1. Jose Mourinho vs Sir Alex Ferguson? It might as well have been Tony Pulis vs Joe Kinnear. Set-pieces and crosses were what this was all about. 2. Cristiano Ronaldo laughs in the face of gravity. He hung in the air to head in his goal. 3. David De Gea made one of the best [...]
Ok, with a match as dramatic as Utd vs Southampton yesterday, the most important thing in a review
is to focus on the real key issues, the elements of the occasion that held the most influence. So
it is impossible not to mention the presence of new signing Nick Powell on the bench. Could he
possibly make his League debut?
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Fulham stunned Old Trafford after just three minutes with Damian Duff shooting past De Gea,
however seven minutes later the doom and gloom was lifted, as Robin Van Persie grabbed the
equaliser with a superb volley.
Shinji Kagawa grabbed his home debut goal shorly after before Rafael added a third before the
break but United's frailties in defence again showed as Fulham pulled one back through a Vidic own
goal after De Gea flapped at a cross.
Utd got their points campaign off-and-stumbling at Home against Fulham yesterday afternoon.
While the three points were taken, there were two very different aspects to the victory which,
while boasting an array of attacking talent, also featured a defence as nervous as a man who's just
given the extremely valuable family teaset to Rob Green.
Despite rescinding his wage demands, Nani could not avoid the axe as Sir Alex made five changes
from the side that played were battered at Goodison Park. Rafael came back at right back as
Valencia and Ashley Young flanked Cleverley and Anderson. Van Persie made his home debut for United
alongside Kagawa but it was Wayne Rooney who made way.
Despite rescinding his wage demands, Nani could not avoid the axe as Sir Alex made five
changes from the side that were battered at Goodison Park. Rafael came back at right back as
Valencia and Ashley Young flanked Cleverley and Anderson. Van Persie made his home debut for United
alongside Kagawa but it was Wayne Rooney who made way.
This was the goal of 2012, according to the 2012 FIFA Puskas Award. A long-range, controlled volley from Miroslav Stoch for Turkish side Fenerbahce against Genclerbirligi was deemed to be the best strike of last year. The Slovakian beat the likes of Lionel Messi, Radamel Falcao and Neymar to win the honour.
Submitted for your delectation; here's Marco Schneuwly of FC Thun scoring a marvelous, unique
volley against Servette in the Swiss Super League. We can honestly say that, to the best of our
knowledge, we've never seen this done before...
It's perhaps not overly impressive on first viewing, but keep watching the replays and suddenly
the fluidity of the technique and the audacity required to even try it start sinking in.
Rosenborg midfielder Mikkel Diskerud has just buried a ridiculous volley from the edge of the area
in the 87th minute to put his side ahead 3-2 in the tie. Ya heard. Clip to come... - Greg Seltzer
An Osasuna side that refused to be intimidated put Barca to the sword. The other Llorente, the
one who is not sulking, Joseba, scored his debut goal finishing off Rolando Lamah's surging cross
with an acrobatic volley for the first salvo. Osasuna had a golden chance going two up after Sergio
Busquets getting a bit too cute lost the ball but Nino's shot just about bounced off the
upright.
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.
Short and sweet: A couple of days after his assistant, David Platt, defied the years and the
flab to score a magnificent overhead kick, slick fox Roberto Mancini continued the
theme yesterday by pulling off a nifty little backheeled volley pass during a one-touch drill at a
Man City training session in Beijing.
FC Thun's Marco Schneuwly Scored an incredible never to be seen again volley against Servette in
the Swiss top-flight at the week-end, what would you name it?
New England Revolution striker Jerry Bengtson and Honduras kept their World Cup hopes alive with
an important 3-0 victory over Cuba at Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana on Friday night.
Bengtson played the full 90 minutes in the match and scored the eventual game-winner in the 32nd
minute. Bengtson's goal came off a left footed volley from just outside the 6-yard box after
Georgie Welcome headed a cross from Emilio Izaguirre into his path.
Saer Sene celebrates his first of two goals for the Revolution in Wednesday's 3-3 draw with
Chivas. (Photo: Kari Heistad/CapturedImages.biz)
FOXBOROUGH, Mass – The New England Revolution built a three-goal lead within the first 21
minutes of the game, only to see it evaporate in the next 25 minutes, tying Chivas USA, 3-3 in
front of 10,945 at Gillette Stadium Wednesday night.
Winning isn't always pretty, good teams find a way to take care of business. Yesterday at
Livestrong Sporting Park, KC didn't have the greatest game, but were able to over come that and
beat Toronto FC 2-1. The blue print for shutting down KC almost played out to perfection for TFC,
without Torsten Frings and Eric Hassli in the lineup, TFC was able to hold their own, but in the
end KC had just too much possession and too many chances and finally found the net.
Honduras may be leaving the Olympics today after their 3-2 loss to Brazil in the quarterfinals of
the soccer tournament, but they'll leave with their heads high, especially Roger Espinoza. Espinoza
had an amazing game and earned himself a standing ovation from the neutral crowd at St. James' Park
after he got sent off for his second yellow card in second half stoppage time.
One team is heading in one direction while another team appears to be clinging onto its
postseason life.
The Galaxy entered Saturday's matchup against the Vancouver Whitecaps looking to continue its climb
up the Western Conference standings while the Whitecaps came in mired in a three-match losing
streak.
Having won a hard fought match on Sunday against FC Dallas and with another big match against
the Vancouver Whitecaps looming on Saturday, Los Angeles Galaxy head coach Bruce Arena sent out the
reserves for Wednesday's CONCACAF Champions League matchup against the Puerto Rico Islanders.
The move paid off, as goals from four different players enabled the Galaxy to collect three
points in its final home match of the competition and thus sit in first place in the group courtesy
of a 4-0 win over the Islanders at the Home Depot Center.
Real Madrid dominated AC Milan just as Real Madrid dominated LA Galaxy. Robinho thought he could do
something about the assault and did come up with a good goal but Real Madrid kept its head and
demolished AC Milan by 5-1. Di Maria scored a beauty of a goal from volley and that too from [...]
Real Madrid defeated Mexico's Santos Laguna 2-1 in the middle of the scorching
Las Vegas desert heat a few hours ago and because it was so unbearably hot,
Sami Khedira's forehead lurched forward to score from Karim
Benzema's volley!
SEATTLE, Wash. - In case anyone was wondering, the Seattle Sounders are back.
In a nationally-televised marquee matchup plump with playoff implications, the Sounders struck
early, poured on the goals in the second half, and trounced the LA Galaxy, 4-0, at CenturyLink
Field.
In a short time, Mix Diskerud has made a major impact on his new team.
Diskerud scored his first goal since joining Rosenborg on loan from Stabaek, and it is one that
put Rosenborg in the UEFA Europa League group stage, as his beautiful 87th-minute, left-footed
volley from the top of the box gave the club a 2-1 victory (3-2 on aggregate) over Polish side
Legia Warsaw in the final qualifying round.
Many of headlines around Malaga this summer have been focused on the club's financial situation.
But now that financial situation looks a little bit rosier as Malaga are on the cusp on qualifying
for the lucrative group stages of the Champions League after beating Panathinaikos 2-0 at home in
the first-leg of their Champions League play-off tie.
Three goals in 10 minutes saw Spartak Moscow beat Fenerbahce 2-1 at home in a first-leg playoff
match, with striker Emmanuel Emenike on target against his former club. Emenike,
who joined Spartak last year after just two months at Fenerbahce, scored on 59 minutes Tuesday,
hammering the ball into the net after pouncing on a low left-wing cross from Dmitry Kombarov.
Manchester City came from behind to beat Southampton and Chelsea won at Wigan Athletic in the
the English Premier League on August 19, 2012.
Wigan Athletic 0-2 Chelsea
Chelsea scored two early goals and cruised to a victory in the opening round. The visitors
started very quickly as Eden Hazard sent a great pass to Branislav Ivanovic who got behind the
defense on a counterattack.
Stoke City's Jon Walters had a bit of a nightmare against Chelsea yesterday. Not only did he score half of the Blues' goals in a 4-0 defeat for the Potters, he also managed to miss a penalty. But his embarrassing afternoon started with the excellent attempted overhead cross, which he volleyed into his face, Chris [.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic reminded the world why he holds himself in such high esteem last night with four goals including a brilliant bicycle kick that took his side to a 4-2 win over England.
The ‘Zlatan show' has got everyone talking so Unibet bring us a countdown of some of the best bicycle kicks of all time.
Emile Heskey put's the Jets 1-0 up with this volley before grabbing his second with a bi-cycle kick a few minutes later in their 2-1 win over Melbourne Victory this morning.
Nikos Spyropoulos found himself opening the scoring account for Greece as his neatly placed
volley curled inside of the post. Two years ago he scored a similar goal to level against Georgia
in the opening qualifier heading to Euro 2012. Most Greek fans are probably wondering why
Spyropoulos was not [read more]
Australia's Mark Bresciano hits a fantastic volley to put the Socceroo's in front at Easter Road
last night however Sctland hit back with three goals of their own to spoil their party.
Paris Saint-Germain' march to the Ligue 1 title, hit a speed bump on Saturday as they needed a
last-minute penalty from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to snatch a 2-2 draw at home to Lorient.
The script was that PSG would simply march through Ligue 1 this season on the way to the title,
but Lorient obviously did not read that script as a Maxwell own goal and a Jérémie Aliadière
doubled Lorient's lead moments before the break, gliding in from the left past the static PSG
defence and firing in low from the edge of the area.
Kaka was there and we half expected him to be in a Rossoneri jersey but against his former club
where a rumoured return hangs in the air, he showed a deft touch assisting in three goals. Angel Di
Maria got the crowd warmed up thumping in a magnificent 25 yard volley to open up proceedings.
Seattle's Fredy Montero and Portland's Jack Jewsbury provided some stiff resistance, but this
week's SBI MLS Goal of the Week belongs to Montreal Impact midfielder Felipe, whose sideways
scissor-kick volley off a cross from Hassoun Camara put the finishing touches on Montreal's 2-0
victory over the Philadelphia Union Saturday night at Stade Saputo.
