February 8th, 2010
Marian
The Ivorian Football Federation announced that the national team will play against South Korea in a friendly match, on the 3rd of March.
The match will be played on Loftus Road, the stadium of Queens Park Rangers, team from the Championship (second English division).
Ivory Coast will play at the World Cup in group G, against Brazil, North Korea and Portugal, while South Korea in group B, against Greece, Argentina and Nigeria.
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February 8th, 2010
Marian
Arsenal’s chances to win the title were almost dashed after Drogba’s show last night on Stamford Bridge.
The Ivorian striker scored two goals. The first one was in the start of the match, from Malouda’s corner, in the 8th minute, when he put the ball in the net from John Terry’s header.
Arsenal had some chances to equalise with Nasri and Arshavin, but Petr Cech was in great form and the second goal has come after fifteen minutes, when Frank Lampard sprinted 20 meters, and passed the ball to Drogba, who has scored.
Drogba could make his hattrick in the second half if the ball from the freekick which he executed gone in. Only one goal needs Didier Drogba to score his 75th goal in Chelsea’s shirt.
John Terry, the captain of Chelsea, was in good shape too and he didn’t show fear on his face from the recent scandal with Wayne Bridge’s wife in the newspapers.
The final score was 2-0, with Arsenal sinking like the Titanic and with Chelsea on the 1st place on the table. After the match, Ancelotti hailed his captain and Drogba’s goals and Wenger praised John Terry too.
Other English Premier League results:
Birmingham 2 – 1 Wolverhampton
Liverpool 1 – 0 Everton
Burnley 2 – 1 West Ham
Hull City 2 – 1 Manchester City
Manchester United 5 – 0 Portsmouth
Stoke 3 – 0 Blackburn
Sunderland 1 – 1 Wigan
Tottenham 0 – 0 Aston Villa
February 3rd, 2010
Marian
Lukas Podolski is ready for action! FC Koln’s striker was injured for 3 weeks and now he can resume his trainings at the club.
The former Bayern Munchen player was unlucky playing 14 matches for Koln and scoring only a goal, but he will get a new chance against Hamburg SV in this weekend in German Bundesliga. Podolski said: “I’m feeling much better again. It’s now up to me to make sure that I return to full match fitness as soon as possible and stay fit. I can probably return to match action this weekend or the following week.”
February 3rd, 2010
Marian
Jorge Valdano, Real Madrid’s sporting director criticized Manchester City for the rumour from the transfer market viewing Fernando Gago’s move to Premier League.
“Manchester City had nothing prepared, not even one document signed. The English club had not reached an agreement with the player and they would have needed to do everything in 40 minutes.”
The midfielder’s agent, Marcello Lombilla, told that the club from Manchester has used them. “This has never happened to me before. I don’t want to talk about the figures that City were offering because they approached Madrid without even knowing there wasn’t physically enough time to put something together.”, he said.
Gago played 76 matches for Real Madrid and scored only a goal since 2007.
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February 3rd, 2010
Marian
Santi Cazorla, the 26 years old midfielder of Villareal will be back on the pitch in 2 months, after a succesful operation.
Juan Albors, the head of the club’s medical staff said: “We took the decision to operate when he also injured his adductor muscle. With this process, he could be out for six or seven weeks, which coincides with the recovery time for the problem.”
Cazorla played 130 matches and scored 18 goals for Villareal’s first-team during his career.
February 3rd, 2010
Marian
Celtic Glasgow was beaten with 1-0 by Kilmarnock and now the “catholics” are with 10 points behind Glasgow Rangers.
The loaned striker from Tottenham, Robbie Keane was in the first-team, he had a lot of chances, but he didn’t score.
The team who scored was Kilmarnock, through Chris Maguire in the 52th minute of the match.
Celtic manager, Tony Mowbray, told BBC: “It’s not the result we wanted. We needed to hit the ground running with the new signings, but it didn’t quite happen tonight.”
February 3rd, 2010
Marian
FC Porto hammered Sporting Lisbon with 5-2 in the quarters and the team secured the presence in the semifinals.
In the 18th minute Porto scored the first goal with Rolando, but Sporting’s midfielder Marat Ismailov equalised fast, in the 22nd minute.
In the 34th minute, the show of Colombian striker Radamel Falco has began, scoring a goal from the edge of the area and after 8 minutes he scored again with a header from the cross of Ruben Micael. At the half-time the score was 3-1 for Porto.
Varela scored the 4th goal for FC Porto just after half-time and Mariano Gonzalez scored for 5-1 in the 57th with a beautiful long distance goal. Finally, Liedson scored in the extra-time of the second half for Sporting. 5-2 was the final result.
February 3rd, 2010
Marian
Chelsea have drawn yesterday against relegation candidates Hull City (1-1) and the team missed the opportunity to take a 4 points advantage against 2nd placed Manchester United in the English Premier League.
The match started well for Chelsea with Michael Ballack and Frank Lampard in good shape, but Boaz Myhill, the goalkeeper of Hull City was in good form too and they didn’t score.
The surprise has come for the home team when Hull City had a corner and Stephen Hunt executed perfectly and Mouyokolo scored for 1-0 in the 30th minute.
Didier Drogba scored in the 42nd minute of the game a beautiful goal from a free-kick and he calmed the spirits for half-time, but it was not enough for Chelsea to obtain a victory.
Anthony Gardner from Hull had the chance to get back the advantage on the score table, but he missed.
The final score was 1-1 with Chelsea unhappy with the result.
February 2nd, 2010
Marian
Rio Ferdinand was given a red card in Manchester United’s match against Hull City, striking Craig Fagan. The Football Association imposed an extra match ban, so the red devils’ defender should be stay 3 matches, but he decided to appeal against the extra suspenssion.
The appeal board cand revoke the extra ban, but also can increase it. If Rio Ferdinand will get an another extra ban for his strike, he will miss the Carling Cup final with Aston Villa, on February 28.
