Portland moved up to 14th out of 19 teams and are no longer at the bottom of the west. Here is
what everyone said after the game and the official stats.
Quotes
Portland Timbers Quotes
Timbers general manager/interim head coach Gavin Wilkinson
On winning back-to-back games for the first time this season:
"It feels good.
Josh Gatt has been a shining star for Molde FK this year, helping the Norwegian club in its
quest to repeat as league champions with six goals in the first six months of the Tippeligaen
campaign.
This post was submitted before the news broke last night that Kyle Bartley is off to Swansea
so ignore him.
It would take a lengthy surf of my memory banks to find a transfer window where Arsenal have
added more maturity and strength to the team, pre-season games have shown that in Podolski, Giroud
and Cazorla we have added three outstanding international players to our squad.
It would take a lengthy surf of my memory banks to find a transfer window where Arsenal have
added more maturity and strength to the team, pre-season games have shown that in Podolski, Giroud
and Cazorla we have added three outstanding international players to our squad.
Of course it would not be Arsenal if we did not have a summer saga to contend with, I think that
Tony Adams must have left a curse on the Captains arm band as yet another Captain has decided to do
his gardening elsewhere.
It's official, Santi Cazorla has joined Arsenal for a fee believed to be somewhere in the £15
million range. In short, it's a bit of a bloody bargain. As we've already noted,
we're super, super excited to see him take to a Premier League pitch.
It's official, Santi Cazorla has joined Arsenal for a fee believed to be somewhere in the £15
million range. In short, it's a bit of a bloody bargain. As we've already noted,
we're super, super excited to see him take to a Premier League pitch.
What a prick! Even though I saw it coming it still hurts. Like I said, I am not surprised that
he has decided to leave. What I am kind of surprised at, is how he has chosen to go about it! The
statement on his website makes me want to vomit more and more after each read. I've gone back to
read it a few times in hopes of catching something positive to use to stick up for our former
captain.
Great movement by the two Man United strikers up front
Till I heard that line about Welbeck and Rooney in the Ukraine game, in all honesty, the Euros
weren't being much of a spectacle. More goals scored at this point than any other Euros is fine,
but apart from Spain-Italy and Portugal-Netherlands, it didn't feel much like the second greatest
football tournament in the world.
Arsenal right-back Bacary Sagna believes that club teammate Theo Walcott has taken criticism in
his stride properly to mature into a very important player for the club.
Walcott went through a turbulent campaign last season, performing inconsistently through
February to hear the jeers from both outside the club and within some sections of the Gunners
faithful.
Nicks' note:Sample, Arsenal man with sound mind and body, delves
into the recesses of his mind and brings forth an honest assessment of what went wrong on Monday;
when Wigan went veni, vidi, vici on the Emirates turf.
The league table makes for good reading this morning. In third place and building up a healthy 5
points gap over our closest rival. I'm not saying this is a position that Arsenal should be
aspiring over the course of any season but in the context of this, it's the best we can
achieve.
The league table makes for good reading this morning. In third place and building up a healthy 5
points gap over our closest rival. I'm not saying this is a position that Arsenal should be
aspiring over the course of any season but in the context of this, it's the best we can
achieve.
After apologizing for getting sent off in Man City's 1-0 loss to Arsenal, Mario Balotelli
attempted to further prove his maturity by preemptively saying he is sorry for several incidents
that have yet to occur.
"I'm very sorry for running over Kun Aguero with a stolen forklift next week," said Balotelli in
a statement read by his agent, Mino Raiola.
EDITOR'S NOTE: We asked you for people interested in writing about local fans' experiences,
and so many of you responded that we decided to run one fan post a day during the MLS break and
then make this a regular weekly feature. We're starting with this great piece from Chris
Rudderow.
Over the last four years, it has sometimes become a little too easy to forget that there was a
reason Eddie Johnson was once considered to be the player that would lead United States soccer to
the next level. Blessed with speed, athleticism and some impressive soccer skills, he had all the
tools to succeed.
Plenty of Spurs places on the web where you can find anger as we slip down the table. I'm fond
of describing the significance not of individual matches but sequences that crop up as the season
plays out. A combination of computer predetermination and evolving circumstances throws up
intriguing little sets of fixtures.
It wasn't perfect, and there's still plenty of work to be done. But for the moment, Chelsea
appear to be on the verge of identifying themselves as a new-look counter-attacking side with
plenty of pace and trickery. More, after the jump:
After 8 years and 10 trophies The Drogs forever has a place in my football hall of fame. So much
so that I placed an order for his No. 11 jersey at the Chelsea Megastore soon after the final
whistle in Munich.
Drogba is a top striker in almost all ways strong in the air, good feand the only thing people
can call him out for is his temperament, but my biased self has always supported him simply for
delivering moments of outstanding class.
Check out PSP's match report on Tuesday night's win over Harrisburg City Islanders in the
quarterfinals of the US Open Cup which includes video of John Hackworth's postgame press conference
and interviews with Bakary Soumare, Ray Gaddis, Brian Carroll, Gabe Farfan and Amobi Okugo.
Portugal vs Denmark
Matchday 2 Group B
Lviv, 18:00
If you were to look back at the international tournaments Cristiano Ronaldo has
played in (from the Euro 2004, World Cup '06 to Euro 08′ and beyond), you'd quickly realise that
"O capitão" has finally come of age.
Pretty shocking comments on Tuesday from Italian Premier Mario Monti who suggested that Italian
soccer be suspended for two to three years after the latest match-fixing scandal.
Dawn raids on Monday resulted in 14 arrests, including Lazio captain Stefano Mauri, to bring the
total number of suspects arrested in the match-fixing inquiry to about 50 since last year.
Over the past month, DC United has not looked particularly sharp. The games against Philadelphia
and New York were especially pedestrian. The midfield lacked control. Midway through the loss to
the Red Bulls, Branko Boskovic showed the way out of United's malaise.
Coach Ben Olsen understood his team's problem, "Knowing that it was going to be a hot day, the
fact that we weren't sharp in possession the last two weeks that was something that we needed to
have today, and we had it.
The New England Revolution might seem to have been the dominant team in Saturday's contest at
RFK, but the score line said otherwise at 3-2. Despite being outperformed marginally on the
statistics sheet, DC United only seemed uncomfortable for the first ten minutes of the second half.
One need only look at Coach Ben Olsen's excellent personnel decisions to see the reason why.
After Real Salt Lake's run to the CONCACAF Champions League final last season, and the first-ever
wins by MLS teams in Mexico this season, there was a lot of misplaced optimism about the chances of
Major League Soccer teams to contend for the CCL. That optimism was swiftly dispatched by Mexican
clubs in the knockout stages.
Image: REUTERS. Manchester United's squad may have its fair share of tweenies, but the ones that do
reach maturity certainly know how to give good thigh. No, seriously. We thought Chicharito's appeal
was all about his deeply set Bambi eyes and sincerely sweet smile, but this man-boy has layers,
Kickettes.
Tonight's game at Columbus is not a season defining game, but it may well demonstrate whether
the first 17 minutes of last Sunday's match at Houston or the 73 that followed were. Coherence and
a small degree of dominance broke down when Bill Hamid was ejected and DC United failed to survive
the loss of one player.
Just the one Aaron Lennon – he holds the bulb and the universe revolves around him, n'est ce
pas? Not to cast aspersions on the young blighter's character you understand, he seems a most
charming young fish (now with added maturity – witness the disappearance of his go-faster
diagonals in his eyebrows).
