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MILAN, Italy – Wesley Sneijder scared his team mates by collapsing in the locker-room during the
half time break of the game versus Bresecia last weekend. The Inter Milan star told Dutch newspaper
De Telegraaf that five minutes before half time his body started to shake and he was feeling pain
all over.
VANCOUVER, BC — It was a dream-come-true for two Vancouver Whitecaps players but a nightmare for
three others. The Major League Soccer-bound Caps rewarded central midfielder Terry Dunfield and
centre back Greg Janicki with MLS contracts Friday but released goalkeeper Simon Thomas and
defenders Willis Forko and Luca Bellisomo.
MANCHESER, England Roberto Mancini confirmed Manchester City will be appealing against referee Lee
Probert's decision to send off match-winner Mario Balotelli in their 2-0 victory over West Brom at
the Hawthorns. Balotelli eased some of the pressure on his manager and fellow Italian Mancini by
netting two goals in the first half which eventually [.
MADRID, Spain Real Madrid avoided another embarrassing Copa del Rey exit to a lower-tier club with
a 5-1 fourth-round victory over Murcia on Wednesday. After a scoreless first leg, Madrid midfielder
Esteban Granero curled Pedro Leon's pass into the top of the goal from long range in the fourth
minute to put his team [.
BERLIN, Germany — Mainz 05′s title aspirations suffered a serious set-back on Saturday when
they were beaten 1-0 at home by ten-man Hanover as Dortmund opened a seven-point lead at the top of
the Bundesliga. Mainz dropped to third in the table after suffering only their fourth defeat of the
season, while Hanover are up [.
ALKMAAR, Netherlands Ajax lost ground on Eredivisie leaders PSV with a 2-0 defeat away to AZ
Alkmaar on Sunday, while VVV Venlo were thrashed by Vitesse Arnhem. PSV replaced Twente as leaders
courtesy of a 4-2 win over Excelsior on Saturday, with Twente slipping to second after a 2-1 defeat
at NAC.
MADRID, Spain — Real Madrid remain top of the Primera Liga after Gonzalo Higuain scored the only
goal of a hard fought battle filled with tension against Sporting Gijon on Sunday. With Barcelona
provisionally overtaking them on the top of the table on Saturday after a 3-1 win over Villarreal
the onus was on Real [.
LONDON, England Chelsea captain John Terry fears that a long-term nerve injury in his leg could
sideline him for months. The 29-year-old admitted that he was no longer able to play with the pain
of the injury, which he has battled since the end of last season, and is worried he will now have
[...]
HELSINKI, Finland - Finland crushed San Marino 8-0 on Wednesday to notch a highest ever victory
in a competitive international and a first win in their Euro 2012 Group E qualifying campaign.
Finland, playing under stand-in coach Olli Huttunen who replaced Stuart Baxter last week, were
helped by a Mikael Forssell hat-trick having lead just [.
BIRMINGHAM, England -Lee Bowyer's first goal of the season gave Birmingham a shock 1-0 victory over
Chelsea on Saturday to cast more doubts over the ability of Carlo Ancelotti's side to retain the
Premier League title. Less than a week after Ancelotti was left fuming at his team's lame
capitulation against Sunderland, Chelsea's season reached [.
ROME, Italy — A touch of brilliance from Zlatan Ibrahimovic earned AC Milan a 1-0 win over
Fiorentina on Saturday to lift them four points clear at the top of Serie A. One week after he had
sunk his former teammates at Inter Milan Ibrahimovic once again proved the match winner. On 45
minutes, with [.
ROME, Italy — Roma are on the brink of the Champions League knock-out stages after coming back
from a 2-0 half-time deficit to down Bayern Munich 3-2 in a thriller at the Stadio Olimpico here on
Tuesday. Hot-shot Mario Gomez took his tally to 14 goals in his last 10 games as the Germans
appeared [.
ROME, Italy — Sampdoria and AC Milan shared the spoils in an entertaining 1-1 draw at the
Marrassi stadium on Saturday as the Rossoneri's four-game winning run came to an end. Robinho was
the star of the show for Milan scoring in a first half the visitors totally dominated before Samp
hit back after the [.
MANCHESTER, Englanad Dimitar Berbatov declared himself stunned after hitting a sensational five
goals as Manchester United destroyed Blackburn 7-1 at Old Trafford. Berbatov became only the fourth
player in Premier League history to score five in a game, and he would have notched the first ever
double hat-trick had Rovers keeper Paul Robinson not [.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands Ajax moved to within three points of Eredivisie leaders PSV Eindhoven as
they won 2-0 at VVV-Venlo. They were made to work for their win, though, with VVV holding out for
just over an hour before substitute Mido broke the deadlock. Miralem Sulejmani added a second after
70 minutes to add gloss [.
LONDON, England — Aaron Lennon's stoppage-time winner gave Tottenham Hotspur a 2-1 victory over
Liverpool at White Hart Lane here on Sunday as Harry Redknapp's in-form side climbed up the Premier
League table. The win moved Spurs into fifth place but taking all three points had appeared beyond
them when Martin Skrtel capped an impressive [.
BARCELONA, Spain Hercules, Real Mallorca, Racing Santander, Athletic Bilbao and Real Sociedad all
claimed vital victories in the Primera Liga on Sunday. Athletic Bilbao edged a keenly-fought Basque
derby with Osasuna, eventually emerging 1-0 winners. It took the hosts until deep into injury-time
to find a way through, with both sides having dug deep [.
LISBON, Portugal Sporting Clube de Portugal secured their place in the UEFA Europa League round of
32 as Group C winners thanks to a narrow victory against LOSC Lille Métropole. The Lisbon club
made their first-half superiority tell on 28 minutes when Anderson Polga volleyed in his first
European goal of the season.
BORISOV, Belarus FC Dynamo Kiev confirmed their place in the UEFA Europa League knockout stage with
an impressive display against FC BATE Borisov which enabled them to leapfrog their opponents at the
top of Group E. Previously unbeaten in the section, already-qualified BATE had no answer to a
Dynamo team who looked like scoring [.
PARIS, France Nenê orchestrated Paris Saint-Germain FC's 4-2 defeat of Sevilla FC in Group J on
Thursday to ease the French club into the last 32. The Brazilian scored the winner in Spain on
Matchday 1, and again proved the difference between the two sides, providing the corners that
allowed Mathieu Bodmer and Guillaume [.
VIENA, Austria Falcao continued his prolific run of form in the UEFA Europa League by scoring a
hat-trick as FC Porto wrapped up Group L and confirmed SK Rapid Wien's elimination at a
snow-covered Ernst-Happel-Stadion. Needing to better Be?ikta? JK's result away to PFC CSKA Sofia to
retain hope, Rapid edged in front six [.
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands PSV Eindhoven came from behind to thrash visitors Heracles Almelo 5-2 and
Twente Enschede enjoyed a 2-0 home win over Graafschap Doetinchem as the pair remained joint top of
the Dutch League. PSV lead on goal difference from Twente with 37 points after 17 matches at the
halfway point of the season, [.
ROME, Italy — Fabio Quagliarella suffered a Frank Lampard moment on Sunday when he had a
perfectly good goal ruled out in Juventus's 3-1 win at Catania when officials failed to spot his
shot had crossed the line. Quagliarella unleashed a 43rd-minute drive from a Milos Krasic pass
which crashed against the crossbar before bouncing [.
GENOA, Italy — Marek Hamsik scored the only goal of the game as 10-man Napoli went second in
Serie A on Saturday with a 1-0 victory at Genoa. Michele Pazienza was sent off late on for the
southerners who were far from their best but produced dogged rearguard resistance to sneak the
victory. They will [.
DOETINCHEM, Netherlands PSV handed Twente an opportunity to claim the Eredivisie's top spot, while
Willem II's season of woe continued on Saturday. PSV lost Orlando Engelaar 10 minutes before
half-time just as they were enjoying their best spell of attacking pressure, with Ibrahim Afellay
hitting the bar and then setting up Jonathan Reis [.
HEERENVEEN, Netherlands Reigning Dutch champions Twente missed a golden opportunity to go top of
the Eredivisie. Instead they received a incredible 6-2 beating by Heerenveen. Oussama Assaidi
scored a hat-trick for Heerenveen, who moved to seventh with the win, while Belgian winger Nacer
Chadli scored both goals for Twente.
LIVERPOOL, England Top and bottom respectively of Group K at the start of the day, Liverpool FC and
FC Utrecht also finished it at opposite ends of the section following a goalless draw at Anfield.
Results a fortnight ago rubber-stamped Liverpool's place in the UEFA Europa League round of 32 and
ended Utrecht's hopes [.
PRAGUE, Czech Republic - AC Sparta Prague denied fellow qualifiers CSKA Moscow a perfect UEFA
Europa League group stage campaign after coming from behind to earn a 1-1 draw. After Alan Dzagoev
put CSKA in front, Sparta responded well and Václav Kadlec levelled on the stroke of half-time.
With CSKA certain to finish top of [.
TURIN, Italy A second-half equaliser from Jô cancelled out Niccolò Giannetti's effort on his
first start for Juventus as Manchester City FC finished top of Group A. The 19-year-old Giannetti,
whose previous first-team experience amounted to a seven-minute outing on Matchday 4, got across
Dedryck Boyata to turn in Alessandro Del Piero's pass two [.
STUTTGART, Germany Bruno Labbadia made a fine start at the Stuttgart helm as two goals from Timo
Gebhart helped the German side round off Group H in style with a 5-1 victory over Odense BK. Timo
Gebhart got the ball rolling with the first of his two goals on 20 minutes and by the [...]
EINDHOVEN, Netherlands PSV Eindhoven clinched top spot in the UEFA Europa League Group I after a
low-key 0-0 draw against FC Metalist Kharkiv. The Ukrainian side created the most chances in a
tepid first half, but lacked the sharpness to convert any of their openings. PSV were stronger
after the break though they too [.
BERLIN, Germany — Mainz closed the gap at the top of the Bundesliga on Saturday to 10 points with
a tense 4-2 win at wintry St Pauli as leaders Borussia Dortmund were beaten 1-0 at Eintracht
Frankfurt. Both Mainz striker Andre Shuerrle and St Pauli midfielder Matthias Lehmann scored two
goals, but a deft first-half [.
ROME, Italy — Marco Borriello came back to haunt former club AC Milan on Saturday, scoring the
only goal of the game as Roma blew the Serie A title race wide open. Borriello struck 21 minutes
from time with a lucky goal he knew next to nothing about but that won't have worried the
28-year-old [...]
PARIS, France — Midfielder Fabien Lemoine proved the unlikely hero for Rennes on Saturday as he
marked his return four months after having a kidney removed by setting up the winning goal in a 1-0
success over Valenciennes. Lemoine came on as a late substitute to a standing ovation from his home
crowd with minutes [.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands PSV Eindhoven beat Roda JC 3-1 on Sunday in captain Ibrahim Afellay's last
Dutch league game with the club to extend its lead atop the standings by four points, while three
other games were postponed due to bad weather. Afellay, who made his Eredivisie debut for PSV under
coach Guus Hiddink in [.
BERLIN, Germany — Bayern Munich striker Mario Gomez claimed a hat-trick as an early Christmas
present in an eight-goal thriller on Sunday as the German champions routed struggling Stuttgart 5-3
at home. This was the Germany star's second Bundesliga hat-trick of the season as he capitalised on
a poor Stuttgart defence to leave him with [.
MADRID, Spain — Argentine international winger Angel di Maria scored a vital 77th minute winner
as 10-man Real Madrid defeated Sevilla 1-0 at the Santiago Bernabeu on Sunday to close to within
two points of league leaders Barcelona ahead of the Christmas break. The 22-year-old di Maria, a
25-million-euro summer signing from Benfica, squeezed a [.
MUNICH, Germany — Bayern Munich coach Louis van Gaal said earlier he was counting on Arjen Robben
returning to action for the first Bundesliga game after the winter break against Wolfsburg on
January 15. The Dutchman has not played since returning from the World Cup in South Africa with a
torn hamstring.
MILAN, Italy Rafa Benitez's agent has revealed that he is currently negotiating a deal to "rescind
the contract" of the Inter Milan manager appearing to confirm reports that the Spaniard is facing
the sack. Speculation has been rife in recent days that the parting of ways of Benitez and Inter is
inevitable, though [.
MILAN, Italy Rafa Benitez's agent has revealed that he is currently negotiating a deal to "rescind
the contract" of the Inter Milan manager appearing to confirm reports that the Spaniard is facing
the sack. Speculation has been rife in recent days that the parting of ways of Benitez and Inter is
inevitable, though [.
