder Hamit Altintop.
LONDON, England The controversial nature of Arsenal's clash with Everton continued after the game,
as Toffees boss David Moyes made the claim that Cesc Fabregas should have been sent off at half
time. Everton took a controversial lead when Louis Saha scored despite appearing to be a long way
offside.
CASA GRANDE, Arz Playing their first-ever preseason training match as a Major League Soccer club on
Tuesday, Vancouver Whitecaps FC defeated 2009 MLS Cup champions Real Salt Lake 2-1 at Grande Sports
World in Casa Grande, Arizona. Goals by the Canadian duo of Russell Teibert and Terry Dunfield have
Teitur Thordarson's side a positive [.
PARIS, France — Marseille boss Didier Deschamps admitted his team flopped in front of Sir Alex
Ferguson on Sunday as the Manchester United boss scouted his Champions League opponents. Marseille
drew 0-0 at relegation-haunted Monaco, a result which left the French champions in fifth place in
the table.
ROME, Italy — Giampaolo Pazzini scored a brace on his debut as Inter Milan fought back from a
two-goal half-time deficit to beat Palermo 3-2 on Sunday. The win kept the champions in the title
race following leaders AC Milan's 2-0 win at Catania on Saturday, leaving them nine points behind
but with a game [.
LONDON, England Holders Chelsea needed a late equalizer by Salomon Kalou to snatch a 1-1 draw that
kept it in the FA Cup after a Louis Saha header had put Everton on course for a fourth-round upset
at Goodison Park. In another of the weekend's five all-Premier League ties Aston Villa beat
Blackburn Rovers [.
MUNICH, Germany — Bayern Munich had to come from behind on Saturday to win 3-1 at Werder Bremen,
while Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dortmund kept up their domination with a 3-0 win at Wolfsburg.
Bremen's Per Mertesacker went from joy to despair as his opening goal just after the break was
cancelled out by an Arjen [.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Miralem Sulejmani scored a goal in each half as holders Ajax Amsterdam came
from behind to beat NAC Breda 4-1 on Thursday to reach the Dutch Cup semi-finals. Fouad Idabdelhay
put Breda ahead after eight minutes when he broke through the Amsterdam defence and beat goalkeeper
Maarten Stekelenburg.
WARSAW, Poland — Polish second division stragglers Warta Poznan may have found a secret weapon as
they battle to avoid the drop: a former Playboy cover star. Izabela Lukomska-Pyzalska, 33, has been
named club chair and is pledging to run a tight ship to try to save Warta from relegation.
Lukomska-Pyzalska told the rolling news [.
MUNICH, Germany — Bayern Munich captain Mark van Bommel on Tuesday joined Italian side AC Milan,
five months before his contract was due to expire, the German giants have announced. "It was Mark's
express wish to be released from his contract early for sporting reasons, in order to be able to
move to AC Milan [.
DOHA, Qatar — Australia stormed into their first Asian Cup final on Tuesday with a 6-0 thrashing
of 10-man Uzbekistan to set up a decider against three-time champions Japan. Galatasary forward
Harry Kewell got the opener on five minutes and Asian player of the year Sasa Ognenovski doubled
their lead 11 minutes before half-time.
BOLTON Didier Drogba, Florent Malouda, Nicolas Anelka and Ramires were all on target as Chelsea
ended their miserable run of away form with a 4-0 victory at Bolton here on Monday to keep alive
their dim hopes of the Premier League title. Carlo Ancelotti's side had fallen away from contention
for the title with [.
MADRID, Spain — Misfit striker Karim Benzema reminded Jose Mourinho of his talents on Sunday,
scoring the 60th-minute goal in Real Madrid's 1-0 win over Real Mallorca which cut Barcelona's lead
back to four points. Mourinho said Benzema, a 35-million euro signing from Lyon, needed to step up
his game and the 23-year-old responded as [.
ROME, Italy – Udinese ended Leonardo's perfect record since taking over as Inter Milan coach with
a 3-1 win over the Italian champions on Sunday while city rivals Milan retained their four-point
lead at the top. Inter, aiming for a sixth straight win since the Brazilian's arrival in the San
Siro dugout, took the lead [.
LEVERKUSEN, Germany — Michael Ballack returned from injury on Sunday as Bayer Leverkusen went
second in the Bundesliga with a 3-1 win at bottom side Moenchengladbach to trim Dortmund's lead at
the top to 11 points. Germany captain Ballack made a low-key return after suffering a fractured leg
which has kept him out since September [.
ROTTERDAM The agony of Feyenoord Rotterdam does not end. Today, a new chapter was added to the
story of the declining club. Three days after the hopeless 2-0 defeat at Ajax, the fans saw De
Graafschap was too strong: 0-1. "Shame on you, shame on you', rolled it from the angry stands. The
only [...]
ROME, iTALY — Roma kept themselves in the Serie A title hunt as a 3-0 win over Cagliari at the
Stadio Olimpico on Saturday took them up to second, for a day at least. Club captain Francesco
Totti scored the opener from the spot and Simone Perrotta was gifted the second after a horror
mistake [...]
MANCHESTER Dimitar Berbatov scored a hat trick as Manchester United dominated Birmingham, 5-0, in
English Premier League action on Saturday. With the win, United stays at the top of the table, all
alone after Manchester City's loss later in the day. Arsenal actually jumped into second, two
points back of the leaders.
DOHA, Qatar — Substitute midfielder Yoon Bit-garam drilled a left-foot shot from the edge of
the penalty box in extra time Saturday to send South Korea into the semifinals of the Asian Cup
with a 1-0 victory over perennial rival Iran. Yoon found the into the lower right corner of the net
during injury time [.
