German Bundesliga Recap 11 February 2012 - The 90th Minute Soccer Blog

Below are brief recaps for all the Bundesliga matches played on February 11, 2012.

Bayer Munich 2-0 Kaiserslautern

Bayern keeps pace with Dortmund with a clean sheet. Both goals came in the first half as Bayern held Kaiserslautern to one shot on goal.

Olympic Qualifier
Bahrain v Malaysia 2-1 (;Hazwan Bakri) 2,000
Malaysia managed a late equaliser in Bahrain but the hosts, coached by former England manager Peter Taylor, scored a couple of minutes later to earn the win. Heaps happening in the last few moments with two yellows for the home team and a Malaysian seeing red in the 5th minute of injury time.

By FRANCO PANIZO

One of the favorites to win this year's Africa Cup of Nations, Ghana opened its tournament with a narrow victory over Botswana that can best be described as a roller coaster for John Mensah.

The Ghana captain endured highs and lows in Ghana's Group D opener, scoring the only goal before receiving a red card and then picking up a hamstring injury.

Indonesia Premier League
PSMS v Persebaya 1-2Persiraja v Persija (!) 3-3
Other games were scheduled but never happened. Arema flew all the way to Papua to play Persipura...but last year's champions had already withdrawn from the league and were playing n the Inter Island Cup. Who the hell allowed them to fly when they had no opponent?

By Chris Wright

Not that it really mattered, but England broke a 43-year hoodoo by beating Sweden for the first time in 13 games at a sparsely-populated Wembley last night, with the narrow victory also affording them their first defeat-less calendar year since 1994.

Lampard proves his leadership credentials in Spain win

England captain guided his teammates through narrow victory

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By FRANCO PANIZO

For the second straight week, the top teams in the nation suffered through some shocking upset defeats.

In its penultimate game of the regular season, top-ranked Maryland lost to Clemson, 2-1. The Terps had a man advantage for much of the match, but Clemson was able to exploit the makeshift back line Maryland used, scoring twice in the second half to win the game.

By Chris Wright

Mathieu Valbuena's getting too old for this merde

Speaking as a partially-inebriated neutral, Arsenal's narrow victory over Marseille at the Stade Velodrome wasn't in the politest terms possible very easy on either the eye or the frontal lobes.

Liverpool 2 Wolves 1: Luis Suarez strikes to end losing streak for Kenny Dalglish's men

Liverpool bounced back from their heavy defeat at the hands of Tottenham by claiming a narrow victory against Wolves at Anfield.

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England only just managed to scrape a narrow victory against Wales a few days ago in the Euro Championship Qualifiers, yet player for player England outclassed the Welsh players (well, with the exception of Bale and Ramsay perhaps), so the burning question on everyone's lips seems to be why are England so inconsistent?

The Metro State men enjoyed a Friday rout, but settled for a tie on Sunday, while the Roadrunner women got a narrow victory on Friday and followed it with a goal explosion on Sunday.

Metro State men 2, University of Mary 2: Nikola Nikolic headed in a throw-in with 25 seconds left in regulation to force a tie for visiting University of Mary (N.

By Chris Wright

The relief was almost tangible as Arsenal began life after Cesc with a win last night, beating Udinese 1-0 in the first leg of their Champions League play-off at the Emirates thanks to a fourth-minute Theo Walcott goal.

However, the narrow victory wasn't overly convincing, with the Italians going close on several occasions particularly Antonio Di Natale, who clipped the woodwork twice and forced a decent save out of Wojciech Szczczczczczcney in the first-half.

Guangdong 3 Liverpool 4: match report

Charlie Adam makes his debut off the bench as Liverpool open pre-season campaign with a narrow victory.

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By JOHN BOSCHINI

With Antigua on hiatus and Orlando drawing with Wilmington, Richmond had an opportunity to mount a charge in the American Division.

Unfortunately for the Kickers, a 1-0 defeat to the Harrisburg City Islanders saw them fall to six points behind Orlando.

Carlos Bocanegra and the Greens of St. Etienne return home just days after a narrow victory over the weakest team in Ligue 1, to face the leaders from Lille.

By JOHN BOSCHINI

The Richmond Kickers winning streak continued in emphatic fashion with a 6-0 rout of the Dayton Dutch Lions.

The USL Pro leaders have one five-straight game to begin the season and have racked up a +9 goal difference in that time.

Not to be outdone, Antigua Barracuda FC put seven by Puerto Rico United on Wednesday before squeaking out a narrow victory over River Plate Puerto Rico over the weekend.

An Italian walks into a bar in Tokyo and asks for a local brew, but not wishing to disappoint, the barman discreetly pours the visitor a Peroni instead.

It's a plausible scenario in a country like Japan, where citizens are eager to please and equally desperate to avoid criticism.

Perhaps that's why the Japanese press were quick to turn a blind eye to another poor performance from the Samurai Blue at the Asian Cup in Qatar, as Alberto Zaccheroni's men laboured to a 2-1 win over a spirited but technically inferior Syria.