Valencia might have crashed out of the Champions League against PSG, but goalkeeper Vicente Guaita was not going to go back to Spain without a consolation. If playing in Europe's premier club competition was going to be cruelly snatched away, Guaita decided he would snatch at PSG star Ezequiel Lavezzi.
Robinho scored and had an assist as AC Milan defeated Olimpia, 3-1, at Gillette Stadium. (Photo:
Walter Silva)
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Italian giants A.C. Milan cruised to an easy 3-1 victory over Honduran
champions C.D. Olimpia at Gillette Stadium in an international exhibition on Saturday evening.
Vermont midfielder Etienne Boulanger scored in the 87th minute, but it would prove nothing more
than a consolation goal as the Voltage fell 3-1 to the Ottawa Fury in Ottawa on Wednesday
night.
Ottawa (5-1-1, 16 points), who scored first in the 34th minute through Carlo Basso, then added
goals through Will Beauge and Robert Murphy in the second half, moved into first in the USL PDL
Northeast Division with the win.
When the U.S. men's national team faces Guatemala Tuesday night, it will be facing a somewhat
desperate side coming off a disappointing opening to CONCACAF World Cup qualifying.
Jamaica handed Guatemala a 2-1 loss Saturday night behind goals from Demar Phillips and Toronto
FC striker Ryan Johnson to keep pace with the Americans atop the Group A standings.
Giantkillers Oldham's FA Cup adventure ended in a 3-1 defeat at Everton. The Latics faced an uphill battle from the moment Kevin Mirallas gave the Toffees an early lead. Former Everton player Jose Baxter almost levelled, but his curled effort hit the inside of Tim Howard's post and bounced out. Goals from Leighton Baines and [.
One imagines Roman Abramovich was standing outside the Atletico Madrid dressing room at
half-time with his cheque-book open, after he witnessed a magnificent first-half hat-trick from
Colombian hitman Radamel Falcao.
'El Tigre' tore Chelsea apart in an outstaning first-half performance, netting three superb
goals as the Blues defence fell apart.
szólj hozzá: Aston Villa vs Everton 1:3 Highlights
Could Everton become a top four contender? Marouane Fellaini was once again bestial, an
unstoppable force, collecting his second goal aerially. Steven Pienaar back to his former club got
them off to a smoking start and then it was red hot Nikica Jelavic laying the lumber on unfortunate
Villa with Everton's third.
Aston Villa 1-3 Everton Premier League 25 August 2012
Aston Villa, having barely strengthened their squad during the summer, were utterly dire at home
to Everton, with the visitors going in 3-0 up at the break.
Steven Pienaar opened the scoring with a superb effort early on while Marouane Fellaini headed
home his second of the season.
A brace from Lionel Messi, and goals from Carles Puyol, Pedro, and David Villa as Barca
sauntered through their opening fixture against Real Sociedad. The opposition got a consolation
from Chory Castro.
Perhaps no goal was as satisfying as Villa's coming back to the game after an 8th month injury
absence.
Leo Messi's recent national goalscoring is well ahead of his Barca output. He scored his 9th
goal in five matches. Unleash the kracken as they say. Sami Khedira got the ball rolling for
Argentina with an own goal, Messi followed suit, and then it was the goal of this day's friendlies
when Angel Di Maria absolutely belted the ball from 30 yards out.
One current Arsenal player and a former one contributed to Spain's 2-1 winning score. Santi
Cazorla swung a ball which had all kinds of movement past the Puerto Rican goalie and then Cesc
Fabregas hit a full blooded volley to get Spain's second. Marc Cintron scored a consolation for
PR.
Rapid Vienna beat Serbian side Vojvodina 2-1 in the Europa League preliminaries last night,
though the goal they conceded was a right old humdinger.
As the game dwindled to nothing and stoppage time wicked away with the score at 2-0, Rapid
'keeper Lukas Konigshofer came to claim a cross to relieve the pressure and, upon hearing a
whistle sound, assumed the goalkeeper's union had come to his rescue and duly rolled the ball out
to hump it up to halfway.
As regular readers of this site will be aware, we are delving back into the past over the course
of this summer so bring you collections of videos from English footballs history. This week we're
featuring Norwich City, and we kick-off with a compilation from the clubs FA Cup run of 1959, when
they reached the semi-finals of the competition as a Third Division South side.
The 88th minute Jesus Navas goal was legitimate. The key is Iniesta receiving Cesc Fabregas's
perfectly measured chip in an onside position, chesting it and side-footing it to Navas who was
free to move because he was not the primary target.
szólj hozzá: omgsport.ru Russia - Czech rep. Full Highligh
Andriy Arshavin is busy thumbing his nose at Wenger and going n-yah n-yah. The little Russian
was as incisive as one can remember and Alan Dzagoev showed why he will be a superstar. Maybe
Arsene Wenger can chalk him up as a possible replacement to Robin Van Persie should he leave?
In a flowing, potent performance remiscent of Euro 2008, Russia outplayed a disappointing Czech
Republic side in the second game of Group A.
CSKA Moscow's gifted young playmaker Alan Dzagoev bagged a brace (one in each half) whileÂ
Roman Shirokov also scored before sub Roman Pavluchenko netted a superb solo goal late on for a
rampant Russian side.
1. Luis Suarez: controversy seeks him out like a ball to an outstretched hand. 2. FA Cup third weekend was a great advert for the January transfer window. With Demba Ba and Daniel Sturridge both on target on their debuts, perhaps it's not such a bad time to splash your cash. 3. Hastings striker Bradley [.
Republic of Ireland and Nottingham Forest striker Simon Cox score's a screamer from distant
against Wigan in the League Cup last night unfortunately it was only a consolation goal as Wigan
advanced 4-1.
szólj hozzá: Aston Villa vs Everton 1:3 Highlights
Everton continued where they left off on Monday night as they beat Aston Villa 3-1 at Villa Park
today with goals from Pienaar (3), Fellaini (31) and Jelavic (44), with El Ahmadi 74' grabbing a
consolation goal for the home side.
Out-of-favour striker Andy Carroll capped a comfortable 3-1 victory for Liverpool over Bayer
Leverkusen in their final pre-season friendly before they kick off their Barclays' Premier League
campaign.
It took just three minutes for the home side to break the deadlock at Anfield through youngster
Raheem Sterling.
Liverpool's pre-season tour in the US hasn't gone to plan as of yet, following their 1-1 draw
with Toronto last week the Red's followed up with a 2-1 defeat to Roma last night with US
international Michael Bradley giving the Italians the lead just past the hour mark before
Alessandro Florenzi doubled the Italians lead seven minutes later.
Liverpool's pre-season tour in the US hasn't gone to plan as of yet, following their 1-1 draw
with Toronto last week the Red's followed up with a 2-1 defeat to Roma last night with US
international Michael Bradley giving the Italians the lead just past the hour mark before
Alessandro Florenzi doubled the Italians lead seven minutes later.
Last summer, the one thing that provided any consolation to the fact Paul Scholes had retired
was that we had young Tom Cleverley ready to make the step up to the first team. The lad has bags
of talent and after loans at Leicester, Watford and Wigan, was prepared to make his mark in the
Premier League with United.
Lionel Messi scores an injury-time consolation goal at Parkhead as goals from Victor Wanyama and Tony Watt ensured Celtic celebrated their 125th Anniversary in style.
It could be a long season for AC Milan if this friendly is anything to go by, Real Madrid
inspired by a resurgent Kaka hit the Italians for five last night at the Yankee stadium in their
pre-season friendly with goals from Di Maria, Ronaldo (2), Ramos and Callejon with Robinho grabbing
Milan's one and only consolation goal.
Rep. of Ireland midfielder Conor Henderson scored a stunning 35 yarder as the Republic's U-21
side beat Italy 4-2 despite playing with 10-men after Derrick Williams was sent off in the 37th
minute for a professional foul, but Aaron McCarey saved the resulting penalty.
Anthony Forde was the second Republic player to see red for two bookable offences in the dying
minutes, and Stephan El Shaarawy grabbed a consolation goal for the home side in injury time.
Oribe Peralta grabbed a brace as Mexico as Mexico stunned Brazil in today's Olympic mens final,
in front of 86,162 fans at Wembley's hollowed turf.
Peralta took less than half a minute to put the Mexican's in front after he took advantage of a
horrendous mix-up in the Brazilian defence before grabbing his second 15 minutes from time with a
bullet header.
The GPS Portland Phoenix continued to set the pace at the top of the USL PDL Northeast Division
with a 4-2 victory over the Vermont Voltage at the Collins-Perley Sports Complex in St. Albans, Vt.
on Saturday night.
First place Portland (9-3-1, 28 points) grabbed the lead through midfielder Chris Banks in the
23rd minute, but the Voltage (2-10-2, 8 points) equalized in the 43rd minute off a bicycle kick
from defender Brian Green.
The Mutiny fell into an early deficit that it couldn't climb out of in Saturday's 3-1 loss to
the Western New York Flash at Sahlen's Stadium.
Katy Frierson opened up the scoring for the Flash in the 24th minute, chipping a shot past New
England's Vikki Alonzo. In the 31st minute, the Flash doubled their lead through McCall Zerboni,
who put away a miscleared sequence by the Mutiny.
TweetGerman defender Mats Hummels was left to rue his sides mistakes as Germany were eliminated
from Euro 2012 after a 2-1 defeat to Italy. Hummels was at fault for both Italian goals as a Mario
Balotelli brace put the Azzurri two up before Mesut Ozil's injury-time consolation goal reduced the
arrears.
Holland's last game against Denmark was arguably an aberration, down solely to poor, unfortunate
finishing. The margin of defeat was the same today, but this was domination. Germany destroyed
Holland in the first half and sucked the life out of them in the second, despite positive half-time
changes from van Marwijk, despite van Persie's consolation which looked like reinvigorating the
contest.
It is a reflection of the curve ball that was thrown into Group B of this summers European
Championships that, whilst Portugal may have left the pitch at the end of last nights match against
Germany disappointed at having failed to collect a point from their endeavours, they'll probably
feel considerably more confident than they were at the start of the day of qualifying from their
group.
Germany cruised to a comfortable 4-1 win over Greece to book their sport in the Euro 2012
semifinals. The result was not a surprise as Germany were heavy favorites and very few gave Greece
a realistic chance to advance.
It was a decent start both sides as Germany dominated possession and chances while Greece were
able to keep it scoreless.
England and Liverpool midfielder Jordan Henderson has argued that despite creating fewer chances
than France in their tournament opener, the Three Lions had the better of the chances and only
needed more clinical finishing to win the match.
The only England goal was a Joleon Lescott header from a Steven Gerrard free-kick but Samir
Nasri quickly equalized after the interval to leave Roy Hodgson's men searching for more.
Mikkel Diskerud bagged the only goal for 10-man Rosenborg in a 3-1 loss at FK Haugesund. Early in the second half, the U.S. international picked the corner from an angle to register his second goal on the young season.Clip to come...- Greg Seltzer
Celtic defeated Inverness to go top of the table and Kilmarnock defeated Dundee United in the
Scottish Premier League on August 25, 2012.
Inverness 2-4 Celtic
Celtic remained unbeaten on the season with a very comfortable victory at the Caledonian
Stadium. Tony Watt led the way with a brace while Charlie Mulgrew and Victor Wanyama scored the
other goals.
Young Liverpool winger, Raheem Sterling scored his debut goal for Liverpool after just 3 minutes at
Anfield on Sunday. Brendan Rodger's new side have embraced the possession and attacking game
readily. John Joe Shelvey, in particular, has flourished under the new manager's philosophy of pass
and move with the ball.
To judge from remarks by DC United's coaches and players the game last week against the
Philadelphia Union was critical to United's season. In a sense it was, since a second consecutive
loss to a weaker Union side would illustrate significant deficiencies in United's play.
In a reprise of Philadelphia's overtime victory in the Open Cup, both teams played poorly, with
United performing worse than the Union, but lucking out when Branko Boskovic served a superb free
kick to the head of an onrushing Chris Pontius for the winning strike.
