Heading into their Europa League second-leg against Inter Milan with a 3-0 lead, Spurs very nearly snatched defeat from the jaws of victory at the San Siro last night. An extra-time goal from Emmanuel Adebayor was enough to send Spurs through on away goals, but not before William Gallas had levelled the tie at 3-3 [.
Orlando City entered the playoffs as the heavy favorites to claim the USL Pro championship. They
had done so in 2011 and ramsacked through the regular season this year en route to securing
homefield advantage throught the postseason.
League One side Swindon Town pulled off a extra-time upset at Stoke in the second round of the
Capital One Cup (formerly the Carling Cup). Manager Paolo "I do what I want" Di Canio led Town with
his signature intensity and spurred James Collins to a hat trick by celebrating his goals with a
kick up the backside.
After the United States women's team downed Japan 2-1 to win the gold medal at the Olympics
Women's Football Final on Thursday night, goalkeeper Hope Solo found the time to
grab a specially created cappucino today in between doing media interviews in London. The prospect
of meeting the press usually involves copious amounts of caffeine (as Mesut Ozil would tell you)
and in Hope's case, she would've probably needed it after a night of hard partying!
Canada completely outplayed by France in the second half managed to score an extra time goal by
Diane Matheson following a scramble for the ball in front of the box. Before that heartbreak,
France had peppered the Canadian goal with a plethora of shots, one that unluckily hit the upright,
with the rest sailing over the crossbar.
Alex Morgan became the Heroine of the Hour after her extra-time goal catapulted
the USA women's team into the final of the Olympics football event yesterday. Sadly, Canada seemed
to have it all written in the stars when Christine Sinclair netted an outstanding hat trick to
make it 3-3 by the 90th minute.
A stoppage time goal from Alex Morgan after the second period of extra time puts the US into the
gold medal match after an epic battle with Canada that was not without controversy.
Badford are heading to Wembley and there's not an egg-shaped ball in sight. The League Two side beat Aston Villa 3-4 on aggregate after a 2-1 defeat at Villa Park last night. Paul Lambert's side crashed out in humiliating circumstances, losing to a side three divisions below them over two legs. Christian Benteke gave [.
Manchester United defender Rio Ferdinand has reportedly hit another setback in his bid to return
to action. The experienced defender suffered a groin injury that has forced him out of the Red
Devils first two Premier League games this season, and despite initial hopes of a return against
Southampton this weekend it's now been revealed that he could be out for another fortnight.
quite the feast of stories going on this morning. Makes a change from the quietness of some of
the summer days. I guess we'll chop 'em up, add some broth, throw them in a pot with some
vegetables, and baby we got ourselves a stew there.
We'll start with the fact that many of our players have gone away on international duty.
You know the drill. The OG can be found here.On his ability to continue improving after 30:"I think I came over here a little late. Had I come over earlier, it's hard to say where I'd be."On his side's promotion push coming one year earlier than planned:"[The club's] goal was to get back into the black numbers and they did that with winning the first DfB-Pokal game.
[Photo: Getty] I'm a bit tardy with this, but let's just call it fashionably late. Here's the OG article. -- On why the team shedding its previous underdog mentality is not because of heightened expectations around the club: "Most of the expectations have come from the media, and some of the fans allow themselves to be influenced by that.
Non-league side Bashley have written to the Football Association to ask for their tie with Gosport to be replayed after the referee missed a clear goal. Gosport's keeper booted the ball through the side-netting in frustration before ref Will Bull had seen it cross the line. He didn't award a goal, believing that the ball [.
Here we go then Glory Glory Leeds Two Five Oh! An extra long show for you all, to celebrate the
occasion!
An hour of the latest Leeds United news. reviews and interviews and then an extended extra time,
reading out your wonderful listener emails and congratulations!
It has been a long strange trip over the past 5 years of GGL shows.
The scoreline is flattering. This was a QPR side that made its ambition clear enough with its
number of signings. It was Man City doing all the early pressing forcing corners and set pieces,
one of which Yaya Toure scored from after Carlos Tevez's shot caromed off Bobby Zamora and fell to
the big man.
The scoreline is flattering. This was a QPR side that made its ambition clear enough with its
number of signings. It was Man City doing all the early pressing forcing corners and set pieces,
one of which Yaya Toure scored from after Carlos Tevez's shot caromed off Bobby Zamora and fell to
the big man.
James Collins scored a hat trick at the impregnable fortress, the Britannia stadium which saw
Arsenal labour to a scoreless draw over the weekend. Seven goals were scored, three in extra time,
as Stoke came back twice to level. Collins had the last answer in the 118th minute right after
Peter Crouch equalized for the Potters.
Swindon saw off Stoke City in the Capital One Cup League Cup last night, coming out on top in a
4-3 tit-for-tat game which saw James Collins sticking away a hat-trick for the Robins, including an
extra-time winner though it was his second goal of the evening which coaxed the most curious
reaction out of manager Paolo Di Canio, with the coco-loopy Italian beckoning Collins over, hoofing
the striker up the arse and sending him on his way.
I know you're all distracted by other things, but perhaps a distraction for your distractions? You
know the drill, here was the OG. On switching focus after falling out of the Champions League in
harsh circumstances:"We were a PK away from moving on in the Champions League and that was hard to
take for everyone.
Hackworth thankful but focused on New England game. Sakiewicz explains why he decided to remove
interim tag now.Comcast to have beIN Sport available by Sept. 6. US defeat North Korea in extra
time to advance to semis at Women's U-20 World Cup. More news.
I must openly admit that I was fearing Denmark would for the first time ever have two teams in the
CL. Not because I have anything against Denmark with two teams, but it depends on which two teams.
And while I think it is great FC Nordsjaelland will play their first CL ever, I am not in favour of
FC Copenhagen, so I was delighted when Lille won 2-0 in a hard-fought extra time match.
AEL edged Anderlecht, BATE defeated Hapoel, Malaga blanked Panathinaikos, Dinamo beat Maribor,
and Udinese held Braga in the UEFA Champions League on August 22, 2012.
AEL 2-1 Anderlecht
Greek side AEL got goals from Dossa Junior and Melo Rui Miguel to get the narrow victory.
Anderlecht did level the match for 11 minutes but a 75th minute Milan Jovanovic red card ended any
realistic chance of a draw.
Anderlecht, BATE Borisov, Dinamo Zagreb, Malaga, and Braga all advanced to the Group Stage in
the UEFA Champions League on August 28, 2012.
Anderlecht 2-0 AEL
The home side scored two late goals to secure their place in the Group Stage. AEL were able to
hold onto their 2-1 lead from the first lead until the 81st minute when Anderlecht's Deiudonne
Mbokani scored.
After one-and-a-half sensational semi-finals, I feel like a killjoy. Despite the wonderful
football played – at least as much by the losers as the winners – my thoughts were of
refereeing decisions at Old Trafford; of penalties given (to the United States) and not given (to
Canada); of yellow cards not shown (to Abby Wambach).
The "who jumps bitches" is in reference to what we thought the capos were singing.
Not you Timber Army.
Tonight at BMO, the all-star teams of Toronto A, B and C against a relatively full-Portland side
that's struggling.
21' - GOAL - After a block off of the line from Avila, Sal Zizzo puts home the
rebound.
Behind the Axe looks at the news surrounding the Portland Timbers from the past few days. Since
their last match against FC Dallas at home, the team has altered its roster despite fan comments.
The Timbers are hoping their new acquisitions plus extra time off is enough for them to secure
their first road win of the 2012 season, either in Toronto on August 15 or New York on August 19.
Juventus beat Napoli 4-2 after extra time in the Supercoppa Italiana and the Azzurri were so
upset about the three red cards they were shown near the end of the first 90 minutes that they
walked out on the post-match ceremony. Goran Pandev was sent off for dissent when he argued a
penalty that was given to Juventus in the 73rd minute, Juan Zuniga followed him back to the
dressing room after a second yellow during injury time and manager Walter Mazzerri was sent off for
arguing the first two decisions before extra time.
For their third Olympics in a row and fourth time overall, the United States Women's National
Team stood at the center podium, and had gold be put around their necks. Even sweeter was the
victory, which came at the expense of Japan, who stole the 2011 World Cup in a heartbreaking
penalty shootout last summer.
If Mexico is to capture Olympic gold, it will have to do so without attacking star Giovani Dos
Santos.
Dos Santos has been ruled out of the final with a muscle injury, leaving El Tri without one of
its most lethal options in a game that features two of the more explosive teams in the Olympic
field.
The U.S. Women's National Team will be looking to win their third straight Olympic gold medal
today, while also exacting a measure of revenge, when they face Japan in the 2012 Olympic Final at
Wembley Stadium (2:45pm, NBC Sports).
The Americans enter today's final undefeated in five matches, having survived a thrilling 4-3
extra-time victory against Canada in the semifinals.
Lauren Sesselmann (Green Bay Notre Dame) and the Canadian women's national team
went toe-to-toe with the U.S. in a semifinal of the London Games on Monday night, taking the lead
on the world's top-ranked team three times.
But the Americans answered each time and got a last-gasp, game-winner from Alex
Morgan in the 123rd and final minute of extra time to post a 4-3 victory in a wild match
at Old Trafford in Manchester, England.
Sporting Kansas City did something Wednesday night that no team across any level of U.S. Soccer
had been able to do in the last four years: Defeat the Seattle Sounders in the U.S. Open Cup.
Sporting Kansas City captured its second U.S. Open Cup in franchise history, outlasting the
Sounders in penalties 3-2 after a 1-1 draw through regulation and extra time and ending the
Sounders' hopes of becoming the first team to win four straight tournament titles.
Sporting Kansas City defeated the Seattle Sounders 1-1 (3-2 on penalty kicks) to win the 2012 US
Open Cup.
In the first half, it was Sporting who had most of the chances and possession but struggled to
turn convert that into a first half lead. The closest was a shot near the edge of the box by Kei
Kamara that took a deflection and bounced off the crossbar.
Predictably, the women in stripes, but sometimes just navy blue, are unavoidable this morning in
any media, courtesy of their last-minute defeat of Canada yesterday, which, yes, was a remarkably
good game. Good for them. In case you're somehow missing it, allow me:
U.S. Women's Soccer Team Beats Canada in Olympic Extra-Time Thriller
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After an unimaginably poor performance at the weekend, including two own goals and a missed penalty, Stoke striker Jonathan Walters managed to score two again last night. Luckily this time they were in the right end! The Potters hitman made amends from his Chelsea disaster to help book his side a home tie against Premier [.
Kei Kamara and Sierra Leone will have a tall task ahead of them when they travel to Tunisia for the
second leg of their African Cup of Nations qualifying series. Today in Sierra Leone, the Leone
Stars drew 2-2 with Tunisia. That means that Sierra Leone will now need to win on the road in
Tunisia or draw 3-3 or greater to advance automatically.
Less than a week after literally kicking his players up the backside and pulling off the upset
of the Capital One Cup second round with a 4-3 extra-time win over Stoke, Paolo Di Canio and
Swindon Town returned to League One player and lost 4-1 to Preston North End. Preston scored twice
in the first 10 minutes, with the first goal coming off a goalkeeper error, prompting Di Canio to
take 21-year-old goalkeeper Wes Foderingham off in just the 21st minute.
Insightful stuff from Noah Davis over at Grantland regarding the formation of the new women's
professional soccer league here in the States: Extra Time.
No time to read today? In short, as you expect, it's going to take time and money...and quite
possibly a miracle.
Rapid Vienna waited until the waning minutes of the second leg to salvage their Europa League
campaign, thanks to an extra time penalty from Dani Alar and an insurance tally from Terrence Boyd.
