Results Wednesday in English football. (home teams listed first): League Cup Second Round Brighton 2, Manchester City 2, ET (Brighton wins 5-3 on penalties) Third Round Aston Villa 0, Queens Park Rangers 1 Blackburn 1, Everton 0 Ipswich 1, Wigan 4 Newcastle 1, Tottenham 2 Portsmouth 0, Chelsea 4. —- Results Wednesday from the second [...]
Real Madrid midfielder Guti will miss next week Champions League match at Zenit St Petersburg. After suffering a leg injury at the weekend. Guti, whose full name is Jose Maria Gutierrez, will be out for two weeks following the injury in the last minutes of the league match at Santander, which Real won 2-0, the [...]
Results from the eighth round of the Danish football league. (home teams listed first): Saturday’s Game Horsens 1, OB Odense 2 Sunday’s Games FC Copenhagen 3, Aalborg 0 Randers 0, Midtjylland 0 Nordsjalland 2, Vejle 1 AGF 2, SonderjyskE 1 Monday’s Game Brondby 2, Esbjerg 1. —- Results from the third round of Portuguese first-division [...]
Benfica recorded their first Portuguese Premier League victory of the season. When they beat Pacos Ferreira 4-3 away on Monday. Nacional Madeira, who won 2-0 at Vitoria Guimaraes, and Sporting are the only teams with perfect records after the opening three matches. Benfica coach Quique Floress first league win at the helm started when striker [...]
Managerless Newcastle United are bringing in a London-based investment bank. To handle owner Mike Ashley’s proposed sale of the the ailing Premier League club said Monday. Sports retailer Ashley wants to sell Newcastle after becoming the focus of fan vitriol sparked by the resignation earlier this month of popular former player Kevin Keegan as manager. [...]
Brief news ahead of this weekend Ligue 1 matches (all times GMT). * Leaders Olympique Lyon will be without fullbacks Fabio Grosso and Francois Clerc when they visit promoted Le Havre on Saturday (1700). Clerc is recovering from knee surgery and Italys Grosso is nursing fractured ribs. The seven-times champions have a defence problem, having [...]
Patrick Helmes scored three goals Friday. To lead Bayer Leverkusen to a 4-0 win over Hannover in the Bundesliga. The win gives Leverkusen nine points from five matches and it trails leader Hamburger SV by one point ahead the weekend’s games. The home team took the lead after just five minutes through Simon Rolfes, while [...]
Round-up of injury news ahead of this weekend Premier League games. * Dimitar Berbatov, Manchester Uniteds 30.75 million pound ($56.12 million) signing from Tottenham Hotspur, is doubtful for Sundays game at Chelsea due to a knee injury. Berbatov was injured on his United debut in last weekends 2-1 defeat at Liverpool and also missed their [...]
National coach Pim Verbeek said Friday he will select fit-again midfielder Tim Cahill. For Australia home World Cup qualifier against Qatar next month if the Everton star remains injury-free. Cahill scored the match-winning goal for Everton in his first game back from a six-month lay-off with a broken foot in the English Premier League against [...]
Luiz Felipe Scolari risked the wrath of Manchester United on Friday. By cheekily asking Cristiano Ronaldo to join him at Chelsea if he can leave the English and European champion. The 23-year-old winger, who starred in Scolari’s Portugal team, spent the offseason pushing for a move to Real Madrid until told by United manager Alex [...]