Rafael Benitez's tenure as Inter Milan manager has come to a swift end as he this evening has been sacked club president Massimo Moratti at the Italian club. Despite recently being crowned World Club Cup champions, a series of poor results has left the treble winners in serious trouble sitting 7th in the Serie A league table, 13 points adrift of rivals AC Milan. Spanish media sources had already speculated that Benitez, 50, was well aware of his imminent sacking and has been holding out for his dismal in order to make sure he receives a huge pay-off. The former Liverpool coach is currently … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2010
Barcelona Dominate In 5-1 La Liga Victory Over Local Rivals Espanyol
Barcelona have had a tremendous start to their La Liga campaign this year. Having lost just once, they top the La Liga table by 5 points and have enjoyed a fantastic victory over Castilian enemies Real Madrid along the way. Though no matter how impressive they have been this year, few still would have expected them to overcome fierce local rivals Espanyol the way they did on Saturday evening in an emphatic 5-1 away victory. Despite goals from Xavi, Pedro and David Villa it was Lionel Messi who once again stole the show as he ripped through the Espanyol defence with devestating effect. … [Read more...]
Bolton Wanderers 2-1 Blackburn Rovers Highlights
Bolton Wanderers got back to winning ways after their defeat to Manchester City today as they were narrow 2-1 victors at home to Blackburn Rovers. Substitute Fabrice Muamba made an instant impact after coming on as he fired the hosts into the lead in the second half. However it seemed Blackburn had snatched a point late on at the Reebok Stadium through a El-Hadji Diouf. But Despite being down to 10 men after losing midfielder Mark Davies to a sending-off, Bolton hit back immediately and Stuart Holden provided the late winning goal for Owen Coyle's side. … [Read more...]
Wolves 1-0 Birmingham City Highlights
Wolverhampton Wanderers grabbed a much-needed three points this afternoon with a 1-0 home victory over West Midlands rivals Birmingham City. Stephen Hunt was the hero Sunday afternoon as his calm first-half strike gave his side a throughly deserved victory. … [Read more...]
Tottenham 1-1 Chelsea Highlights
The spoils were shared this afternoon in this highly-anticipated clash between Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane. Spurs enjoyed a dream start when Roman Pavlyuchenko put his side ahead thanks to some clever play from Jermain Defoe. However substitute Didier Drogba managed to pull the visitors level in the second half when Spurs keeper Gomes was unable to keep out his venemous shot. Carlo Ancelotti's men almost won the game right at the end but Didier Drogba was unable to convert a late Chelsea penalty. Final Score Tottenham Hotspur 1-1 Chelsea. … [Read more...]
Aston Villa 2-1 West Brom Highlights
Aston Villa produced a hard-earned victory in today's Premier League Midlands derby clash with a 2-1 victory over West Brom. French boss Gerard Houllier can sleep easy tonight in the knowledge of his side's assertive performance as they move to up to 13th in the Premier League table. It was Marc Albrighton who deserved the plaudits this afternoon for a convincing attacking display assisting both Stewart Downing's volley in the first half and Emile Heskey's header towards the end to wrap up the win. Paul Scharner scored a powerful header in the 90th minute for the Baggies to make it a tight … [Read more...]
Marseille 1-0 Chelsea Highlights
Chelsea's dreadful run continues as they suffered yet another poor result in their final Group F tie with Marseille in the Champions League. Despite already guaranteeing themselves top spot of the group, it will still be a disappointing result and performance all round for Carlo Ancelotti's men as a late strike from Brandao was the difference here at the Stade Velodrome this evening. … [Read more...]
Arsenal 3 – 1 Partizan Belgrade Highlights
Arsenal ensured qualification to the Champions League knockout stages this evening after a comfortable 3-1 victory over Partizan Belgrade in Group H. Robin van Persie put the hosts ahead from a spot-kick early on before they suffered a slight scare when Serbian visitors Partizan levelled early on in the second half thanks to Brazilian striker Cleo. However the Gunners held their nerve and regained the lead through Theo Walcott whilst Samir Nasri added a third to put qualification beyond doubt for Arsene Wenger's men. … [Read more...]
Is This The Worst Football Miss Of All Time?
Future hosts of the 2022 World Cup Qatar may go down in history as producing the worst ever miss in football. At 0-0 and only seconds left during their Asian Games quarter final tie with Uzbeckistan it seemed Qatar had won it at the death after a goalkeeping blunder left striker Fahad Khalfan with an open goal. Amazingly though the teenager was unable to convert his chance and hit the post from one yard out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQLylizGmDs[/youtube] … [Read more...]
Liquid Football Goal Of The Week!
After much deliberation Liquid Football HQ has awarded this week's Premier League goal of the week award to French attacking midfielder Samir Nasri for his splendid individual effort against Fulham yesterday for Arsenal in their 2-1 win. … [Read more...]