Possibly the best thing about the Arsenal attack this season is the versatility and number of options available to Arsene Wenger. With Giroud, Podolski, Walcott and Gervinho there is a mix of pace, power, trickery, shooting, aerial ability and wing play. Perhaps the one thing the Gunners attack is really lacking is clinical finishing, and that may be why Arsenal have been keeping a close watch on the natural goalscorer who is currently joint top scorere in the Champions League this season.
It occurred to me the other day that Robin van Persie must be one of the best pieces of business Arsene Wenger ever made for Arsenal, just on goals alone. When I thought about it further, I wondered where he would rank among the top strikers over the last 20 years or so, in terms of the cost of each goal scored; there can't be many strikers who score 100 goals or more for a club that come cheap.
The Arsenal winger Theo Walcott made an explosive entry into England's crucial win against Sweden,
but has now been dropped out of training to try and nurse yet another re-occurence of his hamstring
injury. James Milner is now expected to start the next game against Ukraine although Roy Hodgson
has not ruled out the possibility [.
Former Chelsea jock Andriy Shevchenko announces he has retired from football in bid to prosecute a
vocation in government.
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Our match viewing beer/spritzer/liquor goggles, caught in still frame. Yowser, yesterday's games
were doozies, weren't they Kickettes? Wayne Rooney scored in his triumphant return from suspension,
John Terry saved the day for England (which the referees' chief later said should've been a goal)
and Shevchenko's 20 minute cameo failed to give us a good glimpse of [.
Didier Drogba's move to China is officially complete.
The former Chelsea star signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with Shanghai Shenhua, where he will
be reunited with former strike partner Nicolas Anelka while playing under former Argentina coach
Sergio Batista.
"I have considered all the offers I have received in the past few weeks, but feel that Shanghai
Shenhua FC is the right move for me at this time," Drogba said in a statement released by
Chelsea.
Group D Donbass Arena 23:48 June 19 FT England 1 0 Ukraine half-time (0 0) referee : spectators :
Viktor Kassai (Hungary) 48,700 match details : 48′ W. Rooney [1 - 0] 63′ A. Tymoschuk 73′ S.
Gerrard 74′ Y. Rakitskiy 78′ A. Cole 86′ A. Shevchenko statistics : shots on target : [...]
We've nearly reached the end of the Group Stage. Two matches to go in Group D today:
Sweden-France and England-Ukraine, which will determine the final two quarterfinalists. Already in
the final eight: Czech Republic, Greece, Germany, Portugal, Spain, and Italy.
The latter two claimed first and second in Group C with tense victories yesterday.
"@BBCSport: Ukraine striker Andriy Shevchenko a doubt for crucial Euro 2012 Group D game against
England on Tuesday #bbcfootball" #goodnews - Get your Euro 2012 Qualifiers tables!
Arrived at the train station to see another new train, unfortunately that was not the one
travelling to Lviv at 13.31. Instead it was back to normal, and the comforts of a third class
sleeper.
Sat next to two Ukrainians who invited me to play cards, and quickly got talking about football and
life in their country.
Chaos in Group A as the turnaround happened with the unfancied sides after the first group match
go through at the expense of the teams that were pretty much the public favourite to advance after
the said group matches. It provided all the drama and continued to make this a rather entertaining
tournament.
1. It's always good to see a few brilliant flashes early in a match, but not at the expense of the
game. There were some crazy scenes as the players ran for cover from the lightning bolts overhead.
2. Rain stopped play and in the end it could have been a cricket score. France [...]
Lampi e fulmini prima e durante Ucraina-Francia (gara sospesa da Kuipers dopo 5 minuti e ripresa
alle 19 a causa del nubifragio abbattutosi su Donetsk) non fermano i ragazzi di Blanc che, grazie
ad un uno-due firmato Menez-Cabaye, piegano l'Ucraina di Shevchenko (migliore dei gialli di Blokhin
nonostante la sconfitta, ndr), sconfitta dopo l'exploit dell'esordioContinua a leggere .
Anche la seconda giornata volge al termine e si concluderà oggi con le gare del Gruppo D. Alle 18
l'Ucraina di Shevchenko, dopo l'exploit con la Svezia, cerca il bis contro la blasonata e forte
Francia di Blanc. Stasera Ibra e la Svezia, invece, sono chiamati al riscatto, contro
l'Inghilterra, per non veder sbriciolare definitivamenteContinua a leggere .
After waging a round of beer on his country beating Ukraine in their opening Euro 2012 game,
Sweden fan Ola Sjostedt (who is head of the Sweden Supporters Club) had to make his way to the
government offices in Kiev to settle his boozy debts.
It came down to an almost botched volley attempt by Silvestre Varela in the 87th minute but the
winger was able to collar the ball as it bounced off his legs and then drove it on the up past
Stephan Andersen for the winning goal.
Portugal shot into the lead when Pepe who about two minutes before went down theatrically
clutching his ankle like it had been shot fifty thousand eight hundred and seventy nine times
fronted the Danish defense a la Shevchenko against the Swedes from a corner to divert the ball
home.
Decided to go for a curry after midnight to kill time before catching the 02.54 train to Kharkiv.
Would you believe it, curry house closed!
So in the end found somewhere else and dashed across town in time to get the train from Kiev.
Successfully negotiated the antiquated locker system and caught that train.
Portugal 3 – Denmark 2: Ronaldo chokes but Portugal Does Not Last night's encounter
between the Portuguese and the Danes was for me the most entertaining match among those I've seen
all-tournament. Was it a case of both teams eager to ‘go for it'? or was it a case of both teams
being too porous when attacked?
Having watched old-timer Shevchenko sneak in Ukraine's winner at the near post, Sweden fans
rallied to show Mikael Lustig just how easy it is to guard a post properly sending the right-back
hundreds of photos of themselves doing likewise, along with the slightly bitchy tag line 'you had
one job Lustig!
[www.online-soccer.ru] Russia 1-1 Poland by all-goals 1. The real winners this evening were the
Warsaw police. This was probably the best result for them (albeit it's all relative). 2. If you had
Alan Dzagoev for Golden Boot, you're laughing at the minute. 3. Blaszczykowski knows how to blast
the ball.
Monday gave us the final two games of the first group stage round, and for Liverpool fans the
main attraction was France versus England, where two of the club's players started and another four
were available from the bench. We took an extended look at England's draw yesterday, which means
it's time now for a quick look back at the exciting Ukraine-Sweden match and a look ahead to the
start of the second set of group games, including the dominant Russians taking on hosts Poland,
desperate for a result to keep any hopes of advancing alive.
Grazie alla doppietta di un Shevchenko formato super (a dispetto dei suoi quasi 36 anni, ndr)
l'Ucraina manda ko la Svezia di Ibrahimovic e si issa in vetta al Girone D, davanti a team come
Francia ed Inghilterra che hanno chiuso, sempre ieri ma nel pomeriggio, sull'1 a 1. La nazionale
padrona di casa, guidataContinua a leggere .
Managed a quick getaway from Kiev Airport, once again making use of the free transport available
from the airport with match tickets on the day of the game, catching a bus and then managed to
catch the majority of the England v France game in the Lucy pub (translates to Lucky in
English, the horseshoe gives you a clue).
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VIDEO BELOW) Final score and result:- Ukraine vs Sweden 2-1 ( Shevchenko*2/ Ibrahimovic) Olympic
Stadium, Kiev- 11 June, 2012- Group D- Euro 2012- [.
Ukraine coach denies his country is racist despite previous comments - originally posted on
Soccerlens.com
When Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin was asked about racism in Ukraine during the Sweden v Ukraine
pre-match news conference, he put down his headphones and stopped listening to the translation of
the question, preferring to deliver a seemingly prepared statement:
Fresh from accusing Germany of poisoning his squad, Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin has taken an
unusual approach to motivating his side: telling the press that they're not very good.
Speaking before the co-host's first match with Sweden, the former European Footballer of the
Year announced that his team — all of whom are based in Ukraine except Bayern Munich's Anatoliy
Tymoshchuk — have not played enough this season.
I see Indonesian football has been making waved around the world with the unlikely story that former Ukraine international Andrei Shevchenko is mulling a move to Mitra Kukar.
Talk is that the deal would be for 10 games. That could mean three coaches in this place plus a couple of lengthy road trips to Sumatra and Papua depending on the whims of the owners and the quirks of the fixture list.
Recently retired and coming off a failed political campaign, Andriy Shevchenko has been given another chance at a new career by Ukrainian football federation president Anatoliy Konkov. Since Ukraine manager Oleh Blohkin left his post to take over Shevchenko's former club Dynamo Kiev last month, Konkov has been looking for a replacement and he has now decided to offer the job to Shevchenko.
08.10.2012 -Hugo Chávez logró 7.444.062 votos (54.42%) contra 6.151.544 (44.97%) de Henrique Capriles para llevar a cabo su cuarto mandato como presidente de Venezuela (hasta 2019). Asà se veÃan Lionel Messi (12) y Cristiano Ronaldo (14) cuando Chávez asumÃa el poder (1999) y asà se vieron ayer (2012) en el derby Barcelona 2 Real Madrid 2 (foto).
Fans of United hosts Devon McTavish, Eric Hunsaker, and
Chris Wimmer discuss United's tough loss to Eastern Conference rivals New York,
Shevchenko transfer rumors, the amazing season Chris Pontius continues to have, and how the
Black-and-Red cannot afford to look past their next oponnents - the Montreal Impact.
All things considered, Laurent Blanc's France find themselves in a similar position to the Azzurri
heading into the 2012 European Championships. Both sides are headed by a dynamic coach with
exciting ideas, neither are expected to pull any trees up this summer, both are rebuilding in the
fallout of a golden generation and both have seen their integrity rocked by scandal in recent
times.
08.06.2012 - Sus pechos son su bandera y su lucha. Esta es la carta de presentación de
FEMEN, el grupo de (40) activistas ucranianas potencialmente peligrosas, tal y como se
describen a sà mismas, que recurren al desnudo para llamar la atención sobre sus
reivindicaciones.
Por estos dÃas, su foco está puesto en la Eurocopa (2012), hecho que –según la organización
– contribuirá a fomentar el turismo sexual en Polonia y Ucrania.
